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No Romo Until Nov 16
He’s out 4 weeks with a broken pinky finger on his throwing hand.
His first game back appears to be at Washington.
It all makes for a very interesting season.
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Who’s hotter, Republicans or Democrats?
Vote for the image you think is hotter and find out whether you think Republicans or Democrats are hotter!
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Wisconsin Man Paddles Pumpkin Down River For Charity
While most families place a candle or light bulb in their carved-out pumpkins, J.R. Hildebrandt can fit a chair and small heater in his.
The Wisconsin resident has carved a canoe out of a pumpkin and is taking the 760-pound gourd to the water where he plans to paddle 150 miles for charity.
Hildebrandt will row his orange veggie down the Wisconsin River to raise money for Tri City Children’s Dream Foundation, a group that gives special-needs children memorable trips.
“We’ve sent children to Disney Land, or Disney World. We’ve sent them to NASCAR races, we’ve even sent one little girl to Jamaica on a cruise, and I wanted to take it a step further,” Hildebrandt said.
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Love On The Lubbuck Airwaves
Local CBS weatherman man proposes to local ABC anchor.
Watch the proposal here.
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Canadian banks the soundest in the world
In the midst of a global market crisis, a survey by the World Economic Forum has proclaimed Canada to have the world’s soundest banking system.
Placing just behind were Sweden, Luxembourg, Australia and Denmark in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report, released on Wednesday in Switzerland.
Twelve-thousand corporate executives around the world were interviewed on a number of questions and ranked banks around the world on a scale of one to seven — one being insolvent and possibly in need of government assistance and seven being entirely healthy.
The top 10 soundest banking countries are as follows:
- Canada (6.8)
- Sweden (6.7)
- Luxembourg (6.7)
- Australia (6.7)
- Denmark (6.7)
- Netherlands (6.7)
- Belgium (6.6)
- New Zealand (6.6)
- Ireland (6.6)
- Malta (6.6)
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Google’s Super Satellite Captures First Image
This bird’s-eye view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was the first image ever seen by the GeoEye-1, the world’s highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, when it opened its camera door earlier this week.
The 4,300-pound satellite collected the image at noon EDT on Oct. 7 while moving from the north pole to the south pole in a 423-mile-high orbit at 17,000 miles per hour, or 4.5 miles per second. The spacecraft can take photos at a resolution of up to 41 cm — close enough to zoom in on the home plate of a baseball diamond, according to Mark Brender, GeoEye’s vice president of communications and marketing.
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Long Time Between Votes
A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 US Presidential election.
Sister Cecilia Gaudette, who last voted for President Eisenhower in 1952, has registered to vote and says she will vote for Democrat Barack Obama.
Although hard of hearing, she keeps herself informed by reading newspapers and watching TV at the convent.
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Buzzaire – Metered Dose Caffeine Inhaler
Buzzaire is, quite simply, a caffeine inhaler. One squeeze, one inhale, and you’ve just rushed 150mg of caffeine into your blood stream. Mints or drinks have to go through your digestive tract first before partying in your blood (or through your skin, in the case of caffeinated soap). But the lung/blood barrier is the fastest way (other than injection or IV) to get caffeine into your system. Not only will you get one heck of a rush, but you’ll also freshen your breath! A hint of peppermint oil in each puff will give you a little extra perk with its peppy zing.
| Drink/Food | Caffeine Content |
| 12oz Can of Coke | 34mg |
| 12oz Can of Mt. Dew | 37mg |
| 12oz of Jolt Cola | 78mg |
| 10oz Bottle of Bawls | 80mg |
| 8oz of Brewed Coffee | 70-120mg |
| One breath of Buzzaire | 150mg |
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ENGLAND: Thousands turn to online prayer and advice as financial situation worsens
[Church of England] Web users looking for support during the current financial situation have boosted traffic by more than 70 percent to a Church of England website section focusing on debt advice, and visitor numbers to the church’s online prayer page have increased by more than a quarter.
The Matter of Life and Debt website section — containing a new ‘debt spiral’ feature enabling visitors to work out if they are among the many families that will be seriously affected by the credit crunch, and useful advice for those worried about debt — has seen a 71 percent increase in traffic in recent weeks.
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Bag of Randomness
- Why doesn’t Texas fall into the ocean? Because Oklahoma sucks. It’s an old joke, but it still makes me laugh.
- Wow, what a game. It just adds to the greatness of this annual Dallas tradition.
