Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson is now a professional photographer, and often shoots at NFL games. If you are familiar with Johnson, you know his history of accidentally killing a bird with one of his pitches. I mention that because it’s incorporated in his website’s logo.
“My career as a Major League baseball pitcher has been well documented, but what is not as well known is my passion for photography, which began when I studied photojournalism at the University of Southern California from 1983-85. Baseball became my occupation for two decades but my love of photography never left. Following my 2010 retirement, I was able to focus my attention back to this passion.“
Angela Lansbury died. I remember when Murder She Wrote would follow 60 Minutes. As a kid, I couldn’t think of anything else that could have been more old and boring than those two shows back-to-back. Both signaled the end of the weekend.
You just don’t see football facemasks with a middle vertical bar in the center between the eyes anymore. I never understood how anyone could wear those things without getting cross-eyed or distracted.
In 1955, a devout Mormon set out on an archaeological expedition to prove the claims in the Book of Mormon. After 15 years, he found nearly every claim in the Book of Mormon was incorrect, and the papyrus Joseph Smith claimed was written by Abraham, was actually just a page taken out of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. He wrote about all this and put it in a book, here’s a summary.
Richard Nixon’s Secret Visit With Coretta Scott King – Nixon came in part to avoid attending the funeral, but he also brought a check-later lost-for her children’s education, according to a family friend finally telling the story.
I still enjoy walking down the coffee aisle at the grocery store and smelling the aroma. I may smile every time.
As a kid and teen, I always wanted to check out Fright Fest at Six Flags Over Texas. I’m surprised I haven’t been there as an adult. I hear if you don’t want to be scared, you can buy an eight-dollar “No Boo” necklace so the actors know to stay away from you.
It’s awkward running into your ex at the grocery store with your kids.
Football has become a bit more fun with teams willing to go for it on fourth down more often.
We have the technology to send a rocket to crash into an asteroid 6.8 million miles away, but we still measure first downs with two sticks and a chain.
The last three times the Cowboys won the Super Bowl, their defense gave up an average of 254 points (over a 16-game season). If they maintain their current average of 14.4 points a game, that would be 244 points over 17 games. But, we all should hold our horses.
Few of us have ever really been in a place in which we have nothing else to lose, but it is quite an experience. “Having too much to lose” only made sense once I lost everything.
What’s the magic number of steps to keep weight off? Here’s what a new study says
Taking 8,600 steps a day will prevent weight gain in adults, while already overweight adults can halve their odds of becoming obese by adding an additional 2,400 steps — that’s 11,000 steps a day, according to new research
It was a good sports weekend for me. The Longhorns beat the Sooners, and both the Dallas and Hardin-Simmons Cowboys won. But, the Mineral Wells Rams lost. I really don’t follow the latter two, but looked up the score for grins. All I needed was for the blood-sucking Baptist school to lose, but they didn’t even play this week. For me, it’s more about who loses than my team winning. I want everyone to be miserable.
I don’t like anything about the Longhorn’s quarterback Quinn Ewers other than he’s not playing for the opposing team. I’m 90% certain if he didn’t get hurt in that game against Alabama, they would have won. I’m 60% sure the Longhorns would have won against Bama if Colt McCoy didn’t get hurt in that championship game long ago.
I had three interviews with a company. I’m so ready for a change in life that I’m in control of. There have been a lot of change in my life, but all of them have been out of my control. The first two interviews were very informal. One was on a Saturday and the other on a Sunday. The latter was over Zoom. I chose to wear a sport coat and a buttoned-up collared shirt, but no tie. The man I interviewed with was wearing a t-shirt and apologized for not letting me know there was no need to dress up. It was something I over thank for sure. But, I felt it’s better to be safe than sorry, and expressed I just wanted to shy my respect. During the middle of the interview, I referenced my favorite poem, If by Rudyard Kipling. To my surprise, he looked it up right then and there and we had a friendly chat about it.
60 Minutes interviewed the head of the SBC. Yeah, I know, Jesus is the actual leader, but you know what I mean. I liked most of what he had to say, but there’s no way he’s going to pursue leaders of SBC churches to agree with him.
The coding language Python is not named after the snake, but the comedy troupe.
There’s a sensitive political issue I’m going to post about soon. I felt strongly about my stance for a long time, but upon being presented with a lot of facts and information, I have to eat some humble pie. Since then, I have changed my mind. I think most would as well, but like most of us, won’t take the actual time to review substantial facts and information that’s available. My uncomfortableness with something shouldn’t infringe on someone’s life.
