Most of you know I have problems with Uber. Of course, idealism is out the window when there’s savings or convenience (even if you risk some insurance company not paying a claim)… just like privacy is (more…)
Some thoughts on health and fitness, ie so you want to be and eat healthier?
Fast weight loss does not stay off, because science: http://fortune.com/2016/05/02/biggest-loser-weight-study/ I turn 40 this year. I am 6’6″. I weighed 270 in 2002. I weigh about 225lbs 15 years later, (more…)
OT: How to keep a car clean like a gentleman, investing now instead of paying others to wash over lifetime of the car….
It seems – try and have a garage.2 buckets: one warm soapy water, one fresh rinse bucket. Grit guards preferred.Wash mits, no sponges. Ever. (any rec on a solid one you love?)Pressure wash system like (more…)
Design abstraction to produce re-rendered physical objects, stripping down current styles… including a car.
United Nude’s design style goes without saying, having replicated a sense of geometry from existing design styles…. glassware, shoes, etc. But this is curious… and not street legal. It’s a polygon (more…)
Ted Talks, the cult of personality, and when good ideas become entertainment
He just summarized my feeling about TED making science and thought into accessibly vapid entertainment as cult of personality, where you are just supposed to be amazed and not ask questions. I met (more…)
Why we’re so polarized, why it will get worse, and no tl;dr
I want to add…. confirmation bias and selective perception from the online algorithms that act as news editor, that show you what you want to see, reaffirming your belief system https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles Increasing (more…)
Driverless, Shared cars would mean absolute economic disruption. Not just insurance companies….
Let’s talk about this. Not just insurance….. The article addresses a *few* of these below things. Here’s my 25 year impact plan on driverless cars: Driverless cars, added to a rental economy. (more…)
Google Timeline is fairly remarkable.
https://www.google.com/maps/timeline That’s… remarkable. They’ve had a light version in maps, but this is pretty amazing. I’ve got ZERO privacy concerns, etc. I think prospective hubbies and (more…)
Inequality via web search trends: easy places to live versus hard places to live.
These differences in search, which I have posted before, still astound me. Inequality in web search trends, by “easy places to live” and “hard places to live” Wow.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/upshot/inequality-and-web-search-trends.html?_r=1&abt=0002&abg=0 Pardon (more…)
Iceland… 4K, genetic experiments, utilitarian sculptures, and original hipsters…
They were the original hipsters. They love their sweaters, beards, lumberjack look, indie pop, and apparently The Big Lebowski. They also are markedly homogeneous, with a wildly close knit population (more…)