Groucho Marx (aka Julius Henry Marx)I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal. Despite searching for half-an-hour, I couldn’t find a date nor place where Groucho allegedly said this quote. ⋯

New Years (Osechi) Brunch!

Party like it’s 2015!

Richie BartlettBe wary of any device or service that claims to conceal your online identity.It’s like buying vitamins that claim to make you immortal.You would be better off just unplugging and disconnecting from the ⋯

Richie BartlettNew iPad ad focuses on getting things done | ZDNetApple’s answer to Microsoft’s Surface in the workplace. Apple has always shied away from throwing a never-ending stream of tech specs at its potential customers, ⋯

How come we never have the money to do things right the first time, but we always have the money to fix it later?

IFLScienceOctober 27, 2014I didn’t believe this at first, so I looked it up. It’s absolutely true. In the average year, you’re around 10x more likely to be bitten by an inhabitant of New York City than you are to be bitten by ⋯

Richie BartlettWhy do people judge you by your appearance??This has bothered me for some time. If I can prove my objective thinking and knowledge, then why does it matter how I dress?“Presentation” seems to be what all people ⋯

IFLScienceAugust 10, 2014If you haven’t watched it yet, check out the trailer for the new Stephen Hawking biopic. It genuinely made me cry: http://bit.ly/1B3S9nzImage by AsapSCIENCE.

Richie BartlettJapan police mobilized 700 officers to search for the girl, using GPS to track her phone… Yet, they could not find the girl until they tracked a lead where a lady saw the girl talking to a man near a “suspicious ⋯

Melanie Joy (2012/NOV/05)Educating yourself does not mean that you were stupid in the first place. It means that you are intelligent enough to know that there’s plenty left to learn.

I am not “42” yet… I have not reached the “prime number” of my universe yet!

March 9, 2014Once a group of 500 people were attending a seminar. Suddenly the speaker stopped and decided to do a group activity. He started giving each person a balloon. Each person was then asked to write their name on it ⋯

People starving for attention ride the train NAKED! I would be more concerned about the cleanliness of the seats and their hygiene habits than the fact they rode naked. ＪＲ列車内で全裸撮影、男女６人を書類送検 | ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.This describes my personality very closely. Portrait of the Rational Mastermind - INTJ 🔗 planning 🔗 Masterminds understand the logical consequences of each move, and easily grasp how each step necessitates ⋯

Sometimes, I just want to quit the rat-race in the city and go live in the forest. Then I remember how comfortable city life is… Still… parts of my childhood remind me of the adventures of surviving on one’s own in the middle ⋯

NO email (?) equates to less stress and more task focus… http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/Home_page/Research_files/CHI%202012.pdf

大好きな彼女 (笑

Hanging out with friends in Saitama for お花見。 This is a sort of annual tradition by the Japanese that celebrates the start of a new year (from spring). For Japanese, the start of a new job or school is typically in April. ⋯