Question 1: Why drshaws?

Mainly, because of my love for Dr. Pepper. drshaws-at-mac-dot-com was chosen as my e-mail during my time as a poor grad student. Dr. Shaw’s is Shaws Supermarkets’ yummy derivative/generic version of Dr. Pepper.  drshaws has stuck ever since. It’s a seemingly less threatening generic, than let’s say Stop and Shop’s Dr. Perfect or Wal-Mart’s Dr. Thunder.

Photograph at left courtesy of Dave Schul’s Be a Pepper Too web site.

Question 2: What happens if you win the lottery?

Mainly, you get a boatload of money. Really though, it’s a lot of physical dough.  Right now (3/4/07), if you were to win the Mega Millions multi-state jackpot, and take the $202 million estimated single cash pay-out, and you take it in $100 bills, and you stacked them up in a single column, it would be a column of money 729 feet fall. That’s only 30 feet short of the Pru (759’) and only 61 feet short of the Hancock Tower (790’).