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• Streaming service sites with old sitcoms (e.g. Seinfeld, Friends, The Office) should offer an option where they randomly select an episode for you as if you are watching a random episode in syndication. Sometimes I don’t want total control on choice. I know Netflix offers selecting a random show or movie at random, but I’m talking about more specific randomization.
• Why hasn’t a streaming service made a playlist an option? I know you can select shows for a watch list, but I’m talking about a playlist.
• Dyson’s bizarre new headphones have a built-in air purifier
• There were two answers for Wordle yesterday, though I think the reasoning is too PC.
  • For some players, the winning word was HARRY, but for others it was STOVE. In an email response to Mashable, Jordan Cohen, New York Times executive director of communications, confirmed that the answer had indeed been changed. “In an effort to make the puzzle more accessible, we are reviewing the solutions and removing obscure or potentially insensitive words over time. HARRY is an example of an obscure word.” According to Dictionary.com, harry means, “to harass, agitate, or trouble by or as if by repeated attacks; beleaguer.”This isn’t the first time Wordle has had two different answers. In February, Wordle 241 caused an uproar when the answer was changed from AGORA to AROMA.
• I would prefer my son to wait until seventh grade, or possible, his freshman year. I’m scared to hear what his mother thinks. – Americans love football, but differ on whether kids should play – About 50% now think the sport is inappropriate for youth
• 30 Company Secrets Spilled By Ex-Employees That People Are Not Supposed To Know
• Researchers Used a Decommissioned Satellite to Broadcast Hacker TV – What happens when an old satellite is no longer in use but can still broadcast? Hacker shenanigans, that’s what.
• Facebook-hired firm promoted fake TikTok challenge to generate bad press 
  – Targeted Victory receives hundreds of millions from Republican campaigns.
  • Have you heard about that viral “devious licks” TikTok challenge? That’s the one where kids were reportedly filming TikTok videos where they would vandalize school property. How about the self-explanatory “Slap a Teacher” TikTok challenge? If you’re familiar with these stories that paint a very negative picture of the viral video app, there’s a chance you learned about it from a Republican marketing firm that Facebook hired to generate bad press for TikTok. According to a new report from Taylor Lorenz in the Washington Post, Facebook hired Targeted Victory, a marketing firm that was launched by former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s 2012 digital director, to orchestrate and carry out an anti-TikTok campaign.
• Sibling rivalry – Woman celebrating 105th birthday hopes to outlive sister who died at 108
• I’m not comfortable with people vaping in public, so this is something I could get behind – Houston City Council passes law banning vaping, smoking e-cigarettes in public spaces
• I found this on the Texas subreddit. This guy had bad luck. He died three months after the armistice. His cause of death, acute diarrhea.
  
• Imagine if this was your morning commute.

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• I find it interesting the first vacation destination my ex is taking our kids just happens to be the city in which one of the men she committed emotional infidelity with lives. You can’t make this stuff up. It’s also interesting her sister and her husband are tagging along for the trip. She’s an adult, she doesn’t need help. Most likely, they’ll watch the children one evening when the ex goes out and rekindles her relationship with the man she couldn’t help but reach out to when married to me and who she had her first sexual encounter with.
• Some of the best advice I received regarding my ex is to look at her as nothing but a glorified baby sitter I pay to watch the kids because there’s no way she can love or care for the children better than me. It’s one of the best ways to justify the child support she’s receiving, though it doesn’t appear she’s spending most of it on them. Most recently, I discovered for weeks our son only had two pairs of socks and she wouldn’t even buy our daughter basic softball equipment.
• In the latest trailer for the Top Gun sequel, Maverick, we learn that Val Kilmer’s character, Iceman, has made the rank of admiral.
• Maverick comes out May 27. The Obi Wan series on Disney+ drops on May 25. That will be the most impactful two days in pop culture cinema history, at the least in terms of the continuation of two major icons.
• Texas among most stressed states in U.S., study says
• This should be a fun and interesting thing to watch, at least for me – ‘Benjamin Franklin’ by Ken Burns premieres April 4 on PBS,
  • Ken Burns’s four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century’s most consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
• Exxon is mining bitcoin in North Dakota as part of its plan to slash emissions
• Formers Cowboys QB and current Cowboys radio analyst Babe Laufenberg lost his son to cancer, I think three or four years ago. Yesterday, he tweeted he lost his older brother (Stanford grad. Loyola Law School) to some “demons”.
• Jim Thome’s wife dominating Twitter after canceling Browns season tickets over Deshaun Watson trade – The former Cleveland news anchor and Miss Ohio has replied to both supporters and haters after dropping the family’s season tickets
  • Andrea Thome, the wife of Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Thome, has been fighting Twitter trolls ever since she announced her family was canceling their Cleveland Browns season tickets as a form of protest against the Deshaun Watson trade. She’s taking out the bad-faith actors in the best way possible: Never losing her cool, answering any questions or doubts they may have and fact-checking them at every turn.

