Bag of Randomness

 

• I always find it absolutely adorable when a dog uses his paws to hold a bone upright when chewing on it.
• DaughterGeeding had her first trip to the dentist yesterday, it actually went quite well.
• West Nile has been confirmed on my block so the city sprayed the neighborhood last night.
• For some reason former KDFW sportscaster Paul Crane popped in my mind recently.  I remember him leaving the station of CNN.  He’s now working for a Shreveport station.  The last segment I can recall him doing for KDFW was being part of a fantasy camp in which he got to face Nolan Ryan pitching to him at Rangers spring training Port Charlotte, Florida.
• My Verizon Fios install is scheduled for tomorrow but yesterday a crew came by to bury the fiber-optic cable.  It turns out that four houses end up sharing a connection.
• I recorded a special on Discovery that interviews or profiles all the Chiefs of Staffs since LBJ which I think will be pretty interesting.  I got to meet Hamilton Jordan once when he spoke at HSU and he talked about wearing a disguise .
• WifeGeeding and the kids are going to East Texas to visit family and I’m throwing the sickest party at GeedingManor.  Or I might just veg out and embrace the peace and quiet around me, and I’ll probably tell peace and quiet how much I missed them and why they don’t visit more often.
• WifeGeeding is obsessed or jealous of what God gave Tammy Dombeck.  In Dombeck’s latest commercial for a car show, WifeGeeding thinks the overhead camera shot is used solely to accentuate her top.  I told her that the camera shot was used because it’s the best way to showcase the cars and she rolled her only good eye at me.
• I actually somewhat knew Tammy Dombeck because I use to work with her college roommate and we’d email back and forth occasionally with funny stories of said roommate and whatnot.  To WifeGeeding’s chagrin, I have a autograph headshot of her hanging in the garage.
• I don’t like how the C and V buttons are so close together, because sometimes when I’m trying to copy and paste something, I end up accidentally copying twice by fatfingering.
• I think George Zimmerman has been in the headlines for something at least every month this year.  Here’s hoping October is Zimmerman free.
• Ari Fleischer was the Press Secretary under President George W. Bush during 9/11/2001.  Yesterday he tweeted the events as it happened that day and what he and the President were doing. It was quite interesting.  I had to look up the DEFCON levels, and he stated that current (and possibly worst Press Secretary of all time) Jay Carney was in the press corp at the time and at one point he and eight others traveling with the President had to be left behind in Louisiana, which really ticked him off.  I’d love to hear hear his take on behing left half a country away from home and all air travel suspended.  I’m assuming he used the company card to rent a car to drive back home, but then again, I’m sure most rental cars were in use due to the cancelation of air travel.  Also, in anotoher tweet, Christians will appreciate the “I hope I read my Bible” quote.
• Considering the 9/11 hijack took off from Boston, it wasn’t the smartest decision to hold a drill with smoke and flames at that airport the 9/11 anniversary.
• A funnier than expected White House parody website.
• The right is really pump up about that recall election in Colorado.
• Sen. Ted Cruz: ‘We Need A Hundred More Like Jesse Helms’ In Senate
• An app for Google Glass that enhances an in-game experience – YouTube
• Vanilla Ice To Perform At Houston Texans’ Opener
• Andy Stanley drives a Audi, the Pope’s new ride is a 1984 Renault 4 with 186,000 miles on it.
• Florida Pastor Arrested While Towing 2998 Kerosene-Soaked Qurans
• This is what should have happened during the Walt and Jessie confrontation.
• There’s going to be a bit of a prequel to ‘Breaking Bad’ and it will focus on Saul Goodman.  His spinoff has been greenlit and the working title is genius, ‘Better Call Saul’.  The actor was actually on ‘The Daily Show’ last night, and I had no idea that BetterCallSaul.com was a functioning website.
• Wall Street Journal – Should You Bring Mom and Dad to the Office?

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Classiest Defecation Commercial I’ve Seen

And yes, it’s a real product.

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Bag of Randomness

 

