Bag of Randomness for Thursday, October 20, 2022

  • A year ago I was facing paralysis. I’m mostly healed, thanks to surgery. One way I haven’t healed is my bottom lip shakes when I drink from a cup, mug, or bottle.
  • I bet within the next 10 years, vehicles will no longer have a 12-volt outlet. They will all be replaced with USB drives.
  • Remember when cars used to have cigarette lighters? You would have to push them in, and they would pop out when they were hot. As a kid, those were a really cool thing to play with. But you had to be careful not to burn yourself. I wonder what was the last make and model car to have one of those things?
  • There was a time in which cars had more ashtrays than cup holders.
  • Ten years ago this week, Big Tex caught on fire and was destroyed. I still find myself laughing about an inappropriate remark made back then, as one Texan was trying to relate to a non-Texan, “You don’t understand, this is our 9/11.”
  • Texas Monthly – Inside the Secret Plan to Bring Private School Vouchers to Texas – Political operatives descended on the Hill Country town of Wimberley with a scheme to send taxpayer dollars to private schools. Now they’re shopping the same blueprint elsewhere.
  • Scientific American – Some People Really Are Mosquito Magnets, and They’re Stuck That Way – Certain compounds in our skin determine how much we attract mosquitoes, new research suggests—and those compounds don’t change much over time
  • I haven’t watched a Jack Lemon movie in a long time. I need to find one to watch, he was a superb actor. Maybe I’ll watch Tuesdays with Morrie, which I’ve never seen.
  • Oliver Platt is an under-rated actor.
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