- I had a few inquires about the picture I used in yesterday’s Bag of Randomness, here’s the background – Georgia trooper in 1992 image with toddler dressed in KKK garb recalls that day
- While putting on my shoe yesterday the gecko startled me by running out it.
- Is it possible that Johnny Manziel has already wrapped up Texas Monthly’s annual Bum Steer award?
- WifeGeeding and the kids have been visiting her folks in East Texas, and it turns out the community has some interesting Manziel family stories to tell.
- Big local sports radio news which will eventually lead ESPN Radio into promoting Ticketstock – Cumulus, owner of The Ticket, to run ESPN Radio in Dallas; exec delivers ‘tough’ news to KESN staff
- I’m on this crazy streak of getting ice stuck at the bottom of my straw.
- One enemy of mine is the square ice cube that has that small indention. I can’t tell you the number of times when my drink hits that sweet spot on the ice cube which makes the liquid shoot up in the air like a Willy Water Bug.
- For you ‘Breaking Bad’ fans, I didn’t realize this was a real website: www.SaveWalterWhite.com
- For once, I’d like to sit behind the dugout at a MLB game.
- SuperCook.com – Just enter the ingredients you have and it will provide a recipe.
- LG’s latest smartphone has no buttons on the sides, but on the back. They think it will help people from dropping their phones.
- Daily Kos : : 15 things everyone would know if there were a liberal media
- The turn signal is now an MP3 – How GM makes a car sound like what a car is supposed to sound like
Bag of Randomness
- Yesterday I had lunch and dinner with two different guy friends, and not once did we talk about Johnny Manziel or training camp.
- Hard Knocks had a lot of TCU love last night. It started with Andy Dalton and then with a shot of Amon Carter Stadium. Brett, I’m sure Mrs Brett liked that.
- That James Harrison sure doesn’t like the Hard Knocks camera, I think he’s just focused on winning instead of gimmicks.
- Hard Knocks dropped a few points in my book when they played Maroon Five music during hitting drills.
- Sometimes it’s true that professional football players don’t play with the heart and passion as those in the college game, but if you watched the last five minutes of Hard Knocks, you would have saw Larry Black trying to make the team and then breaking his leg and dislocating his ankle. His emotion was heart-breakingly raw.
- With former President George W. Bush being a local guy and Kidd Kraddick dying of a heart attack, I wonder if Kidd’s death encouraged Bush to get a check up. He has always appeared to be very health cautious, but I curious to know if the event kicked anything into gear.
- Check out the Google Street View of this Emirates plane, now that’s flying in style.
- Yup, that’s our governor, and the glasses didn’t even make him look any smarter – Perry mistakenly tells conservative crowd he’s in Florida when in Louisiana
- I saw a LifeProTip the other day saying that when you pick someone up at the airport and don’t plan on getting out of your car, ask them to meet you in Departures instead of Arrivals as it will be less crowded.
- As humans we’ll sometimes do something wrong we did in our youth and think about it for the rest of our lives, I wonder if any animals do the same.
- Our favorite Wise County blogger discovered Britney Spears attended church in quite the outfit the other day.
- Houston restaurant says no kids after 7:00 pm
- Talk about trick photography
- The Dallas Morning News wants to know what is your favorite place for tacos.
- New Census Bureau Interactive Map Shows Languages Spoken in America
- The Dallas Observer blog has an entry of Dallas’ 50 Most Interesting Restaurants and Babe’s comes in at 37.
- Texas state troopers caught on camera probing women’s privates aren’t isolated incidents: lawyers
- Archie Manning joined his sons in a hilarious music video commerical
- These two paragraphs about Mike Snyder sound depressing to me, like he’s a man with an inflated ego just living in the past with no where to go. Read the full thing here. EDIT: This is totally a parody. I skimmed the article late last night and and wasn’t in sound mind when I posted it. Or that I’m just dumb. OK, I’m dumb.
It’s 8 a.m. and Mike Snyder is in a suit and tie. It’s a habit he can’t shake, even though he doesn’t really need it anymore. He wakes up at 6, and goes through his workout routine — 10 pushups, 10 sit-ups, and, every other day, 10 jumping jacks. Then the former NBC Channel 5 anchor showers, eats a sleeve of mini-powdered donuts, and gets suited up. It’s his battle armor.
“Why would I hide behind Barry or Brandon or Wes Mantooth for something like this? Zac, I’m Mike Snyder. Do you know what that name means in this city? Hell, in all of North Texas? I was one-half of JAM*. I mean, I wanted people to know that Mike Snyder had a problem with the Nasher. That was the whole point!” He slaps his particle board desk for emphasis. The screen of the Toshiba laptop shakes. “I’m sorry, but really? Come on. It doesn’t make any sense. Maybe Scott Murray would do something like that, but not me.”
*I love that brick phone Jane is carrying in that video.
Nice video of Dallas, done with a quadcopter I think
Dallas Vimeo from brian aiken on Vimeo.
ChristCORE Trailer
ChristCORE is an inside look at the explosive subculture of Christian hardcore music, as filmmaker and atheist punk rocker Justin Ludwig goes on tour with two evangelical hardcore bands — newcomers Messengers and Christcore superstars Sleeping Giant.
ChristCORE Trailer from Robin Schlaht on Vimeo.