Derek Scruggs

This morning I was shocked and saddened to learn that Northwestern’s football coach Randy Walker died of a heart attack last night. He was only 52. I first heard about it on the radio, but within a couple hours I received a short email from the alumni association. Later in the afternoon they sent out […]

This morning NPR had a story about Jerry Falwell opening a new church. Ho hum. I think Falwell is a jerk, a homophobe and a noxious representative of anti-science attitudes that hurt our country. But as part of the piece they talked with Mel White, who ghost wrote Falwell’s autobiography. Here’s the kicker: Mel White has […]

Heh heh. I know who Mr. Y is.
Lately I’ve noticed that I watch way more YouTube and Google Video than I do traditional TV. The exception is that my wife and I recently have been renting Desperate Housewives, but we don’t actually watch TV otherwise.
From http://secretsofy.com/:

A couple days ago Brad Feld had a post about CEOs that are introverts. He may not realize it, but I fall into that category. I’m not a fan of big crowds and don’t get energy from it, though I love to have conversations with small groups of people.
The spark for his post was a […]

Callout seen in a decidedly unsexy article about World Cup soccer:

I started to write this as a comment to a Jeff Jarvis post about some agressive questioning Yahoo’s Terry Semel apparently endured about its operations in China. But it got to be rather long so I thought I’d post it here instead.
May I suggest that people who are concerned about this actually go to China […]