Bag of Randomness

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  • I found this GIF on Reddit and it couldn’t have been more appropriately titled – Real Life Wile E. Coyote.  Gosh, that’s funny.
  • Speaking of Reddit, a Richardson resident stated he ordered an AmazonBasics product  on his mobile device and it had the option of being delivered same day for only $3.99.  He chose that option, and go it same day.  From the sound of things, the items are coming from the Amazon warehouse in Coppell and he stated it was delivered by Lonestar Overnight.
  • Day one pictures of the retaining wall project going on at GeedingManor.
  • Microsoft is annoying me with all their name changes for their different products.  For instance their web-based email was called Hotmail, then Live, and now it’s Outlook.  Now they are changing their online cloud storage name from SkyDrive, which I thought sounded pretty sweet, to OneDrive.
  • There’s been some talk of ballroom dancing becoming an Olympic sport.  After watching some ice skating last night, I can certainly see the argument for it.
  • The term “ballroom” reminds me of blue jean shopping with my mother for the start of a new academic year while I was in elementary school.  It was so defeating trying on a pair of new jeans, and for me it was the fashionable and uncomfortable Wrangler Hustler jeans because I was pretty chubby and I think they were the only brand sold in Mineral Wells at the time – that was before we even had a Wal-Mart so we shopped at some place called Mitchell’s.  Their dressing rooms weren’t really in a private area with doors facing the entire store, so after I’d put them on Mom would open the door for all the world to see and she would tug in the crotch area asking if I had enough ball room.  I wanted to tell her that I haven’t even hit puberty yet so nothing has dropped, so of course I have plenty of room.  For the longest time I thought this was just unique to me, but the conversation came up on college one day and it seems like some sort of ritual most sons go through with their mothers.
  • While I love my dearly departed mother, I still shiver at the feeling of her using a little spit on a tissue to wipe something off my face.
  • It annoys me to hear legislative representatives complain that the president (no matter the party in either case) is abusing constitutional powers since our system of government was designed with checks and balances between the three branches, not to say that one branch can overreach their powers.  So when Senator Rand Paul decided to sue President Obama I applaud the effort because unlike others, it’s just not rhetoric and he’s actually doing something about it.  If the president and his administration is in breach, then do something about it to honor your constituency instead of simply gripe.  I may have different political beliefs than Paul, but I can appreciate how he goes about things.
  • Speaking of rhetoric, some guy named Todd Staples is running for a state office.  He has a campaign commercial that starts off referencing a six point plan for something, followed by a Buddy Garrity look-a-like standing next to a natural gas drilling platform telling us “Staples leads”, and then it ends with Staples himself saying if we want results and not rhetoric, we should vote for him.  A six point plan sure sounds like rhetoric.
  • Last night Jon Stewart rightfully reamed Nancy Pelosi and the Obama Administration ambassador appointees a new one.  One would think it would just be logical to at least visit the country you will be an ambassador of at least once before being appointed.
  • Barbie is going to be in Sports Illustrated‘s swimsuit issue.
  • Stephanie Seymour is on a magazine cover posing sexy with her sons.   Well, she was crazy enough to date Axle Rose.  But man, when I was a teen I sure did like her in that November Rain video.
  •  @TweetHearts turns your tweets into candy hearts.
  • A Dallas County constable is taking some heat for allowing officers to appear in a Christian rap video.
  • Timewaster of the day – Line
  • Top Pot Doughnuts picks Dallas for first shop outside of Seattle
  • Alabama Senate passes bill to protect hunters from harassment by drones
  • Old code – America Forgot How to Talk to Its Zombie Spaceship
  • Iowa police chief describes finding missing six-day-old baby, abandoned in freezing weather
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Bag of Randomness

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  • More free advertising for SMU basketball – The Dallas Cowboys coaching staff observed a practice and the media was there to cover it.
  • I wonder if some people are born with a butt-crack that isn’t split down the middle but more off to one side than the other, or even diagonal.
  • The winter garden salad served at last night’s State Dinner had an interesting presentation and didn’t look very filling.  I’m left wondering how’d you mix ranch dressing in that sort of thing, and I found it interesting how the cooks used a Wagner paint sprayer to coat a ganache cake.  I guess they clean that thing out before its first use.
