Bag of Randomness

Happiness is like peeing in your pants.
Everyone can see it, but only you can feel its warmth.

  • I’d like to know what the typical mall Santa in DFW makes in terms of income.
  • While driving out to east Texas I discovered that a part of I20 is named Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway.
  • A nice article on C.S. Lewis
  • Blockbuster seems like it’s pretty much done for because they refused to embrace the future Netflix was embarking, which is why I feel this article is all the more interesting.  Basically, Netflix approached Blockbuster about a partnership and Blockbuster basically laughed Netflix out of the office.
  • I’m a shaving snob, I admit that.  But over the weekend I think I found the sharpest razor blade to fit my safety razor and it gave me the closest shave I think I ever had.
  • I’ve been addicted to Groupon as of late and one of my more recent purchases was a haircut at The Boardroom.  My gosh, I never thought I would enjoy a haircut so much in my life.  When I entered, I noticed a pool table in the middle of a room full of dark wood surroundings.  I was offered a complimentary water, soda, or beer and then a woman with a thicker accent than the lady on Modern Family cut my hair.  After the hair cut I was lead to a dark room where my hands were dipped in a paraffin wax tub and then after a hair wash I got a facial and scalp massage and a hot towel treatment.  It all ended with a hand massage as the wax was removed from my hands.  It probably wasn’t the most manly of things, but dang it, being pampered is nice.
  • Maybe the ugliest and cutest dog you’ll ever see
  • I overheard a conversation recently about someone in an SBC Sunday school talking about how they were going over the George W. Bush memoir in class.
  • DeSean Jackson is one heck of a player but I think he’s more of a jerk than T.O.  I expected a lot of free and strong safeties with some dirty hits in the future.
  • Julianne Hough from Dancing with the Stars fame has a new country video that has been deemed too racy for CMT.  You can judge for yourself here.  I watched it (with the volume off, of course) and didn’t think anything of it.
  • More details on Fellowship Church’s 3-D Christmas
  • The Common Man’s Reference Bible – I may have to get this for BibleScholarGeorge
  • Man kills shark with one jump
  • When bad words started to become part of the English lexicon
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UAE hotel boasts ‘most expensive Christmas tree’

A glitzy hotel in Abu Dhabi has put on show a jewel-encrusted Christmas tree which it says is worth over $11m (£7m).

Items of jewellery studded with scores of precious stones are draped on the tree’s branches, along with more traditional baubles and lights.

While the tree alone is worth a mere $10,000, the jewellery adds more than $11m to the value, said the hotel’s general manager Hans Olbertz.

The Emirates Palace hotel would ask the Guinness World Records to certify the tree as the world’s most expensive, Mr Olbertz said. A jewel-encrusted Christmas tree in the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi, the UAE Along with stars and lights, watches and bracelets adorn the tree

The bracelets, necklaces and watches which adorn the 13m (43-foot) tree contain 181 diamonds, pearls, emeralds, sapphires and other precious stones.

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I doubt you can get near it – “We have 24/7 security, four security guards closely monitoring the space plus security cameras.”

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