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.
This guy hits a shot he wasn't supposed to make. His students offered him tickets to the Final Four if he made it. Problem was, the tickets did not exist, they were going to give him a gift certificate to a Mexican restuarant. He made it. Here's the Yahoo article. Good twist in the story.
