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Kid Steals Family Car to Avoid Going to Church
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Menarche Parties R’ Us
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The Puberty Party is an educational celebration for girls who have not started menstruating. Moms don’t have to dread “the talk” and girls won’t have to learn through lecture or boring movies. It’s an educational party complete with food, friends, family and fun!
The Menarche Party includes a special ceremony for the girl in transition. The party is complete with gifts, games, cake, food, friends, family, and a lifetime memorabilia. We want to make celebrating a menarche a family tradition. We provide information for everything you need to host a puberty or menarche party including tips for the menu, decorations, step-by-step instructions, unique interactive games, and exclusive party ware.
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Wheel of Justice
Picayune police nabbed their first suspect Tuesday using the department’s newly created “Wheel of Justice,” which puts the names of those wanted for drug offenses on a wheel for police officers to spin to determine who to arrest next.
At the Picayune Kiwanis Club meeting Tuesday, officers spun the wheel and it landed on 24-year-old Dewayne Allen Bester Jr. He was wanted for sale of crack cocaine within 1,500 feet of a church or school and failure to appear. He was also out on bond for a murder charge in Hattiesburg. According to the Picayune Item, Bester was charged along with two other suspects for their roles in the death of Larry Blakely, 22, of Hattiesburg, in June 2008.
Bester was arrested at a home on Shirley Drive in Picayune on Tuesday afternoon. The wheel had landed on him less than an hour before his capture.
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Dog on a Swing
He looks scared at first, but then he looks looks like he is enjoying it.
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Bag of Randomness
- Usually I have nothing but praise for DirecTV, but I smell something fishy. Months ago I decided to cancel my NFL Sunday Ticket subscription because it was hard for me to justify spending about $300 for the package, even though I’ve been subscribing to it for about five years. You can’t remove the package online, you have to call in. Which I did. But yesterday when I got my bill the auto-renew kicked in and I was charged.
- So I call in, and fight the voice prompts. It’s one of those where all you have to do is simply speak and tell the system what you want to do. Sounds simply, right? So I say, “Cancel NFL Sunday Ticket.” You probably guessed what happened, I get a long message, better yet, a commercial about the NFL Sunday Ticket. I try to cut it off by saying “agent” but that didn’t work.
- Finally I get to a representative. He shows no record of my cancellation. He does something, what, I’m not sure, then transfers me to someone else where I have to give all my account information again. This agent was nice, told me it was the auto-enroll that caused this to happen, I tell her that I called months ago to cancel the auto-enroll, she finds no record of the call.
- This is where I’m thinking it’s getting a bit fishy. Now they offer me the entire package for half off. Tempting, but I say no, mainly because I think they’re plotting. See, I got a thing in the mail about the NFL Sunday Ticket a while back saying that because times are tough, they understand, so now NFL Sunday Ticket Subscribers can spread out their payment plan even further so the monthly bill would be so high. That seems like a good business decision on their end and actually helps out their loyal customers, but I still didn’t want to spend a total of about $300. So I’m thinking for anyone that has canceled, they kept the auto enroll feature turned on so the customer would have to call in, offer the half price deal, and can at least make something out of nothing. I could be wrong about that, but the reason I canceled months ago was to avoid any of this.
- The Dallas Morning News had a nice article that mentioned the Landry Mile. I haven’t thought of the Landry Mile for quite some time.
- The Rosanne Bar picture of her dressed as Hitler is disturbing. But I think she’s Jewish, so I guess that’s OK?
- Gordon Keith wrote the following line and I keep thinking about it, “To them, the argument is always about the source of the reasoning, not the soundness of it.”
- Heard some lyrics but just can’t name the song? Just tweet @LyricRat and they’ll respond quickly with the song you’re looking for.
- The Brett Favre Retirement Timeline is longer than I thought.
- WifeGeeding took DogGeeding to the vet yesterday. He’s been prone to ear infections, and as of late his hearing has been very bad. Turns out he’s just old. The vet thinks he’s around 12 years old, we never knew his real age as he’s a rescue dog, and thinks he only has two to four years left. When I heard that, only the two stood out, I got that very bad sinking feeling in my stomach and couldn’t finish my lunch. Maybe I’m optimistic, but other than his hearing he seems to be in great health and have lots of energy. I’m thinking he has five to six years left. I hate thinking about this kind of stuff.
- Cool photo of a dog walking on water.
- I tried my safety razor recently and didn’t cut myself. All in all, I think it provides a superior shave when compared to the Mach 3 I was using. I also used a pre-shave oil this time around, so that may have had something to do with it. I did get a small amount of razor burn, but that was only because I was experimenting with the razor just to see how hard I could press it against my skin. It was a bit difficult shaving around the chin and under the nose, but with practice I think I can conquer that. However, if you are a goatee kind of guy, I would highly recommend the safety razor since you won’t be shaving in those areas. I also found it shaved the hair on my throat better than any razor.
