Bag of Randomness
Friday, October 30, 2026

Man, what a tough week for the Star Trek community: not only losing Walter Koenig from the original series, but also the captain of The Next Generation. I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds it interesting that William Shatner outlived Sir Patrick Stewart, who portrayed the captain of the following generation’s Enterprise. 

Anyone else a fan of this George C. Scott film? If so, here’s a recent notable death. To my surprise, I learned it premiered at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, so there’s a local connection.

Peter Medak, veteran director of The Krays and The Changeling, dies aged 88

It was a very cool moment when the World Series champions, the Milwaukee Brewers, walked into Lambeau Field during last night’s game between the Packers and the Panthers to show off their hard-earned trophy.

When I drove past this gas station the other day, I couldn’t help but wonder about their “WE ARE OPEN NOW” sign. I hope they didn’t pay for it by the letter. If so, they could have saved money by omitting “NOW”.

Retired local KXAS meteorologist David Finfrock is a lot more opinionated than I expected on his Twitter account. 

This is not one of your more uplifting articles. It reminded me of some of the most fascinating (yet macabre) reading I’ve done about burying the dead after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and the subsequent disinterment and transportation of the soldiers’ remains to the U.S. after the war.

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  • The Army is preparing for the grim possibility of burying fallen soldiers on the battlefield, testing how fast it can dig temporary graves while preserving remains for eventual identification and return to families after the end of a conflict. 

    During an exercise in North Carolina, engineers, preventative medicine teams, chaplains and fatality management specialists prepared for mass temporary interment not used on a large scale since the Korean War, the Army announced in a release last week.

  • Commanders can plan for an engineer company with the requisite equipment to dig and cover trenches for up to 2,400 bodies every 24 hours, if operating nonstop.

A Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI

(RNS) — David Durman, an administrator at the University of Kentucky, said using AI would cause him to offload his thinking and decision making, which would violate his humanist views. He hopes other Americans will rethink their views on AI, too.

Cinema chain offers hypnosis: Forget your favorite movie and watch it for the first time again

What if you could erase the memory of your favorite film? Not the hint of what’s in the box at the end of Se7en, not the shock of The Matrix’s dojo scene, not the familiar beats of La La Land’s opening. Just the same excitement and wonder as the very first time.

That’s the premise of a new event from Dutch cinema chain Pathé called Rewind. On Monday, November 9, 2026, 30 film enthusiasts will attempt to forget their favorite film under expert guidance and then watch it again in the cinema at Pathé Buitenhof in The Hague.

James Madison University offers a heck of a view when you have to go.

Okay… but which one is Tim Duncan?

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