- I logged into Twitter last night and saw their AI engine, Grok, is now open to everyone. I asked if Donald Trump would be a good or bad president, and I thought it provided an informative, neutral answer.
- How the mighty have fallen. My father loved USAA, and he could be a hard man to please.
- You may not have access to view this, but this is a heck of a headline from the Washington Post – The ‘perfect’ predator | How a police chief groomed a Texas town
- TCU and SMU both made the College Football Playoff before Texas A&M. Don’t let the Aggies live that down.
- Lewisville’s own ‘Jeopardy!’ Champ Ashley Chan streak came to an end yesterday. She says the Buzzer is the ‘Hardest’ part of Jeopardy! I didn’t know there was a rehearsal or a chance for them to get to have practice rounds.
“As soon as Ken Jennings is done reading the clue, these lights go up on either side of the screen. If you buzz in before the lights, it locks you out for about a fifth of a second,” she told Hoftra. “That’s not that long, but it’s enough time for someone else to buzz in once the lights go up. So, you have to listen to the clue, watch the lights, wait for it, buzz, and then hope that you got it. And there are lights that come on in front of your podium if you did it first, and then Ken would call on you.”
She also explained that each contestant gets to “rehearse the buzzer” before filming begins. “You get up. You’re at the podium. You’re playing with the buzzer. We did two rounds of rehearsal, which was great, very much needed,” Chan stated.
- In other Lewisville news: A Texas teacher asked a 16-year-old boy to move in with her, and sexually assaulted him
- I went down a YouTube rabbit hole yesterday researching the Kennedy assassination. It’s also fun finding something new. This time, I learned that the Secret Service agent driving Kennedy’s convertible was overwhelmed with guilt in the immediate aftermath. But Jackie’s act of grace provided some comfort. She requested that he be the hearse’s driver when they returned to DC.
- In his book, he wrote about Kennedy’s body lying in state at the White House. RFK asked the honor guard to leave the room. He then looked at his brother for the first time after his death and stated there was no way the public should see him this way. He then asked a few close friends nearby to take a look. They thought he looked too made up, waxy, and appalling. Close friend William Walton said, “You mustn’t keep it open. It has no resemblance to the President. It’s a wax dummy.” It was opened for Jackie and Robert in the morning for the final time. She asked Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who dove onto the trunk after the shots rang out, to grab a pair of scissors, and she cut a lock of his hair. I know it’s morbid, but I wonder where that lock of hair is now.
- Vice President Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, were in a car at the back of the parade. Here, she is describing what happened. It seems the agents guarded Johnson pretty well, forcing him down.