If you travel with more than an Indy-style bag, you’re doing it wrong.

That escalated quickly!

...that allows you to cut perfectly straight lines with the help of the edge of a table.

...it just looks like my bathtub drain.

TU stands for ‘Technische Universität’, which means, you guessed it, ‘Technical University’.

...and upon touch-down, and taxiing to the terminal, there’s the blip-blip-blip sound of about hundred thumbs typing ‘I just landed’ into smartphones.

Insert “yo man, I heard you back up your back ups....” joke here.

Dear diary, today I learned something I should probably have known.

You steer a motorcycle (or bicycle) by turning the handlebars away from a corner...

Mildly NSFW?! This is borderline raccoon-lady!

He had the only tool man needs. A Brain.

I assume a SCOTUS ruling is not a particularly riveting event, so pictures would distract from what really counts here - and that is words.

Shows again that you can do anything with Bach. And, as always, it doesn’t add anything to Bach.

What all these ‘visions’ cavalierly ignore is that these habitats still will have to deal with weekly ‘strategizing’ meetings, featuring ‘breakout groups’ that have to come up with ‘action plans’ that never see the light of a Martian (or Betelgeuzian) day. There’ll be the telco salespeople, used spaceship dealers,…

That place is just one giant Utah

Earth has Lindsey Lohan!

The current model maximizes how much money Uber can make without being saddled with employment responsibilities.

That’s why an East African can come here and “be black”. Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia...Dominican, Columbian..they can be black. Because they would have been enslaved.

Great insights and very interesting read! One question comes to mind: how big is the ‘yield’ in the Chinese tech culture, i.e. the ratio of ‘new’ stuff churned out, but forgotten after two weeks, and ‘innovative’ stuff that has a little more permanence in the market (and in people’s lives)?

‘Irregardless’ is simply nonsense - the ‘ir-’ (meaning ‘not’) is already covered by the ‘less’ (meaning ‘without’): ‘regardless’ does the job in a lean, efficient way.