Let’s go back to the dark ages of the computer. 1970s. This is when companies like Data General, Wang, and others ruled the world with “microcomputers” (which were anything but micro). Funny thing about computers back then was that if you wanted a new application you more likely than not needed to buy another computer.…
Toilets are in many ways unsung heroes of the modern world. Yes, it’s true that antibiotics, vaccines, and other medical technology have saved millions of lives but, by separating sewage from your drinking water, the humble toilet has arguably saved many more – and even launched modern statistics and data visualization. Quick history geek out.…
“I’m a commercial drone pilot myself and it was frustrating to me that flight time was so low for all the drones I was using. I wanted something that would give me at least an hour of flight with any payload. But your options are limited. If you want that kind of flight time performance,…
“I lose money every minute my drone isn’t in the air”. We’ve heard that more times that we can count. And for what? Well, we believe it’s because of the limitations of imagination and the constraints of status quo technology. Everyone is taking the same approach. They are all trying to optimize the same tired,…
There are three important conditions here for this blog post. First, we think any fart qualifies for this. Silent-but-deadly. Loud-and-proud. Rhythmic. Dry. Wet. You get the idea. Second, we are assuming that the non-farting person is a person who isn’t attracted to farting persons. That’s just gross. Third, we are also assuming that there is…
We’ve talked before about how Southwest Airlines keeps its planes in the air (and how this makes money for Southwest). The lesson for us is: the longer you keep the drone in the air, the more money you make. Today we are building on that lesson with a little something for those finance freaks…
Lye is one of the mafia’s favorite tools. Heat it up a few hundred degrees and in a few hours you have transformed a corpse into a nicely liquidated substance that’s a lot like mineral oil. And a solution of lye at room temperature is a torturer’s dream. It burns the skin almost like a…
OK. In full transparency, the title of this blog post is about 70% click-bait. But the other 30% is a somewhat-solid analogy. So let’s talk about that 30%. First, we’re talking about both Death Stars: the original Death Star in Episode IV, A New Hope and the second, unfinished (yet fully operational) Death Star in…