Guantanamo Bay Was A Tough Place to Leave
At least that’s what Miss Universe thinks . . . check out her blog.
[Thanks, Warren!]
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Archive for March, 2009
Need a Pothole Filled in Your City? Call KFC
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Don’t be surprised if you see Col. Sanders out filling potholes. In an unusual cause-marketing push, KFC is tackling the pothole problem in Louisville, Ky. in exchange for stamping the fresh pavement with “Re-freshed by KFC,” a chalky stencil likely to fade away in the next downpour.
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Traveling Bacon Pan
My Description
Standard Teflon Pan. Black handle, blue bottom. The SendMeHome label is on the handle.
My Objective
The goal of this pan is to collect the recipes and stories of bacon lovers everywhere. If you get this pan, please do the following:
1) Cook and eat bacon in this pan. Please document your experience with a short description of yourself, and your bacon eating experience. Please add pictures and video.
2) Share your favorite bacon recipe.
3) Pass this pan on to another bacon lover. Please note: be careful when washing the pan. The SMH label is on the handle and needs to stay there. Please _do_ wash the pan though.
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The Cat’s Friend Decided to Follow Him Inside
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Tempting Animated GIF of the Day
The owl on the left swallows a huge rate whole.
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Best Beer in America
I’ve tried beer numerous times and just don’t see what’s so great about it. But then again, I just don’t like to dring, maybe it’s the old Baptist in me.
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Leaving PCs on overnight wastes billions in energy costs, study says
The computer you’re reading this on may not seem like a huge energy waster, but the power consumption adds up when joined by the other PCs worldwide (Stamford, Conn., research firm Gartner estimates there are more than 1 billion).
A study released last week puts a finer point on this assertion, reporting that U.S. workers waste $2.8 billion annually in energy costs by failing to shut off their PCs at the end of the work day. What’s more, machines left on during off hours may emit up to 20 million tons of carbon dioxide (C02) this year alone, roughly the equivalent impact of four million cars.
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The Accidental Methodist Calling Out SBC Stats
So I’m reading this article by the Southern Baptist Convention, and it says that 88% of teens are leaving the church by age 18, never to return again. Well, here’s the actual quote:
In the course of researching family life in America, the Southern Baptist Council on Family Life uncovered such gut-wrenching statistics that they were driven to their knees. Among the facts they found: 88 percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at the age of 18, never to return.
SBC, I’m calling your bluff. What research led you to those statistics?
I don’t believe it’s that high. My research in college said the percentage was somewhere in the 50’s, and Tom, didn’t you find it somewhere in the 40’s? I don’t believe it’s become 88% in 2 years, AND I don’t believe you can say something like “NEVER TO RETURN.” Here’s why:
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Biodegradeable Gum
Unlike conventional chewing gum, which contains petrochemicals, the organic chewing gum does not stick to clothing or pavements. And once disposed of, it will crumble to dust in about six weeks, dissolving harmlessly in water or being absorbed into the soil.
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Bag of Randomness
- I rely too much on my FireFox automatic spellchecker. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it just turns itself off without notice, so I don’t know if something is misspelled. Technology, you have failed me, and you are on notice.
- It was almost comical seeing how How I Met Your Mother was trying to hide the pregnancies of the two girls on that show.
- I’m looking forward to watching I Get That A Lot on CBS come this Wednesday.
- House was really good last night. Most of it was filmed from the perspective of someone who could do nothing more than blink.
- This article states that PETA actually kills animals and doesn’t operate one adoption shelter.
- Newt Gingrich will become a Catholic this Easter Link
- I keep getting emails from U2 to buy advance tickets, but it’s for cities that I’m no where close to, and those emails also provide a list of other scheduled cities . . . Dallas isn’t on the list. I knew I was right not to trust that Dallas Morning News ticket broker site. I’m wondering if they will even be able to play in the new Cowboys stadium . . . I’m thinking their setup won’t fit under those giant HD screens.
- As I predicted last week, as I bring up Obama related stuff, critical comments will follow. Most appear to more passionate than constructive, but that’s how political talk goes most of the time.
- My friend Jonathan can’t stand cats, so here’s a stupid cat video.
