Bag of Randomness

  • Happy birthday, Tim.
  • Seriously, it’s never been and I’ve never been so cold in my life.
  • For the heck of it I stood outside in shorts and a t-shirt for several minutes just to see what it would feel like in below-zero windchill.  Verdict – it wasn’t as bad as I thought.
  • I was listening to the Ticket interview Earl Campbell when WifeGeding walks by and informs me that he’s actually been to her house.
  • This just might be my favorite Earl Campbell highlight.
  • WifeGeeding informed me that he is named after the doctor that delivered him.
  • I miss having the Houston Oilers around even though I was never a fan.  There was something about those baby blues and that oil derrick on the helmet that just seemed right.
  • WifeGeeding was reading one of her friend’s Facebook post that made me laugh, “My son just named one of his cars, Bono.  I have done my work. :-)”
  • I refuse to watch Super Bowl commercials before the actual Super Bowl.
  • Disney is going to make a Snow White movie but it’s going to be set in 19th century China.
  • I was reading Ed Bark’s blog and he thinks North Texas doesn’t stand a chance for another Super Bowl because of the weather.  I totally disagree.  The Super Bowl attendance record is about to be shattered, that’s enough to bring it back.  And regarding the weather, come on.  It may get icy from time to time, but it’s never been this bad for this long.
  • In watching all the Egyptian protests I notice a lot of signs written in English, which makes me think they really want to communicate with the West.
  • If the streets aren’t terrible, I might just go to the Peter King tweetup.
  • Atari 2600 Lamp = Awesomeness
  • Lone Nepali Soldier Defends Potential Rape Victim Against 40 Men
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Failed Mailed Puppy Attempt

A 39-year-old woman was charged with animal cruelty after she tried to air-mail the dog to Atlanta from downtown Minneapolis, authorities said.

The postal worker was stunned when the package moved by itself and fell to the floor. Then came the sounds of heavy panting.

Within minutes, she and co-workers had unwrapped a tightly sealed box and rescued a 4-month-old puppy that a Minneapolis woman tried to mail to Georgia.

“It’s just crazy,” said Minneapolis Police Sgt. Angela Dodge. The air holes the woman punched in the box were covered up with mailing tape, and the priority mail trip would have taken at least two days, she said. “It was supposed to be a birthday gift for a family member. It would have been kind of traumatizing to get a dead puppy,” Dodge said. “If you don’t identify it so that it can be handled properly, it goes into the cargo hold of an airplane. It gets 40 below in those cargo planes that get up 40,000 feet. And there was no food or water. Puppies can’t go for long periods without food or water.”

The dog would have been dead on delivery, agreed police spokesman Sgt. William Palmer. “I’ve been doing this for 17 years. This is a new one on me.”

The woman, Stacey Champion, declined to tell police why she decided to mail the puppy, Dodge said.

On the outside of the package Champion wrote “This is for your 11th birthday. It’s what you wanted,” he said. She also told the clerk that if sounds came from the package, not to worry, it just contained a toy robot, Ojoyeyi added.

The whole article is pretty surprising itself, but this part really caught my attention for some reason:

The dog is now at the city’s animal control facility. If Champion declines or loses her appeal, Guess would go up for adoption. So far, Champion hasn’t notified authorities that she wants the dog back, Dodge said.

She did, however, return to the post office to demand a refund for the $22 she paid to mail the puppy. She also wanted a small amount of money she had attached to a makeshift dog collar returned to her.

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