I saw one of these driving through the grocery store parking lot a couple of months ago. I said to myself, “Holy shit, is that a Bricklin?” and the guy must have read my lips because he yelled out the window, “Yeah, it’s a Bricklin!”.

End-user? Is this Silicon Valley speak for driver?

I read something that suggested a lot of people who flew the last year or so were inexperienced in traveling that way, folks who were taking advantage of the low volume/ cheap flights and their own lack of judgement to fly when other people were not. In addition to not being appropriately cautious about a deadly…

A US giant took over a wildly profitable oilfield services company here a decade ago and managed to make it pretty much the only unprofitable business of its kind in the region, by forcing them to adopt rules and processes from the US HQ:
- Everyone had to get a landline. Previously, the only landlines were the ones…

The Defunctland episode on Disney Paris is pretty great. I felt sorry for the designers, because they did a really good job with the layout and aesthetics, but Eisner and Disney executives were totally tone-deaf to the French and Europeans in general. Their park in Japan was and is a success because it was a…

DisneyLand Paris is another failure case, in Europe, actually studied in Business School. Nothing like Think Global Act Local...

My RT sometimes feels like a bit too much to just be lollygagging around in, couldn't imagine these

Good for him. Hope he doesn’t turn into another salt bae.

My executives do a pretty good job at remaining semi-hands off with our acquisitions. They are largely companies with expertise outside our own, so their structure/personnel will remain in place and we use it to train our people or try to bring in expertise they don’t have to their existing client base. While common,…

It’s just a personal choice to steal a vegetable from Disney.

Ethnocentrism runs deep in American management. I’ve seen it every time I was sent to work in Canada or Mexico. The most irritating thing is: does it hurt to ask? The workers I’ve encountered in both countries have always provided me with free and friendly answers or advice.

That is largely why my company has been so hesitant going international. We got RFIs and interest in Canada and other places, but the execs couldn’t find personnel that either knew or were willing to learn a whole new market like that. They eventually just bought Canadian firm. It’s been the same challenge in other…

Any gas stove will do. I have a primus multifuel which will pretty much burn anything and get your coffee going in a few minutes.

They obviously didn’t yank on the straps and say “yeah that ain’t going anywhere” before they drove off. #1 rule of securing a load.

Might have been worth spending a small amount of that cash on an environmental review before buying the land.

These dicks ain’t gunna measure themselves!

If you assume his cost of floorplan funding debt is around 8% (probably high), and that he paid around $80k for them, he’d break even selling them for around $100k.  If he could have sold them in 2018 for $100k, then his breakeven price (i.e. where it turns out to have been a good decision to wait) is more like $125k. 

It is worth noting that in the height of the pandemic, a new breed of speeders was born amid the empty roads.

I’ll be honest: I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad cup of Diner Coffee

Mrs. Mostel: “Why are you smelling the dogs’ feet? Is this an internet thing again? It’s an internet thing, isn’t it.”