Open Mic
I’m swamped with stuff today and just have no time to hunt for things to post or think of random things to try to entertain you with, so today is an open mic. I’m a little verklempt . . . talk amongst yourselves . . . I’ll give you a topic . . .
Palmolive – it’s neither Palm, nor Olive. Discuss.
Grape Nuts – it contains neither grapes, nor nuts. Discuss.
The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. Discuss.
Rhode Island is neither a road nor is it an island. Discuss.
Did Truman drop the bomb on the Japanese to end the war or to scare the hell out of the Russians? Discuss.
The chickpea is neither a chick nor a pea. Discuss.
The Jelly bean is neither made of jelly nor is it a bean. Discuss.
Dancing at the Movies
A collection of dance clips from almost 40 movies from dance movies to comedies, from Fred Astaire to Micheal Jackson.
unhearit
We created this site for those of you that have a song stuck in your head and you can’t get it out no matter what you do. Using the latest techniques in reverse-auditory-melodic-unstickification technology, we’ve been able to allow our users to “unhear” songs by hearing equally catchy songs. So all we’re doing is making you forget your old song by replacing it with another one… sorry.
Bag of Randomness
- I found this Automaker Family Tree very fascinating.
- DogGeeding has been to the vet three times within the past eight days, the latest for a crazy red eye infection. The vet thinks he’s just several weeks away. Sometimes, we think it will be by the end of the week, but so far he’s not showing signs of being in discomfort.
- Crazy local news: Man slits his throat in Dallas courtroom after judge issues 40-year sentence
- Bears used to guard pot farm
- I remember this Flintstones clip as a kid and not getting the joke, but as an adult, I’m surprised such a thing was included in a children’s cartoon.
- Jewelery made from the pages of books
- For my fellow ‘Mad Men’ fans – The Evolution of Peggy Olson and behind the scenes pictures
- Merging-Lane Traffic Jams, A Simple Cure
- BeanBear Chair
21-year-old arrested after posing as 14-year-old to join peewee football team
TAMPA — Something wasn’t right about Chad Jordan.
He was perfectly nice at youth football practice, his coach said. He never made any trouble. But still, “There just was a lot of stuff that wasn’t adding up, you know?” said Ray McCloud, coach of the Town ‘N Country Packers.
McCloud’s instincts were right.
Julious Javone Threatts is 21 years old. He’s now behind bars without bail after Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies said he used the alias Chad Jordan to pose as a 14-year-old boy, join the Tampa Bay Youth Football League and try to register at a Tampa middle school. Threatts was on probation for burglary charges, authorities later determined.
He now faces charges of trespassing on school grounds, obstruction by a disguised person and violation of probation.
Bag of Randomness
- One of my friends took me out to lunch for my birthday yesterday, and I decided to Celebration would be a nice place to eat, heck, the name was fitting. As we entered we found a Google employee that was taking pictures of us walking in and as we were eating, but promised to blur out our faces. It turns out they are adding a new feature to Google Maps that will allow you to look inside a particular business. When this becomes available I’ll post a picture I took of the lady as she was taking pics.
- One of my closest friends bought me the Blu-ray version of the U2 360 concert. What!?!?! You thought I would have already owned it when it came out a couple of months ago? Yeah, me too. I held out thinking I was going to get it for an anniversary present because “I’m so hard to buy for.” [Yes, Honey, I'm teasing you.] But I tell you, sometimes when I just need to get away from the stress and struggles of everyday life and feel revived, a U2 concert DVD often helps.
- WifeGeeding was nice enough to get me some shaving products I’ve been eying from The Art of Shaving. Oh yeah, and a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake.
- One of the hardest parts about the process of death, human or pet, is when they are still alive but just not what they use to be. That came to mind as I thought that even though DogGeeding is still around, I’ll no longer be able to play toss with him.
- What do you know . . . Dr Scot McKnight, author of the Jesus Creed blog on Beliefnet was nice enough to mention me. That might just bring my total readership to 14, maybe 15.
- For you Entourage viewers, isn’t it crazy how much Dallas has been a part of the show?
- I’m glad I finally got to see the story on how Don Draper got to meet Roger Sterling, even though I thought didn’t quite live up to my expectations. But then again, I did set the bar pretty high.
- I remember thinking that ‘Dancing with the Stars’ was a stupid idea, but in time have reversed that decision. And this year’s contestants should be fun to watch. I just hope Rick Fox gets voted off rather quickly.
- Music Piracy Before Computers
- The pastor of FBC Dallas recently said Islam promotes pedophilia. A representative from Dallas’ oldest mosque responded by saying, “It does not represent the core of Christianity.”"It does not represent the core of Christianity.”
- Burning bush ignites Woodburn church
- Bono and his wife were part of an Annie Leibovitz photoshoot
- A sign of idiocracy? Flashing Stop Signs
- Design your own beef jerky
- 35 very useful life hacks – I didn’t know the hint about aluminum foil
- Grace
Turning Into Your Parents
Like Mom Like Dad is a great idea for a blog in which people submit photos in which they try to recreate a photo of their parents.
Here’s one that really caught my attention.
How panhandlers use free credit cards
What would happen if, instead of spare change, you handed a person in need the means to shop for whatever they needed? What would they buy? Can you spare your credit card, sir?
Over the past two weeks, I wandered Toronto’s downtown core with five prepaid Visa and MasterCard gift cards, in $50 and $75 denominations, waiting for people to ask for money.
When they did, I asked them what they needed. A meal at a restaurant, groceries, a new pair of pants, they said. I handed out the cards and asked that they give them back when they’d finished shopping. I either waited at a coffee shop while they shopped or — in the case of those who could not buy what they needed nearby or were reticent about leaving their panhandling post — I said I’d return on another day to pick up the card. That’s when I would reveal that I was a journalist.
Bag of Randomness
- I fear the end is near for DogGeeding. He’s been showing signs of aging for a while, but we think he recently had a stroke and appears to be blind as he walks into things and get stuck in corners, that is, when he feels like getting up and walking around. My heart is broken, it really is. We’ve been to the vet a few times last week and we just know that the writing is on the wall.
- If you aren’t an animal lover, you really won’t understand the feelings behind that last post.
- Last week was an extremely long and tough week, I have a feeling this week will be the same.
- I was at a church event last night and at some sort of corn side dish that had lots of bacon.
- More teens becoming ‘fake’ Christians
- A lot of Christians favor Glenn Beck, who is Mormon, but many of those same Christians have trouble voting for the Mormon Mitt Romney, and I find that a bit interesting.
- NASA has put together a video about their relationship with U2 complete with rehearsal footage with the International Space Staton.
- A t-shirt that made me lol – Darth Vader with is light saber about to hit a pinata
- Google Maps Misplaces Lincoln Memorial
- Car lashes?
- ‘Seinfeld’s’ Jerry Stiller pays visit to Astoria home used in sitcom
- Grace
Valero has no terrorist gas
Tempers in the country are running hot, so much so that at least one gas station owner has turned the LCD screen on his pumps into a medium of personal expression. In a Consumerist exclusive, one of our readers found a gas pump programmed to say, “AN AMERICAN COMPANY. NO TERRORIST GAS!!!” at his local Valero gas station.
The Secret Histories of Those @#$%ing Computer Symbols
I’ve always wondered how the power symbol came to be, turns out way back when a 1 meant “on” and a 0 meant “off” on toggles and rotary switches, so it’s kind of a combination of the two.
More @ gizmodo.com
