Open Mic Night? I went to a local club a couple nights ago. I thought it was an open mic night, but I wasn’t sure. The guy I saw did some pretty interesting magic tricks. He had a lot of sleight of hand skills, he was very smooth. Good Storyteller https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug01Loop.mp4 […]
Broke Samurais and Wealthy Romans
PT Barnum PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But what’s commonly not said is a couple of very important corollaries to that statement. The first is that suckers are suckers because they are willing to believe something that is too good to be true. Now, why would […]
Split Test Adrenalin Rush
Increased Conversions One of the coolest things you can do in online marketing is a split test. If you have any kind of page that is getting any kind of traffic and conversions, you make a copy of it. Then you take the copy and make one small change. This is also called A-B testing, […]
Future Visions
Restaurant I’ve been going to this restaurant for a few months now, and I just noticed something about it that I hadn’t noticed before. It’s kind of strange when you do this. You see the same area the same place many, many times but until something specific is pointed out you’ll never notice it. […]
Magic Love Money Algorithm
Library Trip The other day I went to my local library for a visit. I like to drop by sometimes because I like books and I like quiet spaces. Except when I went into the library there was some kind of a commotion. Not commotion more of a gathering. I eased up to the […]
Altering Flows Of History
One Day In The Laundry Room… The other day I was sitting in my laundry room. I had just put my clothes into the dryer and I noticed a book lying face down on the table in front of me. I could tell by the back of the book that it was some type […]
Gold Giving Box
Free Car Wash The other day I was driving around town and I passed by a group of kids having a carwash. They had a few hand-painted signs that said free car wash and that the bottom the sign said donations accepted. Since it looked like a worthy fundraising cause I got a free […]
Out Of Calibration
What’s That Noise? A few days ago I was out driving around and I was continually getting bothered by this strange clunking sound in my engine. I drove past this auto repair shop and so I pulled and finally deciding to see what was wrong. I was kind of worried because I don’t know […]
How He Found His Purpose
Live Performance I’ve a friend who has been making music for several years, about 10 or 15 years, as long as I’ve known him. He’s only recently started to perform live and I wondered why before he never before live. The music he made was really really good, but he seemed to be content just […]
Science and Metaphorical Resonance
Tale of Two Teachers When I was in junior high school had two science teachers. Both of them were completely different. The first guy is what you might expect a science teacher to be. A junior high school science teacher to be. He was kind of a typical doofus geek type of guy. He […]