Here are some of the things I've learned over the last couple of months:
— Phil Knight, founder of Nike, has been taking writing classes at Stanford, and is a good classmate.
— Nintendo has some excuses for its (mind-boggling, IMO) inability to meet the demand for Wii systems, as elaborated in Wired and in the WSJ.
— Bill Bellamy is Shaq's cousin (link to FHM, so maybe NSFW).
— There's a documentary about CalTech basketball called Quantum Hoops.
— PCs with some Award/Unicore BIOSes will, seemingly at random, play classical music to signal problems with CPU fans and power supply voltages!
— Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, was created as an advertising gimmick for Montgomery Ward. His creator's brother-in-law wrote the now iconic song about Rudolph, sung by Gene Auntry, for a Max Fleischer cartoon.
— Speaking of Christmas music, there are tons of cover versions of "Last Christmas", Wham's gift to the world.
— The Ten Mafia Commandments.
— An expert Scrabble player would not have set the highest Scrabble score ever, given the same circumstances in which it was achieved.
— The first three-way tie in Jeopardy history (where everyone came back) was a true act of generosity, and the guy who made it happen planned it that way.
(Jim Chanos + Michael Burry) vs. Elon Musk
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It's been a long time since I updated. I usually update once a year, but I
missed the mark. I figured I should update before everything goes to zero....
3 years ago
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