Archive for November 21st, 2008
A couple of years ago my father-in-law and I were cleaning out a barn in East Texas and came across a garbage bag that included this newspaper. It’s dated November 23, 1963 with the price of $0.05. It’s now stored in a cool dry place.
If you are interested in a high-resolution version of the pic just click here.
On the radio the other day I heard that Lee Harvey Oswald’s daughter actually grew up in Dallas and graduated high school in 1980. Can you imagine the amount of teasing that she received?
November 21st, 2008
The choices are . . .
Popcorn & Cranberry
Yam & Jam
Dawn & Early Light
Roost & Run
Pumpkin & Pecan
Apple & Cider
Whitehouse.gov
November 21st, 2008
Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a charity event held during November each year.
At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants, known as Mo Bros, then have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their Mo (Australian slang for moustache), raising money and awareness along the way for men’s health and the fight against prostate cancer.
Why?
Men lack awareness about the very real health issues they face. Many feel they have to be tough – “a real man” – and are reluctant to see a doctor about an illness or to go for regular medical check ups.
The aim of Movember is to change these attitudes and make men’s health fun by putting the Mo back on the face of American men while raising some serious funds for the number one men’s health issue, prostate cancer
Link
November 21st, 2008
Who’s Eugene Allen?
He worked as a butler in the White House for 34 years and recently sold the movie rights to his story to Columbia Pictures.
There’s a small writeup about it here, but the Washington Post has a much nicer write up here which comes with a nice photo gallery.
Two parts of the story stood out. He had the same birthday as President Ford, and Mrs Ford was the only one who remembered it at the time. Also, Nancy Reagan invited him to eat at a state dinner with her and her husband right before he retired. He said he was probably the first butler to ever be invited to a state dinner.
November 21st, 2008
- I can’t tell if I’m getting sick or is it just allergies. You just gotta love North Texas when it comes to allergies.
- Watched a Robert Ballard special on the National Geographic Channel the other night. It turns out when he said he was looking for the Titanic, he was actually looking at submarine wreckage for the Navy. He worked out some sort of deal with the Navy did did allow him to hunt for the Titanic after he finished working for them. It was really fascinating.
- How old is the Internet? Link
- Who says you can’t combine bowling and archery. Link
- I was watching the news about the fall in the Dow Jones Industrial Average last night and an analyst stated, “It’s as if the last 11 years haven’t happened.” That put things into perspective for me in how far the Dow has dropped.
- I can’t believe the heads of the big three automakers went to Washington asking for money and not being able to explain how much they need and what exactly would they do with it. Comic
- A tiny mechanic. Link
- SisterGeeding in the the David Letterman audience the other night. Before the show he took questions, but never called on her. Too bad, because she had a really good question: Do you already have a guess for what kind of pie your mother is going to make for Thanksgiving? In case you don’t know, every Thanksgiving Letterman has a satellite feed to his mom’s house and he tries to guess the pie that she made.
- Happy Goat. Link
- WifeGeeding noticed that the Arm and Hammer box that we put in the fridge use to say replace after 3 months, but now it says 30 days.
- MC Hammer needs to be on Dancing With The Stars.
- The new Cowboys stadium in Arlington keeps getting all these high profile events, and I can’t help but what a shame it is that the Stadium isn’t located closer to downtown Dallas and Victory Park.
- I can only name three of the Jackson Five: Michael, Tito, Jermain.
- But I can name all of the seven dwarfs.
- 40 Best TV Theme Show Songs of All Time. Link
- There was an episode of Cheers where Cliff was trying to name the seven deadly sins and confused them with the seven dwarfs. The thought of that scene still makes me laugh.
- Here’s a somewhat interesting article on NFL sideline technology.
- I’ve notice stores are starting to move towards the cattle call method to have customers check out. That is, all customers stand in one line (as opposed to multiple lines for multiple separate registers) as a greeter tells them which open register in a line full of registers is available. It may be more efficient, but I do feel like I’m part of a herd.
- A blog about stores that have open signs but are clearly closed.
- This map made me laugh.
- A darn cute picture. Link
November 21st, 2008
