Waterloo plug in "What the Dog Saw"

I'm listening to the audiobook version of What the Dog Saw, a collection of interesting stories by Malcolm Gladwell. Toward the end of the book, in the chapter entitled "The New Boy Network: What do job interviews really tell us?", Gladwell makes reference to the University of Waterloo computer science program. The other schools mentioned in the same list: MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and CalTech.

Of course, one could point out that Gladwell's father was a prof. at Waterloo (though not in computer science).

[From intelligent-falling.blogspot.com]

Multi-National Mennonite Inc.

My wife, kids and I piled into the van and headed to the St. Jacobs Farmers' Market; it's a produce and trinket market where local farmers and craftsmen peddle their wares. At least, that's the idea. Maybe it was even like that once long, long ago. It has maintained a nugget of that ambiance, including Mennonites in traditional garb. But upon closer inspection it's quite something else. Take, for example, the Mennonite woman in a plain monochrome dress and bonnet... selling Crocks and Crock knock-offs. Unless the Ahmish have a highly-developed injection mold technology, I'll have to conclude that a good portion of their business is strictly retail. Other examples? How about raspberries from California? Blueberries from Florida? And oranges?!?!

I can't help but picture a stylishly dressed business high-roller talking on his cell phone on the 92nd floor of an office building in Manhattan. And his name is Jakob.