Bag of Randomness

  • WifeGeeding had a girls’ night out the other day, something long overdue for her and well deserved.  She’s not the best night time driver and does a great job of texting me of when she’s about to leave and come home, and I guess that’s because she knows I’m a worry-wart.  But the thought did hit me on how my world could instantly be turned upside down if something happened to her and I had to be a single father.
  • Speaking of WifeGeeding, she wants to join a local morning bootcamp.
  • On this day back in 1999 was my first day of employment in a ‘real job’ in the DFW area after graduating college.
  • I see the word “artisan” thrown around a lot in restaurants and super markets.
  • While at Braum’s I thought I’d ask GirlGeeding if she wanted to dip her french fry in my hot fudge sundae to see what it was like.  Not only did she do so without hesitation, but she did it repeatedly.  First of all, I thought she would have put together that would have been a gross combination.  Secondly, I thought after the first bite she would have realized that was a bad combination.
  • What former President George W. Bush has been up to
  • Why are blueprints blue?
  • Much Ado About Nothing is actually a dirty pun.
  • For mor light, just peel the wall
  • Two women running against one another for a U.S. Senate seat were asked if they read 50 Shades of Gray.
  • Batman’s Kia Optima
  • Baby elephant saved from a deep hole – LiveLeak
  • Lots of buzz about a Google event on Oct 29
  • University of Phoenix is closing 115 locations – 13,000 students will be affected, which is only about 4% of its student body.
  • “Use my head alongside my heart”
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Omaha schoolgirl dresses as a different historical figure each day

This is how Stella Ehrhart, age 8, decides what to wear for school.

She opens her closet. She opens her book, “100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century.” And she opens her mind.

Voilà, she is Billie Holiday, in a black dress with a red tissue-paper flower tucked into her strawberry-blond hair.

Behold, she is Grace Kelly in pink satin lace on her wedding day.

Poof, she is Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, wearing a hat her aunt got her in Vietnam.

The Dundee Elementary School third-grader comes to school dressed as a different historical figure or character — Every. Single. Day. And she’s done that since the second day of second grade, when this all started.

Full Omaha.com Article

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Feel Free to Take a Bite of Hot Pizza

And you can thank some Longhorns . . .

Arlington, Va. — A dissolvable oral strip has been developed to immediately relieve pain from burns caused by ingestion of hot foods and liquids, such as coffee, pizza, and soup. This research is being presented at the 2012 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition, the world’s largest pharmaceutical sciences meeting, in Chicago, Ill., on Oct. 14 – 18.

Lead researcher Jason McConville, Ph.D., and colleagues from University of Texas at Austin, designed the strip for controlled delivery of a local anesthetic, benzocaine, and a therapeutic polymer. Benzocaine, commonly used as a topical pain reliever in dental products and throat lozenges, was chosen as for its non-irritating properties.

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OK, Longhorns, enough of this science and medicine crap, get back to looking at least halfway decent in football again.

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