- For the past nine years the downtown Dallas Hilton has opened their doors on Christmas Eve to the homeless. About 500 homeless were treated to a free stay at the luxury hotel along with a banquet and hot meals as well as a few gifts. I always find it one of the most heart warming things of the year, and I love to hear reports about how hotel staff with work for free with volunteer efforts also coming from their family.
- It doesn’t feel right watching Christmas movies on Christmas. To me, Christmas movies are more about the anticipation of Christmas.
- Because I always wanted to experience a white Christmas, I forced myself to go outside and play in the snow on Christmas morning.
- The Giants’ last game at Giants Stadium looked eerily similar to the last Cowboys game at Texas Stadium.
- I bet Dallas Cowboys special teams coach Joe DeCamillis can’t wait for 2009 to be over since he had a broken neck this year and yesterday was in surgery for an emergency appendectomy.
- TO must be yelling on the inside not being able to have a good season despite still being elite at his position and having a chance at owning some crazy career records.
- A touching video segment on that Hilton Dallas story I mentioned earlier
- One of my favorite persons to follow on Twitter is Ed Henry (@edhenrycnn) of CNN. He assigned to cover the president, and he takes the most interesting of pictures.
- 15 Most Influential Games of the Decade
- 20% off entire purchase at Gap
- I may have posted this before: Relative Prices of Different Liquids
- One man is trying to draw every person in New York.
- If you are looking for unusual baby names: BabyZoink!
- Not a bad idea to modify an big rig
- That’s one way to stop a robbery.
- Star Wars inspired shoes by Adidas
- Fun with math
- Was college really worth it?
The big difference between the Cowboys and the Giants in the last games in their respective stadiums: the Cowboys managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and the Giants never had a chance in their game.
Love the new look and layout of the blog. This is the best one so far.
The posting about "was college worth it" is something that intrigues me, but before I write anything more, I read this item today about college priorities in the U.S [I have to think that they're much different abroad]:
"A recent NCAA report noted that even football-generated revenue does not cover the operating cost of the football teams at 44 percent of the institutions playing major-college football. Such figures would be worse if the millions in debt for stadium improvements and other facility enhancements were included. These are hardly profit centers at most institutions."
I believe college was originally designed for individuals who were a) above average in intelligence or b) highly motivated or c) could afford it. Anyone of the three could get you into a college somewhere. Then, in the Seventies the United States, probably through the Dept of Education, decided that every single American needed to have a college degree and further that they were entitled to a college education. This meant that the bottom 25% of any high school class could get into a college somewhere, resulting in the explosive growth of junior colleges and college classes in remedial English and math. From that point a college education slowly transitioned from teaching a student how to research facts, analyze, think critically, summarize results and explain the conclusions through writing or speaking into programs awarding degrees for simply “just showing up”.