Danny chooses the taxicab because driving is about the only marketable skill he possessed.
Where the sovereign can dig a hole and pour a concrete foundation for itself, the transient application is just on a weekend campout. It cannot deploy itself onscreen either graphically or temporally. It is the taxicab of the software world.
Mr. Liu, 47, got his start driving a taxicab in Shanghai but eventually made a fortune investing in the stock market.
I recall, too, the New Year's Eve when, after a dinner party, a friend of mine went down to the street to get a taxicab and the cab veered too quickly and hit him.
In a taxicab on a rainy day in New York City, Gretchen Rubin, 41, suddenly asked herself what she wanted most in life.
Each taxicab is fitted with a meter ticking off the fare due.