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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Bag of Randomness

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  • After Columbine, 9/11, the Aurora movie shooting, and Sandy Hook, I’m sad to say I’m desensitized to mass shootings.
  • The shooter from yesterday was from Fort Worth.  I thought the following tweet from a reporter was telling of the times we live in:  @jasoncherkis Trying to confirm facts, Fort Worth Police Department spokesperson says simply: “follow us on Twitter.”
  • My neighbors from Mexico finally moved the RV . . . somewhere.
  • I watched Fox’s new ‘Sleep Hollow’.  I enjoyed it, but wonder if the premise is better as a movie than a television series.  They did violate one of my pet peeves, they referred to the book of Revelation as the book of Revelations.  How that stuff can get into a script without someone catching it bugs the living crap out of me.  It was also strange seeing Orlando Jones in a non-comedic role.
  • I finished the second half of that mini series over all the living White House Chiefs of Staff, thoughts/observations:
    • I’m still impressed that despite all of the mudslinging of the Obama campaign at the Bush Administration, Cheney and Rumsfeld took part in a gather of all living former White House Chiefs of Staff to help Rahm Emanuel get his footing before inauguration day.
    • George H.W. Bush was informed he lost re-election in a barbers chair while getting a hair cut.
    • LBJ was going to announce he was not seeking another term at his last State of the Union, but forgot to put the note cards of the remarks in his suit pocket.  Towards the end of the address you can see him actually going through his jacket trying to find them.  His Chief of Staff stated that knew men in his family don’t live past 54 and he was 59 when he made that historic speech.  He actually died two days after what would have been his second term.
    • One of Reagan’s Chiefs of Staff hung up on Nancy was soon fired.  Another talked to her about the rumors of her seeking astrology and fortune teller guidance and she wondered what was wrong with it, and that Chief of Staff later learned how to incorporate that advice with the president’s schedule, but not in a real firm way, but enough to please her.
    • Jimmy Carter started his term with no Chief of Staff and his wife sat in on cabinent meetings, although she didn’t participate, but only listened.  I think Rudy Giuliani mentioned he wife was going to do that when he was running and got panned.
    • No one wore a scarf better than Ronald Reagan, it looked exceptionally classy on him.
    • VP George H.W. Bush delivered a message from Reagan to H.Ross Perot.  Bush then pretty much stated that Perot hated the message (and the messenger) and from that point became bitter at Bush.  He also thinks that Perot stayed in the 92 race just to spite Bush.
  • My Vietnamese mother never did this.
  • This line from a Gordon Keith column has stuck with me, “When the thing that gave you life dies, your heart cracks. If the end comes after a long illness, relief pours out of the hole. But eventually relief slows to a trickle and there’s just the brokenness.”
  • Yesterday I was the only male in a meeting that lasted way too long, so long I think we’re all now on the same cycle.
  • One of them made mention of a reported Peeping Tom in the area and I asked if any DeLoreans happened to be parked on the street.  Not one of them picked up on the pop-culture reference.
  • ‘The Walking Dead’ is getting a spinoff.  So is ‘Breaking Bad’.  Well, what about that other AMC show called ‘Mad Men’?
  • Something for your Simpsons/Cowboys fans . . . Jimmy Johnson talks about working for Jerry Jones
  • A smart spoon sounds silly until you realize that it’s for people with motor disabilities or diseases like as Parkinson’s.
  • A mom flips over a controversial church sign –  “Sex before marriage has killed a lot of babies.”
  • Christian TV prophet claims she can re-grow cheek bones and heal Satanic tumors
  • Lubbock amputee walks for the first time at his wedding
  • Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling
  • ‘Breaking Bad’ . . . ‘Breaking Bad’ producer: ‘I didn’t script the baby saying mama’
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