- An interesting blog with a URL that says it all: PeopleWhoSitInTheDisabilitySeatsWhenIMStandingOnMyCrutches.com
- If you are every just really bored and just want to chat with a random stranger, here you go. I tried it out and started chatting with someone from the UK about the monarchy.
- Or if that doesn’t help pass the time, how about watching Twitter tweets scroll by, with the option of selecting a few key words as the topic for the tweets. Link
- I hear there’s a lawyer in Wise county trying to help his clients get out of tickets by selling them the Anti-Ticket Donut.
- I don’t like jelly. Actually, I’ve never tried jelly, so when I make a peanut butter sandwich it’s just bread and peanut butter. Sometimes the bread is toasted, but if it’s not, I enjoy squishing the bread.
- Man, taking a nap is usually the worst thing I can ever do. When I wake up, I usually feel out of it for several hours, and then my sleep pattern is messed up. And for some reason, I’m always cold after waking up after a nap.
- I heard someone suggest that the best way to protect the Texas – Mexico border was to put a lot of alligators in the Rio Grande.
- I saw an Enzyte commercial the other day – I thought that company went out of business. Man, those commercials made watching ESPN awkward family watching. Did you know the creator of that company was also the man behind those Fat Head sports posters?
- I wonder what makes a person a Texan? Does one have to simply be born here, but what if he or she moves away? If someone wasn’t born here but now lives here, when can he or she be considered a Texan? The Jonas Brothers just moved here, are they Texans? Eisenhower was born in Texas but didn’t spend much time here, is he considered a Texan? The 43rd president wasn’t born or educated here, but he became governor, so I guess that makes him a Texan. George Michael has a place in Dallas, is he considered a Texan? Can Jerry Jones now be considered a Texan after living in Dallas and owning the Cowboys for over 20 years?
- Map of legal drinking age around the world
- Looking into the past
- Grace
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Guacamole and a Piece of Cake
This will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day . . .
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First Ever Prescription Depressant
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Missing woman lay dead at home for 7 years
POLICE in California are investigating how Eunice Workman died and why it took so long to discover her remains.
The 76 year-old woman was reported missing by her family nearly seven years ago and the case has remained unsolved.
In an odd twist, her daughters found her body when they were cleaning out the woman’s two story home on March 25.
Workman’s family members reportedly discovered her body amid some rubble in an upstairs bedroom, while getting the home cleaned up to sell.
The human remains were described as a fully clothed skeleton. An autopsy has been scheduled by the Alameda County coroner in order to determine the cause of death.
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For All The Single Rednecks
As rednecks ourselves, we think rednecks are some of the most fun people anywhere. So, why not have an online place where we can all meet? Think of this as an online honky-tonk. But without the drinkin’, the cussin’ and the fightin’ of course.
There’s a rumor that a certain Wise county lawyer helped fund this site.
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Fun With Lions
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Sad, yet cute and inspiring
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Bag of Randomness
- I watched the original Manchurian Candidate over the weekend and was highly impressed. There were several “holy cow I didn’t see that coming” moments. That was my first time ever watching it, and I’m not sure if I want to see the remake.
- Angela Lansbury was in the movie, and I think she doesn’t nothing but look old. She was only 39 when she made the movie, but she played the part of a mother to an actor who was 36.
- There were lost of Abraham Lincoln stuff in the movie, but one that stood out was a lamp made out of his bust with his top hat as the lamp shade.
- I also watched Ben-Hur. I saw bits and pieces of it when I was a non-Christian as a freshman in high school; and will say after watching it as an Christian adult with half-way decent biblical knowledge it was quite enjoyable. From my understanding, it’s Christian-fiction, so I was left a bit confused at times trying to figure out what was historical true and wasn’t. However, out of all the movies I’ve scene, the ending brought the Bible to life more so than any other movie I’ve seen – even The Passion of the Christ.
- All I could remember the movie from the first time I saw it was the ship wreck scene and the chariot race. It was the same for WifeGeeding.
