Sentences with phrase «ruly strange»

It's so strange to hit a button and not feel any physical give.

When many think of blogging, they often imagine something along the lines of a soccer mom chatting about her son's strange insect collection; however, blogging can be a great way to promote any new business.

After public transportation advocate Jarrett Walker criticized what he characterized as Musk's «hatred of sharing space with strangers,» Musk called Walker an «idiot.»

He stood, stepped through the doors and shot a complete stranger in the back.

We offer dire warnings to kids not to speak to strangers, but the ability to strike up a polite conversation with everyone from the bus driver to your new boss is actually a hallmark of maturity, according to Lythcott - Haims.

Shafi and his co-founders are no strangers to the tech scene.

This short video walks through the ways that the two companies manage their strange - bedfellow circumstance — and how Apple is trying to break its dependency on its biggest competitor.

The Borrowell team got to sit down with Strange, who happens to be both an entrepreneur and a Valley VC — she was part of the executive team that built Ruba, a startup acquired by Google in 2010, and in November last year she became a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

Someone who's not fond of spontaneous interactions with strangers probably isn't a good candidate to drive a taxi.

Strange notes the Canadian technology sector has evolved considerably since C100 was founded.

As holiday rituals go, it's a strange one: you get up at the crack of dawn to fight your way through crushing crowds (and often terrible weather), only to spend a day surrounded by utter pandemonium.

So if we trust all strangers our children are at risk but if we don't trust any strangers our children our protected.

«The gig economy is typified by irregularity, meaning there is no job security and instead of having a boss who trains you and helps you improve, your performance is rated on a scale of 1 - 5 stars by strangers who have no understanding of your growth as a professional,» explains Scot Wingo, founder and CEO of Spiffy, a modern on - demand company.

Of all the we're - not - in - Kansas - anymore moments that went with that shopping experience, the strangest was when I took a small chocolate bar off the shelf and slipped it into my coat pocket.

I often engage strangers in conversation at an airport or a hotel to get a feel for others» opinions.

Strange helped identify potential investors for Borrowell to consider the next time it seeks financing.

Don't ride with strangers, for example.

But Putin is no stranger to harsh rhetoric, and he has broader interests to play for,» Bremmer said.

The scads of people in those Harlem Shake uploads are not random strangers.

The rest need help: They run and reach for the outstretched hand of a stranger who they hope will catch them and haul them up.

Why do we tell our children not to take candy from strangers when everyone knows that strangers have the best candy?

In addition to donations from Bravo personality Andy Cohen, advertising pro Donny Deutsch, radio DJ Elvis Duran, and a host of private citizens, Frankel received money and supplies from Yieldstreet, Univision, Feeding America, and City Harvest, as well as friends and strangers.

Strange Success is about people who come up with crazy ideas to solve a problems you may not even realize exist.

Because reviews will be easily visible on social networks, shoppers will first turn to their friends to read their reviews before checking reviews from complete strangers.

Ratings are expressed in a strange alphabet soup.

Reach out to acquaintances and strangers alike to interest them in your cause.

Uber's case is that the driver enters into a binding agreement with a person whose identity he does not know (and will never know) and who does not know and will never know his identity, to undertake a journey to a destination not told to him until the journey begins, by a route prescribed by a stranger to the contract [Uber] from which he is not free to depart (at least not without risk), for a fee which (a) is set by the stranger, and (b) is not known by the passenger (who only is told the total to be paid), (c) is calculated by the stranger (as a percentage of the total sum) and (d) is paid to the stranger.

«Seeing that movie theater with its beautiful architecture in the middle of town and it's not open, it's just strange.»

How very strange are things here in the Upside Down.

Ian: Get feedback from family members, friends — and strangers.

Winfrey, who has long been a champion of women and is no stranger to public speaking, used her platform expertly.

The feeling was strange, kind of like a pulled muscle but oddly different.

Graham granted them an interview, but was unimpressed with their idea to build a business around strangers sleeping at other strangers» homes.

«It didn't make me nervous, because I have nothing to hide,» St. Pierre says, insisting he played no part in one of the strangest and most spectacular heists in Canadian history.

Last year, for example, the two biggest winners — in terms of viewership and online engagement — were Netflix's Stranger Things trailer and Budweiser's commercial, which featured a young adult Adolphus Busch emigrating from Germany.

If you've ever seen a stranger behaving badly — a mother yelling at her kids in the grocery store or someone who's inebriated in public — you may have reacted by silently judging this person.

I felt a strange sensation the other day when I tried on the Apple Watch.

So if the majority of strangers don't want to hurt our children why are we so adament that our children not so much as TALK to a stranger?

«I would consider Chat Fu an incredible success if I was sitting in a coffee shop or bar and overheard a conversation between strangers talking passionately about the game,» he says.

It's hard enough persuading a stranger to buy something online.

Public transit consultant Jarrett Walker tweeted a response on December 14, saying Elon Musk's «hatred of sharing space with strangers is a luxury (or pathology) that only the rich can afford.»

In bringing together two collections of strangers for a low - pressure evening, start - up Grouper aims to disrupt the bar scene and one - on - one dating.

With a newly achieved MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a well - paying consulting job waiting for her in Toronto, Angela Strange decided to do something risky instead.

When he wasn't swinging a hammer, he spent countless hours on the phone sitting in a parking lot somewhere, ringing acquaintances, friends and strangers trying to figure out his next right move.

The best ideas can come from the strangest places.

For my part I am sixth of seven children and, reasoning that anything more than five children are spares, my mother would always tell me «if a stranger offers you a ride; you take it; you never know how long it will be before another stranger comes along.»

Next on Strange's agenda?

What's more, about 361,000 people watched all nine episodes of Stranger Things season two within the first day of its availability on Netflix, according to Nielsen.

If someone is producing work for your company, he or she shouldn't be a stranger to you or your business but rather feel inspired by your mission and values and feel as much a member of your team as your 9 - to - 5 employees.

What's more, the currency's strange origin story, with only six founding formulators, leaves something to be desired.