Sweet Old Lady There’s this old lady who works in a bakery. Her husband died about a decade ago, and left her everything, so she is really well off. She doesn’t need to work, she likes very much to work, to interact with the happy customers of her bakery. She’s also been […]
Gumball Planet
ROI Instinct Every animal has within it an ROI instinct, a deep program that makes us not want to do anything unless we think we are getting more out than we put in. Of course, with humans, this is heavily skewed by our imaginations and subjective views. From the outside looking it, it […]
Growing Humans For Satan
Easy Money There are plenty of ways to make a ton of money, but you won’t find any of them if you expect somebody to tell you. If you are willing to do your own research and think outside the box, and keep your results to yourself, you can find tons of easy ways […]
Step By Step Magic
Card Tricks A long time ago I had to teach a magic class to two groups of kids. One group of five year olds, and another group of six year olds. We ended up deciding to teach them a set of self working magic tricks, along with some magic stories along with the […]
Evil Cat Lady
Japanese Genius I have this friend in Japan who, after a long and circuitous route, has finally managed to open his own shop. He did so after getting a PhD in electrical engineering, and then realizing what a huge mistake that might have been. But then he found a way out and now […]
Purple Man Magic
Night TV Dangerous Watching TV at night, especially after work is the most dangerous thing you can do. Advertisers know that this is when your brain is the most open, when you are at home, relaxed, thinking you are safe. This is why the subliminal messages and advanced hypnotic technology that creates deep […]
Culinary Trainwreck
Cooking Experiment I had wanted to cook this complicated recipe for a long time. It was a recipe that required multiple steps of cooking, as well as a bunch of different ingredients I don’t normally use. Finally I decided to pull the trigger, so I budgeted a few hours one weekend to try […]
Peanut Butter Seduction
Stock Charts If you study stock charts, it seems very easy to understand how to make money in the stock market. With all the various indicators, the moving averages, various overbought and oversold indicators, MACD, volume indicators, it seems simple from a purely intellectual standpoint. But as soon as you invest your money, […]
Ancient Deities
Invention Categories There are many types of inventions, and many different reasons that drive the creativity that leads to inventions. But they can all be put into a few categories, based on the intentions behind them. There are the types of inventions that are to make money for the inventor, and therefore are […]
Post Rational Crash
Bike Riding A long time ago I used to do a lot of cycling, about a hundred and fifty, two hundred miles a week. I’d go riding after work, and I’d go on long rides on the weekend. At one point, I changed my pedals to this clips that are attached to the […]
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