Bag of Randomness for Thursday, February 2, 2023

 

  • I was hoping Tom Brady would play a few more years. Maybe the Niners will be playoff contenders again next year, and again lose quarterbacks to injury, and then they have to call the hometown boy to save his favorite team of his youth.
  • One thing I learned from Bono while reading his book is that prayer is not an escape from real life, but a passage toward it. And that we often sacrifice our self-esteem and self-image on the altar of others’ happiness. I’m certainly guilty of places others’ happiness over my own needs.
  • I started the Price Harry book last night. I always thought when Prince Charles informed him and his brother that their mummy died, they were together. But no, he first told William alone, then Harry separately.
  • “The past is never dead.; It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner
  • Sometimes I catch BoyGeeding playing chess by himself. Often, I ask to join in, but he said sometimes he likes to play by himself, moving both white and dark pieces, because he learns more about himself that way.
  • An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyers shut it down
    • Here’s how it was supposed to work: The person challenging a speeding ticket would wear smart glasses that both record court proceedings and dictate responses into the defendant’s ear from a small speaker. The system relied on a few leading AI text generators, including ChatGPT and DaVinci.
  • Basketball coaches fired after coach, 22, allegedly dons jersey and plays in junior varsity game
    • Maybe it was sexist of me, but maybe the headline should have been more descriptive. But my initial thought was that this was a boys’ basketball team, not a girls’ basketball team.
  • American woman detained for walking calf in Moscow’s Red Square – This wouldn’t have happened to her in Moscow, Texas.
  • Cops in California shoot double amputee as he fled on stumpsPolice in the US have shot dead a double amputee as he attempted to flee on the stumps of his legs, in a confronting encounter caught on video.
  • Ron DeSantis and His Christian Crusaders Are Stealing Trump’s Religious ThunderAs the former president loses his edge with evangelicals, the man who might replace him is cashing in on the resurgence of right-wing Catholicism.
  • Apparel for liberal Christians (yes, we exist)
  • NY Post – A shocked customer at an Alabama gas station found a human penis in the parking lot, according to cops.
  • Cities Where Residents Have the Worst Commutes
    • Garland, Texas has the third-worst commute in the US. More than 86 percent of its residents are commuters, and around 9.1 percent of them have to deal with journeys lasting longer than an hour.
  • Blue Bell, the ice cream company, sells ice cream flavored lip-balm.
  • Here’s an interesting video from an inspection during a change of guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier where one of the guards gets stabbed in the foot with a bayonet from a falling rifle. The only sign something happened was a quick grimace, and the blood coming from his shoe as he was finishing the ceremony.

 

 

 

 

 

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