Archives for April 2012

Notable Quotables from Dorothy Sayers

I am reading The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers’ Encounter with Dante By Barbara Reynolds, and I came across this awesome quote: You are, of course, perfectly right — I never do anything (I mean , I never write anything) that I don’t like writing, or about anything or anyone… more »

Nissan’s Taxi of Tomorrow Makes NYC Debut…

On April 3, the first full vehicle prototype of the Taxi of Tomorrow, AKA the 2014 Nissan NV200 taxi, made its global debut at a special event in SoHo with Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn and New York City officials. Then it headed to the 2012 New York International… more »

Fightin’ Sharks & Clowe’s Brain Cramp

Not sure if you can blame it on the full moon, but the game between the San Jose Sharks and the Los Angeles Kings at the Staples Center in LA had some fierceness and weirdness. For fierce, you need to to go to this website and see for yourself: There… more »

It’s About Building a Team…

In The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, there was a story about Dropbox, the online file sharing company. What I really liked was the quote from the company’s co-founder and chief executive, Drew Houston: “Companies die from not being eaten by their competitors, but from self-inflicted wounds,” Mr. Houston said…. more »

Good Idea, Bad Idea: Let’s Do a Gym Version!

The cartoon series “Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs” was awesome. The core focus was on the adventures (or misadventures) of the Warner Brothers, Yakko and Wakko, and the Warner Sister, Dot, who were so crazy that the studio execs locked them away in the water town at the Studio. Lots of… more »