• I just celebrated my ten-year anniversary at my place of employment. Along with a plaque, I get five extra vacation days and reimbursed up to $5,000 for a dream vacation. For years, I told my wife I was going to take her to the Disney resort in Hawaii, combining two of her favorite things, the beach and Disney. Now, I’m not sure what I’ll do. I always thought I’d celebrate this moment with my spouse. There were times I wanted to jump ship for one reason or another, but the flexible work/life balance and this dream vacation where big motivators to stay on.
• Stephen Colbert is right, the best way to offend a comedian is to not laugh.
• As Will Smith approached Chris Rock, I’m surprised how Rock kept both hands behind his back the entire time. That, in itself, is a lot to digest. He’s as unarmed and exposed as he can be. If I knew someone was walking up to me, upset or evenly playfully upset, my hands would at least be in front of me.
  
• Pressing the “period” key goes frame by frame in YouTube.
• Nearly 40% of Texas Workers Make Less Than $15 an Hour, New Research Shows
• Inside Ted Cruz’s last-ditch battle to keep Trump in power – The Texas senator’s effort alienated some allies and sparked questions about ties to John Eastman, a longtime friend and author of key legal memos in Trump’s efforts.
• Arkansas State treasurer candidate says bankruptcies make him a better candidate

On inauguration day, when most Republican leaders are concentrating on new President Nixon, Congressman George Bush graciously goes to Andrews Air Force Base to shake hands with fellow Texan, departing President Johnson, January 20, 1969: pic.twitter.com/lTJzJnz7X2

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) March 29, 2022

https://twitter.com/overtime/status/1508469562987225089

Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith being in "G.I. Jane" because of her bald head. She's spoken openly about having a hair loss condition. Will Smith ran on stage, slapped Rock, then screamed twice at the top of his lungs "KEEP MY WIFE'S NAME OUT OF YOUR F-NG MOUTH."

— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) March 28, 2022

Uncensored video of what just happened between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the #Oscars pic.twitter.com/J1sHYL0uQj

— This Is What’s Trending Now (@TrendingThisIs) March 28, 2022

• Make fun of Liza Minnelli all you want, but Lady Gaga is grace under pressure when she’s in the spotlight.
• Both dates went well. There will be seconds with each. It’s all part of a process of rediscovering and not trying to get ahead or be too hard on myself. Perhaps it’s not a welcome process or one I’m embracing, but it’s one I must go through to make the most out of life instead of allowing life to make the most out of me. Easier said than done.
• One date was playfully romantic. I arrived early and waited for her arrival as she arrived late because of traffic. When she got there, she wanted me to spot her, so she kept texting me directions for areas to look at until I found her. She was in a good a spot. While I was on the ground floor of a courtyard, she was on the fourth floor of a parking garage staring at me. When we met, I told her she was my Lee Harvey, and I was her JFK.
• Sometimes you have to turn down a moment of pleasure for a lifetime of happiness.
• I just wasn’t into the Oscars this year. I wondering if it’s a sign of the product, aging, or how I used to really enjoy watching it with my ex.
• I don’t know what I enjoyed or was touched by more, the announcement of CODA‘s Troy Kotsur winning the Oscar, the crowd using sign-language to clap, or his acceptance speech.
• Yes, I have a problem using split infinitives. Why stop now?
• Yesterday’s Wordle answer was NYMPH. Considering how most user’s first guess use a combination of vowels and common letters, I bet yesterday set a record for the number of times users didn’t guess a single letter in their first guess. I’m in the camp how don’t look favorable to people who use ADIEU. Besides, letter position is more important than knowing which vowels are in the word.
• While I’m thankful Ukraine is still holding strong, I’m sure I’m not the only one who expected this thing to be over weeks ago.
• I forgot retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was born a Texan (El Paso). She turned 92 over the weekend, and I bet many of you were surprised to know she’s still alive.
• Speaking of still alive, Alan Greenspan (husband of NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell) is 96 – Is a recession coming? Alan Greenspan says the answer is in men’s underwear
  • “He once told me that … the garment that is most private is male underpants, because nobody sees it except people in the locker room, and who cares?” longtime NPR correspondent Robert Krulwich said of Greenspan years ago. Those sales are usually stable, “so on those few occasions where it dips, that means that men are so pinched that they are deciding not to replace underpants.”The men’s underwear index (yes, it exists) backs up Greenspan’s theory: US sales of men’s underwear fell significantly from 2007 to 2009, during the Great Recession, but gained steam again in 2010 as the economy recovered.
• A civil suit reveals new details in the case of a Philly woman whose death by 20 stab wounds was ruled suicide