Look That Way There is a shoplifting gang that relies mainly on misdirection. They create a commotion over here, and then steal something over here. They only steal things they can later sell, either online or in a garage sale somewhere nearby. There’s this really rich guy who has an entirely fake […]
Long Game Starvation Plans
New Sheriff In Town There’s this really interesting restaurant downtown that has just recently popped up. There are a lot of rumors behind the guy who started the restaurant. The most common one is that he came into town to retire here, but only after doing research online. He figured that was […]
Magic Money Scams
What, Me Worry? A fantastic case of accidental arbitrage happened back in the late seventies. This was right on an interesting boundary of two different techniques. Savvy observers of these two overlapping trend jumped on it and quickly profited. But like all arbitrage opportunities, this was quickly slammed shut. What happened […]
White Dwarfs and Black Holes
Bored On The Boat There was this astrophysicists, born in India, and further educated in the United States. He got his undergraduate degree in India, and took a boat to Europe to start his graduate degree. On his way, on the boat, in between being an undergrad and a graduate student, he came […]
Amnesia Delivery Service
Elusive Bad Guy There is this really strange burglar the FBI has been looking for for some time. He has a very unique MO, and he never actually steals anything. The only thing they can arrest him for is credit card fraud, and breaking and entering. He chooses his victims very, very […]
Nano Bot Pranks
Long Game Prankster There was this semi evil genius that was also very rich, and he very much liked to prank people. He bought an eyeglasses company, and created a special type of lens with a lot of embedded nano technology. Then he would sit and home, and via this embedded nano technology, […]
Juggling Hobbies
Food Cult Openings I used to know this guy in my Toastmasters group, a place where you can not only learn public speaking, but meet some pretty fringe type characters. He said he’d joined this kind of food cult, where they had very strict restrictions on what you were allowed to eat. He’d […]
Self Flipping Pans
Crazy Inventors The Japanese are famous for their crazy inventions. Glasses with windshield wipers. AI suitcases that walk behind you. Symbolic Love https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun06Loop.mp4 The wedding ring is symbolic for man reasons One is that it’s round. Two is the finger it’s on. Dry Cleaning Disaster I had an old […]
Downtown Chicken Man
Three Kinds of Operations There are three types of businesses, from a purely financial standpoint. There are hard money profitable businesses. They spend money on raw materials, and turn those raw materials into higher order goods, and make a profit. Then there are businesses based on debt. These are businesses that […]
Cat Hypnosis
I Suck At Cooking I like to cook, even though I mostly suck at it. I’ll watch something on YouTube, or read somebody’s blog about some kind of recipe, and then I’ll decide to cook it a couple days later. Problem is I don’t usually remember much of this, except the taste I […]
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