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  Is friendlygoodshop.com legit? Overall: No — it looks sketchy and high risk Multiple online scam‑checking sites rate friendlygoodshop.com poorly or give mixed data: A scam‑analysis site gave it a low trust score (45 / 100) and labeled it “medium‑risk” warning users to be cautious. Another review site showed a very low trust score (~25 %) and warned people to be wary. Reviews from users online (not specific just to this site ) suggest many similar “deal‑too‑good‑to‑be‑true” projector offers are scams — people report not receiving orders, receiving cheap products, or having bad return experiences. Some scam checkers do give it a neutral rating because it has a valid SSL certificate, but those ratings aren’t evidence of real reliability — even scam sites can have HTTPS. 🚩 Red flags you should care about The site’s domain info is hidden, so you can’t easily find who runs it. Domain is very new, not established long‑term. There are user reports from ot...
  The show itself is not the real business. The show is the prestige engine. If we adapt the Hawthorn/Michelin model to a small but ambitious Toronto band , the strategy becomes surprisingly clear. Let’s walk through it. Michelin Notes from a Fictional Stage If a Small Toronto Band Used the Hawthorn Model Imagine a band in Toronto that decides not to chase the usual model: endless bar gigs streaming pennies random touring losses Instead they build something closer to a Michelin-star restaurant of music . The model looks like this: Extremely small audience. Extremely high intensity. Extremely high prestige. The Band Version of Hawthorn Replace the restaurant elements with musical equivalents. Restaurant Band Equivalent 12 diners 40–80 audience tasting menu curated performance chef bandleader island restaurant secret venue Michelin prestige cultural prestige Instead of trying to play for 500 people , the band deliberately plays for 50 people . But the experience becomes legendary . ...
  Michelin Notes from a Fictional Island If Hawthorn from The Menu Were Real In 2022, the film The Menu presented audiences with one of the most unsettling restaurants ever imagined: Hawthorn, an ultra-exclusive dining destination on a remote island, serving twelve guests per night under the iron control of Chef Julian Slowik. The film plays as satire, horror, and culinary opera at once. But if one strips away the violence and theatrical finale, the question becomes surprisingly interesting: Would a restaurant like Hawthorn actually make economic sense in the real world? If Michelin inspectors—those famously discreet auditors of culinary ambition—were to examine Hawthorn not as cinema but as a functioning establishment, they would likely produce a report that reads less like a fairy tale and more like a ledger. And that ledger would reveal something both fascinating and slightly absurd: Hawthorn’s business model, stripped of its cinematic madness, is not far from reality. Let us w...
 basically turning your life into a  practical polymath engine . Do you want me to make that diagram?Yes—your style already contains the seeds of a unique, practical genius , but it needs structure and intentional output to turn insights into social or worldly impact. Unlike da Vinci, who coupled depth with selective public execution, your edge is breadth, integration, and momentum . Here’s a systematic approach to maximize it: 1. Capture & Connect Ideas Efficiently Keep a centralized system for your ideas across all domains (geekdom, travel, social experiments, creative projects). Use cross-domain tagging : link insights from one sphere to another. E.g., “social strategy + vigilante street observation + media storytelling” → potential content or approach. Even partial notes can be fertile seeds ; your style thrives on connecting many half-formed insights. 2. Prioritize Action Over Perfection, Strategically Continue your “done at all costs” approach, but choose projects ...
March Update — March 10, 2026 At the Metsu today I ran into the bike guy, Bruce, and another man whose name I didn’t catch. During dinner I talked with Sue , a Black woman who is new there. She said she was a friend of Liz. I implied that I knew Liz, although I’m not completely sure that I do. There are only so many regulars around there, so it’s possible I’ve seen her before. It might even have been the same Liz—or Lisa—I noticed when I first walked in earlier. Sue and I started talking about movies, and then the conversation drifted into the Epstein case. She asked a lot of questions and seemed genuinely curious, a bit like Roger when he gets into a topic. I told her I’m not an expert, but I explained the generally accepted account rather than the speculative spy stories that circulate online. I explained that the way Jeffrey Epstein operated, according to investigations and court records, relied heavily on grooming and normalization. Wealthy environments often include attractive yo...

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 On an Android tablet the cleanest setup is still the playlist trigger method , because it requires almost no typing once it is built. The tablet just needs the automation bridge installed. You install IFTTT from the Play Store and sign in. Inside it you connect two services: YouTube and Blogger . The app will ask permission to access both accounts. Accept those so it can watch for playlist activity and publish posts. Next, create the trigger source inside YouTube. Open the YouTube app, go to Library → Playlists , and create a new playlist. Call it something memorable like BlogQueue or PostToBlog . This playlist will act as your publishing switch. Now return to IFTTT and build the automation. Tap Create . The screen shows the sentence structure: If This Then That. Choose the YouTube service for the “If This” trigger. From the list of triggers pick “New video added to playlist.” When prompted, select the playlist you just created (for example BlogQueue ). Then set the action. ...
 Perfect. Let’s do it properly in “Edmundo’s English Lesson Today” style — clear, lively, and full of examples so the ideas stick. I’ll keep the concepts accurate but make them easy to remember and slightly playful , like a good classroom explanation. Edmundo’s English Lesson Today How Stories Actually Work Every story ever written — from The Odyssey to Scooby-Doo to Star Wars — is built from a few basic ingredients. Think of it like cooking. The recipe might change, but the core elements stay the same. Today we look at three of the most important parts of storytelling: Plot Characters Setting Theme Let’s begin. 1. Plot – The Shape of a Story In 1864 , a German writer named Gustav Freytag studied stories and noticed something interesting. Most of them followed the same shape . He drew a triangle to explain it. Today we call it Freytag’s Pyramid . The Six Parts of Plot 1. Introduction (Exposition) This is where we meet the characters and learn where we are. Example: Harry Potte...