I heard a pastor say the other day that when working on the church’s website there’s always that section “What We Believe” and they tinkered with the idea of just putting the Nicene Creed there. Here’s a short little history on that creed FWIW.
Per the Dallas Morning News‘ twitter feed – All but 3 NFC teams have made the Super Bowl since Cowboys last appeared.
Enough with all the Seattle Seahawk Richard Sherman talk, the guy didn’t even curse. I was more embarrassed as a Cowboys fan when they beat the Packers in 1996 at Texas Stadium. During the trophy presentation Terry Bradshaw was interviewing Michael Irvin who started to yell out curse words, I think one of them was even the f-bomb, but I can’t find the video on YouTube.
Somehow I ended up on the Larry Fine Wikiepedia entry. You know him better as Larry from the Three Stooges. This part of his Wiki page caught my attention: In early childhood, his arm was burned with acid that his father used to test whether or not gold was real: having mistaken it for a beverage, Larry had raised the acid bottle to his lips when his father noticed and knocked it from his hand, accidentally splashing Larry’s forearm. He was later given violin lessons to help strengthen the damaged muscles, a skill which would be put to use in many of the Stooges’ films. He became proficient on the instrument, and his parents wanted to send him to a European music conservatory, but the outbreak of World War I prevented this.
Politifact.com reaches the 500th fact-check on Obama – Of the 500 statements PolitiFact has checked on Obama, 22 percent have been rated True and another 24 percent Mostly True. On the inaccurate side, 12 percent of his statements have been rated Mostly False, 13 percent False and 2 percent Pants on Fire. In the middle, 27 percent of his statements have been rated Half True, which means they were partially accurate.
I may have eaten Papa John’s a total of three times, but since there’s a new store in our neighborhood and they have a 30-cent large one topping special, I thought I’d give it another try. For some reason I had the hardest time to get their website to accept the 30-cent coupon code, but eventually I got to order my two pizzas. When I went to pick it up they only gave me one pizza, so I told them there should be two and the employee apologized and said it would be just a few minutes. When he gave me the pizza I decided to do a quick check and it was the wrong pizza. He apologized again and after a few more minutes I got my pizza. The verdict, I’d rather have Dominos.
Another big sing of aging – I think I’m older than every player in the Super Bowl, beating Manning by a year.
A nice little bit of football trivia – Seattle and Denver are the only two teams to have met in the playoffs and the Super Bowl. When Seattle was in the AFC they played Denver in a 1983 Wild Card game.
Ken Burns to Make Documentary on Country Music – I’ve never been a fan of country music, though I have an appreciation for it, but I certainly don’t like what it’s become. I think it started to take a turn for the worst sometime in the early nineties.
I mentioned that I have a college friend, a mother of three, who is dying of cancer and about to enter hospice. Reading her latest blog entry I wasn’t aware that her husband lost his job once the year started. If you are the praying kind, do your thing. Please.
Compare the size of Texas to other states and countries – BigOleTexas.com – When you put places like Alaska or Russia it mentions a Texan’s ego.
I caught the beginning of ABC’s ‘Killer Women’ last night and caught a mistake in production. The show opened up with a robbery of a credit union, but you could see FDIC stickers prominently displayed. The FDIC is associated with banks and savings and loans, not credit unions, they should have displayed NCUA stickers.
Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger did another Reddit Ask Me Anything yesterday. He shared an interesting story on how he was trying to convince James Cameron to cast him not as the Terminator but as Kyle Reese, John Connor’s father. During that visit he told Cameron what the Terminator should be like and Cameron actually wanted to cast OJ Simpson as the Terminator. Schwarzenegger also posted this video where he dressed somewhat undercover as a manager of a Gold’s Gym and talked to people working out.
