Novel Searching I went to the library the other day, looking for a simple novel to read. I picked up one off the shelf, it seemed to be interesting based on the description on the back cover. So I sat down to read it, and this seemed to keep my interest after the […]
Sexy Dollar Lady
Slipped Through My Fingers I was at the supermarket the other day, buying a bunch of stuff for the weekend. It was a cashier I enjoy flirting with whenever I see her. She went to give me my change, and tentatively held out a silver dollar. Not a real silver dollar, but […]
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 […]
Unicycle Memory Trick
Strange Profession I have a friend who teaches seminars on unicycle tricks. Because this isn’t a very popular past time, if you can manage to show up in your local park and do a few interesting unicycle tricks, you’ll become very popular. And due to the statistical permutations and center of mass flexibility, […]
Dice Throwing Magic
Pre Planned Genius I have a friend who went on a diet and lost a lot of weight, and gained quite bit of muscle definition. But before he did that, he created a very specific strategy that would satisfy a lot of different criteria. That way, he could use that same experience and […]
Self Replicating Sandwich
DNA Splicing Man There was this scientist working for a very advanced food laboratory. So advanced, they were heavily funded and were simply told to find anything interesting we can use to increase our profits. So this guy was kind of on his own, and he got the idea from watching a documentary […]
No Coasting Allowed
Racing Styles They have different kinds of bike races. Flat races, races through hills, and on mountain trails. And races on those loops where they ride bikes that don’t have any gears and you can’t coast. Stay Or Go? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun11Loop.mp4 I have a friend that was debating whether or not he should […]
Cereal For Breakfast
Something of Champions I have this weird friend that eats popcorn for breakfast every morning. I wondered why she did this, so finally I asked her, wondering if it might cause unexpected friction. She actually had a very rational, very legitimate answer. Where’d The Sun Go? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun10Loop.mp4 If you study solar eclipses, […]
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 […]
Free Will Paradox
Never See It Coming It’s common for large companies to keep their employees in the dark as long as possible before any large layoffs. They want to keep them from knowing so they can get a maximum amount of productivity out of them. Individually, this is much easier to manage. God vs. […]