- 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.
