Angry Genius I used to know this guy that was super, super brilliant. But he had absolutely horrible people skills. If anybody dared ask him a question about any of his genius ideas, he would take it the wrong way, get angry, and start screaming at people. So the best job he’s […]
Linguistic Donuts
Buy A Girl A Drink? I met this really interesting rich guy in a bar a couple of weeks ago. He likes to give away money, but he makes the potential recipients work for it. What he does is find any group of girls at any club, bar or restaurant. Then the […]
Instinctive Sex Programming
Meandering Lecture I went to see this lecture recently by a psychologist. She was applying theories of evolutionary psychology to sales, to leverage our ancient social instincts to more easily make money. Her theory was that everything is, at its core, a kind of frame battle. And that by understanding the deep […]
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 […]
Middle Misdirection
GPS Trope There’s a very common movie trick if you happen to be a bad guy getting chased by the good guys or a good guy getting chased by the bad guys. This requires taking the GPS tracking device they think they’ve hidden on your and putting in a truck or animal or other […]
Lost Cities Of Seclusion
Money Stacks There are a lot of interesting metaphors about money, about the amount of actual physical currency you’d need to have a certain amount. Like $10K would be like a small stack of hundreds about an inch or so thick. Or a million would be a small stack of those. And […]
Future Toast Pattern
Why Am I Here? A common experience is temporary amnesia. You’ll be sitting there, thinking about something important. Then you’ll get an idea of something else important that you need to get from another room. Sorry, Who Are You? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr28Loop.mp4 Most people openly admit that they suck at remembering names. Somebody […]
Sensory Deprivation Hypnosis
Data Input System There are only a few ways data from the outside world can get into our brains. Visual and auditory are the two main ones. But feeling, taste, and smell are so paths to storied memories. Teacher Error https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr27Loop.mp4 I have a friend who is a teacher. She said […]
Unintended Mind Control
Hobby Shop I found this used electronic shop downtown. They had a bunch of old kits, and what looked like some homemade gadgets that didn’t seem to have any indication what this was. I asked the guy behind the counter, and he didn’t know what this was either. His dad had opened […]
Nested Campfire Games
College Party When I was in college my friends and I like to go car camping quite a bit, mainly to sit around the campfire and play games and tell stories. One game in particular was really enjoyable, but it required that only about half of the people knew the rules. You’d have […]