I read a relatively long post on Medium today that has stuck with me. It written by a man who started a painting business with his close friend. They were able to land a large deal to paint an expensive mansion in California. The man's friend had all the responsibility for the business including ownership and liabilities. During the course of the project the house's garage caught fire and was destroyed. It spread and became a wildfire that burned 45 acres of land. All of this happened because the man made some foolish mistakes during the project in how he stored the paint etc.
The point of this story is that from the moment he found out about the event and many months after he pondered how someone could forgive their best friend for ruining their future. In the end his friend was able to forgive him, in fact he didn't even need to. When you don't cast blame, you don't need to forgive.
The World Cup is coming in June and there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the politics and allocation of funds for new stadiums in Brasil. I browsed through a post that showed the 12 stadiums in their current stage of completion. For the most part their finished and ready to go - and beautiful. There are a few that are rushing to get chairs and other completions in before test events in May.
Gizmodo (or io9, their similar sources) posted an article with 10 interesting sites that will calculate all kinds of obscure values for you. For example, you can play with the numbers in the equation (I forget the name) that predicts the probability of intelligent alien life in the universe. You can also calculate how many Earth's it would take to support your lifestyle. It's interesting stuff to think about, it's also fun to play with data.
Apparently there's a company in Idaho (Boise) that lets you pay to smash things. In all honesty, I would pay to be able to smash a computer or something else fun with a bat. It could be a great stress reliever.
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