Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, April 3, 2024

  • I need to focus more on the journey than the destination.
  • Ah, I love presidential history and trivia. I play on a trivia team with three close friends on Tuesday nights in Grapevine. If you follow the trivia league on social media, they will give hints to two questions. One was about the election of 1876. That was a really fascinating election, and here are my five most interesting tidbits about it that make it one of the more interesting ones in our nation’s history:
    • Grant was going to run for a third term, but the House (233–18 vote), passed a resolution declaring that the two-term tradition .
    • It was the second of five U.S. presidential elections in which the winner did not win a plurality of the national popular vote.
    • Tilden won 184 electoral votes to Hayes’s 165, 185 votes necessary for a majority. To settle things, Congress created a commission to avoid a constitutional crisis.
    • To date, it remains the election that yielded the highest voter turnout of the eligible voting-age population in American history, at 82.6%
    • As of 2024, this marks the only presidential election in which both candidates were sitting governors.
  • Family of woman found dead on highway angered by Trump’s speech
    • The sister of murder victim Ruby Garcia said she and her family were home watching live, in disbelief, as former President Donald Trump told an audience in Grand Rapids that he had spoken with “some of her family.” “He did not speak with any of us, so it was kind of shocking seeing that he had said that he had spoke with us, and misinforming people on live TV,” Ruby Garcia’s sister, Mavi Garcia.
  • I’m surprised that someone who has been in the business as long as he has and held the title of Chief would be this sensitive. Not only did he walk out, but he felt the need to share it publicly. Surely, he’s heard a variation of this joke a thousand times. I held off on posting this, thinking it was a bad April Fool’s joke. But maybe I should cut him some slack. We all have our off days.

  • Even though Holy Week has passed, I thought this would be interesting for people of the Christian faith and something they could add to their children’s programs next year.

  • Now, to transition to something totally different. The comments in this tweet were interesting, but I don’t know why the poster wanted to single out men for their answers. I’d like to know how women would rank these.
    https://twitter.com/NoDMsPerfavore/status/1774931787614916988
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Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, April 2, 2024

  • TwitterX really wasn’t much fun yesterday. I usually like April Fool’s Day jokes, but it seemed like everyone yesterday thought they were pulling one over everyone, which was blatantly obvious.
  • I wasn’t a fan of the Texas Department of Public Safety sending me a text at 10:45 PM last night to remind me that my vehicle registration would expire in three months. It’s a legit text, I’m not being scammed. I received an email notification earlier in the day. I don’t mind the text; I’m just surprised they would send one out so late in the evening.
  • After watching Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune came on. I had not been a fan of the show since childhood, so I planned on changing the channel, but the introduction caught my attention. Oddly, the gameshow announcer introduced Vanna White and actor Jared Leto. Then he nonchalantly jumped into hosting, “All right, everybody, grab those devices; it’s time to give away some money. A $1000 in our first toss-up, the category is on the map.” The show then continued as normal, cutting back to regular host Sajak as if nothing had happened. I couldn’t find anything about it online until later in the evening. It was just an April Fool’s joke, which I thought was pretty solid. But, it was not as solid as the April Fool’s Day 1997 when Sajack and Alex Trebek switched hosting duties. I forgot that Pat and Janna played as contestants. It must be odd being a contestant on the show you host.
  • I’m rediscovering my love for the night. I’ve always been more of a night person than an evening person. But, when I married a morning person who was always early to bed and early to rise, I did my best to convert. I was told by her and many others I didn’t need to go to bed at the same time as my then-wife, but I thought that was important and something to build on. I loved those conversations as our day came to an end.
  • That kind of humor will not influence anyone to follow the Christ he claims to follow.https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1773511106868519312
  • Never play Luka in a game of HORSE.

