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• GIFs are replacing short video segments which means advertising revenue is being lost because people aren’t subjected to a short commercial before a video.  I expect to see many GIFs in the future have some sort of advertising in them, either a frame or two or an image or text at the bottom.
• Speaking of GIFs, here’s an interesting article on the guy who captures most of the NFL GIFs and how he goes about doing so.
• I’ve been in plenty of ‘heated’ discussions where I would replay the moment over and over in my head wishing I would have said such and such at the time.  Recently I was in one of those discussions and I said exactly what I wanted to say, respectfully and to the point without being emotional or acting like an ass.
• WifeGeeding was outside planting tulip bumps yesterday in jeans and a sweatshirt while that NFL offensive lineman neighbor of mine was mowing his lawn shirtless but in shorts.
• I was reading a friend’s blog and he referenced a Bill Cosby quote that has stuck with me, “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
• The funniest thing I’ve read about Bum Phillips, “He once told sportscaster Bob Costas that he took his wife on away games ‘because she’s too ugly to kiss goodbye.'”
• Bud Adams and Art Modell both moved their teams out Houston and Cleveland because they couldn’t get backing for a new stadium, and yet both those cities built new stadiums for their new teams.
• Sometimes it’s really hard to take the threat of China seriously when you see stories on their smog problem.
• Mammals Pee For Same Duration Of 21 Seconds, Urination Study Finds -I use to time mine to see how long I could go, usually after a long car ride from college.  I think my best was over two minutes without breaking stream and using a slow flow method.
• I have no idea where MSNBC or FOX News is located on my channel directory, but the Sprout channel for kids is 295.
• I long for the days when Apple was innovated and introduced a new product to change our lives.  Since Jobs passing, all they seem to do is update existing stuff.
• For you Disney fans, here’s a great medley.
• Geographic Pizza Data
• Impressive vending machine skills – gif

I had a feeling a replacement bulb would be expensive, but I didn’t know it was going to be this expensive.

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• One of my readers left a comment that got me to thinking.  I fear too much of modern day evangelism is salvation through fear & guilt.
• Sofia Vergara is the modern day Fran Drescher.
• Too bad the NFL already has the male demographic – A man is 35% more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than a woman is to be diagnosed with breast cancer. Source
• I’m not sure if I was surprised or disappointed or confused that yesterday’s school shooting wasn’t the top story on many news websites.
• I’m amazed at how petty things can get in the way of how a church operates.  I think this will be my last time taking an active leadership role in a church.
• I don’t remember this episode of ‘Breaking Bad’.
• A Republican Judge from San Antonio, Texas, has announced he is quitting the GOP and will seek re-election as a Democrat, saying that he can no longer be part of political party whose identity is based on hate, bigotry and destroying people’s lives.
• I may be working on a government project for a web-based application that is directly tied to the Affordable Healthcare Act, but I’m certainly glad I’m not a part of healthcare.gov.
• A reader sent me an email stating that the highest ranked opponent Baylor has played this year is 53rd ranked Kansas State, and the next highest was 64th ranked West Virginia.  He went on to inform me that their next opponent is 98th ranked Kansas and he provided me this USA Today link as a source for his information.  While I agree those are weak teams, they can’t help who they play in their own conference, but those non-conference games are another story.
• U2 released their first new song in three years for a Nelson Mandela movie, you can hear it in the movie trailer here.
• Uncle Barky is reporting that the CBS Evening News will broadcast from Dallas on Nov 22, and I believe NBC Nightly News will as well.  Bob Schieffer who was with the Fort Worth Star Telegram on that day and actually drove Oswald’s mother to the police station will be in Dallas for that Sunday’s ‘Face the Nation’ and the day before will host a primetime special about that day.
• I’m glad I’m not watching ‘Homeland’ this year.
• Running up the score isn’t bullying, but it’s not the best of sportsmanship.  Sure, beat the crud out of them, but don’t shove their face in it.
• I’m not sure anyone remembers ReplayTV but I wish that DVR would have gained more traction.  Not only would it allow you to skip commercials entirely, but you could send a friend with a ReplayTV any television program you recorded.
• There was a reunion of ‘The Waltons’ on ‘Good Morning American’ and one cast member wore a Jason Witten jersey.  That’s choice (only local folks will get that joke).
• One question I wish I could ask my dad right now if he were alive, at what age did you start going gray?  I only saw my father with gray hair, I only saw my mother with black hair and she never dyed it.
• RFK may have swiped JFK’s missing brain
• The most interesting pair of crocs I’ve even seen.
• The Army’s $5 billion New Uniform Already Being Replaced
• Bad news for ‘Parks and Recreation’ fans.

