I mentioned yesterday that I booked a dental appointment because of the offer of four free teeth whitening sessions with a regular appointment while I was at the health fair at work. Normally I don’t do these sort of things, but since I need a dental checkup and I really don’t like my dentist all that much, I decided what the heck since their office wasn’t that far from where I work. Well, I decided to do a little research.
The dental office is one of those contemporary eco-friendly places. No paper is used in the office, everything is kept digitally, and everything is energy efficient from light bulbs to computers. Oh, and toothbrushes are made from recycled yogurt containers.
They offer free Wi-Fi, which doesn’t really wow me, but each patient chair or whatever you call them, or maybe it’s each room, comes with an iPod dock and a customizable play list. This makes me want to find out what kind of music the dentist can’t stand and select all those songs, but on second thought, she has the ability to inflict pain, so I better be careful.
A Mac bar is located in the lobby and Snuggies are provided if you get cold.
Snacks are organic and locally grown. I never been much for eating right before a dentist, because Mom always told me to brush my teeth before going there. Now that I think about it, that doesn’t really make a lot of sense, they are going to clean my teeth anyways.
And the place looks ultra-modern, which is going to leave this bubba from Mineral Wells feeling a little out of place. Feel free to read a little more about it here.
My sister called from Vietnam while I was at work. Isn’t it just amazing, when you really think about it, that someone on the opposite end of the Earth can have a real time conversation with you using a device about the size of a deck of cards you carry around in your pocket? When you think about how far we have come regarding technology, it’s funny how often we complain.
I think Obama was smart to hold comment regarding the Iranian election. Ahmadinejad yesterday states that the the U.S. should not interfere with their elections. When all the protests started and were growing in number, it all happened with no comment from Obama, and the Iranian leaders couldn’t blame any outsiders for rallying the protesters since it all started from within – so the revolt is a direct cause of their own people, not some outsider. By Obama has now since made a statement about the election, and now the Iranian leadership is diverting attention to us rather than the protests.
The other day WifeGeeding and I checked out one of those The Art of Shaving stores in the mall just for the heck of it and learned a few new things. For instance, a straight edge razor will last a man for a lifetime. And the cheapest disposable razor to use is a safety razor since the replacement blades are cheapest.
But the safety razor doesn’t really look that safe.
Normally when I shave, I fill the bottom of the sink up with hot water to rinse off my razor. Some people just rinse the razor off under a running faucet, but that never really gets all the hair out when I try it. I told the store representative that I rinse my razor out with warm water, and he said I should rinse it out with cold water to maximize the sharpness of the blade. That is, when the blade is cold, molecules are closer together and the blade is sharper. When the blade is warm, the metal is expanded and is not as sharp. But of course, use warm water to wet your face.
I caught a Texas Country Reporter episode recently, haven’t seen an episode in years. It really is a great show that features the best of Texas. Little known fact, but the host of the show was on the very first Southwest Airlines flight.
This is the only picture I have seen of Kenny Baker inside R2D2. I never really thought of it before, but after looking at that picture I perfectly understand some of the movements of that droid.
I have to give T.O. credit for showing up at his football camp in the area even though he no longer plays or lives here.
Letterman had Johnny Depp and Megan Fox on his show last night – I wonder if any show has had a sexier male and female guest on a show.
The Michael Jackson death was a surprise, but not shocking, if that makes any sense. The way he was living his life and just the way that he looked, well, everyone knew he wasn’t going to be an old man.
I always thought of him as a cross between Elvis and Howard Hughes in terms of talent and personality.
Yes, he had his problems, many of them, but as an artist he was extremely gifted and talented.
One crazy thing about him that sticks out for me regarding him is the Super Bowl. Fox didn’t have the NFL, and one year decided to have an IN Living Color special air during the Super Bowl halftime with a countdown clock so no one would miss the game. This was a time when the Super Bowl half time show were getting pretty lame. The NFL didn’t want to have any of that happen again and miss out on any advertising dollars, so the very next year they brought in the biggest name they could think of, Michael Jackson. I do believe that was the Super Bowl at the Rose Bowl when the Cowboys routed the Bills.
