snippets of life, ca

seen in the back of a not-so-expensive model from an expensive car maker: "How to make money from foreclosures"

heard at a a slightly non-random brunch spot, couple of tables to the left: "no, you need to go to fourth order in the modified Lagrangian..."

told over lunch: "I heard Apple is out to hire someone to start that as a project"

over coffee: "well google was excited until they were told the timescale, they think six months is a long time to plan ahead"

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