I recently watched an interesting whodunit called 'Columbus Circle'. Story is about a reclusive woman in a high end Manhattan apartment that finds out a scam crafted by her new neighbors that involves her. Of the recent news headlines in the US there have been multiple instances where such scams or affairs are coming to light and its never clear whodunit or whatdunit.
Oddly multiple box builders or box sellers respectively called Hewlett Packard and Best Buy, have had their chief executives resign over alleged affairs and scams that involved using company funds to support their love lives. So also with sports personalities that dominated the coaching and playing fields across major franchises in America.
Combine this with drug doping and wire tapping and other poking and prodding and ex-government types lying (under or near or over oaths) its a veritable circus. The joke is on the reading public not much different than the one pulled by the likes of Facebook where the product is You! Because at the end of the day, one where everything is largely transparent or so we thought we really do not know if the scammer or the scamee are indeed what they purport to be - what with everything being allegedly suspect yet not proven; potentially to the detriment of all concerned.
Cool cat the Japanese are Tokyo at dusk My second visit to this land of the rising sun after almost a decade. Back then clearly I was wet behind the ears product manager and likely didn’t pay attention to all (efficient) things Japanese. But today I did and of course continue to be impressed. It is as much the obvious stuff like on time travel that is both clean and comfortable and all that which makes it possible. The impressive landmark and landscapes that these humans have put together despite their cramped (or because of it) surroundings and precarious geological conditions could amaze a novice architect among us. But it’s also the little things that someone had to think about which have a phenomenal impact on day to day lives that make the Japanese stand apart. Below are few random examples- 1. Providing a very fine machined wooden toothpick in every packet of wooden chopsticks. The said chapsticks are simply set on the To Go counter of any food vendor/ convenience store wher...
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