Forbes Magazine says Hendrick Motorsports is the most valuable team in Nascar, worth $335 million. They also ranked race cars, and the #24 DuPont Chevrolet (Jeff Gordon - $92 million), #88 AMP Energy/National Guard Chevrolet (Dale Earnhardt, Jr - $79 million), and #48 Lowe’s Chevrolet (Jimmie Johnson - $58 million), all three from Hendrick Motorsports, were ranked 1, 2, and 3.
Check out Seth Godin’s email checklist before you hit send.
The University of Georgia’s independent, student-run newspaper is threatening students. Today they ran an open letter to parents saying they would again post mug shots on the front page of students charged with alcohol related violations before classes start. Maybe a good response to this would be a student boycott of the Red and Black.
The Smoking Gun has the indictment of 48-year old Henry T. Nicholas III, the co-founder of Broadcom, a company that makes broadband circuits. He is worth over $2 billion and was indicted for having and distributing controlled substances.
As his indictment shows, if you’re going to get busted for dope, why not go out in style. From TSG:
A technology billionaire was a drug fiend who trafficked in cocaine, Ecstasy, and methamphetamine, spiked the drinks of business associates and employees, hired prostitutes for himself and others, and maintained several narcotics dens, including one in an underground lair at his Los Angeles mansion, prosecutors charge. In a remarkable federal indictment unsealed today in Los Angeles, Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III is portrayed as an out-of-control wild man who scored drug caches for Super Bowl parties and rock festivals and had his dealer invoice him for these illicit purchases.
Even better:
On one occasion, in the lobby of Broadcom’s southern California headquarters, he directed an employee to provide cash to a courier “in exchange for an envelope containing controlled substances,” the indictment charges.
And last, and certainly the best, style points:
On a drug-fueled 2001 private plane flight–during which Nicholas allegedly used and distributed narcotics–the pilot was forced to don an oxygen mask due to the “marijuana smoke and fumes.”
Since I like to blog, I thought I’d share this interesting link.
Scientific American reports that blogging, and really, writing, is good for you.
I finally made it out to Kansas and got moved into my new place. I drove out last week with my parents and we moved in over the weekend. Here’s a couple of photos, including one of my new Nissan Versa (hatchback):
I love this picture that my mom was able to snap while I was driving, Budweiser and the Gateway Arch:
And my official welcome to Kansas:
My first class is this evening. This class is on public budgeting. I had orientation Monday and Tuesday, and I’ll be visiting the health center tomorrow morning for a cough I managed to get sometime during my hectic last three weeks.
This summer should be fun, and jam-packed. Everything is a little unnerving, because I’m living alone for my first time ever (granted, I’m in an apartment building). There have already been several severe Kansas storms, but every building out here has signs for where to go in case of a tornado, so I’m trying not to worry too much.
The Orlando Sentinel pretty well describes how the Southeastern Conference could take over the Bowl Championship Series and the NCAA.
This would be the tag on my graduation gown, courtesy of the UGA Bookstore. I went to try it on tonight and noticed it was a little short. Apparently someone mistook 6′1″ on my order form for 5′7″.
Police car runs over kid’s foot, kid kicks police car, kid charged with damaging government property. Idiocy.