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• Sometimes you can sum up America in one photo. This is one of those photos.
• The average adult produces 6.3 cups of urine a day.
• I used to time how long I coud pee before breaking the stream. I’m sure I’ve broken 90 seconds.
• Josh Hamilton was correct in saying Arlington or the DFW area isn’t a baseball city. Texans never take criticism well, no matter how correct. And it doesn’t matter that it was on Monday during school, they’ve sold out home openers during under those circumstances before, and cities like Boston don’t have trouble with it. The ball club used to have a small town everybody is a part of it feel. Now, it feels so corporate and sterile. But then again, I’m just a casual baseball fan.
• Bolivia has a navy, even though South American country has been landlocked since the War of the Pacific and its 1904 peace treaty.
• Louisiana pastor who taped children’s mouths defends action, says students bullied teacher
  • A Louisiana pastor, “Survivor” contestant and Republican politician was arrested last week and charged with three counts of cruelty to juveniles after taping children’s mounts shut for talking too much in class. He defended his actions Monday. The Rev. John Raymond, founder and headmaster of Slidell’s Lakeside Christian Academy, issued a 1,100-word statement on the school’s website blaming the students for bullying a teacher and insisting none of the children was harmed. Raymond, who is an elected member of the Louisiana Republican Party governing board, said a teacher approached him in tears threatening to quit because a group of students was continually disrupting her class by talking.
• DFW International ranks as world’s second-busiest airport in 2021
  • DFW International Airport was the world’s second-busiest air travel hub for passengers in 2021, even though traffic was still far behind pre-pandemic levels, and it trailed only Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. DFW soared last year on the strength of U.S. domestic leisure travelers with 62 million passengers, leapfrogging other airports in the country such as Los Angeles and Chicago O’Hare that rely on international passengers for a larger percentage of traffic, according to Airports Council International.
• In the next decade, dashcams will become a standard feature on all vehicles.
• For the first time in a long time, I saw one of those Google Street View cars driving around.
• San Francisco police stop self-driving car – and find nobody inside, video shows
  • The video is a little comical. If I were writing a movie, I’d have the cops shoot out the tires. I’m not a lawyer, but I wonder if the cops need some type of conscent to open the door and search the vehical.
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• But this is a sweet story – After starting Rangers’ home opener, Taylor Hearn gets postgame interview question from his sister
  • Taylor started laughing when he saw it was Robyn asking the question. He then became sincere very quick. He told his younger sister that he wanted to set an example for her and show that he could make it to a stage like Monday’s, even if he once doubted it. He then thanked her for her support. “Despite the results, I didn’t really even care if I won the game or we lost or whatever,” Taylor said. “I was just more happy to see you, that you were here.”

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• He makes the presidency look cheap. No U.S. President needs a shirt with “President” and their name embroidered on it. Literally, every time you walk into a room, everyone knows who you are.He’s compensating for something.
  

