Have A Drink? A couple of nights ago a friend of mine called and said him and a couple of other guys were going to have a couple of drinks at a local bar and I should come over. It was going to be a regular weeknight where you show up have a couple […]
Upper Management
Waiting For The Bus So the other day I was at the bus stop. I wanted to go downtown and pick something up. I didn’t want to drive. I did one take an uber. I wanted to kill some time. I wanted to spend two or three hours. I had a lot of stuff […]
Broken Brain
College Foolishness When I was in college I had a lot of part-time jobs. Because my university was on the semester system and because I lived in the dorms and because there were several weeks in between semesters I always had quit the job at the end of the semester. I had a lot […]
Cold Reading Pickup
If you’ve never tried out cold reading, it’s pretty fun. It involves saying things about people that are generally true, but making it sound like you’ve got some kind of “insight” from beyond. A successful cold reading involves three things (once you’ve established rapport). 1) Some kind of observation about her that is slightly more […]
The Cold Reading Close
Everybody is above average. Well, not exactly, but if you talked to most people on the street, they would all say, or at least be keen to the idea that they are above average. There’s even been a few school districts in the U.S. that have expressed a public policy to create ALL students to […]