Free will. Slick hair. Mirrored building.

As I’ve told y’all time and again, you ought to be listening to Radio Lab:

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The above clip is from the episode on stress, but it offhandedly dismisses a great chunk of our free will by a small experiment. I had to listen to it thrice before going “oh” and “shit” and then telling my friends of this story while drunk and not able to convey the meaning.

I mean, seriously? our conscious selves are ad hoc rationalisations of our bodies’ behaviour? How is that not awesome and neat in how it turns our self image on its head?

Hus som speglas vid Järntorgen

Mateusz provar nya glasögon

Birthday. Density. Flaaaaaanders

Looking for music in 5/4 tempo, I ended up with this:

And what in holy heaven:

Birthday get-together yesterday ended up with minigolf. Neat. I got two shirts, a pack of Lucky Strikes, an old Polaroid camera (need film) and a bed which is to be delivered curtesy of Hanna sometime in the future. Awesome. I did not know that you could give away beds. This raises the bar for the future.

We had strawberry wine and went for a few beers. I’m feeling better, although the solidity of my corporal production leaves something to be desired. My dear brother Tomasz calls it “peeing through the butt” but it leaves a rather unpleasant image in ones head, don’t you think?

I’m enjoying oatmeal and organising my music collection.