Monthly Archives: April 2013


Life at a startup is hard, but even failure can be rewarding

Life at a startup is hard, but even failure can be rewarding

The last days at Fisker
Joe worked at Fisker Automotive for years until the mass layoffs at the automaker last week. He reminisces about his overall experience at the company whose future seems more dire than ever.

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It's a shame that Mazda never built this replacement for the RX-7, one of my… 5

It's a shame that Mazda never built this replacement for the RX-7, one of my favorite sports cars of all time

I've always been a fan of the Wankel rotary engine and it would have been great to get a proper update of the RX-7. While the RX-8 was a fine machine in many respects, I'd love to get a Miata with a 13B in it. 

Here's my 2009 review of the RX-8 R3 edition http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/08/in-the-autoblog-garage-2009-mazda-rx-8-r3-return-of-the-humme/

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Once upon a time, racing drivers had real personalities and they were about more…

Once upon a time, racing drivers had real personalities and they were about more than just selling stuff for sponsors

As a youngster I was just becoming aware of motorsport in 1976 during the height of the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. They were diametrically opposite personalities that often reached the same result, standing at the top of the podium after the race.

If this trailer is any indication of the movie, I'll definitely be going to see it on the big screen. 

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Wrong answer to the patent backlog problem!

Lowering the bar for what can be patented is not the solution to a backlog of applications. The world would be better off with a backlog and fewer high-quality patents than a plethora of bogus patents that should have been rejected. 

Reshared post from +Ars Technica

Study suggests patent office lowered standards to cope with backlog
The “allowance rate” sharply increased during Obama’s first term.

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