Empty Bag until Monday.

There will be no more new posts until Monday.

However, here is a bag of randomness that I am thankful about.

• WifeGeeding. I have no idea how or why she puts up with me. You have no idea how thankful I am to have her in my life. Everymorning I wake up and see the most beautiful girl in the world, then it's off for the morning pee-pee.
• DogGeeding and otherDogGeeding. They make me happy and make me feel as if I have some imprtance in my life, if nothing other than to feed them and to take them outside.
• SisterGeeding and MomGeeding. These two girls love me no matter how much I fart.
• My youth. I'm only 30 and there is still stuff for me to do or conquer and screw up.
• My health. I may be chubby, but I can breath on my own and all my limbs are present and functioning.
• A steady income. It may not be great, but I have so much more than others.
• Jimi, Bone, and Gabe. They are my closest guy friends and I know I can totally act myself around them without any shame. I'm still amazed that they allow me to be a part of their life.
• Jimi's mom - dang she has it going on!
• Silly material possessions that I don't derseve such as the HDTV, Geeding Manor, 4RunnerGeeding, the NFL Ticket on DirectTV, and the Brazilian models locked in my basement.
• Living in the greatest country, dispite its shortcomings.
• U2 coming out with a great album and tour.
• Modern plumbing. Life without running water or a flushable commode would stink.
• LiveJournal. Because of them I have some great friends.
• Being a part of the Micah Tate Lindstrom scholarship committee.
• Freedom.
• Bill Parcells.
• Bill Simmons (ESPN's The Sports Guy) and Peter King (Monday Morning QB). Two men that allow me to escape reality about three times a week.
• LeTourneau University for taking a chance on me and allowing me to teach.
• Greg Evans for providing Luann and Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds for Tank McNamara.
• KTCK The Ticket. Yes, they may be crude from time to time, but in a weird sort of way the keep me from going bonkers and make me laugh.
• Bob Sturm and Gordon Keith for linking to Bag of Nothing from time to time.
• Grace.
• My chewguard. I just grind my teeth too much at night.
• Jon Stewart.
• Robot Chicken.
• George Lucus for completing Episode III.
• My readers. Even though most of you do not post, I know you are out there. It cracks me up that people actually stop by and visit from time to time, and from all over the world. Many blessings to you and yours.

The greatest Robot Chicken episode

View it here. You can totally skip through the "Mrs McNally's 3rd Graders Present" section b/c it stinks.

Paul Hackett is a candidate for the U.S. Senate. If I was him, I would change the picture in the upper right hand corner.

http://www.hackettforcongress.com/

Mario Unleashed

The greatest talent show idea ever.

View it here, make sure to have the sound on.

Bad/Good Aim

Police Hit Man in Genitals With Taser

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. - Police accidentally hit a naked man in the genitals with a Taser after he was caught breaking windows and asking women to touch him, authorities said.

Jeremy J. Miljour, 26, tried to run away when sheriff's deputies approached so one of them shot their Taser, said Cpl. Matt Chitwood. But one of the gun's prongs accidentally hit Miljour's genitals and got stuck, Chitwood said. Continued . . .

M&M + Kiss =

Eye Movement and Direction and How it Can Reveal the Truth or a Lie

When asked a question a "normally organized" right-handed person looks (from your viewpoint, looking at them):

Up and to the Left
Indicates: Visually Constructed Images (Vc)
If you asked someone to "Imagine a purple buffalo", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they "Visually Constructed" a purple buffalo in their mind.

Up and to the Right
Indicates: Visually Remembered Images (Vr)
If you asked someone to "What color was the first house you lived in?", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they "Visually Remembered" the color of their childhood home.

To the Left
Indicates: Auditory Constructed (Ac)
If you asked someone to "Try and create the highest the sound of the pitch possible in your head", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they "Auditorily Constructed" this this sound that they have never heard of.

To the Right
Indicates: Auditory Remembered (Ar)
If you asked someone to "Remember what their mother's voice sounds like ", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they "Auditorily Remembered " this sound.

Down and to the Left
Indicates: Feeling / Kinesthetic (F)
If you asked someone to "Can you remember the smell of a campfire? ", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they used recalled a smell, feeling, or taste.

Down and To the Right
Indicates: Internal Dialog (Ai)
This is the direction of someone eyes as they "talk to themselves".

The Gist of it . . .
How this information is used to detect lies:
Example: Let's say your child ask's you for a cookie, and you ask them "well, what did your mother say?" As they reply "Mom said... yes." they look to the left. This would indicate a made up answer as their eyes are showing a "constructed image or sound. Looking to the right would indicated a "remembered" voice or image, and thus would be telling the truth.

