Bag of Randomness

  • As you are reading this, I’m probably on the road to Austin, I gotta be there by 10:00 AM.  It was a busy weekend and I didn’t have much time to blog.  Heck, I don’t know how much I’ll have to post this week, but I’ll try to get something out.
  • My new employer had me sign a Distracted Driver Policy, basically saying I can’t conduct any business while behind the wheel.  Oprah would be proud.
  • I’ve never eaten SpaghettiOs or anything from ChefBoyardee.
  • I saw a Firebird at the carwash on Saturday and it had the “classic” label on its license plate.
  • Speaking of the car wash, I took GirlGeeding with me to the kind where you sit in and just put the car in neutral.  I remember my mother doing the same with me when I was young and being scared to death . . . my daughter had the same experience, but hey, it was a nice father/daughter bonding moment.
  • I wonder if many folks still wash their cars at home.
  • I attended a church small group yesterday and for dinner, pizza was ordered.  That’s usually a good call, but two pizzas were Hawaiian and one was some kind of combo.  There’s not need to two Hawaiian pizzas, guys need ‘real’ pizza.
  • Sometimes I feel like I need to tell WifeGeeding I have hoopfever and I need to see Nurse Ashley.
  • I’m a bit tired of websites asking me for their feedback.
  • I thoughtMad Men was great last night, I’m glad it’s back on the air.
  • Obama Meets Mad Men:

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MAD MEN: Set Me Free

I’m so glad this show is back on the air this Sunday, so in honor of this grand event, here’s some impressive editing and sound mixing with the ladies of the show . . .

A remix musical featuring the women of Mad Men. One step forward, two steps back: will we always keep coming back to the chorus?

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Bag of Randomness

  • My laptop from my new company arrived in the mail yesterday addressed to “Keith Greeding” instead of “Keith Geeding.”  As I opened up the contents and VPN’d for the first time, my fears came true . . . I’m in the ‘system’ as “Greeding.”  #SadFace
  • I promptly called IT and they told me that’s how HR reported it, I told them that it’s a sensitive issue since having “greed” in a name isn’t how I would like to start off my time at this new company, and they kindly and sincerely understood.
  • I mean . . . I’m an Obama-loving-socialist . . . there can’t be any greed to me.
  • I also had an interesting exit interview with a representative from Lockheed Martin HR . . . she asked that I send her paperwork that I emailed her a week ago and then told me turn in materials to my manager.  Funny thing, I spoke to her last week telling her since my manager is in Austin I work out of the Dallas office, I’ll be turning my materials to our project support peer, just like everyone else has.
  • I don’t have a lot of faith in HR.
  • One time as an employee of Fidelity Investments I had an issue I wanted addressed and spoke with my HR contact.  As I started to explain my concern he stopped me mid-sentence and said, “Before you continue, I just have to tell you this, that you are my customer, and I’m here for you.  Continue . . .”
  • WifeGeeding wants to celebrate my new job, which I think is really a ploy by her to have me take her out for a nice dinner at Three Forks and pay for a sitter.  I believe this will be the first time we actually hire a sitter and go out.
  • A city manager of Keller was forced to do some layoffs, so he decided to layoff himself.  He saw that Keller already had three city managers and he was making $176,000 a year.  I doubt most of us would have that kind of courage, but I wonder if he has something else lined up.
  • Six Flags of Texas will sometimes change a ride by turning the seating cart around, I remember them doing this with the Judge Roy Scream, now they are doing it with Mr Freeze, probably my favorite ride at the park.  I’m also a sucker for the Conquistador, and even that Casa Magnetica.
  • She and Gov Good Hair never were eye-to-eye on things: Kay Bailey Hutchison Defends Planned Parenthood
  • The Rangers will be selling  a $26 hot dog at the Ball Park this season, at least for the price it comes with fries.
  • It appears U2 is in the studio working on a new album.
  • I wasn’t aware that George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch man that shot young defenseless Trayvon Martin, has called 911 nearly 50 times in the past year.  Rough neighborhood?
  • It sure would be interesting if the New Orleans Saints won the upcoming Super Bowl with an interim head coach and to see the coaching controversy that would follow.
  • Just a bear on a swing.
  • You may want to hold the steering wheel differently
  • North Dakota mayor wants to stage mock hangings for tourists
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Rolls-Royce Phantom Hearse is World’s Most Expensive Final Ride

Set to be officially unveiled at the Tan Expo funeral home show in Bologna, Italy, the car stretches a total of 276-inches (23-feet!) in length, three feet longer than even the extended wheelbase version of the Phantom. Unique to this car is the fact that it remains a 4-door, and even features the now rather inappropriately named “suicide” doors.

Power continues to come from a Rolls-Royce 6.75-liter V12 engine, with a self-leveling air suspension, while the car is made entirely from aluminum with over 600 assembled parts and over 650 feet of welding.

Funeral homes looking to set themselves apart will be able to order the Phantom Hearse, but they’ll have to sell a few platinum-encrusted coffins to be able to afford it. Biemme hasn’t put a final sticker price on this model, but has said it will cost more than half-a-million Euros. (Roughly $662,000).

Full Article and a few more pics.

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