I’m convinced that Dune’s “spice” is just post apocalyptic coffee.

Related: We finally have coffee in the house again.

A filmmaker who prefers ideas to images will never advance above the second rank because he is fighting the nature of his art. The printed word is ideal for ideas; film is made for images, and images are best when they are free to evoke many associations and are not linked to narrowly defined purposes.

• Roger Ebert

Back in the cold, but beautiful, north.

Florida shines a lovely goodbye as we drive back to the frozen north.

The reason Tesla hasn’t “worked all bugs out yet” is that the company is run by people who hold established best practice in ideological contempt, and is defined by a tech-industry culture that fetishizes innovation and regards product quality as a third-order concern. There simply isn’t as much investment money and credulous tech-media adulation to suck up in the promise of iterating on what already works.

• You’re Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk