2010 NYC Marathon Time Lapse
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Bag of Randomness
- It appears that the masses in Dallas like that Jason Garrett stands up at his press conferences. Yes, it’s this we have resorted to in looking for positive things for the rest of the season.
- I do like how they are referring to this new era of Cowboy football as “redball.”
- My gosh Tribal Council on “Survivor” was crazy last night.
- You can vote for what DFW landmark you want the folks at LEGO to build at Grapevine Mills Mall. Dealey Plaza is on the list, but I’m not so sure of the grassy knoll.
- I think I would like to try swimming with these gloves.
- WFT Has Sarah Palin Done So Far? – Hilarious, and I spent way too much time on that site.
- Speaking of her, she was in Dallas last night and was introduced by Gov Perry. Man, that guy has great hair.
- Weird – Costume Designs from Tim Burton’s Unmade ‘Superman Lives’ Film
- Travel & Leisure likes Houston over DFW.
- A pillow fight on a flight
- Bush would have endorsed Obama?
- Dudes with beards eating cupcakes
That’s Not How Basketball Go
A fuzzy, six-second video clip shows a basketball player bent over as a man swings a belt, hitting him three times. The sound rings out in the Murrah High School gym.
Jackson lawyer Lisa Ross says the man in the video, which was recorded on a cell phone, is embattled Murrah boys basketball coach Marlon Dorsey.
“It was outrageous,” Ross said about the whippings.
On Tuesday, Ross filed a federal lawsuit against Dorsey and Jackson Public Schools on behalf of three basketball players who say they were physically and verbally abused by the coach.
The lawsuit, which represents one side of a legal argument, also names as defendants assistant boys basketball coach Brandon Sanders and Murrah Principal Freddrick Murray.
Dorsey did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment about the matter.
Dorsey, who has admitted to whipping players, has been on leave since late October. On Oct. 28, school and district officials met with about 30 parents about the matter, but there has been no official word from JPS on Dorsey’s status.
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Google Loves Their Employees, Big Time
Google has given all of its employees $1,000 cash “holiday bonuses” and 2011 salary increases of at least 10%, a loyal reader tells us.
The 10% company-wide raise will take effect on January 1, 2011.
In addition, Google will also give each employee an additional raise equivalent to 1X the employee’s target bonus for the year. And employees will be eligible for additional “merit increases” based on their individual performance.
In another nice gesture, Google will pay the taxes on the $1,000 holiday cash bonuses, thus allowing employees to keep the whole thing.
(You can sniff that $1,000 isn’t much, but it’s a lot more than nothing, and spread across 20,000 employees, it’s costing the company $20 million. A 10+% raise on a total cost base of $20 billion, meanwhile, will probably cost the company $1 billion a year, assuming a third of those costs are compensation.)
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