- I loved the beginning and end of the movie. The movie starts out with the Creation of Adam painting, pointing out that God created man. Then the movie ends with the same painting, but with the focus on the two fingers almost touching. To me, that looked like, and I interpreted as God reaching out to man.
Maybe I took it a bit far with the symbolizm, but I thought it was beautiful. - I think that’s the second Charlton Heston I’ve seen this year, and I still think he’s a bit too dramatic and an over-actor. Since I’ve really only seen two of his movies, the other being Planet of the Apes, I feel like he’s Matthew McConaughey in a way – the man loves being filmed with his shirt off.
- As a youth growing up in small town Mineral Wells, America – there wasn’t a lot to do so we became creative and made our own fun. The kids in Russia have a different idea of what’s fun that deals with cheating death and the train tracks.
- Speaking of being a kid, wouldn’t it freak you out if you were playing baseball and the ground swallowed you up?
- Man it was hard concentrating in Sunday School, even if a cowboy was teaching. I didn’t notice it until WifeGeeding pointed it out, but we could faintly hear voices from the intercom speaker above us, probably nothing more than just the radio on low volume. But WifeGeeding told me that made her think of the whispers on Lost, and that got me to thinking if the Island was calling us and if anyone else noticed the whispers.
- I have to admit I knew very little about United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, actually I know little about most public officials to be honest, but I decided to research his history and found him to be very well qualified for the position. At first I really didn’t have a lot of confidence in the guy, especially when he’s in front of congress because he doesn’t seem to be very good at public speaking, but his one-on-one interview with George Stephanopoulos was much different.
- I was surprised as I Googled Geithner that the link to his bio on the U.S. Deparemnt of Treasury page didn’t appear on the first page of results, it was on the second page. Now I wonder how many of you will see if you get the same results.
- Some time ago I heard a stat that stuck in my head – that after a spouse dies, the other spouse on average will die within two years – probably due to both being of advanced age and more so, losing the will to live. I saw something about Nancy Reagan yesterday and it made me think of that stat because she was so emotionally distraught after losing her Ronnie I thought for she she wouldn’t live past two years after his death. But she appears to be healthy for an 87-year-old, and come this summer it will have been fives years since her husband’s passing.
- In the sixth grade I performed in a skit in which I played Ronald Reagan, and I even got his voice and mannerisms down somewhat pat. Too bad that’s on on video anywhere. You know, I actually think I’m pretty decent at impersonations and think if given the opportunity, I could be a good cast member on SNL.
- I just can’t win trying to buy my mouse for a discount. As you may remember, I found the Logitech MX Revolution mouse for sale on Overstock.com for a pretty good price, but they sent me the cheaper and less cool Logitech VX Revolution instead. Well, over the weekend I decided to give eBay a try in buying the mouse, and I was lucky enough to win the bid for more than half of the retail price. But the seller sent me an email to inform me that he accidentally labeled the product as a VX instead of an MX and was willing to offer me a full refund. Blerg.
- On the way home from church I found the most offensive license plate I’ve ever seen – “Kieth1.” I’ve gone all my life agitated by people misspelling my name Kieth instead of Keith. Now, some dingledork with my name has it misspelled on a license plate. Double blerg.
- Interesting . . . now it appears that Zach Thomas’ wife also got into numerous altercations with that Dallas Police office that wouldn’t let that other NLF player be with his mother-in-law in her dying moments.
- I find it interesting that I have radio DJ’s not from DFW read this blog.
- I notice that a lot of mega-churches in these here parts don’t have a library, yet they have their own book store. I’m not sure if that’s putting God first.
- The new Austrailia tourism commerical is a bit creepy.
- I read that Americans spend 8 hours a day looking a screens such a televisions or computer monitors, with 61 minutes spend on advertising. Considering I get paid to look at a monitor all day and then come home and workout in front of a television, and then blog and watch television with WifeGeeding, I would say the number of hours I spend watching a screen is much higher than eight hours. I guess I could stop blogging and decrease that number.
- 10 Best Ghost Photographs
- Madonna Before and After Photoshop
- Beyonce decided to sing an Alanis Morisetter song and does a good job of it – YouTube
- All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts
- Google Street View Time Lapse
- Happy Monday, folks.
- Grace
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