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b"The Off-Mission - a 100 word story\\n\\n\\n\\nThe clowns came over today. They were just on their way to Kentucky. The big boss knows who to send on an off-mission, I mean, no one would suspect a clown. They always get their target and those poor bastards just don't know what hit them. Was it the little plastic hammer? Maybe it was the pennywhistle? Those are so deadly. One note played the right way and all the gray stuff comes running out of your ears screaming. Not this time though. This time it was that little electric hand buzzer. Gets them every time. Those clowns are good.\\n\\n\\n\\n-----\\n\\n\\n\\nHi there and thanks for stopping by. I\\u2019m Guy, and you\\u2019re listening to my surreal sketchbook of reality.\\n\\n\\n\\n-----\\n\\n\\n\\nEpisode 11, Stuff Comes Running Out of Your Ears\\n\\n\\n\\nRepetition creates patterns, and patterns can help us organize our world, making some chaotic sense of it. This episode Is a semi-philosophical look at patterns. I\\u2019m not a professional philosopher by any means and my approach can be quite absurd, illogical and not at all that serious, so - you've been warned. Do not take this podcast too seriously. If you tend to take things too seriously, this might not be the podcast for you. Seriously. I mean it. Find another podcast to listen to.\\n\\n\\n\\nYou\\u2019re still here? Good. Let\\u2019s talk about patterns. We need to keep our world organized in order to make some sense of it. Patterns can sometimes come to our aid here. They can give us the security that comes with knowing that one thing comes after another. Let\\u2019s consider a simple pattern as an example, the pattern of day and night. That pattern has two opposite components that fluctuate with each other, coming one after the other. The repeatable pattern of \\u201cday, night, day, night,\\u201d is recognized by us and we know it to be a relatively unchanging pattern. Night always comes after day and vice versa. We expect that. In a way, this simple pattern lets us predict the future and that is what pattern recognition often does.\\n\\n\\n\\nPatterns in nature are pretty common though not often as precise and sometimes quite chaotic. You can find it in the wandering of birds or in the sleep habits of polar bears. You can find patterns in the movement of clouds and the changing of seasons. The fact that patterns let us predict the future can help us find out where those birds are most likely to wander off to next year and they can help us create weather forecasts. If we make pattern recognition into a science, we can even predict the future of the human race. That is how the notion of the technological singularity, which I\\u2019m probably going to explore in a future episode, came to be, by exploring the exponential growth patterns of technological trends. I\\u2019m trending towards taking a break right now. I\\u2019ll be right back.\\n\\n\\n\\n-----\\n\\n\\n\\nArmy - a 100 word story\\n\\n\\n\\nThe army of clowns slipped and fell, slipped and fell. Child laughter could be heard from houses with barricaded windows. Apparently, someone buttered up the road. Dogs started barking nearby. Doors opened and the dogs started coming out, seeking out the clowns. Bites and screams followed. \\u201cYou should have stayed in the circus\\u201d shouted someone, \\u201cYou make a lousy army\\u201d. Some people started opening their windows and throwing flaming rocks at them. The clowns started running away in the opposite direction, trying to avoid bursting into flames and running out of town. That\\u2019s how the army of clowns was defeated.\\n\\n\\n\\n-----\\n\\n\\n\\nWelcome back. We can recognize patterns in the most unlikely of places. We can find patterns in the movement of mountains and be surprised by the fact that mountains actually move. We can also find patterns in the movement of people and be surprised by the fact that people actually move. Patterns in the movement of people are called behavior patterns and they are the basis of a brunch of psychology called social sciences.\\n\\n\\n\\nPeople don\\u2019t move the same way as birds. They don\\u2019t fly, well, mostly they don\\u2019t. Studying thair movement and thair behavior pattern"