Think Different: Inspiration from Steve Jobs

A man who imparted much wisdom, Steve Jobs quotes have been popping up all over. Here are some of my favorites:

To John Scully when trying to persuade him to leave Pepsi for Apple:

“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with [...]

Amazing Race 18: Zev Can Surely Blame It On Rio

The Amazing Race aired two episodes back-to-back last night. Promoted as a two-hour finale, the two episodes paired together feel deflating. A mere commercial break after the fourth team is eliminated, the final three are off and running for the million-dollar prize.

Where’s my week to ponder which team should win? Especially this season, [...]

Amazing Race 18: Some Cold Swiss Chocolate

St Bernard at the Pit Stop

Majestic views of Switzerland’s Matterhorn and the surrounding town of Zermatt make this episode one of the most visually stunning.

Flying in helicopters above the Matterhorn, Zev pipes in about the mountain being named after the ride in Disneyland. That’s where I first heard of the Matterhorn [...]

Amazing Race 18: The Password is . . . Swiss Cheese

The cowboys Jet and Cord are eliminated from the Amazing Race tonight (moment of silence, please). They are unable to recover from a mistake in kilometer calculation driving a motor bike down the length of Lichtenstein.

As much as the cowboys were liked by the other racers, Jet and Cord’s history of coming from [...]

Amazing Race 18: Freud & Ferris Wheels

Sigmund Freud

The Austria leg features several popular culture references: the Ferris wheel scene in Orson Welles’ The Third Man; the Villa Trapp, home to the von Trapp family singers that inspired The Sound of Music and more obliquely, Dick van Dyke’s chimney sweep in Mary Poppins.

Jet and Cord make another bad [...]