That sounds like a good business plan, but I’m not sure I could convince Ryan Reynolds (or Guy) to work with me.

That’s fair.

I don’t know if it would have done me, except that in the past I’ve had several jobs (mostly call centers) where I had a decent amount of free time and relatively open web access, but sat in an area that was sufficiently well trafficked that browsing anything with lots of images (like a webcomic, which would have been my first instinct) was potentially a bad idea. Since TV Tropes is almost entirely text (or was when I frequented it) it was safe to browse at length. Of course, Wikipedia probably would have fulfilled this need as well.

That said, the other aspect for me is that I’ve always been an avid reader and oft enjoyed movies or TV, so I appreciated its ability to essentially say “oh, you liked x story? You’d probably enjoy y media because they share z details!” It definitely hugely expanded my media library.

Hey, in a blatant attempt at sabotage, have you heard of TV Tropes?

I’m not gonna link it because I don’t actually want to sabotage you and you probably already know it. However, it is a lot of fun.

Given the nature of his proclivities, I wouldn’t be surprised if he showed up here unprompted and dropped the next nugget of financial wisdom.

There’s an early-ish episode of American Dad! that I find pretty hilarious. In it, trans fats are banned. Stan, the protagonist(ish) of the show smuggles some in, then cooks and eats it in the men’s bathroom at his work. His boss, using the restroom and smelling the food, says (paraphrasing because it’s an old episode) “what’s that? I smell something good! I’ve never smelled anything good in here before!”

I had a friend who told me to buy Bitcoin when it cost cents. I didn’t, because at the time it required you to send your ID to an unknown entity.

The same friend had previously recommended that I learn Hadoop. I didn’t because I didn’t have the proper setup to host it and when was it going to be relevant to my job? Incidentally my current job relies - and my previous job relied - heavily on HDFS.

I’m extremely sleep deprived and can’t remember the third thing, but there was a third thing that would have been extremely lucrative if I had followed his advice.

Once I recognized the trend I asked him for the next suggestion. He said I should start my own business. I didn’t because I don’t have any ideas.

Maybe I should start a business.

Clearly written by someone who never read the Evil Overlord List.

John Travolta’s house?

I’ll try to remember to check it out in the morning, thank you.

edit: This worked. This is amazing. Thank you so much.

That sounds even easier!

So you’re saying if I don’t want to talk to my neighbor anymore I just have to identify and gift them their least favorite foods?

Just as a matter of interest, I just tried this and it simply printed ≤ on the console. I’m using Terminal and Tahoe 26.2.

I haven’t been to many musical events, but in my experience they can be pretty olfactorily offensive by themselves.

At the time, I worked nights in a tech call center. There were generally three guys working the shift but it wasn’t the same people every shift, it was a small but rotating cast. There was also a supervisor but they spent the majority of their time in a private office halfway across the building from us.

One of the three guys who was there most nights would mostly ignore calls and would do a pretty poor job with them when he did answer. Instead of working, he’d spend the whole night browsing HotOrNot, occasionally vocalizing his opinion on some pictures.

Since there were only three people on the shift and it was in a call center built for a hundred or more, we were permitted to sit at any desk (they had roaming profiles). Only one member of the night shift ever sat close to the guy I described more than once. Besides being personally unpleasant, he was a heavy smoker and thus olfactorily offensive as well.

The HotOrNot guy was there when I got there and I’m pretty sure there when I left. No idea how he kept his job.

Was there something on her back?

In what way does waiting fuck up your health? I’ve never done it, so it’s very possible I’m wrong, but I would think that doing so much walking would be good for one’s body.

Regarding the last line, Macklemore has a song called “Light Tunnels.” It’s basically the story of going to some big music awards show (and his opinions on the matter).

I don’t care about music awards, but I do like the song; at one point he’s describing seeing his face on a big display and thinks to himself “just look normal, don’t become a meme.”

I think that’s a pretty solid line but probably difficult advice to consistently follow in a public facing role.

Weird, right?

Sounds delicious but farty.

That’s clearly my cat.