I am not too fond of flying unless I'm piloting the plane myself. Flying from SFO is fun though, because you often meet interesting people. Last flight I met a guy designing flying cars. This flight I met Stephen Pacala from Princeton. He helped Al Gore with the slides for "An Inconvenient Truth".

The reason for going to Stockholm was work, and I only stayed 5 nights. In Stockholm, that's enough to discover hundreds of new little nifty creations. Among other things, I came across a hybrid shopping cart/basket (see photo.) I doubt anybody ever asked for or needed this thing, but have to admit it's pretty cute.

In no other country are people so obsessed with and so good at improving things that are, due to many years of (Swedish) niftyness and countless iterations, near perfection. Sweden is a special place.