A little experiement . . .
What’s the last song you heard?
For me, it was the Silver Spoons theme.
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Historical Tweets
Yes, Twitter is only a few years old . . . but Historical Tweets provides “evidence” that people have been updating their Twitter accounts for a very long time. Below are some examples, and I’ve spent wayyyy too much time on this site hitting the Random button.
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Parents Wait a Decade to Report Missing Child
Authorities in Kansas are looking for a boy who disappeared about a decade ago, but was not reported missing until a few weeks ago.
“We don’t know what happened to Adam Herrman past ‘99, when he was last seen,” Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said at a news conference in El Dorado.
“Is he alive, is he dead? That one I can’t answer because we don’t know,” he added.
Adam was 11 or 12 when he was last seen, Murphy said. At the time, he was living in a mobile home park in Towanda, a small town in southern Kansas, with his adoptive parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman. The couple did not report him missing, Murphy said.
A few weeks ago, a person notified Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Children’s Unit of a “concern” regarding Adam, Murphy said.
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Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame . . .
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — An Army Special Forces sergeant based in North Carolina died in Colorado ski town after a bar fight triggered by an argument over a Jimmy Buffet song playing on a jukebox.
The military identified the soldier as Sgt. First Class Richard Lopez, 37, of the 7th Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Police said Lopez and two of his friends played the song at the Tap House bar and two other people started arguing with them over it. Lopez’s family told The Denver Post the song was “Margaritaville.â€
I bet only a handful of my readers get the title of this post.
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And to think I kinda made fun of these people
Elevator company launches new lift which arrives quicker the more you press the button
The Otis Elevator Company have announced the introduction of radical new technology in their latest range of lifts which actually increases the response time of the lift the more you press the call button. Following extensive consumer research, the company identified a niche in the market as elevators across the world were reported to be completely ignoring repetitive hole pressing.
The new technology, called Pronto, uses a patented ‘impatience accelerator engine’ to increase the speed of the lift depending on how hard and how often the call button is pushed. It also has a built in voice recognition facility which responds to the phrases ‘Come on, come on!’ and ‘For God’s sake!’
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Two-Hundred Sit-Ups in Six Weeks
I posted about the 100 Push-Ups challenge, so here’s another fitness challenge:
If you’re serious about increasing your core strength, follow this six week training program and you’ll soon be on your way to completing 200 consecutive sit-ups!
Think there’s no way you could do this? I think you can! All you need is a good plan, plenty of discipline and about 30 minutes a week to achieve this goal!
No doubt some of you can already do 100 consecutive sit-ups, but let’s face it, you’re in a big minority. Most of you reading this won’t even be able to manage 20 sit-ups. Actually, I’m sure many of you can’t even do 10.
However, it really doesn’t matter which group you fall into. If you follow the progressive sit-ups training program, I’m positive you’ll soon be able to do 200 sit-ups!
http://www.twohundredsitups.com/
[Thanks, David!]
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Ground Zero
Plenty of bombs to choose from for your dooms day enjoyment.
If the Chinese decide to attack downtown Dallas, it looks like I luck out by working at Love Field.
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Next-Generation Space Toilet
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has teamed up with engineers from the private sector to develop a next-generation space toilet, which they hope to complete within the next five years.
Clean and easy to use, the envisioned space toilet is designed to be worn like a diaper around the astronaut’s waist at all times. Sensors detect when the user relieves him or herself, automatically activating a rear-mounted suction unit that draws the waste away from the body through tubes into a separate container. In addition to washing and drying the wearer after each use, the next-generation space toilet will incorporate features that eliminate unwanted sound and odor.
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Lottery ‘misprints’ cost man $135,000
TORONTO, Jan. 6 (UPI) — A Toronto-area man who won $135,000 on four scratch-off lottery tickets has been told they were printing mistakes, and he won’t be given the prizes.
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U2 New Album News
From Rolling Stone:
In early December, Rolling Stone traveled to London to visit U2 in the studio as Bono and Co. worked on the upcoming No Line on the Horizon. The journey was as spellbinding and energizing as you might imagine, and you’ll be able to read all about it when our new issue hits newsstands on Wednesday, January 7th. To tide you over, here’s a track-by-track preview of 10 choice songs (and you can dig deeper into all our U2 coverage in our archive):
You can read the whole article here, but below are ten songs from the new album. [Thanks, Nathan!]
Get On Your Boots
Stand Up Comedy
Crazy Tonight
Unknown Caller
Tripoli
Cedars of Lebanon
Magnificent
Moment of Surrender
Every Breaking Wave
No Line on the Horizon
But I noticed that the Wikiepedia entry for the album also lists Breathe and Winter.
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Seriously, who doesn’t like the feel of laundry right out of the dyer?
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Bag of Randomness
- You know you are having a bad skiing vacation when . . .
- It’s old news, but I just found out Kidd Kraddick divorced his wife of 18 years. I didn’t see that one coming.
- Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. The first football game in the Cowboys’ new stadium is going to be between Oklahoma and BYU? Two non-local universities? Really? Are there that many O.U. grads and Mormons in the area? What’s the connection? I would rather it be a monster truck rally or Disney on Ice.
- For the first time in my life I tried yogurt yesterday. Yes, I’ve had the frozen soft serve kind that is similar to ice-cream, which I never liked, but I never had that “healthy” kind of yogurt. I went with the Dannon Light & Fit blueberry. Not bad. I’m not saying I’ve been missing out on anything, but it isn’t bad and I might just grow to like it just like broccoli. It seems like a food you have to eat slowly.
- One of my readers was nice enough to share some fitness tips with me. Included in his email was this line that cracked me up, “I enjoy reading BON enough that I feel I need to contribute to your longevity.”
- Two things (somewhat humorously) annoy me about how some people end an email.
- Instead of typing a name for a signature, only one or two letters (initials) are used. It’s typing people, unless your name is John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmid put in the extra effort of pressing a few more keys.
- I roll my eyes a bit when I see “Sent from my iPhone” or “Sent from my BlackBerry.” It makes me want to end my messages with “Not sent from a mobile device, just a laptop or desktop.”
- A few of you have asked what I’ve been giving DogGeeding to make him so energetic. Well, here it is. Other than this treat, his diet hasn’t altered one bit and it’s all I can credit for his new found energy. I’m thinking about eating some with him to see if it gives me any more energy.
- I appreciate the friends who make an effort to keep in touch.
- A very odd Wikipedia entry. Link
- I was not aware that Punky Brewster’s dad was still alive. Link
- Imagine sausage without using the traditional casing but with a bacon casing with bits of bacon included as one of the inside ingredients. Link [Thanks, WifeGeeding II!]
- I’m already tired of the local news talking about the Dubya and Laura’s new house.
- Speaking of local news, WifeGeeding thinks Megan Henderson and Meredith Land are the two best looking female news ladies in DFW.
- This seems to be a popular video as of late. A Palestinian girl tries to stop two Israeli soldiers from firing into a crowd by stepping in front of them. YouTube
- I have recently discovered that before ER, George Clooney along with Jason Alexander was on a show called E/R.
- And I leave you with a theme song that has been stuck in my head and now I hope it’s stuck in yours for the rest of they day. I may just make this a new theme on Bag of Randomness postings.
- Grace
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