Showing posts with label free money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free money. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Taipei 101 still wins


Although Taipei 101 has recently lost the title of "Tallest Building in the World" to Burj Dubai (just barely, see graph below), the bamboo-shaped building in Taiwan's capital city still has a few things left to boast about. 





Tuesday, September 7, 2010

A Material (Under)World

Today when I was driving my scooter home, once on the little alleys and lanes near my apartment, it became necessary to start weaving and zig-zagging around clusters of people watching paper burn in metal wastebaskets.

Enter "Ghost Month," or the 7th month of the Lunar Year

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Free money


How great is it when you put on your coat for the first time since last winter, only to discover you left a $5 bill in it? That's essentially free money. You just got paid to wear that coat.

Having an extremely optimistic attitude towards everything helps grasp this crazy "free money" logic