Lottery Geeks

1 week ago | lotterygeeks.com | Jeff Edelstein

Lottery Results For a mere $40,000, you can own every single bar of soap infused with her essence, and there’s nothing weird about that Normally, we talk about big numbers here. Millions. Tens of millions. Hundreds of millions. Heck, sometimes even thousands of millions, which most normal people call “billions,” but it didn’t really fit neatly into our wordsmithing up there. Anyway, today? Nope. Not a big number. In fact, a relatively small number: $40,000.

1 week ago | lotterygeeks.com | Jeff Edelstein

News A bill to dismantle the commission appears poised to pass, with the Department of Licensing and Regulation to take over Remember the Texas Lottery Commission!As far as rallying cries go for the state of Texas, the above almost certainly won’t replace “Remember the Alamo,” but the lottery commission is getting closer to being added to the list of things that belong to the past.

2 weeks ago | lotterygeeks.com | Jeff Edelstein

Lottery Results Using back-of-the-envelope math, we concluded the jackpot is just big enough to cover hot dogs for everyone Memorial Day weekend is finally here and, while we will all take a moment to honor our fallen veterans, we will also take a moment — well, probably a few moments — to chow down on hot dogs.

2 weeks ago | lotterygeeks.com | Jeff Edelstein

Lottery Results It’s not easy to make $139 million in a year, and since the CFO job is already taken, may as well buy a lottery ticket Here’s a way to earn $139 million: become Tesla’s chief financial officer. That was the pay package last year for Tesla’s CFO, Vaibhav Taneja, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, that’s a new record for CFO pay, as the paper detailed before we here at Lottery Geeks hit the paywall.

2 weeks ago | lotterygeeks.com | Jeff Edelstein

News Lottery looks poised to continue for at least two years after state Senate votes to keep the games, lose the commission The Texas Lottery rides again!Or, at least, it appears as if it won’t be put out to pasture just yet, as the Texas Senate unanimously approved a bill to keep it around for the next two years. Senate Bill 3070 would take the Texas Lottery out of the hands of the to-be-abolished Texas Lottery Commission and move it to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.