Three Month Probation I’ve a friend who was a programmer a long time ago. He’s probably still a programmer today, but when he first got one of his first jobs, they told him that he had to go through a 90 day probationary period, which he was okay with. But after a couple of […]
Revenge Against Evil
Not So Fast I’ve a friend of a friend who started working at a very large very powerful company about 10 years ago. After about a year of working there he found out that this very large and very powerful company was engaged in very terrible activities. They were exploiting people. They were killing […]
Blackness Behind The Curtain
Depressed Friend I have a friend, she’s mid-late 30s, very attractive, very intelligent but for as long as I have known her she’s been always very unhappy and depressed. I always assumed it had something to do with the broken heart or perhaps a deceased child. Then when I finally sat down and talk […]
Brothels And Assassins
New Neighbors I noticed recently that I have some squatters living next door to me. I have mixed feelings about it. They’re very quiet, and I can tell they’re squatters because they burn candles at night. They don’t use any electricity. They’re not loud. I don’t feel in danger. I don’t ever see any […]
The Gambler’s Ruin
Pinch Hit Sock Machine So a couple of weeks ago I was in the local laundromat because the machines in my apartment complex were being repaired because they weren’t working properly. When things are not working properly you need to look inside, fix what’s broken so they can get back to being in fine working […]
Social Status and Wealth
Ancient Vikings There’s not a lot known about bronze era Scandinavians because way back in the bronze era which, was before about 1200 BC, there was never a large enough population to create lasting infrastructure that historians and archaeologists can look at and try to piece together what kind of society they had. All […]
Cycles Of Corruption
Three Periods Of Japan You can separate Japanese history into roughly three very broad categories. The period before the first military ruler took over all of Japan, the period during that time, and the period after that. The period before that is commonly referred to as the “warring states.” If you’re a fan of […]
Poison Snakes And Unintended Outcomes
Funeral For A Friend I saw friend a couple of days ago and he was just coming back from a funeral. I asked him who died. He told me, and it happened in an accident that was in the news a few weeks ago about a building that had collapsed. When I first saw […]
Effective Con Strategies
Con Movies There are a lot of fantastic movies about con artists. There’s movies about short-term cons and there’s movies about long-term cons. Whether you’re trying out a long-term con or a short term con the basic strategy is the same. You have to create a false reality around your target and you have […]
Orphaned Hungry Rats
House Party Hookup A couple of weeks ago I was in this location and I was leaving and I saw a friend of mine. The friend of mine was coming in just as I was leaving. That wasn’t, it wasn’t a situation where we didn’t really have much time to stop and chat. He […]
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