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  • This guy Jesse on Alone Season 5 was running out of food and had read about native tribes creating bread from tree bark, so he stripped some off a pine tree and ate it. It seemed edible but hard to pass. The video shows the aftermath, basically he had to tap out and be rescued due to severe abdominal pain. However, apparently it is a thing, I’m not sure how you could do it in a way your stomach can handle though, and most likely it has to be specific species of trees.





  • Here are a few off the top of my head (though I looked up the original kanji for some of the Japanese ones)…

    To enjoy life’s immensity, you do not need many things.

    • Ryōkan, a Japanese poet

    Ain’t no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too.

    • Bubbles, from the last episode of The Wire

    Honor is dead, but I’ll see what I can do.

    • Kaladin, from The Stormlight Archive Book 2 by Brandon Sanderson

    Beware the difference between intelligibility and correctness.

    • Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Success consists of moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

    • Winston Churchill

    猿も木から落ちる (Saru mo ki kara ochiru)

    Even monkeys fall from trees.

    • Anonymous, traditional Japanese saying

    正勝吾勝 (Makatsu agatsu)

    True victory is victory over one’s self.

    • Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido




  • Wow, I totally forgot about this one. I used to play it all the time when I was a kid. I think I bonded with it because my family moved to California around that time and I had trouble fitting in (a-la Daniel-san), so I think partially it was my way of simulating being a native as silly as that sounds. Anyway, I had the NES version, but your write-up is making me want to try a Sega ROM of it. Thanks for the nostalgia blast!