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Just got back home after a conference and wanted to jot down a few thoughts to mark the moment in time. I wanna be able to look back at this in a couple years and revisit where we were then, kinda like how I made notes about what life was like during COVID. William Gibson...
In China, we picked one of these up: Some people call it a tri-fold, which isn t right it s only got two folds in it. When it s folded up like a Z, you have a reasonably sized phone: It s thick, but not unreasonably thick. It still fits easily in a pocket, and it s about the...
Every year, I post a retrospective about what it s been like to start up a company. If you want to catch up, check out past posts in the life quest tag. Starting this year, the posts cover calendar years, so this one covers how 2024 went for me. When we left off the Year 12...
Every year, I run a Black Friday sale at BrentOzar.com on SQL Server training and apps. It s a genuinely big deal for me, almost half of our annual revenue. We brought in $885K last year (up from $847K in 2023, although down from well over $1M during the pandemic.) In addition, this is a release year...
I ve been dailying my new-to-me 2017 Rolls-Royce Dawn for a couple months now, and I ve noticed it really changed the way I feel about cars. People are overly friendly to me. They wave, take pictures, and constantly compliment both the car and me in a way that doesn t happen with any other car I ve driven....
I decided to do a little shuffling in the car collection. I sold a few cars, basically consolidating 3 cars into 1: I sold my Porsche Speedster replica because I d had some great adventures with it for 3 years and I wasn t driving it as much anymore. Yves hair is really long now, and she...
In 1968, Porsche wanted to win hill climb races, so it built a one-off experimental car called the 909 Bergspyder, which translates to mountain spider. I was absolutely smitten with it when I saw it in the Porsche museum in Stuttgart back in 2018: The 909 Bergspyder was one of the lightest Porsche race cars...
Kei cars are the smallest cars allowed on expressways in Japan. They re physically tiny: less than 11.2 feet long, with engines under 660cc (40 cubic inches). Most motorcycles in the US have bigger engines than that! Popular kei car designs include the retro Nissan Figaro, gullwing door Autozam AZ-1, and adorable workhorse Daihatsu Hijet trucks...
Behold! My Sanrio wrapped Porsche 911: And the other side: It s split down the middle so that both sides transition to different colors front to back: So, how does something like this happen? We ve had great results with Purple Flare Wraps doing our Speedster replica in metallic pink, Defender in black camo, and the base...
Yves uses a few Chinese social media platforms to keep up with her friends back home, and I often see stuff on there while she s doing things. I don t speak or read any Chinese whatsoever, but between what I ve just seen visually, and what Yves I have discussed, one thing is extremely clear to...