Breaking radio silence after a bit of a hiatus in the postings. Caused by a move from North Carolina to California, and a new job.

In that connection I have been reading the study guide for drivers to prepare for the written test I have to pass to get a California driver license, and one item in particular struck me: in California it is actually legal to park in the bike lane!

Quite apart from this sort of defeating the entire purpose of having a bike lane, it served to remind me of the significant cultural differences that still exist between the US and Denmark – especially since I had just read this.

The gap in bicycle culture (not to mention the question of imbibing alcoholic beverages in public places) looks more like a Mariana trench. And this is California, for crying out loud…

Words fail me.
Both at the fact that the machine translation error message itself seems to be machine translated, and at the fact that there is apparently zero involvement from a sentient being before a giant message like that is posted.

When I saw the headline saying Microsoft had paid 240 million USD for a stake in Facebook, I actually thought they had made a good deal. That was until I clicked through to the story and saw that this was for a 1.6 percent stake.