tom-blersch
tom.blersch
tom-blersch

Yep...and started as a physicist.

One of my hobbies is to use “affect” as a noun - correctly - and then watch people try to correct me.

Several years ago, at work, a bunch of us were standing at the floor-to-ceiling windows watching a storm front move through. Got a report of a tornado warning (which hit the COO’s house, a few miles away). People started moving to an interior stairwell. Yours truly stayed at the window, watching vortexes spin off the

It’s actually “Ng,” not “Ing.”

You know something pretty close to this did happen? Rammstein AFB, 1988, the Italian demo team suffered a mid-air collision, and one of the planes crashed in to the crowd.  Wasn’t a rich 70 year old flying his own plane, but still...

You’re thinking of Patrick Stewart.

Iowa law states that “theft of property from the person of another” is first-degree theft and a class C felony.

Never much of a fan of Prince - respected the hell out of him as a remarkable musician with mind-blowing talent, but his musical style just didn’t quite gibe with my tastes.

No such thing exists. But now I want to see it: the Governor of Michigan order the state to take over a publicly traded, Delaware-incorporated company. That would be hilarity.

Eight lanes, if you count that “parking” lane or whatever it is on the far right, that does, in fact, have a car driving on it.

“Autotune Plus Portable Air Quality Monitor” for “Atmotube PLUS...?”  

“Autotune Plus Portable Air Quality Monitor” for “Atmotube PLUS...?”  

Four (27).

I think that’s unfair to freezer pizza, cardboard, and shoes.

I always felt that was Google’s business model: enter a market, undercut everyone, drive them out of business, then jack up their prices.

Large parts of it were funded with bonds...sold to rich people.

The request is voluntary but Raimondo said she warned industry representatives that she might invoke the Defense Production Act or other tools to force their hands if they don’t respond.

That’s the design inspiration for the Tesla Cybertruck, isn’t it?

And the British government routinely classifies and seals the most mundane, uninteresting things for a long time. They practically fetishize secretivity.

This was better coverage than Deadspin, by far.

I’d still manage to kill it.

I’d still manage to kill it.