Stephen Hawking can be pretty funny.

Despite the teleconferenced video and the flat tone of Hawking's synthesized computer voice, his outspokenness and humor shone through as lively as ever. The highlight was a recap of Hawking's favorite answers to frequently asked questions — some of which drew so much applause from the Seattle crowd that Bristol, the master of ceremonies, occasionally had to repeat the answers. Some examples:

• What did he think of "The Simpsons" TV show, which has had Hawking as an animated guest star? "It's the best thing on American TV."
• What was his view of the Bush administration's limits on human embryonic stem-cell research: "America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy."
• What did he think of the program to send American astronauts back to the moon? "Stupid," he answered. "Sending politicians would be much cheaper, because you don't have to bring them back."
• How high is Hawking's IQ? The physicist replied that he didn't know. "People who boast about their IQ are losers," he said.
• Which late personage would he rather meet, Isaac Newton or Marilyn Monroe? "Marilyn," Hawking said. "Newton seems to have been an unpleasant character."

Top 10 bizarre names of celebrity offspring

The top 10 is:
1. Moon Unit - Frank Zappa
2. Apple - Chris Martin (Coldplay)/Gwyneth Paltrow
3. Misty Kyd - Sharleen Spiteri (Texas)
4. Geronimo - Alex James (Blur)
5. Heavenly Hirani Tiger Lily - Michael Hutchence/Paula Yates
6. Dandelion - Keith Richards (Rolling Stones)
7. Dweezil - Frank Zappa
8. Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q - Bono (U2)
9. Zowie Bowie - David Bowie
10. Rufus Tiger - Roger Taylor (Queen)

Personally, I think they should have included some of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis' children:
Rumore, Scout, and Tallulah Belle.

Read the article here.

Great eagle pics

XBox 360 Stuff

Click here to view the BestBuy/Xbox Inventory Locator.
(Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.)

Click here to see what is inside the XBox 360.

Christmas Lights Decoration Here In Texas

If you don't get this, then I consider you normal and not a redneck.

Statistically Speaking

I've been using Google Analytics for about a week now, and I am very impressed. If you want to track stats on your website or blog, I certainly recommend using it. The data is easy to find yet very robust. Here are some findings about www.bagofnothing.com.

I was curious to know where all my readers live, and Google Analytics provided me with this stat on a world level:

And here is the data in a pie chart:

Yes, I'm quite surprised to know that the bag is read in 8 different countries and 4 continents.
Now I was curious to know about visitors in the U.S. only:

Whoa, over ten states. Kinda cool. But how many just in Texas, home state of www.bagofnothing.com.

That stat made me laugh because Lewisville (where I live) isn't in the mix.
Then there are some other stats you can find out as well, such as how long a person stays on www.bagofnothing.com or new and returning visitors.





So feel free to link to this site and tell your friends about it. I'm interested to see where it all goes from here.

Another funny Bush pic

A very interesting, and heart warming story.

Last allied witness of WWI Christmas truce dies.

"All I'd heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machinegun fire and distant German voices. But there was a dead silence that morning across the land as far as you could see.

"We shouted 'Merry Christmas' even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again."

Troops in the trenches swapped cigarettes, uniform buttons and addresses and even played football in one of the most extraordinary episodes of the war.

Programming Note: Tonight is Ted Koppel's Last night.

Ted Koppel, who built ABC's "Nightline" into a TV news institution 25 years ago, starting with the U.S.-Iranian hostage crisis, will leave the show on Tuesday. Continued . . .

Letterman finally gets Oprah to return

For you David Letterman fans out there, he finally did it - Oprah will finally return for a visit on Dec 1.

See, Dave has been trying to get her on The Late Show since she told Time magazine that she would never go on his show again. Dave has been pretty funny about the whole thing, and even kept an "Oprah Log" and even wanted Dr Phil to help patch things up. I'll be tuning in for sure.

Here is a history of Dave trying to get her back on his show.

Before I start to give thanks, I thought I would rant.

Today's rant is about Baylor University graduates. Now, I'm probably about to tread on dangerous territory here because wifeGeeding graduated from Baylor and comes from a long lineage of Baylor graduates. Heck, even her grandfather has a class named after him at Baylor Law, H. Hart Nance Course in Trusts and Estates II. Other than the fact that wifeGeeding went to Baylor, I married up.

There is something I have noticed about all Baylor graduates that I have encountered, and I noticed it at my friend's birthday party the other night. For the last five or so years, I have given Bone an autograph photo of a celebrity (usually just local celebs). I always ask them to draw a "Bone" and write happy birthday. This year's celebrity was Sarah Dodd, an anchor/reporter for KTVT CBS 11 - and yes, a Baylor graduate.