• The ex will occasionally show up at the church I still attend with the children. I used to six next to them until she sent me an email and asked that I not to, so I complied. She also said that the children will choose who they will sit with. I expressed the concern that I don’t like the children having to literally choose a parent, but she never replied. Most of the time, the when the kids enter with her, they will sit next to me. This has happened every time except once. Our son stayed and sat next to his mother, but our daughter has always sat next to me. Yesterday, she attended church along with our daughter. Our son stayed the night at a friend’s house, so he was a no show. This time, the ex told our daughter that during her possession period; she has to sit next to her. Months ago, these alienation tactics would annoy me. Now, I simply expect it, and it’s almost liberating because it’s so predictable. My feelings aren’t hurt, but I see it hurts the children’s, and that’s what bothers me.
• Our daughter had a softball game on Friday night. I sat by myself for almost the entire game, and I noticed the ex did the same. It’s stupid we can’t get along well enough that we can’t sit and support our daughter together for a few hours at a time.
• I was slotted to work most of the weekend. Since it was my weekend without the kids, I made time to watch The Batman. It’s just shy of three-hours long. I love comic book stuff and like to see these different variations of Batman. While I enjoyed it, I just couldn’t get past the casting of Robert Pattison. He seems like a great guy, and in interviews, I really like his approach to getting to know the character and his appreciation for previous iterations. But, this Batman seemed to emo.
• Colorado’s lowest natural point, the Arikaree River, sits higher in elevation than the highest points of 18 other states.
• AI predicts if and when someone will experience cardiac arrest. – An algorithm built to assess scar patterns in patient heart tissue can predict potentially life-threatening arrhythmias more accurately than doctors can”
• This would have been so much better than the garbage Disney and J.J. Abrams threw at us – Star Wars: 9 Coolest Unused Concepts From George Lucas’ Sequel Trilogy
• Traveler told TSA he had ‘no idea’ a sword was concealed in his cane
• California officer plays Disney music to thwart YouTuber’s recording
  • Police in Santa Ana, California, are investigating after video was released of one of an officer blaring copyrighted music in an attempt to thwart a YouTuber who was recording him. Residents of a Santa Ana neighborhood were awoken to the sounds of police cars, a helicopter and something else they didn’t expect: Randy Newman’s “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.”
• So much to unpack here.
• Talk about a chance encounter.

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• I can speak most for Tiger Woods as we both are half-Asian, military veterans as fathers, divorced, parents to a boy and a girl, are three months apart in age, and both had a spinal fusion. I’m curious to know what type of pain medication he’ll be taking while playing golf, and I wonder what’s allowable within the rules.
• Working with the ex it exhausting, especially since she won’t verybally communicate. Oh well, only eight more years of this.
• I’m sure Barry over at LiberallyLean really hates me, and I’m about to give him another supporting reason. For the life of me, I can never remember the difference between “tornado watch” and “tornado warning.” I’m sure I’m overthinking it:
  • Be on the watch for a tornado. Now that one has been spotted, we are now warning you to take shelter.
  • We are warning you a tornado is highly probable. One has been spotted, now watch out for it and take shelter.
• Dog with 6 legs, 2 penises wasn’t expected to live. Now he’s healthy and has a new home
  • Raga was born with six legs, an extra colon and four testicles. Oh, and an extra penis that had to come off. One of Raga’s penises appeared to function correctly, but his body was sending fecal matter to the other one, causing him to be hospitalized on heavy duty antibiotics to knock down an infection.
• Ohio police officer resigns after not issuing a citation for four years
• I’m one of those who don’t think the rules should be the same for both college and professional sports. I just appreciate the differences, strategies, and implications both cause. The pass interference penalty may be the most obvious example. But, I got curious about why does college basketball has halves and high school and pros have quarters. Using this as a source, here are my findings and some interesting tidbits.
  • The NBA and NCAA use time in roughly the same way. The NBA has four 12 minute quarters (48 minutes in total) and the NCAA goes with two 20-minute halves (40 minutes in total). FIBA also uses four 10 minutes quarters to perfectly match the NCAA’s total time.
  • When Dr. James Naismith invented basketball, Rule 12 states, ““the time shall be two fifteen-minute halves, with five-minute rest in between.”
  • As such, in 1905 the official rules changed to extend the time to two twenty minutes halves with a 10-minute break in between them. Sound familiar? That is the same format the NCAA still uses to this day. However, the two half system did not stick for that long. In 1951 the game went through a huge change when the league decided to split it up into four 10-minute quarters. This rule was for both college basketball and the NBA. While that change stuck in professional basketball, it did not hold in college. In fact, the four-quarter system was only around for three short years in the NCAA. In 1954 college basketball went back to playing in halves while the NBA stayed with the quarter system. That created a break that still lasts to this day.
  • Some people believe colleges favor the two halves because it is how the first rules were put in place, while others think it was to separate themselves from other leagues. One of the leading theories is that it makes the game much more competitive. Two long halves tend to create closer games than four separate quarters. Close games not only lead to more excitement, but they can also lead to upsets. Two halves also create less stopping time, which gives the game a steady pace and keeps everything moving along. The more flow that exists, the better the games are to watch. While none of these theories have been absolutely proven one way or another, they do help suggest why one league goes with two halves and one goes with four quarters. Both work. It just comes down to preference.
• Dallas-Fort Worth computes No. 3 ranking among America’s top metros for tech jobs
  • Austin landed at No. 1 again this year, followed in descending order by San Jose, California; Dallas-Fort Worth; Atlanta, Georgia; and Huntsville, Alabama.
• Texas State buys new president a $2.9 million home from university donors — more than 3 times its value
• Conservatives have enacted about 1,600 book bans in school districts over the last 9 months, with Texas leading the way, report says
• Here’s the new food items the Texas Rangers are selling at their new ballpark. I’m not very impressed.
  
