Review of Lynah Rink

[Trotsky]

For the Cal game next year, you'll see Stanford fans holding iPads.

Huh?

Instead of newspapers. 'Cuz they're close to Apple headquarters. Ha ha.

It's Stanford.  They'll be holding HP workstations.

[billhoward]

Stanford students for 30 years have gone into high tech - it's no more a commute than if we went to work at a Finger Lakes winery - and so many got filthy rich off IPOs and gave some back to Stanford that before the 2008 swoon, Stanford's endowment was $2 million per student, most in the world, followed by Princeton at $1.6 million per student. They've gone everywhere, not just HP or Apple, and also to Microsoft. The Stanford class of 1980 or 1982 had a dozen people who wound up VPs at MS with immense stock options.

(Drift: I believe Cornell is about #30 on this list, least of the Ivies, just behind Penn. The top ten is Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Grinnell, Pomona, Swarthmore, Rice, Amherst, Williams. The top 4 had > $1M per student, the top 10 or 12 had > $500K per student. If you have $500K and it throws off 5%, that's $25K a year to help out each student. YMMV: The list I saw appears to be compiled before the crash and critics say there are multiple ways to compute the endowment. FWIW, see this chart: http://www.data360.org/graph_group.aspx?Graph_Group_Id=604 )

[French Rage]

Don't forget Google!

[MB]

"The Lynah"?

You know, like "The Facebook"

I'mma jump in here for this one as I still call it "The Facebook."  When the fbook first came 'round, it actually was "The Facebook."  In fact, you can still access it via its original URL- thefacebook.com.  This is much more legit than "The Google" or "The Lynah."

This history lesson has been brought to you by the letter C.

[RichH]

"The Lynah"?

You know, like "The Facebook"

I'mma jump in here for this one as I still call it "The Facebook."  When the fbook first came 'round, it actually was "The Facebook."  In fact, you can still access it via its original URL- thefacebook.com.  This is much more legit than "The Google" or "The Lynah."

This history lesson has been brought to you by the letter C.

A jarring example of the lack of a definite article: http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/06/internet-before-the-definite-article.php

Also jarring: "there's not screenfuls of 'go to hell'"

[French Rage]

"The Lynah"?

You know, like "The Facebook"

I'mma jump in here for this one as I still call it "The Facebook."  When the fbook first came 'round, it actually was "The Facebook."  In fact, you can still access it via its original URL- thefacebook.com.  This is much more legit than "The Google" or "The Lynah."

This history lesson has been brought to you by the letter C.

There's a The Google: http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/google_launches_the_google