Bag of Randomness

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  • I wonder in the future, like 500 years from now, will technology be so advanced that there won’t be a need for any human officials for sports like football, basket, baseball, and hockey.
  • The girls that work at the Capital sure did go gaga over Prince Henry yesterday.  If you followed the coverage, it was actually comical.
  • I wonder if Fidel Castro is angry he’s not the most famous Castro in the world right now.
  • I get a tad bit annoyed when I get an email send from someone’s smartphone or tablet and it ends in the line “Sent from my _____”.  It like you’re letting The Man win and use you, just go in your settings and change it.  With that being said, I have one friend that changed his to “Send using The Force” which cracks me up.
  • Dallas sports fans love to criticize Jerry Jones for not having a GM and point all the blame at him.  Mark Cuban has a GM, but people still love to blame him for things.
  • I’m seeing more and more Tesla cars in the area.
  • Anna Jarvis was the woman behind making Mothers’ Day recognized, but later she boycotted the holiday because it became too commercialized and she hated the idea of a printed greeting card thinking people were being too lazy to actually write a letter to their mother.  Article
  • If my calculations are correct, in the year 2018, or five years from now, Jerry Jones will have owned the Cowboys for more than half of the team’s existence.
  • Celebrities lip-sych for a good cause – YouTubeArticle
  • The dark side of Christian home schooling: creating soldiers for the culture war – Related to the article – Home Schoolers Anonymous
  • Tom Hanks comes in first – Reader’s Digest Trust Poll: The 100 Most Trusted People in America – Here’s a version of the list where you don’t have to click through each entry.

  • Timewaster of the day – GeoGuesser
  • Miami Dolphins Want To Have a Game on an Aircraft Carrier – But not real football.
  • The Dallas Morning News has a list of places to take out of towners.  I’m glad to see Babe’s was on the list, but overall, I think the list is a bit swanky.  If I were to add to few more moderately priced places on the list, I’d probably include La Hacienda Ranch for food and atmosphere, especially if they aren’t from the southwest.
  • In case you happen to be reading this, happy birthday, Bono.
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Bag of Randomness

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  • Working from home makes it hard to sneak out and buy something for Mothers’ Day.  If all else fails, moms eat free at Hooters on Sunday.
  • The antibiotics may have been the cause of a strange dream, that is, if you think being stuck in a Nick Lachey aerobics class where he’s wearing a leotard is strange.
  • I’ve always wondered what happens if a person collects on life insurance and years later the person is found alive.
  • WifeGeeding and I often stop down and try to figure out how GirlGeeding is expanding her vocabulary.  What two-year-old uses the word “consistent” in a sentence?
  • I’ve talked about moving to a smaller city or town, and WifeGeeding thought that meant near her hometown, and her family has been sending her real estate listings ever since.  I was actually thinking something west or south of Fort Worth because I think it would be easier on my allergies and personally, I think it’s prettier than East Texas.
  • I don’t know of one single True Value in DFW.
  • I have a feeling Gatsby is going to under-perform at the box office.  That story was never assigned reading for me in either high school or college.
  • I had a conversation about conversion vans the other day and how they use to have a table in the back to play cards.
  • One of my childhood friends has always tried to keep the gang clear from speaking about things relating to a sexual nature, and I think it’s because he has always wanted to keep a clean heart.  He’s still that way, and I got a kick out of his reaction when one person simply mentioned the word “Viagra”.  It’s like he’s never seen a commercial during a sporting event.
  • A Final Embrace: The Most Haunting Photograph from Bangladesh
  • In a special issue of Forbes, Microsoft has an advertisement which includes a slimmed down router (actually inside the magazine) that will give the user 15 days of free WiFi for up to five devices at once.  That doesn’t sound like anything Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce would think of.
  • Everytime I see a Survivor’ episode where the contestants meet up with a family or loved one, I can’t help but think they could never make it through military life.
  • Talk about a bad Monday morning – Girl’s Jeep Hit By Portable Toilet on the Way to School
  • Chris Cuomo of CNN sure did ask Amanda Knox some weird questions.
  • How two ‘Star Trek’ fans are restoring original series shuttlecraft
  • School teacher dies after choking on hot dog at Wrigley Field
  • Pope Francis sure does seem approachable
  • 50 Slices Of Movie Trivia You May Not Know
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