  • The Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover has been revealed on ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ for the past so many years, but this year it will happen on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’.  I’m sure the girls prefer getting away to the West Coast anyways.
  • Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Richard Sherman said players from other teams would call him and share information on Peyton Manning’s hand signals and audibles.
  • I think my Americans think the Winter Olympics is the lower tier of the two Olympics, but I wonder if people in Norway think the Winter Olympics is the top tier of the two Olympics.
  • The Olympic spirit – Canadian coach fixes a Russian’s ski so he could finish the race.
  • When the Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding fiasco happened I had a friend that was adamant that Harding was the better looking of the two.  I still question his taste in women.
  • Off hand, I can’t think of an attractive looking celebrity named Tonya.
  • There’s no video of it to link to, but local news personality Lisa Pineiro had a commentary about University of Missouri defensive end Michael Sam’s decision to publicly state he’s gay and then had a slip of the tongue introducing her guest Michael Irvin as “Hall of Flamer Michael Irvin.”
  • In case you were wondering how many U.S. states have a coastal boarder.
  • Living in the Southwest I have no idea how snow is removed, so this GIF was quite interesting.
  • I was watching ‘Nightline’ last night and they were covering the latest high profile Florida shooting trial.  There’s a lot about law that I just simply don’t understand that I’m sure most people do, but they had attorney Roy Black on as a consultant and I loved the way he explained things in layman’s terms such as why the defense prefers not to put their client on the stand, why the verdict shouldn’t be premeditated murder, and how the prosecution likes to overcharge the defense.  I fear Barry is rolling his eyes at my ignorance.
  • 7-Eleven is testing a mozzarella stick made from Doritos.
  • I guess I can be considered old because I don’t play any games on my smartphone.
  • I use to work at the Tower at Cityplace when I first moved to the area and it was where he held our wedding reception.  Reading its Wikipedia entry, I had no idea that it was suppose to have a twin tower across Central Expressway connected by a skybridge, here’s a model of what it was suppose to look like.  Per the entry, “Enough Brazilian red granite was ordered and cut for the twin tower and office buildings; it remains for sale in a south Dallas County storage yard.”  If I had to take a guess, the parking garage and DART station is the deepest a person can go underground in all of DFW.
  • Billy Ray Cyrus felt the need to make a sequel to ‘Acky Breaky Heart’ and dug up Larry King to introduce the video – Achy Breaky 2
  • An Ohio woman legally changed her last name to Sexy, judge for yourself.
  • Mexican hipsters are drinking something that is hangover proof.
  • I’d love to file my taxes earlier, but I can’t import information from certain institutions until Feb 14 and 18.
  • Sometimes for a snack I like to dip graham crackers into hot tea, and then, of course, consume them.
  • Texas surpasses California as top tech exporter
  • Do high school and college students still need to purchase a graphing calculator, can’t a smart phone do all the work with an app?
  • Frank Ocean is being sued for using a sample of a sample of a sample
  • Boston Celtics working to grant wish of New Zealand boy who wants to watch them play before going blind
  • A man wrote an open letter to Carol Burnett on his blog about his father’s Alzheimer’s and she actually called the man.
  • The GIF itself is a bit freaky to look at – ‘Lung In A Box’ Keeps Organs Breathing Before Transplants
  • ‘Firefly’ and Serenity thoughts
    • I finally finished watching the series and movie on Netflix, my goal was to do so before the new season of ‘House of Cards’ drops on that Hallmark holiday.
    • I watched it because everyone seemed to rant and rave about it and I just couldn’t connect after the first two or three episode, the whole space western theme seemed a bit silly . . . but then it all came together, the stories were great and was the chemistry of the cast.
    • Minor complaint: The only two superpowers that survive were the U.S. and China who later formed the Alliance and fused the two cultures, but I think I counted maybe only three or four Asian appearances.
    • Having closed captioning on helped me to figure out if they were speaking Chinese or I just misheard something.
    • Kaylee sure was a cutie.
    • I sure would have liked to know more about the Shepherd’s backstory.
    • I couldn’t stand the opening credits and song attached to it, but grew on me.
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