It's a spinning optical disk.

I'm at a letter agency, and the way we work with hands tied behind our backs reminds me of how we worked in the early 90s. It's still out there, you just have to find it.

Software will eat software. Good luck Oracle, Apple, Microsoft, everyone.

I had forgotten this, whatever happened to Joseph? Probably died detoxing in jail!

Interesting. What motivated you to explore that and what helped support you taking it?

All Musk cares about is Mars. The CT is going to be a Mars vehicle, that's why it looks like that by and large.

And this tech is simply part of the Tesla/SpaceX merge, and right in line with flamethrowers, tunnels, and chainsaws. It's going to funnel loads of cash his way, which was the idea.

1982, Omaha.

Way, way pre-WWW I was at an REM concert when the lyrics were suddenly wrong, "I did not invent this world" snuck in somehow. My friends didn't notice, didn't recall it.

Six years later I'm riding my bike through a bar-heavy area in a large city, and I hear a snippet of that same lyric somewhere, where? I went to every bar there the next six months, until I heard it across the street. Went to the manager, then another one, then another one, until I got the answer. Future 40s, Syd Straw, with Michael Stipe, on Golden Palaminos.

Of course. It was maybe 1991 by now. I told my friends years later, and and nobody had any idea what was talking about.

Bridgestone bicycles.

Just scored a 1992 RB-1 earlier this year. Had to order some parts to restore it to factory-correct, but it'll be rebuilt this weekend. Great, great bikes. Lusted after one for a long time.