World’s Highest Flying Push-Up
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- If you would have told Sooner fans two years ago that Bob Stoops would lose to both Texas and Baylor in the same year they would have said you were out of your mind and on the off chance of that happening, they would want Stoops fired.
- Last night was a very good win for Baylor, but I still don’t think they are sixth in the nation good especially when you look at their competition. OU is having an off year, especially offensively and losing to a weak Texas team who started their backup. The Sooners simply were ranked too high coming into this game. I think OU really should have been ranked either in the high teens or low twenties and I feel Baylor is in the lower teens.
- The most interesting play last night was in the first quarter when OU tried to score on fourth down and hurried to the line and the Baylor safety had his back turned trying to get the end crowd to cheer when the ball snapped. That safety is not looking forward to film session.
- Just what America needs, a third party – Philly elects first Whig in 157 years – If the description of that party in the article is accurate I think it’s a good thing, but it will be one heck of an uphill climb
- In the Double Down: Game Change 2012 book I’m reading it talks about how most of the Republican establishment wanted then Indiana Gov Mitch Daniels to throw his hat in the ring, but he just couldn’t convince his wife and daughter to go along for the ride. Bush 43 even had Daniels over to his house when the Super Bowl was in town and he offered up all of his family political resources and then he and Laura called Daniel’s wife to try to sway her. One reason Mrs Daniels was reluctant was that her and Mitch divorced, she married a doctor, divorced the doctor and returned to Mitch and didn’t want to talk about that period in her life.
- There’s a lot of references to the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of D.C. which I never heard of before this book.
- The book also mentions and goes into great detail how much Romney detests fellow Mormon John Huntsman. Interesting fact, Huntsman father founded the packaging company that created the clam shell box for the Big Mac.
- Bob Sturm was on the TICKET morning show and stated how the folks up north where he grew up overwhelmingly preferred pro football over college football. I kind of thought that for DFW since the Cowboys were so good for so long and without there being a major university football program in the area.
- I wasn’t aware that Lou Diamond Phillips was a product of the University of Texas at Arlington.
- Bacon deodorant?
- Sriracha candy canes??
- Franklin Graham pimped out his father on his 95th birthday. An author used the occasion to plug a book and write about the time Obama visited Graham. The author pointed out that Obama was the first sitting president to visit the Graham home.
- It’s not rocket science – A team of BYU physicists who like to call themselves the wizz-kids think they have found how to minimize urine splash-back in a urinal-like environment.
- When I first read this story, I thought the double amputee was going to parachute into the Cowboys Stadium roof.
- I don’t like it when the Cowboys play Sunday or Monday night, it throws off my Sunday.
- Things I learned from this NFL Cheerleaders Infograph: The Cowboys Cheerleaders have not altered their uniforms in 17 years, the average age is 25, and a Seagal is an ordained minister but despite five minutes of searching I can’t find in what faith or denomination and he Facebook page doesn’t provide any details.
- Kevin Pollak is under-rated.
- A California high school has an Arab mascot.
- I wasn’t aware that I didn’t have to work on Monday until someone reminded me yesterday.
- Another one of those emotional touchdown stories, these are getting as common as a soldier coming home from deployment and surprising their kid at a school assembly – A kid from a small West Texas town who survived a stroke and brain surgery was allowed to score a touchdown.
- Texas sales tax collection rises for 43rd straight month
- Dad ‘unfit parent for refusing son McDonald’s’
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Homeless Veteran Timelapse Transformation
Could they at least put a cape around the man to keep the hair from falling on him? When hair clippings fall down the neck of the shirt it gets really irritating.
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- For those of you that unaware, voters in Houston approved a measure to tear down the Astrodome, which is the image above.
- Pastor bans fried chicken at events as part of an anti-obesity campaign
- I’ll never understand why us men refuse to let our guard down and enjoy some of the most special and precious things about life.
- This article may be pretty interesting to people in my field that work in project management and have to deal with government projects (hello, Doug!). It references an earlier article in the beginning that is also worth a read. – Can Agile development work for government, anyway?
- I’ve now moved on to the Mitt Romney part of the book Double Down: Game Change 2012. Somehow I forgot that Romneycare was really a creation of the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and they actually wanted to implement the individual mandate federally. In the book Romeny seemed really proud of implementing Romneycare and didn’t really want to distance from it at all, but he was encouraged to so he could win the nomination. After the 2008 race he wrote a book called No Apology: The Case for American Greatness. It made the NY Times best seller list but had a double footnote that many Romney related organizations bought them in bulk and other high volume techniques were used (this practice is somewhat common, but normally only triggers a single footnote for bulk sales, bulk sales were insanely high for this book). As the 2012 race approached the paperback was released with a different title, No Apology: Believe in America, and the phrase “we can accomplish the same thing for everyone in the country” in reference to Romneycare implementation in Massachusetts was removed.
- Kansas State to give away free bacon at women’s basketball game
- I haven’t been too happy with Feedly as my Google Reader replacement, so I’m going to give Digg Reader a try.
- I knew Stedman Graham graduated from Hardin-Simmons but I didn’t know he spent time at Weatherford College.
- Another touching moment from Pope Francis.
- I didn’t see ABC News’ Elizabeth Vargas entering rehab coming. She’s had an interesting story with her husband surviving a gunshot to the head and getting pregnant soon afterwards and then stepping down from the anchor chair. Her husband’s best known song is Walking in Memphis. YouTube As an X-Files fan I also like the Cher impersonator version with Mulder and Scully dancing.
- McDonalds wants 3D printers in restaurants to print any happy meal toy a kid desires
- KKK Imperial Wizard Hates to See Kids in Klan Costumes: ‘There’s No Respect’
- Homeless Man Found Sleeping In Hotel’s Presidential Suite
- Nate Boyer’s journey from failed actor to Sudanese refugee worker to the Iraq war and, finally, to starting long-snapper for the University of Texas
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