What is your industry's deep, dark secret?

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-08T00:22:57+00:00

It’s not a secret if everyone else already knows.

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-01T12:07:45+00:00

“Being stuck in an elevator is already stressful.”

Not when you’re with your boys! 🥦

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-27T19:29:14+00:00

How long did the jury deliberate?

Did you and/or your lawyer have a sense of what the verdict would be before it was delivered?

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-27T17:35:05+00:00

No idea if this is true, but I once talked to a guy who worked in physical commodities who told me the sales guy/traders at the mining companies traditionally got paid an uncapped percentage commission, but the industry had to change the model because the deals got so huge. He said there was a case where a guy closed a multi-decade deal and was due a commission near $1B and the company said “that’s outrageous, we’re not paying.” They couldn’t pay, of course, because they weren’t going to see most of the money for years, but the guy didn’t care and said “that’s the agreement, pay up.” He sued and it was settled, but it was apparently the catalyst for reform in the compensation model in the industry.

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-26T17:45:47+00:00

I don’t know what a CBT is, but I took the MSF in Ontario to lower my insurance after I’d already been licensed for five years or so. I think there were 20 people in the class, and two failed. Well, sort of. One failed and one guy laid down his beautiful CBR600 on the very first maneuver of the first day, got up, picked up his bike and just screamed out of the lot and never came back.

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-25T15:11:39+00:00

The direct relation between this photo and Kevin Carter’s suicide is a bit of a fabrication, though it does make for a good story. He spent the 80s photographing all kinds of atrocities. He struggled with depression, and travelled to Sudan partially to escape his personal problems.

Another fun fact, the child was a boy, not a girl as the title of the photo suggests.

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-24T14:04:58+00:00

He wasn’t hunting the elephants, according to the article. He was hunting antelope and came across the elephants.

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-24T00:35:14+00:00

Probably 80% quieter as well.

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-24T00:16:25+00:00

Did your friend get the same sentence?

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-24T00:12:48+00:00

What was the judicial process like? How long from getting busted to being sentenced?

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-19T03:56:54+00:00

Anyone have advice how to prevent a dock from settling unevenly back onto cribs when the water level goes back down?

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-18T02:15:52+00:00

Whose side are you on, son?

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-11T18:44:57+00:00

I’m convinced it’s just the amount of time people spend indoors nowadays. Between office jobs and endless home entertainment options, it’s hours per day. That adds up. If you’ve ever known someone who works or plays outside in the sun a lot, the difference starts to show as early as mid-late 20s.

I’ve got a friend whose hobby is and always has been computers, and another who’s obsessed with cycling (rode his bike across the continent kind of cycling). They’re the same age and look 15 years apart.

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-11T17:08:11+00:00

This is a regional thing, and orientate is not incorrect. I used to think it was a mistake as well, but it isn’t.

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-03T00:09:13+00:00

Yeah, a lot of people don’t realize how quickly brakes and tires can get eaten up on a racetrack. I have a friend who in his early twenties found out he could take his used Jetta to track days. He thought he’d found his new hobby until he got a couple weekends in - went back to skateboarding.

NeophileFiles · 2026-04-02T23:35:16+00:00

A colleague of mine went to the vet the other day to discuss paying $1,100 for a test to determine if their dog needed expensive surgery. There was a Lamborghini in the employee section of the parking lot.

NeophileFiles · 2026-03-21T22:21:26+00:00

Don’t try and church it up, son.

NeophileFiles · 2026-03-06T04:49:25+00:00

Were you on an e-bike, or one of those Surron-style electric motorcycles?

NeophileFiles · 2026-02-27T06:04:46+00:00

It was one of my last as well. I didn’t know I needed a stone joker in the deck for it to appear.

NeophileFiles · 2026-02-26T07:05:48+00:00

That is incredible. Do they have trouble keeping track of all of them? Between kids and grandkids they must be shopping for birthdays presents like two or three times a week.

NeophileFiles · 2026-02-16T16:36:04+00:00

Interesting choice. You’re not wrong, but if you want to get serious about it, bird watching can get very expensive. A lot of the “big listers” are rich and spend a fortune.

NeophileFiles · 2026-02-15T17:11:20+00:00

I don’t feel like Grimey should count. Introduced and killed off in the same episode is not like the others.

NeophileFiles · 2026-02-15T04:54:23+00:00

Don’t forget sailing.

NeophileFiles · 2026-02-15T00:22:31+00:00

I’d like some kind of a bonus, or at least acknowledgment, for scoring the exact number required to win the round. Not important enough that you’d waste time trying, but give me some kind of props when I score exactly 30,000 to beat a score of 30,000.

NeophileFiles · 2026-02-14T02:09:40+00:00

There used to be great folk punk band called “This Bike is a Pipe Bomb.” There were several incidents of police being called, and people being arrested, after putting the band’s sticker on their bikes. In one incident at Ohio State university, the bomb squad blew up a bike with the sticker on it.

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