- Bacon Flow Chart [Thanks, Mike!]
- If I see the Legally Blonde musical commercial one more time I might just start to take hostages.
- My Altima died on me yesterday, it just won’t turn over when I turn the ignition key. There is some power, so I’m thinking its the alternator. I tried jumping it, but nada.
- Also, I can’t remove the ignition key, which is frustrating. So for the first time in my life, I removed a car battery. I plan on taking it to get tested. Hopefully I’m wrong about the alternator, and it’s just the battery.
- And even with the removed battery, I still can’t remove the ignition key.
- If you are wondering why I have a lack of posts, it’s because of the car. Blerg.
- Thanks to Bone for helping me push that darn thing yesterday up an incline.
- Obama was smart to include Biden on that Beer Summit yesterday, otherwise it could appear that two black men that are friends are against the lone white guy.
- Or maybe he just wanted a free beer and decided to crash the party.
- But I would have like the whole thing better if it didn’t look so much like a photo-op.
- A construction worker fell 23 stories to his death – just horrific.
- Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s campaign site says “rick perry gay.” Link
- A Dallas police officer was in Colorado taking part in a police competition event and ended up developing a blood clot due to the high elevation and severe dehydration. His health insurance company, United Health Care, wouldn’t pay for his transportation to a Dallas hospital, but a local car dealer stepped in to pay the $7500 bill in a genius move. Even though he may have done this out of the kindness of his heart, he’s gotten more than $7500 worth of advertising from the local media. Article
- Grace
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Super Dad
While holding his kid who was holding his jumbo drink he catches a foul ball bare-handed.
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Beluga whale ’saves’ diver
A drowning diver has told how she was saved by a whale that pushed her back to the surface when she suffered crippling cramps.
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Hawaii residents now taxed on Vegas winnings even if they lose
A new bill signed into law this month by Gov. Linda Lingle has some frequent Las Vegas visitors and local CPAs scratching their heads.
Under House Bill 1495, no longer will gamblers be able to offset their winnings with their losses for Hawai’i state income tax purposes. Previously gamblers would be taxed only on their net winnings, but now they will be taxed on gross winnings.
A Hawai’i resident who wins $10,000 in a year, for example, and loses $9,000 in the same year used to be taxed only on the $1,000 in net winnings. Under the new law, that resident would be taxed on the full $10,000 in winnings.
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Tattood Texan Librarian Calendar
A fundraising activity for the TLA LIBRARY DISASTER RELIEF FUND, this calendar showcases the charms and often concealed art of 18 women of the Texas library community. As members of the Texas Library Association, these women volunteered to reveal their ink and share some of their stories for the well-being of our state’s libraries.
Who’s in it? The Tattooed Ladies represent both urban and rural libraries; public, school, and academic libraries; and the state’s geography from El Paso to the Gulf Coast and from North Texas to the Rio Grande Valley. You’ll meet seasoned professionals and passionate lay advocates, retired librarians and library school students. Libraries thrive on and promote diversity and freedom of expression. The Tattooed Ladies of TLA calendar is a testament to both.
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New York gives homeless people a one-way ticket to leave city
New York has found a novel, if expensive, way of dealing with its overcrowded shelters – buying one-way tickets for homeless families to leave the city.
Under the initiative, by the administration of the mayor, Michael Bloomberg, hundreds of families have been given plane, rail, and bus tickets and even petrol vouchers to leave the city. One homeless family of five was given $6,332 (nearly £4,000) worth of travel costs to Paris, according to the New York Times.
The city justifies such costs because it argues the alternative is more expensive. It costs New York’s taxpayers $36,000 to put up a homeless family in a night shelter for a year.
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Moviegoers often blink in unison
Worried you’ll blink and miss a crucial piece of the action? Then you can relax. While watching a film, we subconsciously control the timing of blinks to make sure we don’t miss anything important. And because we tend to watch films in a similar way, moviegoers often blink in unison, researchers find.
The flow of visual information to the brain is halted by up to 450 milliseconds with every blink, and we lose up to 6 seconds of information every minute, says Tamani Nakano at the University of Tokyo in Japan. This means moviegoers who sit through a 150-minute film have their eyes shut for up to 15 minutes.
Nakano and colleagues worked out how we cope with such extreme information loss. They monitored the eye blinks of volunteers as they watched a clip of a silent comedy with a strong narrative, or a movie of an aquarium with no narrative, or listened to an audio book with a narrative, but not a visual one.
Hidden pattern
Using the timing of those blinks as a reference, the researchers then played the volunteers the same clip again and measured whether the eye blinks occurred at the same time as the reference blinks.
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Bag of Randomness
- WifeGeeding’s trip to her ocularist went fairly well. She can’t get fitted for a new prosthesis yet, so her old one had to be modified, but she still has some swelling, so we will have to make a return trip.
