spare $13.9 billion laying around?

Nothing to do with calculators here--except for the need for a good 12c to analyze this deal: hp is buying EDS for a sweet chunk of change, I've seen $12.6 to $13.9 billion. That's quite an acquisition. See EDS or hp for more info. Opinions on whether this is a good deal for our calculator company, please comment?

skin is in

It's not my deal, but I know lots of folks who put skins on their mobile devices and iPods, etc. Now, however, I may have good reason to start.

Skin It is now offering skins for hp calculators. Wow. I did notice, however, that my alma mater Arkansas was not listed among the long list of colleges with skins available. Thanks to Wing Kin Chueng's hp blog for the heads up. Also, I noticed that my beloved 33s is not one of the models available as well.

So, Skin It, as soon as I can dress up my 33s in a little Hawg outfit, you might get my business. Until then, probably not.

five is just too old

I suppose it's not really too old. But for mom and dad it comes too quickly. We see our sweet little kcrazorback daughter growing up too fast. Before we know it, she'll be in kindergarten, um, grade school, really, high school already, you mean she's in college, I mean home from college...

I know, between now and then there will be a million soccer games, sleepovers, lemonade stands, skinned knees, church camps, school days, sick days and snow days. I know she'll still need us. But the need will be different.

Until now, in a lot of ways, we were her world. From now on we will support her, help her, protect her and even lead her in her own world--not ours, but hers.

It's supposed to be this way. What good would it be if 13 years from now she went away to college still dependent on us? Still, our co-dependence is hard to lose. You see, she doesn't need me in the same way anymore. But there's not a switch to turn it off in me.

We are learning new ways to communicate. This weekend I opened something for her as she protested "Daddy, I can do it." I said "I know you can. I just wanted to do it for you." We've entered a new stage--a good one.

I really am happy for her--but, five is just too old.

great sports quote

This Yahoo! sports blog, Shutdown Corner, contains your great sports quote of the day. It's about the San Diego Chargers' decision to draft Ryan Leaf to play quarterback 10 years ago:

They literally would have been better off drafting an epileptic plumber who can't read, and just paying him to stay home and watch cartoons and play with his wrench.

it's not our fault

On Friday morning, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake shook the midwest. Though it was centered in southeastern Illinois, it was felt as far west as Kansas.

Well, I did not feel the quake. But it did wake me up--in Kansas. At that time Friday morning, I was awakened by the sound of rattling--not sure if it was a chandelier or barrister bookcase doors or something else, but the rattling seemed to last for a long time. I looked at the clock and fell right back to sleep. Only later in the day, when I read the news, did I realize what it was that caused what I heard.

the champs

Sure enough, the Kansas Jayhawks won the NCAA basketball championship last night. Awesome! If you recall, the football team won the Orange Bowl in January and finished with the best record in all of college football (and except for one unfortunate loss to the University of Missouri, could have been national champs in football as well). KU is on a roll.

shoe-wearing birds fly

OK, so I said I would leave sports out of the blog after Houston Nutt resigned.


Well, now you can't hold me to that when a school we are connected to is playing for the national championship in basketball tonight. That's right the Kansas Jayhawks could win it all tonight by beating the Memphis Tigers. GO KU!


How are we connected to KU, you ask? OK, well Mrs. kcrazorback has a Master's degree in integrated marketing communications from the University of Kansas making her a real Jayhawk--even if her classes were in Overland Park and she's never even been to the main campus in Lawrence except for a football game. Worse, she's not even a fan.


Secondly, kcrazorback himself has a University of Kansas mini-MBA--which is not really a degree but it is branded Jayhawk. Not to mention the fact that we've lived almost our whole adult lives where Kansas is the closest major university.


So, it's a little bit of a stretch, but we're Jayhawks. Rock! Chalk! Jayhawk! KU!