I've actually been covering this case for my job, and it's pretty interesting. It had to have been for the phones — Apple had this company make 2,036 sapphire furnaces and built an enormous facility in Mesa, Arizona for them. Based on the number of furnaces they built, GTAT was going to more than double the sapphire…

Around this time each year, I ask if indeed the terrorists won.

Here's the thing about tattoos. People who get them often fails to weigh the permanence of the it against the relative changes of our identity over time, particularly in youth. The psychology of those who get them and where is utterly fascinating...and sort of frightening how normalized it has become.

Hiroshi is Julia's father.