Cookie the Little Penguin

Cute little fella, but just wait until he gets tickled around the 1:03 mark.

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Bag of Randomness

  • I drove by the AMC Grand this weekend and was surprised to find that it’s closed and was about to be demolished.  Man, I remember when that place use to be THE place to watch a movie.  Not to mention, I think that place was one of the first to have over 30 screens in one place.
  • I rewatched the ESPN Fab Five special with a friend yesterday and he made a keen observation – one of the columnists that was repeatedly interviewed was the Tuesdays with Murray author.  It’s stuff like that which makes me think he should go on Jeopardy!.
  • I think a lot of wild fires are about to hit my hometown.
  • I’m still not quote over my bronchitis yet I’m out of medicine.
  • I’m currently reading Chosen by God by Dr. R. C. Sproul.  I expected it to be a very difficult read with a bunch of jumping back and forth to different Bible verses but that most certainly isn’t the case.
  • I’ve only seen one Molly Ringwald movie, the highly, highly over-rated The Breakfast Club.
  • Trump could have had the contestants on the Celebrity Apprentice to hunt down Obama’s birth certificate.  You know, that would be a decent SNL skit.
  • I think the truck stop in Weatherford called The Iron Skillet is good eating.  As I kid, I remember my father taking me there and they delivered my burger and fries in . . . an iron skillet.  I thought that was the coolest thing.
  • My wife performed her first rectal temperature reading last night . . . on the baby.  She has a slight fever, mostly due to teething but we are keeping an eye on her.
  • I sent WifeGeeding to the spa yesterday, she deserved it.
  • I want an update on former homeless man with the god-given radio voice Ted Williams.
  • I enjoy watching Storage Wars on A&E.
  • I’ve only played bingo in bingo parlor once in my life and it was idea I came up with for a last minute date.
  • Hot accountants of DFW?
  • A funny resume that kind of reminds me of my friend Jimi’s first resume
  • Portland soccer fans really know how to sing the national anthem
  • How the world ends, year by year, just pick a year.
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Language at risk of dying out – the last two speakers aren’t talking

The language of Ayapaneco has been spoken in the land now known as Mexico for centuries. It has survived the Spanish conquest, seen off wars, revolutions, famines and floods. But now, like so many other indigenous languages, it’s at risk of extinction.

There are just two people left who can speak it fluently – but they refuse to talk to each other. Manuel Segovia, 75, and Isidro Velazquez, 69, live 500 metres apart in the village of Ayapa in the tropical lowlands of the southern state of Tabasco. It is not clear whether there is a long-buried argument behind their mutual avoidance, but people who know them say they have never really enjoyed each other’s company.

“They don’t have a lot in common,” says Daniel Suslak, a linguistic anthropologist from Indiana University, who is involved with a project to produce a dictionary of Ayapaneco. Segovia, he says, can be “a little prickly” and Velazquez, who is “more stoic,” rarely likes to leave his home.

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