The alternative was risking to be on island A while the diving gear was only delivered to island B.

Words like "Fremdsham" and "Schadenfreude" make me want to learn German, because who knows what other treasures I could discover :)

What I cannot comprehend is the people chuckling. To me, it is the epitome of fremdscham.

VCs will fall in love as soon as I utter the word "quantum". It will be like casting a spell.

The hard part is that, once you've made them, you can't really tell where those little suckers are *and* how fast they are going.

Didn't catch that. Immediate block.

One minute faster than me, damn!!

(Great job!)

Only if you have better data, JD. Only then. Otherwise you just STFU.

On the implausibility scale of a lot of James Bond past movies, it would not even score that high.

[Career counselling session]
- I have no skills, nobody wants to give me a job
- Sorry to hear that, sir. What's your name?
- Max Toth
- Toth? Like the Egyptian god?
- Uh, yes, I guess
- I have the perfect job for you, and all you need is a typewriter

Magnetic North has migrated, undead pharaohs in Egyptian pyramids can't figure out why their razorblades are now all blunt, and this was very bad publicity.