- When we got home yesterday, I wasn’t feeling very well, I was afraid it was all because I deleted that email from yesterday. Whew.
- During WifeGeeding’s recovery, she listened and I watched an old episode of the Family Feud on the Game Show Network. It brought back a lot of memories.
- WifeGeeding’s friend that was with us asked an interesting question, she wondered how many of those people are still alive.
- If I recall correctly, it use to come on at 6:30 PM on KDFW back in the day.
- Watching as an adult, Richard Dawson was kinda of pervert-creepy.
- If you are wondering, he’s still alive, I just looked it up. And if it’s on the Internet, then it has to be true, right?
- On the show we watched, one of the contestants gave him a Bible with his name on it. The other contestant gave him a t-shirt of the college he taught at.
- The last movie/TV related thing he did was the Schwarzenegger movie The Running Man which was about reality TV gone haywire. In a lot of ways, the movie was ahead of it’s time. When it was made, there really wasn’t such a thing as “reality TV.”
- Did you know that Richard Dawson actually guest hosted The Tonight Show a couple of times? I didn’t.
- The second host, Ray Combs, committed suicide. I remember hearing that and always thought he was a happy guy. The Wikipedia entry states that he hung himself in a psychiatric ward, and the family relied on a $25,000 donation from Johnny Carson to bury him.
- Sorry for the downer, but I thought that was interesting.
- I like the beginning of the Family Feud, how the families would somewhat posed.
- That whole set design was crazy. Carpet was everywhere, and I wasn’t a fan of that dull orange background or the big lightbulbs all over the place. But I thought they did have a pretty baby blue.
- I never liked the embroidered look of the family name.
- The scoreboard, or whatever you call it, was super large, wasn’t it?
- When it rotated, it always stuck far out, and I thought it might fall out.
- I did like the yellow on black text.
- The last part of the show was always my favorite part, because you got to see the audience. Better yet, you got a glimpse of what you don’t see on TV.
- I remember the credits ending with, “A Mark Goodson television production.”
- When it was time to reveal the missed survey answers, I always got a kick out of the audience saying the answers all unison.
- I got a kick out of the bell sound that you heard when a contestant got an answer right.
- A friend and I once was so taken with the whole survey notion . . . “out of 100 people surveyed . . .” that we actually called 100 random numbers from the Mineral Wells phonebook and asked what they liked more, Coke or Pepsi. Silly us, but about the 20th call Dr Pepper and Mountain Dew started to pop up in our questions.
- Surprisingly, I don’t recall any adults getting mad at us or even hanging up. Most were pretty friendly and talkative.
- I once interviewed for a learning facilitator position in which I had to give a 15-20 presentation and was told to make it creative and interactive. It was all Family Feud based. I would have got the job, except that due to budget constraints it was pulled, so I was told.
- The next time you hear a celebrity rumor, check out GossipCop.com – it will help you gauge if it’s true or not.
- I’ve never been fan of the Bachelor or Bachelorette, and I was shocked at her reaction after Anderson Cooper (guest hosting for Regis) asked her how many guys she slept with on the show. Granted, not the best question, but she when you go on a show and mug down with man after man wearing almost nothing, what do you expect.
- The latest cover of People has the cast of Saved By the Bell sans Dustin Diamond. I wonder what that’s all about?
- When I first heard the whole Henry Gates and Cambridge police officer incident never did I think that the person who made the 911 call was doing anything racist, but she sure seems to be defending herself.
- There’s some tension over a tree house in University Park. If you live in University Park, you don’t need to build a tree house, you can actually afford to buy your kid a real house.
- With all the rain, my yard is making a comeback.
- 106.5 The Wolf is a radio station out in Kansas City, and morning DJ Darren Wilhite was nice enough to mention BoN on the air, twice. Watch out Bob Sturm, Darren may just be the #1 DJ of BoN. If you are interested in listening to the audio, you should be able to listen to it below. If not, click here. And if you are ever in Kansas City, be sure to tune in to his radio show.
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Spam E-Mail That Caught My Attention
I went ahead and deleted the email.
If you notice no posts tomorrow, be sure to track down Robyn for me.
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Personal Urns
Personal urns are a new and exciting way to memorialize your loved one.
Now we can create a custom urn in the image of your loved one or favorite Celebrity.
New advances in facial reconstruction and 3D printing have made it possible to have an urn made in the image of anyone from just a photograph.
Never forget a face. Personal Urns combine art and technology to create a family heirloom that will be cherished for generations.
Available in Two Sizes
* Full sized will hold all of the ashes of any adult
* Keepsake size is about 1/4 of the full sized and will hold about 25 cubic inches
So if Michael Jackson or Elvis’s family chose this option, I wonder what likeness they would use?
Definitely go with the younger versions.
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Two Dolphins and A Ligar Cub
If you are interested in the story behind the picture, read it here.
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