several thoughts:
1. never buy in short - if a full buy is too much for you that should tell you that you are at the wrong stakes
2. two ways to play cash - one is super tight, the other is being a bully stealer - always bet pre and cb flop, always
3. there is a bully standard to throw people off their games - if they ever enter a pot its an auto-raise - what that does essentially is make a .01/.02 game a .02/.04 game whenever they play - taking most players out of their comfort zone bankroll wise - its not a bad way to play if you have enough money to be playing at .02/.04 and sit at the .01/.02 tables -

a way to hurt the bully play very tight and when they raise and you have a pretty decent hand just go AI- you will need to get very unlucky to lose to the bully - as to the rest of the table, well thats a different story