• I don’t know why I did it, I guess I got caught up in the moment, but I actually called The TICKET on Friday and somehow got on air.  The phone rang one time and someone picked up, and then my heart just started to pound and my throat got dry.  I was asked my question and was told to hold on.  When I got on the air I asked them to compare the Nolan/JD relationship with Jimmy/Jerry and then asked Junior to rank the Jacksons starting with Keith, Bo, Reggie, Andrew, and Michael.  They chuckled and Junior said he would do me a favor and rank them the next week.  You can hear me starting around the 5:09 mark.
• I watched the ‘Breaking Bad’ finale for a second time and I’m not buying the dream theory.  But then again, I’m the only one, and I still stand by my thought that in Walt’s last conversation with Skylar he only said he did not for the family but for himself so he could end things on good terms with Skylar and she would allow him to see his daughter for the the last time.  Also, I was able to catch the moment when Walt got injured and this time noticed his grin as we walked through the lab.
• I must have seen the “Ice Ice Baby” video a hundred times as a teen, but I never noticed that Vanilla Ice was dancing in front of the Dallas skyline.  Yes, I know he grew up in the area but I never noticed that skyline in the video.
• While cleaning out some boxes in the garage I found an old notebook I used in college course that I took with DaughterGeeding’s namesake.  I found and forgot that I kept a tally of us competing who many times we could get the professor off topic.
• A Hell House thought it would be worth while to include school shootings.
• Most Impressive – 6-Year-Old Abilene Girl Sets Half-Marathon World Record
• Evidence there’s absurdity in college football rankings – Despite running up the score on high school teams, playing the bottom dwellers of their conference, and only playing one road game this season, Baylor is ranked eighth in the county.  Their season starts off pretty easy next year as well as their first three opponents are SMU, Northwestern State, and Buffalo.
• That was quite a touching moment in Indianapolis when Peyton Manning acknowledged the crowd, and I certainly didn’t expect Indy to play as well as they did.
• Man, those Chiefs are something else, I’ve never seen Andy Reid looked so happy and less stressed.
• How the heck did the Jets beat the Pats?
• There is one thing the college game can never capture from the pro game.  You can’t follow a player like Elway or Manning for ten or fifteen years as they face adversity and come ever so close to being on top of the mountain only to be kicked down, and then finally celebrate with them when they finally stand on that mountaintop after a full career of work to get to that moment.
• I never liked Elway for how forced the team that drafted him, the Colts, to trade him.  It’s also another reason I’ve never been much of an Eli Manning fan, but I do certainly respect their talents and performance on the field.
• Looking at Bum Phillips in the 70’s and 80’s I never would have thought he’d live to 90.  I thought it was interesting that a common picture of him was a silhouette of him in his hat at Texas Stadium.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger is a fun and interesting follow on Twitter and Reddit.  He recently linked to articles in the LA Times and NY Times about how he helped lead the way to get rid of gerrymandering and how California has much less partisan politics.  I also recently learned about a political advocacy group called No Labels from Buzzfeed which describes itself as “a national movement of hundreds of thousands of Republicans, Democrats and independents promoting a new politics of problem solving.”  Currently there are 87 House and Senate members and it’s co-chaired by co-chaired by former Republican Utah governor and ambassador Jon Huntsman and Democrat West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin.  I really admire and respect Huntsman and thought he was the best Republican presidential candidate during the last election.
• Guess you never thought I’d praise two former Republican governors.
• I thought ’60 Minutes’ was a bit unfair to Dick Cheney last night.  He seemed to be endorsing a book about heart health and Dr Sanja Gumpta appeared to just focus on whether or not his heart condition hurt his performace as Vice President.
• From The Christian Post – OJ Simpson Planning to Become Televangelist; Hopes to Be Out of Prison by Christmas to Bring Gift of God to World
• I was real frustrated with the ‘Mythbusters’ zombie special, especially how the tested kills with an axe.  They used a foam axe that left a green paint mark when it struck an object, but never took into account how an axe could get stuck or embedded in a head which would take precious moments away from getting ready for the next kill.  They also focused too much on the adage of zombies eating brains, which was really only part of a story line of one zombie movie, everyone know zombies just prefer flesh.
• I identified a lot with this post – The Problem With Asking Questions About Faith 
• I mentioned last week that ’60 Minutes’ stated that San Francisco, Boston, and Manhattan could fit inside Detroit and a reader provided me stats that that wasn’t true.  But when I do a Google search it seems to be a somewhat common perception.
• A pretty innovative package for a burger, fries, and a soft drink.
• As an exercise for self control, when I drive home from going through the drive-thru I never eat a fry on the ride home.  Now if I only had the self control to not make the trip in the first place.
• A picture I’ve never seen of JFK’s car speeding to Parkland.
• Reminds of of Skynet from the Terminator series – Killer Robots With Automatic Rifles Could Be on the Battlefield in 5 Years
• With U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, American military gear sold as scrap – This sentence caught my eye, “The equipment is being destroyed before it’s offered to the Afghan people — to ensure that treadmills, air-conditioning units and other rudimentary appliances aren’t used to make roadside bombs.”
• NFL questioned over profits from pink merchandise sold to aid cancer research
• A Photographer Captures The Last Meals Of Wrongfully Executed Inmates
• Etihad Airways offers a flying nanny service.
• What Food Looks Like On 18 Different Airlines
• Chris Cornell Mash Up U2′s “One” & Metallica’s “One” 
• The ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ cast were in town for an event to sign autographs.