With Nike and Adidas handing out millions in endorsement money, I always knew that their shoes had enormous markup. I just didn’t know how much.
ABCNews reports that New York Knicks star Stephon Marbury has come out with a line of Starbury shoes that sell for $15 — instead of $200 Nike basketball shoes.
And Marbury wears [...]
AP reports that a billionaire is letting homeless and low-income families move into his unoccupied mansions in Hawaii, for the cost of the utility bills. The deal lasts for ten years.
Will these people living in these monster homes be able to come up with the required utilities? They’re homeless or low-income, after all. Maybe they [...]
In alumni news…
The University of Missouri-Rolla Chancellor, John F. Carney III, will announce his recommendation to the State of Missouri Board of Curators that UMR’s name be changed to Missouri University of Science and Technology, or Missouri S&T.
Missouri S&T is still too long to be a proper abbreviation. What about MUST? MOST? MST?
must.edu is already [...]
Jay Carey, spokesman for the Ohio state Health Department announced Wednesday that the department would seek from a legislative panel the approval of new rules that would allow smoking in veterans’ halls and other private clubs.
There are still some who are unhappy; the Smoke Free Ohio organization still believes private clubs should not be exempt [...]
Those of us who stayed up to watch the Buckeyes-Volunteers men’s basketball game were well rewarded.
Greg Oden stayed out a lot of minutes due to foul trouble but got the last word, rejecting Tennessee’s final shot and locking the final score in at 85-84. Ron Lewis and Mike Conley Jr picked up the slack for [...]
“I think that we’ve done a great job in providing these needs and at the same time getting at the right path to having a balanced budget in five years,” (D-AR U.S. Rep. Marion) Berry said (link dead) in a conference call with news reporters.
Representiative John Campbell (R-CA), chairman of the Budget and Spending Task [...]
Rev. McCain at Cyberbrethren posts a discussion as to whether Lutheranism is too clannish, cliquish, and negative. He notes that sometimes we hold on to our theology so tightly that we don’t want to thin it out with exposure from others, while at times we delve so hard into outreach that mission churches don’t even [...]
Since our department has a license for Microsoft Virtual PC, which lets us simulate another computer in a window, I thought I would try to create a Virtual PC and load it up with xubuntu, a Linux distribution that is intentionally low in hardware requirements.
I am not sure if my troubles are with Virtual PC [...]