When I gave Bone the autograph, a Baylor Alum just happened to be right next to him. When she saw the pic, the first thing she said as any Baylor Alum would say was "You know, she went to Baylor."

Why do Baylor graduates feel they have to tell the world that someone else went to Baylor? This drives me nuts. When wifeGeeding was just girlfriendGeeding, she use to do this all the friggin time. There is nothing wrong about being proud of your school and all, but it's as if they are inferring that Baylor is a small school and someone has made it big. Well, Baylor graduates, I have news for you - - - - your school isn't small. So it should be NO surprise to you that Baylor graduates are all over the place and some may actually be in the public eye. As a matter of fact, I would expect Baylor graduates to be very successful as their institution is very top notch.

I can understand if someone from Sul Ross State (enrollment of 2,043) pointed out to me that Dan Blocker (Hoss Cartwright) of "Bonanza" fame is an alumni, or that someone from little known Chabot College told me that Tom Hanks is a graduate. But it is no surprise that someone from Baylor has a successful career. So please, stop with the "you know, ___________ went to Baylor" talk because it only makes you look snobbish. It's even worst when the famous person in question didn't attend Baylor, but a relative did. "Did you know that Billy Graham's granddaughter went to Baylor?" "Were you aware that Stephen Curtis Chapman's daughter is currently a Baylor student?" It's like your reaching just to point out that your school has some sort of national significance, but the funny part is, you already do. Just stop trying so hard to prove your point. And yes, I do know that Olympic gold medalists Michael Johnson and Jeremy Wariner are Baylor graduates and so is former Governors Ann Richards and Mark White. I also better include Mike Singletary or someone going shoot me.

Large schools have people in the public eye. You know you are a large school when:

• You are referred to as the world's largest Baptist university and oldest university in Texas.
• You have an undergraduate enrollment of just under 12,000 and ranked as #78 in theU.S. News America's Best Colleges 2006.
• You are a member of the Big 12 Athletic Conference. If the name of your conference has the word "big," then your college might just be a big redneck.
• You are a finalist for the George W. Bush Presidential Library. Which I'm sure it will end up winning, if anything, just so W can stick it to Ann Richards one last time.
• A total of 4 graduates have become governor.
• You hosted a Presidential Economic Forum.

All this just to say: Baylor folks, you have a great school, one to be proud of, just don't work so hard at trying to flaunt it.

In case anyone is wondering, I attended Hardin-Simmons University. I blame all gramatical, spelling, and typos on them. Our most famous graduate is Oprah's boyfriend.

Current Goal

22 of 33.

Maybe I can finish before the end of the year?

Name the National Thanksgiving Turkey - Voting ends Monday, November 21 at 12 Noon (ET).

Democracy and Freedom
Blessing and Bounty
Marshmallow and Yam
Wattle and Snood
Corn and Maize

Why couldn't they fit "Scooter" in this list? ;-)

Richard T. Bone is now in the 3 decade club.

My friend Bone turned 30 on Nov 19. We had a party for him at Geeding Manor. Feel free to check out pictures of the party here. As you can tell, he is one loved individual.

I suggest using the slideshow feature.

The KING of Holiday Inflatables

Imagine driving down the road and seeing this:


I'm sure the HOA would flip if this was in my neighborhood. Better yet, if I was college student totally board, I would probably stuff a lot of these in one of my friend's dorm room.

Turns out they like to get ready for other holidays and events as well:




View the rest of the pics here.

Top Thirty Facts - Chuck Norris

Someone sent me this link regarding 30 facts about Chuck Norris. Some are pretty darn funny, so funny I just start to laugh just thinking of them. There are just a few curse words and sexual references, but nothing too bad. Here are some highlights.

• Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
• Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother's womb. Shortly thereafter he grew a beard.
• The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
• After much debate, President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima rather than the alternative of sending Chuck Norris. His reasoning? It was more "humane".

Christmas Lights Gone Wild

I thought Clark Griswold had a great display of Christmas lights on his house, but this display just might top it. Be sure to listen to the music that accompanies the video, which is roughly 3 minutes long. Very worth it.

Do you want to learn some cool magic tricks?

Click here to lean magic David Blaine's magic tricks.

Adobe Acrobat Reader required.

Spice Boys

If you like that video of two asian boys lip-syncing, then you will probably enjoy this video of two guys acting like the Spice Girls.

Great voices get together

This is a cute skit put together by all those famous voices you hear either on movie previews or TV intros.

ChristianityToday rankes the Top Ten Movie Robots of All Time

Some of the robots I have never heard of, like Gort.

I do think Data makes sense.

You can view the entire list here.