Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, March 24, 2025

  • That second photo of Tracy Wolfson is so misleading. She’s wearing heels, which throws the comparison way off. Is it too much for me to ask the article’s author to include Wolfson’s height? In case you are wondering, my research department says Tracy Wolfson is 5 feet 2 inches tall.

 

  • The world has been without Rick Moranis for WAY too long. He look great at 71. Glad he came out from shying away the public and hope it’s a step towards a return to acting. Thank you, Cinema Relics, ! I don’t know how you did it, but thanks!

 

 

  • It’s funny to see old Geico commercials air during the NCAA tournament. They are so old that the vertical standard definition bars appear. All that for a little piggy. I haven’t cheered Duke on so heavily in a while.

 

  • I got my first taste of Canva this weekend. It reminds me a lot of Google’s old photo and video tool, Picasa. It’s crazy what you can create with your own pictures and videos. I put a tiny little something together for my church, and they were blown away. Huh, bringing up Picasa reminded me how much I used to use Google Reader.

 

 

  • The Longhorns have hired a new men’s basketball coach. He may be the only active coach in college or the pros to have been a guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

 

 

  • There’s a new Medal of Honor museum in Arlington. As if the Medal of Honor recipients haven’t endured enough torture, they had to sit through Lee Greenwood.

    Those in attendance included former President George W. Bush, Gov. Greg Abbott, U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and singer Lee Greenwood, but none of those big names owned the spotlight.The night celebrated the more than 3,500 recipients of the Medal of Honor, America’s highest military decoration for valor in combat, whose names are engraved in the 100,000-square-foot museum.

    Maybe I’m splitting hairs, but I took exception to this statement as I count six; and I’m using the U.S. Department of Defense’s website as my source: “The museum stands out from the surrounding stadiums. The grey obelisk seems to float over the neighboring lake and AT&T Way, supported by five pillars representing the five branches of the military.“

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Your Bag of Nothing for Wednesday, March

  • The speaker in this TED Talk states that he became a soccer referee to learn how not to take things personally. I think French is his native language. He asked a question that stuck with me for a while: Would you rather be right or happy? If you don’t have time to listen to the whole seventeen and a half minute speech, please listen to the last 82 seconds because he really sticks the landing.I also thought this fact was quite interesting.I’ve never seen anyone post an image of a YouTube transcript. Surely, I can’t be the first. But it’s a first for me, and I think it’s something you might see a lot in future postings. As for that data being correct, you be the judge.

 

  • Last night, PBS had a special on the first flight attendants. I never really thought about it before, but these women were responsible for most likely the first experience of a person being sealed inside a steel tube at 35,000 feet, which can be a pretty stressful experience. The show also had a recording of the captain telling the passengers on the loudspeaker to change their watches to the new time zone. That’s something young folk don’t realize you had to do, and something older folks totally forgot about since most of our portable time-keeping devices are digital and connected to a wireless network.Today, when men and women are hired as flight attendants, they undergo training. Women in that time period would take classes to learn how to be flight attendants in hopes of being hired. My, how times have changed.

 

  • I wonder if our living former presidents ever just talk about current affairs.

 

  • Food for thought, not trying to send a hidden message, just food for thought:

    “The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.” Voltaire

 

 

  • According to my freshman year college roommate, there’s no other movie than The Fugitive I’ve watched the most. With that in mind, here’s a clip related to the film that I’ve never seen in which we get to see Tommy Lee Jones get out of character. Speaking of Tommy Lee Jones. I was listening to a podcast yesterday about the movie Crisom Tide. They discussed how great Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman were in their roles, and then read trivia about actors who passed on these roles. Tommy Lee Jones wasn’t offered any of the roles in Crisom Tide, but they did discuss the entertaining thought of Jones playing the role of the captain. It’s not that Jones would do it better than Hackman; just that it would be interesting to see his portrayal of the character. I concur, sir.

 

  • A lot of folks are eagerly awaiting this sequel. I bet Sandler does it justice, but the public just needs to manage their expectations.

 

  • Because there are no other legislative agendas to focus on?

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