Yes, extremely familiar. Like right now.

I don't disagree with you at all, but just consider the opposite. He legitimately wants to help you, so he's giving you a way to get done what you need to- with XYZ contact info.

Negative. By not responding you're just the guy who can't solve a problem. In this situation they'll learn that your assistant(s) can solve the problem, and if they can't, the assistant(s) will come to you to solve it. It's a filter, and definitely not the same as not responding.

If you have to constantly answer to supervision to get things done and can't take on your own assistant, it's understandably unreasonable to take this approach. But the sooner you can task out minutia to capable hands... man, it's life-changing. I'm not exaggerating.

Try to remember, Tim Ferris, in particular, is a minor celebrity. So receiving one of these emails from him is probably pretty par for the course. That's assuming you have his direct email address. Most won't.

Because he is, and we should be too, if that's what we're going to be best at.

THIS needs a Kickstarter! Not potato salad.

That dickhead is just ruining the system. Don't let him or the potato salad guy ruin your outlook. There will ALWAYS be dickheads.

Damn, that thing is smart.

I have a particular sensitivity to rat urine that would really make this can practical. But how will it tell that from the Mountain Dew in the cup?

You're referring to smart toilets, which I understand most of Japan already has. They do urinalysis- in REAL TIME. But seriously, I've read this before... somewhere... [source needed]

I want a Kickstarter to patent Colbert's patent on patents.

I will take one of these for absolutely no pracitcal reason:

Yeah. And seven years of their lives. And I hate the pretentious name. And the rollout price point. And a lot of things weren't quite right here.

But take and repurpose this for field substance or purity analysis? Thar might be gold in them thar hills.

The last line should have been, "And Toylyt syncs with your iPhone in that if you accidentally drop your iPhone into your Toylyt, it will sink."

Eh. Theirs is pretty good too though.

I don't think "hero" is a word I'd use to describe a guy who's essentially made a mockery of a semi-legitimate way for people with actual ideas to get seed money. I think "hero" is a word I might use if he were to donate all the excess earnings to, say, a food shelter.

Stop posting pictures of the unicorn of burgers.

Yep, my past statements are now currently inaccessible. Anyone else getting this?

Yeah, okay.

It's a little disturbing that these women are joking about being kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man who, given all probability, might actually be capable of such a thing.