- Two nationally ranked teams that met on neutral ground . . . it was an early bowl game.
- It’s always fun when the team you are rooting for is the underdog and they come out on top.
- That Oklahoma punter deserves an Oscar. So far I can’t find the video of his acting, but wow.
- Officiating was sub par, but there was bad calls on both sides of the ball so it’s a wash.
- Maybe one day I’ll actually go to a Texas-OU game. Last year I was stuck in Boston, and not one freaking pub carried the game, I had to rely on the cell phone for updates.
- I don’t think Texas should be ranked #1 as of now, but definitely in the top 5. I think OU was ranked a little high for the past few weeks. But all that is just my opinion.
- I’m lucky to have some close friends. A friend from the East Coast texted me during the game because he knew how much I enjoyed this event, and another friend called me the next day to see how much I enjoyed the win.
- What a great football weekend for the Bob and Jordan Shipley – both were part of underdog teams that won. Bob Shipley is the head football coach for Coppell High School (WifeGeeding teaches at a Coppell school) and his team beat the powerhouse that is Southlake Carroll. His son plays for the University of Texas and had 225 all purpose yards and two touchdowns in the Texas win.
- The Texas Band has a little fun with the ESPN College Day Game crew. As they start to walk off the field they notice they are on live TV and start playing. ESPN Video
- Other losses that made me happy:Â LSU, Missouri, Texas A&M.
- I was watching 20/20 on Friday night (yup, those are the kind of exciting evenings the Geedings have) and all of a sudden there was a wolrd premiere video of Brittany Spears. Seems kind of weird for a news magazine to do such a thing.
- I always fall asleep with the TV on – God bless the sleep timer. I only tell you this because I found this website a bit interesting.
- While watching TV late Saturday nignt I noticed that the Phoenix Suns had an outdoor exhibition game. As I kid, I always wanted to see NBA game played outside just to see the weather factor involved – everything from the sun being in their eyes as they take a shot or seeing how the wind would play a difference.
- What ever happened to Hillary from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
- Can opener? Link [There's a chance the page has been updated]
- For the last week WifeGeeding has been suffering from laryngitis and has sounded like Fran Drescher.
- After watching Iron Man last weekend, I was reminded that I always wanted to watch Chaplin, another Robert Downey Jr movie. That guy is one heck of an actor, and not only was it a good movie to watch, but I it had a lot of stars in it like a pre-X-Files David Duchovny, Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd, Marissa Tomei, Kevin Kline, and Diane Lane among many others.
- Sometimes after watching a biography movie, I like to do additional research on the character, and sometimes you find some weird stuff. I was not aware that Chaplin’s corpse was stolen and held for ranson. After it was recoverd it was buried under two meters of concrete to prevent such a crazy thing from happening again.
- Chaplin’s last film appearance was a small cameo in the 1967 film A Countess From Hong Kong starring Marlon Brando and Sofia Loren that he directed, produced, and wrote. Watch the cameo here and be disappointed.
- I had to get on the roof again this weekend, which reminded me of these two posts from a while back. Link and Link
- Dog and hamster don’t get along. Link
- I finally restored my old laptop. You may remember that I finished installing a new CD/DVD drive, but I still had the issue of the Ctrl button not working. I found a “brand new” keyboard on eBay for $35, but when it arrived I found that even though it had a package sticker that made it appear that is was new and unopened, the keyboard showed minor wear and tear and a screw setting was so out of place I had to use pliers to bend it back into shape. But the good news is the keyboard works better than the old one and it’s like I have a brand new laptop. Total cost of self done repairs for parts cost me just around $100.
- Back in July 2007 I made a post about the new Miss Texas. Over the weekend someone “In the know” took exception to my post and it gave me a good chuckle. Link
- McCain being very classy. Video
- If Election Day was a national holiday, would voter turnout increase or would people be darting off on vacation?
- If we can file our taxes online, should we be able to vote online?
- I saw a new Pro-Cuts open in my neighborhood, I can’t tell you the last time I saw a Pro-Cuts.
- The Cowboys special teams look baaaaad. Don’t be surprised if Jerry wants to shake things up and fire the special teams coach and bring in former Cowboys specials teams coach Joe Avezzano.
- Jerry has also stated he’s not interested in a WR, but with the lack of production lately I wouldn’t be surprised to see something happen before the trade deadline. Roy WIlliams from Detroit?
- The Holy Church of Bacon Wiki. Link
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