• Good question.

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— Marshall Julius (@MarshallJulius) April 7, 2022

• Apologies to anyone who thinks this is too sexy for this blog, but I thought it was funny.

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— MAYBE MAYBE MAYBE (@maybemaybemybe) April 6, 2022

• I think I see either a Star Wars storm trooper or Darth Vader on those bricks.
• Just when I thought things were getting better co-parenting with the ex, it all just falls apart again. She claims I’m not being flexible, but I don’t believe she’s taking the time to hear me out and understand things from my perspective and the precedent she set with how she alienated the children from me. A month ago, she asked if I would take our daughter out of school for a dentist appointment, which is scheduled for today. But last night she emailed to say she didn’t want my help and will do it herself. And she won’t allow me to pick her up from practice anymore. At least she emailed me about it the night before. You may recall she once cancelled an orthodontist appointment the morning of the appointment and didn’t tell our daughter. Our daughter told her teacher earlier in the day she would be leaving early, and when I didn’t show to pick her up, she thought her father forgot about her. The ex never took the time to explain the situation to our daughter until at least a week after the event. It’s hard to believe the person I trusted the most used to be so kind and warm-hearted. I suspect she’s doing what her mother and sister are telling her to do, as she’s always been impressionable and sought their approval. While she thinks she is punishing me, what she really is doing is hurting her children, and her relationship with them.
• “Being President Doesn’t Change Who You Are. It Reveals Who You Are.” – Michelle Obama
  • “Divorce doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are.” – BagOfNothing.com
    • There are times I’m sad at what it has revealed about me, but or the most part, I feel I can hold my chin up high.
  • I fear this divorce is going to define me.
  • The ex was worried the children would hear us fighting at night. Recently, BoyGeeding told me he has trouble sleeping at night because his sister and mother are always fighting at bedtime. The ex seems to be the common denominator.
  • It’s been a tough sixteen months. I’ve learned and grown so much, and it has been painful. I’m just wondering how much more I’m about to know and suffer through.
• Augusta Family Next To Masters Golf Course Keeps Turning Down Millions For Their 1,900-Square-Foot House
• Watch the Unaired Pilot for ‘Jeopardy!’ – America’s most beloved game show has changed very little during its 50 year run.
• Colorado woman struck, killed while at memorial for man killed at that spot one-year earlier
• Spreadsheets Are Hot—and Cranking Out Complex Code – The venerable (and yes, super dull) piece of officeware is getting reinvented as a tool for non-coders to automate and simplify their lives.
• Granbury, TX Texas teacher resigns after science experiment leaves 12-year-old student with possible 3rd degree burns –  Authorities said a 37-year-old female teacher put hand sanitizer in a 12-year-old male student’s hands and lit the flammable solution on fire as part of a class science experiment. The student suffered possible third-degree burns as a result.
• The world’s skinniest skyscraper is ready for its first residents – Steinway Tower, or 111 West 57th Street, has a height-to-width ratio of 24:1, making it “the most slender skyscraper in the world,” according to the developers. At 1,428 feet, it is also one of the tallest buildings in the Western hemisphere, falling short of two others in New York City: One World Trade Center at 1,776 feet and Central Park Tower at 1,550 feet.

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— Animals Being Derps (@AnimalBeingDerp) April 6, 2022