- That Chromebook continues to get further out of reach as our refrigerator stopped cooling. It’s about seven years old and two years ago we had to replace a computer component that cost about $360. Yesterday we learned the same component died on us again, so we are debating replacing that component or just buying a new refrigerator.
- I bet I save a lot of money not being a typical guy. I don’t drink, partake of tobacco products, golf, or use cologne.
- It’s a wonder that this stuff doesn’t happen more often – Japanese city accidentally tweets North Korean missile launch
- A lot of zoos, amusement parks, and even malls have a machine in which you can inset a penny and it will press it into a souvenir piece, which I thought was illegal since it defaces U.S. currency. But this link references a letter a representative at the U.S. Mint who stated, “As you are already aware, a federal statute in the criminal code of the United States (18 U.S.C. 331), indeed makes it illegal if one “fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales or lightens” any U.S. coin. However, being a criminal statute, a fraudulent intent is required for violation. Thus, the mere act of compressing coins into souvenirs is not illegal, without other factors being present.” So there you go.
- That last bullet reminded me of an article about penny hoarders, people who collect penny’s older than 1982 which are 95% copper. They are hoping the U.S. law will change so they can destroy the penny and sell it for it’s copper value.
- And speaking of coins, here’s an old article about how the Federal Reserve has over $1 billion in dollar coins. Lawmakers were hoping to get people to switch from the paper dollar to the coin dollar, and that didn’t happen, so these are coins that nobody wants.
- This was viral yesterday – What happens when a dog tries to catch a video game fastball.
- In case you need more proof that the print newspaper is dying – Adjusted for inflation, print newspaper advertising revenue in 2012 was lower than in 1950
- Obama felt ‘spirit of Jesus Christ’ – I have a feeling most conservative Christians will roll there eyes at this.
- Rep. Joe Barton: Biblical ‘Great Flood’ shows climate change isn’t man made
- I’ve been hearing a lot about a new show from the producers of ‘Breaking Bad’ called ‘Rectify‘. Per it’s website, “After 19 years on Death Row for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, Daniel Holden is going home. His conviction has been vacated due to new DNA evidence. Now he has to return to a world he no longer knows and his reentry into the outside world may be as unforgiving as prison.” It’ll air on the Sundance Channel starting on Monday April 22. Miss Farrell from ‘Mad Men’ looks to play a prominent role.
- A Kansas county commissioner used the term “n-rigging” during a heated discussion with another commissioner named John Price. With a name like that, I was reminded of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, and the article and name reminded of the black hole comment brouhaha. What’s often missed, and made me chuckle, is when the commissioner changed it from a black hole to a pink hole.
- Hitler in shorts
- Women better off without bras: French study
- Megaman arm pillow
- I’m surprised Evangeline Lilly hasn’t had a better career post ‘Lost’.
- StickNFind Bluetooth stickers let you track any object with your phone
- Interesting interactive chart – How spending in President Obama’s 2014 budget compares with proposals from both parties and historical averages, as a share of the economy.
- From The Onion – Future Christian Drinking And Doing Drugs And Thinking It’s One Big Joke
- Not from The Onion – Iranian scientist claims to have invented ‘time machine’
- At the beginning of ‘The Americans’ someone said “or until we put them in a body bag” which made me think of a certain Karate Kid clip – so totally 80’s.
- The Rangers aren’t the only team trying to get their fans to stop the wave, so are the Nationals. But I will admit that Texas Stadium use to get a really go wave going at times, especially when both decks were at play.