• Time seemed to go slow as a kid, but it seems to fly as an adult.  Well, unless you’re at the Ice Capades.
• I saw how a lot of people are concerned with the fingerprint security feature on the new iPhone thinking that the NSA will be able to get a quick record of it.  If I were to write some sort of suspense novel, the storyline would include that the government or evil mastermind would have been collecting this data since the invention of the first touchscreen device.
• Sometimes I hear the justification of U.S. military force is because it affects our national security.  I was only a freshman in high school during the first gulf war, but I don’t recall hearing national security as a reason to liberate Kuwait.  But then again, I guess oil is a national security.
• President Obama doesn’t seem to prefer making national addresses from the Oval Office but rather from the East Room.  I think it’s because he prefers standing up while speaking rather than sitting down behind the Resolute Desk.  Per this Wikipedia list, he’s only addressed the nation from the Oval Office twice.
• I wonder how many Christians are praying for a peaceful solution to this Syrian crisis.
• Starting Sunday, it looks like the high temperature will only be in the 80’s.
• There’s no better cereal than Captain Crunch Peanut Butter Crunch.  There’s not even a close second, but if I had to choose, Golden Grahams.
• I never eat cereal with milk, I just eat it dry.  WifeGeeding always eats her cereal with milk but it has to be in a plastic cup, not a bowl.
• That drunk driving confession YouTube video would seem a lot more sincere if it didn’t have heart strung music accompanying it and wasn’t so “produced”.
• Sports Illustrated is promoting a book about the hypocrisy of college football, one of the coauthors is respected CBS reporter Armen Keteyian. I don’t think the book is going to tell us anything new, basically stuff that everyone has expected and has been portrayed in movies.  SI released an excerpt that details the Mike Leach and Adam/Craig James feud.  I see fault in Leach being too lenient and then trying to over compensate by being a bit of punk to the kid, and I find fault in Craig James for being Craig James.
• Disney wants you to bring your iPad to ‘The Little Mermaid’ in theaters
• There’s a free ice hockey clinic for girls and women in Allen in October.
• Wisconsin Golf Club Offers, Retracts 9/11 Special
• Compiled into one video is damn near every Air Jordan commercial that aired on TV
• A good summary of the ‘X-Files’ – 65 Things You Need To Know About The Mythology Of “The X-Files”
• Breaking Bad ‘crystal meth lab’ toy sets spark outrage
• ‘Breaking Bad’ thoughts:
  • There are some thing you just have to accept and not criticize too much.  In the last episode, it was Walt confessing everything on that phone call, and I blame the hour long time television show constraint for that.  I’m just going to assume during that conversation in which Walt couldn’t hang up was Hank feeding dialog into Jessie’s ear (or reading from a script) to get Walt to confess everything.   I also didn’t quite understand why Walt just didn’t keep driving when he didn’t see Jessie or anyone else.
  • Great music during that car ride, by the way.
  • Like everyone else, I thought Hank was going to get sniped in the head when he was on the phone with Marie.
  • Hank calling Marie was a bit like Leon Lett celebrating his Super Bowl touchdown a tad too early.
  • The whole arrest was just so weird, so much coming to a close that it just didn’t seem real.  Bob Sturm had a good observation, that last episode itself would have made for a good ending which would have also left some loopholes to fill the audience’s imagination.
  • I now have no idea who will end up spray painting “Heisenberg” in the White’s house, and I’m not sure why I care, but I do. Here’s a reach, Walt Jr finally is told or figures out everything he does it himself.
  • I talk about this show and colors all the time, but for some reason I never really but together the names on the show like White, Pinkman, and Skylar (blue).  And now we have White Supremacists protecting Walter White.
  • The complete ‘Breaking Bad’ DVD set looks cool.
  • In researching the show I really appreciate how the writers and actors are able to improvise.  For instance, Jessie was supposed to be killed in season one and Mike only became a character because the actor that plays Saul wasn’t available for a shoot.
  • Just three left to go, tread lightly.

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Bag of Randomness

• When I watch the news, BoyGeeding likes to get my attention by climbing on the chest we use as a table and stare at me with a smile.  He’s such an attention whore.
• We are cleaning out our garage and I took a load to the dump.  For a dump, our’s sure has a lot of security.
• The dump fascinates me for some reason.
• One of the nursery workers at our church recently loss her full time job and she’s collecting scrap metal to get by.  While cleaning the garage I found an old garage spring, copper fittings, and all other kind of metal stuff to give her.
• Our local Target is taking the UT loss hard, all the burnt orange stuff was 30% off.  There was no longhorn logo on the stuff, but there was quite a bit of burnt orange stuff on sale.
• Warren Buffett’s granddaughter got married and Bono sang Stand By Me at her wedding.
• I tend to think that BBQ sauce is only intended for use on beef and pork, not chicken.
• McDonald’s testing 2,940 calorie ‘Blitz Box’
• I feel like my Feedly setting change on me every now and then, and it gets frustrating.
• Speaking of changes, I think Chrome made an update which makes the URL bar long and takes my GMail features out of view.
• From the Wall Street Journal – A Texas A&M Fan Watches Her Wedding Get Sacked by the School’s Biggest Game in Decades.  Seriously, its just stupid to schedule a wedding during football season, especially if you are an Aggie.  While you may not be a fan of the sport, I can guarantee people in the wedding party or guests are.
• I have a friend whose wedding was scheduled on his birthday.  I always thought that was selfish on his bride’s part, and it means she’ll walk all over you for the duration of your marriage.
• A French gambling website made a humorous JFK assassination commercial.  Folks around here tend to make jokes about it somewhat regularly, but I think it’s just a way of coping being the city that killed a president.
• I think Woodrow Wilson is the only president to have his wife die during his presidency and to marry (or remarry) in the same presidency.
• Suzy Kolber looked like she got a lot of work done.
• Chris Berman doesn’t bug me like most folks.  He’s doing the same stuff he’s always been doing, so he’s just being himself and doing what made him successful.  It’s the people who don’t act like themselves trying to create shtick because they think that’s the cool thing to do that annoys me.
• Those NFL.com commercials where the players having people on their shoulders bug me because it’s so friggin’ obvious some sort of appartus is being used to support those people.  The players look so upright and unnatural it’s distracting.
• As much as I can’t stand RGIII, I think he was just rusty last night since he wasn’t involved in any preseason games and didn’t have any real contact.
• United Supermarkets Sells to Albertson’s
• Canadians are so nice, even their robbers – Robber apologizes and returns money plus interest — 11 years later
• I use to have a handful of Canadian readers, but I think I may be down to one.
• It must have been awkward for the SWAT team – 107-Year-Old Man Dies In Shootout with SWAT Team
• British Singer James Blunt said his refusal to obey orders from a U.S. general helped avert an international incident and a potential Third World War.
• There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and . . . the Dutch.

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