Switch Teams https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept08_Post.mp4 There are a few ways to sell things to people. One is to memorize a pitch. Practice that pitch. And spit it out to as many people as possible. So long as you make enough money during a 40 hour week, with whatever sales you get, you’re good. […]
Checkmate Everybody
Pawn Sacrifice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept06_Post.mp4 Plenty of movies use chess metaphors. To the extent they can use the chess metaphors that foreshadow the outcome of the movie, all the better. One in particular was “The Last Castle” with Robert Redford and James Gandolfini. Redford was the good guy. Gandolfini (the guy who played […]
Baseball vs. Football Lifestyle
Pass The Chips https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July10_Post.mp4 Humans are pretty lazy animals. Which, paradoxically, is our best trait. Or one of our best traits. A long, long time ago, we split based on gender. Men hunted, and got protein and fat. Women gathered, and got roots, nuts, etc. This made is different […]
Why The Road Is Better Than The Inn
TV Party https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May18_Post.mp4 If you are really hungry, and you decide to eat a sack of fast food, along with your favorite alcoholic beverage, it would be a good time. Particularly if you were watching the latest installment of your favorite movie or TV show. Even better if you were surrounded by a […]
Nested Ghosts
Pre Inspection Failure A friend of mine bought a house recently, but then he found out it was haunted. It wasn’t an angry ghost, it wasn’t looking for revenge or for help to solve an old murder. He was just stuck in the bureaucracy, waiting to get to the after life. When […]
Secret Cupcake Party
Sweet Old Lady There’s this old lady who works in a bakery. Her husband died about a decade ago, and left her everything, so she is really well off. She doesn’t need to work, she likes very much to work, to interact with the happy customers of her bakery. She’s also been […]
Superstitious Alchemy Connections
Thunderbolt of Pain The other day, I was walking down the street just minding my own business when out of nowhere I was hit in the gut with an emotional sucker punch. I was in a pretty good mood, I wasn’t going anywhere in particular, my eyes just kind of wandering around on their […]
Misdirection Word Magic
Copywriting Techniques There a ton of copywriting techniques you can learn to be more persuasive. To come up with a collection of words that will induce the consumer of these words to buy things. The most common strategy is the slippery slope idea. That the more you pay attention, the more you […]
Long Game Mind Control
Plastic Boat There’s a lot of way to create work, from a scientific standpoint. Nearly all useful work is created by differences in temperature or electrical potential. But you can also generate work through differences in surface tension. You take these tiny, plastic boats, floating on water. They are built so […]
Long Term Vampire Cons
Breakup I have a friend who recently broke up with her boyfriend of two years. She’s really hot, and pretty smart, and I’d been expecting this for a quite a while. I’m not really sure why they were together, but you could tell she was dating way below her market value. In […]