Bag of Randomness

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  • For a car that’s been out of production since 2001, there’s still a lot of Honda Preludes on the road.
  • Today is 7/11 which means free Slurpees at 7-11 between the hours of 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
  • Since the Texas Senate filibustering rules state that the person can’t lean or sit, I’m left wondering if there’s an exception for a wheel-chaired bound person.
  • Tom Hanks as Walt Disney
  • The best trained dog you’ll see this week.
  • “Daddy’s baby girl” – Remember Dr. Michael Brown? Here’s the latest on his legal problems, which involves choking a fight attendant and his ex is dating Jeff Bagwell.
  • I wonder if Rick Perry will run another variation of this campaign commercial in 2016.
  • I have lots of memories of traveling to what was then Carswell AFB and grocery shopping at the commissary.
  • Those Reagor Dykes Auto Group commercials on The TICKET sure are annoying.  It all started with Spike Dykes recording a commercial on what sounded like an answering machine from 1985.  And then there’s some guy talking about how you should do business with him because he played football at Texas Tech, like that’s relevant to buying a car.  Then there’s some graduating high school senior that said her friends told her she could get her dream BMW at the place, and now there’s some dad talking about how it’s that time of the year for baseball season and then goes on to say it lasts all year long.
  • This article made me think of the second Terminator movie – Researchers Build 3-D Structures Out of Liquid Metal
  • If there’s one thing I’ve noticed about the Rangers since Ron Washington came on board, there’s a lot of comradery, which tells me team chemistry is important, which makes me concerned about Manny Ramirez coming to town.
  • I have zero interest in the Zimmerman trial.
  • The Ten Oldest Military Vehicles Still In Service
  • How Disney makes money
  • Burger chains mapped
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Where’s Kermit?

When GirlGeeding goes to bed, I hide Kermit and in the morning she likes to try to find him.  To jazz it up a little, I made BoyGeeding’s T-Rex try to eat him and now GirlGeeding has to rescue Kermit when she wakes up.  All of this kind of reminds me of those cartoons where Bugs Bunny was being cooked in one of those big black pots.

Yes, I’m a goofy dad.

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Smart Diapers

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About a year and a half ago Jennie Rubinshteyn and Yaroslav Faybishenko’s 1-year-old daughter was crying in the back seat of their car.

“I was being paranoid. I couldn’t stop asking myself and my husband, ‘What is in her diaper? What’s in her diaper?” Rubinshteyn, 35, told ABC News. Faybishenko responded, “Data is her diaper. Urine is full of so much health information.”

And that, the couple says, was the start of a new family business in making what they call “Smart Diapers.” No, the diapers don’t send tweets or alerts about when there’s pee or poop inside — that’s still a job for Huggies’ TweetPee app. Instead, the husband-wife team have invented a regular disposable diaper with a medical trick — it collects information about a child’s urine.

A dry-reagent panel, just like those colorful sticks you pee on at the doctor, sits on the front of the diaper. It works a lot like a QR code. Using the Smart Diapers iOS and Android app, a parent can scan the panel and see information about the urine.

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