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Bag of Randomness for Monday, April 1, 2024

  • The design and style of the Texas Rangers World Series rings are exceptional, but the size of it makes them gaudy.
  • I can’t remember if Rangers fans pointed out that as they went undefeated on road trips during the playoffs, all the teams they beat spelled out ROAD – Rays, Oriels, Astros, and Diamondbacks. I think someone did point it out in November. No matter, it’s a pretty cool feature of the Rangers championship ring, and using the first letters of the opposing team’s logo was a nice touch. Here’s a video that explains the reasoning behind all 19 elements that make up the gaudy World Series ring.
  • As National League champions, the Diamondbacks also get rings. This is true for all major sports, and is dumb.
    https://twitter.com/Dbacks/status/1773885507711455307
  • Journalists have been told to stop stealing souvenirs from US President Joe Biden’s official aircraft.
    • An inventory check on Air Force One after Mr Biden’s visit to the US west coast in February found several items were missing from its press section. Branded pillowcases, glasses and gold-rimmed plates are among the items that have allegedly vanished from the jet.
  • Bruce Springsteen was on last night’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and was better at acting than I expected.
  • Robotic police dog shot multiple times, credited with avoiding potential bloodshed
  • It’s hard for me to accept that 1984 was 40 years ago. To me, 40 years ago will always be the Fourties or Fifties. It’s not that I don’t want to accept it, or anything like that. I bet one day, it will finally sink in.

  • If you are a fan of basketball, you’ll appreciate the passing and how well the Mavericks executed this play. It’s a thing of beauty.
    https://twitter.com/MavsFilmRoom/status/1774122439095497172
  • I predict that Texas State Representative (D) James Talarico will win a state-wide election. My guess is he’ll be the next Texas governor or Senator. Not only is he a current member of the Texas House, but the 34-year-old is fulfilling a passion project by going to seminary. I guess you can do that when you don’t have a spouse and a family.
    https://twitter.com/kirkacevedo/status/1774438287694062044
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Bag of Randomness for Friday, March 29, 2024

  • Seriously, we couldn’t even get the banner unraveling right? They only had five months to work on it. It unraveled awkwardly and slowly, hung crooked and wrinkled because it wasn’t stretched out, and our stupid governor insisted he throw out the first pitch.
  • For the longest time, I’ve wanted to post a video or tweet at the top of a blog post and have it center justified, but I could never figure it out. Sure, it does sound simple to do. There was countless trial and error. But thanks to AI, it took less than five seconds.
  • This video of a college graduate complaining about how hard it is to find a job is making the rounds. Yes, that’s a college graduate and not a 12-year-old like she looks (and acts) like. Reality is hitting her, and it’s hitting hard. I’m a little sympathetic and will give her some slack because I was once like her when I got out of college, but not to this level. Granted, she left a lot of context out, such as what she got her degrees and one certificate in. I have more thoughts below for those of you who choose to watch it.

    • In case you are wondering, she attended Rider University, a private university in Lawrence Township, New Jersey. The school she earned her certificate was West Chester University.
    • How exactly is she more qualified? If she were an accounting major and did an internship for an accounting firm, I’d be more sympathetic. But I have a feeling she thinks getting a piece of paper that shows you went to college makes her more qualified and elite than everyone already in the workforce.
    • All Bart did was be generous to her, and she’s basically making fun of him as if she wasted her time speaking to him.
    • A mentor needs to tell her to take an entry-level job at a firm in an industry where she wants to work. Do the job well, be reliable, help the company profit, and you will advance quickly. I would also add she needs to have the attitude that the job is not beneath her. That was a mistake I made. I accepted an entry-level job just to get my foot in the door. But I made a mistake by focusing more on getting the next job or planning ahead than focusing on the job I was hired for and excelling in that one first.
    • Making this video is only going to make her less hireable.
    • Let’s work on some interviewing skills.
    • It may take her a while to understand it’s not what you know but who you know.
    • We all have had our moments. I wish her the best and hope she learns a lot in this season of her life. I also wouldn’t doubt if the video was fake.
  • Idiot – Michigan GOP lawmaker falsely labels March Madness athletes ‘illegal invaders’ – On social media, Rep. Matt Maddock said buses near a Detroit airport had been “loaded up with illegal invaders.” The airport later said the buses were “transporting the basketball teams and their respective staffs.”
    https://twitter.com/Spawn_03/status/1773343663231250687
  • Language warning.

  • It has indeed. The mid-range jumper is gone. No one drives to the lane, which shows a lack of defense. Defense today is little more than a hand in the face.
  • Yesterday was the first day of district play and DaughterGeeding hot her first hit of the season. Here she is about to get thrown out at second.
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