I told BoyGeeding about how Bono refers to math as “maths” as opposed to “math.” He said, “Well, it is mathematics, after all.” By George, I never thought of it that way.
Lyft has a program that will pick people up and take them to a job interview, job training, etc. for free, and if they get hired, Lyft will give them up to three weeks of free rides until they get paid.
I was hoping Tom Brady would play a few more years. Maybe the Niners will be playoff contenders again next year, and again lose quarterbacks to injury, and then they have to call the hometown boy to save his favorite team of his youth.
One thing I learned from Bono while reading his book is that prayer is not an escape from real life, but a passage toward it. And that we often sacrifice our self-esteem and self-image on the altar of others’ happiness. I’m certainly guilty of places others’ happiness over my own needs.
I started the Price Harry book last night. I always thought when Prince Charles informed him and his brother that their mummy died, they were together. But no, he first told William alone, then Harry separately.
“The past is never dead.; It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner
Sometimes I catch BoyGeeding playing chess by himself. Often, I ask to join in, but he said sometimes he likes to play by himself, moving both white and dark pieces, because he learns more about himself that way.
Here’s how it was supposed to work: The person challenging a speeding ticket would wear smart glasses that both record court proceedings and dictate responses into the defendant’s ear from a small speaker. The system relied on a few leading AI text generators, including ChatGPT and DaVinci.
Maybe it was sexist of me, but maybe the headline should have been more descriptive. But my initial thought was that this was a boys’ basketball team, not a girls’ basketball team.
Garland, Texas has the third-worst commute in the US. More than 86 percent of its residents are commuters, and around 9.1 percent of them have to deal with journeys lasting longer than an hour.
Here’s an interesting video from an inspection during a change of guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier where one of the guards gets stabbed in the foot with a bayonet from a falling rifle. The only sign something happened was a quick grimace, and the blood coming from his shoe as he was finishing the ceremony.
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CBS Sunday Morning is the #1 Sunday morning news program for a 636th consecutive week. Some quick math tells me that’s a little over 12 years.
Bono, of course, is European, so his grammar is slightly different than what we are used to. Anytime he mentioned “math” he spelled it “maths”. I often adopt European or British grammar. Most notably, when I end a sentence with quotations, as I did with the second bullet sentence in this bullet point, I prefer to put the period on the outside. To me, it’s more logical. And, besides, no one is grading my writing anymore. However, at work, I use proper American English grammar rules.
Toward the end of the announcement, Tejada said the moment reminded her of Martin Luther King Jr.’s quote that “the ultimate measure of a [leader] is not where [they] stand in the moments of comfort and convenience, but where [they] stand in times of challenge and controversy.“
And yet The OA is still the second-best TV show sunk into the mines of Netflix. We believe the best show is German sci-fi thriller Dark, but The OA isn’t far behind.
Our anchor and main heroine is Prairie Johnson. In the very first scene, Prairie, a young blonde woman, jumps off a bridge. When she wakes up, she’s back home. She’d been missing for seven years. No one knows what happened to her. Her return is a miracle. Even more shocking: Once blind, she can see again.
The kids were let out of school early yesterday because of the wintry weather. Later, it was announced school would be closed the next day, but they sent home school work. Since there’s no school, I let the kids stay up later than usual. I went to bed early, but woke up after around 10:30 pm, and went to the kitchen to get something to drink. To my surprise, BoyGeeding, the fifth-grader, was at the kitchen table working on all his assignments for the next day. He said he wasn’t tired and just wanted to get it out of the way. I told him how proud I was of him, that he’s a self-starter and takes initiative, and many people don’t have that quality. It was a real tender moment for me as a father, one I wish I could share with his mother, to celebrate out child together. But, she prefers no communication regarding that stuff.
The wintry/icy weather is a trigger for my PTSD. Remember, she left me and took the kids unexpectedly the day the big winter storm hit us two years ago.
The organization has put up billboards with other messages across the country explaining the similarities between Islam and Christianity, which include both being monotheistic religions containing many of the same historical figures, like Adam, Abraham, Noah and Moses, and both religions’ central texts, the Bible and the Quran, including verses about Jesus and Mary.One billboard depicts Mary wearing a hijab with the slogan, “Blessed Mary wore the hijab. Will you respect it?” Another shows a picture of the Kaaba, a building in Saudi Arabia Muslims consider the holiest site in Islam, with the message, “Built by Abraham, dedicated to worship one God, annual pilgrimage by millions of Muslims.”
On a local church’s marquee, “Tweet others as you would like tweeted.”
I’m sure many of you have seen these commercials already – A $100 million campaign, “He Gets Us,” that promotes Jesus Christ and his teachings is set to showcase its ads during the Super Bowl. It’s funded by anonymous donors (conservatives) acting through a nonprofit linked to staunchly conservative causes, as CNN’s Tom Foreman reports.
