- Yup, we took a trip to the mall to see Santa yesterday. DaughterGeeding was pretty scared at first, but eventually warmed up to the big guy.
- When Santa asked DaughterGeeding what she wanted for Christmas, she said, “A frog.” That was news to us.
- The Travel Channel has a show called “Ghost Adventures” and they recently aired an episode about the abandoned Baker Hotel in hometown. I watched it and thought it was a bit corny, but my fascination with that hotel still remains.
- Following the Texas Rangers can be confusing sometimes. If you see or hear a headline with “Rangers” it could mean the hockey club in NY, or if you see or hear “Texas” it could mean the university in Austin. I’ve fallen prey to both many times.
- Fancy decorative towels may look nice, but they certainly can’t absorb water, which is basically it’s main purpose for existence.
- When Scott Pelley interviewed Hugh Jackman for “60 Minutes” the reporter thought it was necessary to workout with the actor, and like NFL referee Ed Hochuli, he decided to wear a tight fitting shirt. But it was a bit surprising to see that Pelley was pretty bulky, with probably more muscle mass that Jackman.
- Actual job description for the head football coach position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- There’s a new car rental company in Austin geared towards the business traveler that only rents one car in one color for one price, and Audi A4.
- Cover the middle and you go faster, cover the outside and you go slower – Pic
- I’ve heard the term “non-denominational” plenty of times, but yesterday for the first time I ran across the word “interdenominational” and despite two-minutes of hard googling, I still don’t know the difference.
- Inside west Texas’s new 500 million dollar, 15,000-acre radioactive dump
Dutchman launches life-sized replica of Noah’s Ark
Just as the first storms of winter roll in, Dutchman Johan Huibers has finished his 20-year quest to build a full-scale, functioning model of Noah’s Ark — an undertaking of, well, biblical proportions.
Huibers, a Christian, used books 6-9 of Genesis as his inspiration, following the instructions God gives Noah down to the last cubit.
Translating to modern measurements, Huibers came up with a vessel that works out to a whopping 427 feet (130 metres) long, 95 feet (29 metres) across and 75 feet (23 metres) high. Perhaps not big enough to fit every species on Earth, two by two, as described in the Bible, but plenty of space, for instance, for a pair elephants to dance a tango.
Disney had a flying fire-breathing dragon fly around the castle
You can see how it’s down when you click on the link below and view the pics.