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- 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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- 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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- All it took was a name change. The Giants never lost in Cowboys Stadium but haven’t won in ATT Stadium.
- Cowboys/ATT Stadium had a great night view with the roof open because of the giant glowing blue star on top of the Jerrytron. But last night they showed a view from the top and that star has been replaced with an ATT logo.
- Speaking of the Jerrytron, here’s a cool picture of how they clean that thing.
- Per this article, that stadium uses more electricity than the entire country of Liberia.
- I don’t think Al Michaels or Cris Collinsworth mentioned that Gov Christie was sitting next to Jerry Jones but mentioned how George Straight was in attendance.
- Jerry’s damn grandson sill has to try to get into every camera shot.
- The Cowboys were playing Billy Idol’s Mony Mony yesterday.What is this, 1987? They also played Bon Jovi’s Bad Medicine. What that because Gov Christie was in the house and that’s a NJ band?
- I think the Giants played poor more than the Cowboys played well.
- I did watch ‘Breaking Bad’ last night, but will hold off on any thoughts as I’m sure most of you were watching football and didn’t get a chance to view it.
- I saw a new dentist office open in the neighborhood and I thought I’d give them a try. I really loved my old dentist, but since I no longer work in Dallas I just didn’t want to make the drive. The website showed a female dentist, which I prefer because of their smaller hands and tend to be more gentle, but I got some dude instead. They don’t have enough patients to hire a hygienist yet, so the dentist actually did all the cleaning. But they were a little unorganized as they couldn’t find any fluoride to give me after my cleaning. That reminds me of the time when a friend of mine told me he worked at the Arby’s in Abilene and they actually ran out of roast beef. The manager was let go shortly after that incident.
- That new dentist told me that my insurance doesn’t pay for fluoride which I thought was strange. They ended up charging my $20 for it, but he did give me the option of not using any. But they did end up using some sort of special digital camera to take pictures inside my mouth and let me see the on the screen.
- I may go back to my old dentist, even if it’s a bit far. My wife goes to another dentist in our neighborhood, but there’s something about the guy that seems shady.
- I started a new testosterone medication and found that one side effect of testosterone medicine in general is sleep apnea I think my sleep apnea problems didn’t happen until I started testosterone medication several years ago.
- I often see a car that says Asian Driving School in the area, and yes, Asians are usually driving, mostly Southern Asians.
- There’s a horrific story of an eight-year-old Dallas boy playing tag and then getting shot in the face and running inside screaming to his mother with mouth just hanging off. But the shooter does remind me of Dallas born actor Glenn Morshower, which you may as a Secret Service agent in ’24’ or Landry’s father in ‘Friday Night Lights’.
- This would be a hard challenge, kinda – Canadian Family Living Only Off 1986 Technology – I just wish the article would have stated why they chose 1986, all I can think is that it’s some kind of Back to the Future reference.
- I saw that Hardin-Simmons received their largest gift in university history . . . $16 million. That figure is probably laughable compared to the gifts to universities most of you attended. For the heck of it, I looked up Baylor’s largest gift and it’s $35 million, SMU’s is $33 million. Actually, another source says Baylor’s largest gift is $200 million and the University of Texas’ is $245 million.
- UAB 17 LSU 56, SHSU 28 TA&M 65, USM 13 Nebraska 56, SDSU 7 Ohio State 42, BUFF 13 Baylor 70, Oregon 59 UVA 10, TNTC 0 Wisconsin 48, E Kentucky 7 Louisville 44, SFA 13 Texas Tech 61 – With this number of blowouts there’s no way the quality of football is better in college than the pros, and the excitement of those games can’t last much longer than a quarter or a half. The only real blowout in the NFL this week was KC 28 Jacksonville 2.
- In case you were wondering why the Michigan QB was wearing #98.
- I can’t decide if the Michigan halftime show was great or just too much.
- The Longhorns fired their Defensive Coordinator Manny Diaz after losing to BYU. That will take a little pressure off Longhorn fans calling for Mack Brown’s head, but not much. But if the Longhorns get rid of Brown, I don’t know who they think they can get to replace him.
- Brown may not be a great coach, but I his style. When Texas won their first Rose Bowl off a last second field goal the kicker was interviewed and asked what did Brown say to him before the kick. The kicker said, “You’re the luckiest man in all Texas tonight, you are about to win the Rose Bowl.” And then the next year when they won the National Championship at the Rose Bowl, he told his team who were barely in their 20’s, “Don’t let this be the best thing that ever happens in your life. Maybe it’ll be the best sports event, but don’t let it be the best thing. Make sure you’re a better father than this today. Make sure you’re a better husband than this today, because this goes away. It’s a game.” I love the attitude, I love the perspective, but yes, it would be nice to see more wins again.
- I can’t figure out if Baylor has a very good football team, playing a powder-puff opponents, or something in between.
- Did I both bash and praise college football. Yeah, OK, sure. I love football overall, I just prefer the pro game over the hypocracy of the NCAA.
- @EricStangel: The Brent Musburger – Eminem fiasco would not have been half as fun if Twitter didn’t exist
- Every Netflix TV Series Sorted by IMDB Ranking
- ESPN had a great time-lapse of the storm that rolled through the BYU stadium, I’m hoping to find it to post it.
- The Super Bowl in NY is bad enough, Bruno Mars as the halftime entertainment is unforgivable. If they wanted to bring in a younger female crowd, the could have went with a bigger act/star in Katy Perry.
- This college football season marks 50 years since Roger Staubach won the Heisman.
- Tokyo 2020 Olympic Mascot
- There’s a giant eyeball in Dallas and it’s not my wife’s.
- Funny or Die – Gay Christian Mingle
- Harris Poll – Dallas/Fort Worth is “Happiest” City Among America’s Top 10 Markets
- I never know which one to pick when grocery shopping – What onion to use when
- Southwest wins again – Breaking Down U.S. Domestic Airlines By Coach Seat Size and Fees
- Trump, George W. Bush among donors to Abbott’s campaign for Texas governor
- 19-year-old inventor finds way to clean up the world’s oceans in under 5 years time
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