You know Elizabeth Taylor isn’t taking the news well.
I visited his website about twice an hour for several hours just to see if there was going to be an update. Most of the time it just had tour and ticket information, and later there was just a red background with an image of him with his name and the title of King of Pop.
Yes, I was a big fan of his growing up. He and U2 are probably the biggest voices of my generation.
MTV actually started to play music videos again. After his death was announced I turned over to the channel and noticed it was nothing but Michael Jackson videos for several hours. That’s a fitting tribute. I’m sure the teens and tweens didn’t understand why the heck MTV was playing so many videos, while us adults can remember a day when that’s just about all they did. I actually watched for a while, and man, the guy was a visionary.
The dude from MTV News that was announcing the death was not very good at reading from a teleprompter. As a matter of fact, it was almost comical. He’s no Kurt Loder. I wonder how many of you actually know who Kurt Loder is.
The same announcement aired after every video and commercial break.
TMZ was the first to announce his death. You know they have hospital employees in all the area LA/Hollywood hospitals on their payroll just so they can the inside scoop on things.
Most of the major news networks didn’t want to get the story wrong and withheld making the official death announcement. You really can’t blame them for that.
What is crazier is that someone made the decision to have an hour long special put together to air that night. But you know that all the news agencies have something already put together for all the major celebrities.
It was crazy that before the evening news started his death was speculated/announced just about twenty minutes before and the news leading with the story and then having to put Farrah Fawcett’s death aside. Wow, two icons.
It was interesting to see that at 6:30 PM Central time when all the gossip shows such as Entertainment Tonight and Extra come on and none of them have up to date information. I always knew they filmed those things earlier in the day.
The Jackson family seemed to have bitter feelings towards each other for a long time, but I think they were able to get things in order before Michael’s death.
I bet the Fawcett camp is saddened by the death of Jackson, but will benefit from his death by not being as intensly covered.
I feel sorry for the patients and family for those at the UCLA Medical Center. The crowd and media that gathered there was just insane.
The authorities were smart to move his body by helicopter, no telling what the crowd outside would have done.
Last night Jimmy Kimmel started his monologue with the news of Jackson’s death, and then actually made jokes about the man and his actual death and even had the audacity of asking if it was too soon to do such a thing. Kimmel is usually a funny guy, but that was just crass.
The first ever luau occurred at The White House last night, and I hear inflatable sharks were put in the fountain. But I doubt we see much coverage of the event due to Jackson’s death.
I was listening to KRLD on the drive home. A CBS reporter did a ‘breaking news’ segment where he mentioned that MJ was taken to the hospital & might have died. The CBS anchor mentioned (in a condescending tone) that the death report was only coming from TMZ. That is when the reporter confessed that TMZ had ‘remarkably accurate sources’. You could tell that neither of these reporters were pleased to admit that.
It's hard to explain but I just found it really interesting. I loved all the info about the dentist's office, and I agreed with many of your insights about MJ's death (I had mentioned something similar about Elizabeth Taylor to my husband). Many times your bag of randomness posts are truly random and I don't always connect to some of your bullet points. But this time it was still very random yet I found it very interesting and easy to relate to.
This might just be the best bag of randomness ever!
Gotta ask . . . what makes this Bag of Randomness so great?
I was listening to KRLD on the drive home. A CBS reporter did a ‘breaking news’ segment where he mentioned that MJ was taken to the hospital & might have died. The CBS anchor mentioned (in a condescending tone) that the death report was only coming from TMZ. That is when the reporter confessed that TMZ had ‘remarkably accurate sources’. You could tell that neither of these reporters were pleased to admit that.
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It's hard to explain but I just found it really interesting. I loved all the info about the dentist's office, and I agreed with many of your insights about MJ's death (I had mentioned something similar about Elizabeth Taylor to my husband). Many times your bag of randomness posts are truly random and I don't always connect to some of your bullet points. But this time it was still very random yet I found it very interesting and easy to relate to.