Bag of Randomness

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  • Happy birthday, David.
  • Last night’s Harvest Moon was so bright I actually woke WifeGeeding up to take a look at it.  She didn’t understand the big deal until she saw it for herself and had to squint at it because it was so bright.
  • The TICKET had JFK assassination journalist Hugh Aynesworth as an in-studio guest yesterday.  When I worked at Southwest Airlines I decided to get a haircut during lunch at an obscure barbershop.  As I waited my turn, Aynesworth walked in and sat next to me.  While I didn’t know his name, I could recall he was a reporter and we struck up a good ten minute conversation.  One heck of a friendly guy, one hell of a story teller.
  • A hat-tip to Barry for “reporting” about the cars and bodies found in an Oklahoma  days before the major news outlets.  All the stories state they were found by accident during new sonar equipment training.  I’m actually surprised that after discovering cars at the bottom of the lake they would send a dive team and retrieve them just to check things out.  I tend to think a lot of big  things like cars are at the bottom of almost every lake.  But maybe that new sonar equipment could also identify skeletal remains.
  • I don’t think Cleveland is very smart in trading Trent Richardson, but now I think Indy is a for sure playoff contender.
  • The world’s smallest street legal car is 25 inches high; 2 feet, 1.75 inches wide; and 4 feet, 1.75 inches long.  The car is in Arizona but it has Texas plates.  So while everything is bigger in Texas, they become smaller out of state?  And yes, Nathan and George, I know your thoughts about the greatness of Alaska.
  • In case you ever wondered how far Rocky ran in that Rocky II montage, here are all the details, but if you just want to know the mileage, it’s 30.61.
  • This Is What Islam’s Version Of The Miss World Pageant Looks Like – As you can guess, very conservatively dressed, but the “whore” protest sign was a bit much.
  • Tenn. judge: Parents can name their baby ‘Messiah’
  • Missouri Couple Outraged By Fully Clothed Strippers at Kansas City Chiefs Game
  • I can’t believe the upcoming Emmy’s will honor Cory Monteith but not Larry Hagman, the man behind Major Nelson and one of the most iconic television characters of all time, J.R. Ewing.  Oh, wait, I can believe it, they are reaching for the younger demographic.
  • ‘Breaking Bad’ Final Episodes Will Be ‘Extra Long’
  • How AMC Almost Lost ‘Breaking Bad’ Spinoff ‘Better Call Saul’ to Netflix
  • Dean Norris, the actor that played Hank on ‘Breaking Bad’, is Harvard grad and has five children.
  • Buzzfeed – Why Are Texans Such Dirty, Dirty Football Players?
  • Hunter in Rhode Island forgot he wasn’t in Texas.
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Bag of Randomness

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  • I forgot that Jimmy Fallon was in Band of Brothers.  I need to make an effort to finish that series, I think I’m only half through.
  • As a kid, I always thought the driver’s seat should be in the middle of a car, kind of like a fighter jet.  That’s what I thought when I saw this customization, but it seems to define back seat driver.
  • That Christian family from Arizona that got lost at sea fleeing the U.S. because of moral decline are going to try again.
  • I’d enjoy soccer more if stuff like this happened more often.
  • If you buy every sandwich at McDonalds it would cost you $141.33, if you stacked them into one big sandwich it would look like this.
  • A friend of mine tried to go green and purchased a solar water heater for his house, it didn’t work out so well.
  • Communion wafers for a quarter
  • There’s lot of talk about head trauma and player safety issues in the NFL, I wonder if there’s as much intensity with those topics in the Canadian Football League.
  • Baylor QB wins Heisman, build a new stadium.  Aggie QB wins Heisman, expand and upgrade existing stadium.  Aggies prove there’s no better time to fund raise then when you are in the spotlight.
  • Fox & Friends Co-Host Elisabeth Hasselbeck: We Need National Registry for Video Games
  • Buzzfeed – 9 Potential Mass Shootings That Were Stopped By Someone With A Personally-Owned Firearm
  • I caught a little bit of the Fox Sports 1 Regis Philbin show ‘Crowd Goes Wild’.  Former NFL player Trevor Price stated that when he went to the Super Bowl as a player, that each player and coach received 25 tickets to the game.  I knew players got free tickets but I had no idea it was that many.  He said it was more than anyone really needed, and people would show up with sackfuls of ‘Breaking Bad’ money to buy the remaining tickets and this was common practice to avoid any taxes or paper trail.
  • Here’s an interesting article about Jerry Jones that’s focused more on his business acumen, I had no idea he has an irregular heartbeat.  And I didn’t know that visiting teams receive 32 percent of the gate tickets but none of the suite revenue.  Oh, and for you stadium art lovers, a new sculpture will be revealed this October.
  • Does Chief Zee still attend those Redskins games?
  • ‘Mad Men’ is pulling a ‘Breaking Bad’ – Mad Men final season, 14 episodes, to air in 2 parts in 2014 & 2015
  • ‘Breaking Bad’ stuff:
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