Bag of Randomness

  • Is anybody else ready for a three day weekend?
  • Look Who’s Talking came on the tube last night, and after recently just becoming new parents, it was a nice watch . . . even it was on the Women’s Entertainment channel.  It was worth the watch just to see WifeGeeding crack up, and besides, nothing else was on.
  • Woot.com is the second website I visit every morning and I’m an occasional customer.  I like their concept, they sell one product a day and have witty descriptions, and they are just down the road.  Yesterday it was announced they were bought by Amazon.com.
  • WFAA sure loves to talk about Texas Baptist Men and their efforts to help in disasters whenever they get the chance.  I’m not critiquing TBM’s service in response to disaster, but just recognize that TBM seems to be the only disaster service group that channel chooses to recognize.
  • I’m sure this will be a best seller at Lifeway bookstores this fall.
  • For the heck of it I decided to do a search for “Obama” on the Lifeway website just to see of they books they sold were mostly positive or negative.  Here’s the results so you can decide for yourself.
  • Interesting watch – tell time by color of the sky
  • For those of you that use to spend time on HotOrNot.com here’s WhoIsSettling.com.
  • The History Channel show American Pickers has caught my attention, and I think one guy looks like Cris Collinsworth.
  • Grace
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Muslim-turned-Baptist out as Liberty University dean

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — A Baptist minister who toured the country to talk about his conversion from Islam to Christianity is no longer the dean of Liberty University’s theological seminary following allegations he fabricated or embellished facts about his past, the school said Friday.

The university founded by Rev. Jerry Falwell said that a board of trustees committee concluded Ergun Caner made contradictory statements. Although it didn’t find evidence that he was not a Muslim who converted as a teenager, it did discover problems with dates, names and places he says he lived, a statement said.

Caner will remain on the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary faculty, but won’t be dean when his term expires on June 30.

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Accident Sketch

You’ve been involved in an accident. You have many questions to answer and forms to fill in — from the police, insurance companies, and perhaps even lawyers and courts. And almost every one of those forms requires you to draw a diagram of what happened. AccidentSketch.com provides you with the tools to draw the sequence of events — and you only have to drag and drop road and vehicle icons onto a screen, fill in some details, then print out the accident report with your sketch. All for free.

www.accidentsketch.com

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Bag of Randomness

  • I bet a lot of you think that I’ve cut down on posting because of the newborn, but truth be told, I’m just not finding much ‘quality’ material.
  • The rain sure has made the temperature tolerable, enough so that WifeGeeding, BabyGeeding, DogGeeding, and OtherDogGeeding all went for a walk.
  • A cat and a parakeet become buddies
  • Bono may be writing for Pixar
  • I’ve eaten so much so much pasta in the past three weeks I may not eat pasta again for a year.
  • Jeep has a new commercial using a Johnny Cash song that I think is real attention grabbing and well made.
  • It really annoys me when people bring in their umbrellas on a rainy day and open them up, set them in the middle of the floor, and let them dry inside the office place.  First of all, seeing an open umbrella indoors just looks weird.  Second, I hear opening an umbrella indoors is just bad luck, or maybe that was made up to keep people from drying their umbrellas indoors.  Third, they take up a lot of space.  Fourth, a perfectly dry area is now wet.  Fifth, it’s a friggin umbrella, they are made to be water resistant and don’t need to be immediately dried – they don’t absorb water, don’t treat them like they are made out of cotton or cashmere.  Sixth, normal people who love America, the troops, Jesus, and little children would never do such a thing, doing so is only craving in to the terrorists.  Seventh, all you need to do when you come in from out of the rain is to close it and give it a good shake, and then tighten it if it has one of those wrap around thingies.
  • Yes, that was a vent and a rant all wrapped up in one.
  • In case you missed it, a Dallas store was selling an American flag with 61 stars.
  • Here’s a fast paced version of the “McDonalds McDonalds, a Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut” song sent to me by loyal reader Warren.  But I remember a different version.  @dcmba was nice enough to provide a link in yesterday’s comments.
  • An SNL Celebrity Jeopardy transcript that will make you laugh.
  • Yesterday my cube mate and I kept quoting Coming to America.  My gosh was that a funny movie.  One of the top five comedies of the Eighties?
  • In the business world I often hear the phrase “pick your battles.”  I hate that phrase.  It makes me feel as if my thoughts or input doesn’t matter.  But I think it hate the phase mostly because I can’t really ague against it.
  • Sneaky Fox News
  • Whenever someone mentions a sequel to a movie with the number two in the name, for instance, Toy Story 2, I always silently add Electric Boogaloo to the title.
  • I ran out of pre-shave oil and have substituted baby oil and I’ll be darn it works just about the same.  If you haven’t tried any pre-shave oil, give it a shot, you’ll be surprised.  Pre-shave oil first, then the shaving cream.
  • I made WifeGeeding laugh when I asked her how many babies had to die in order to make baby oil, then pondered who would have thought babies would have oil you could squeeze out of them.
  • I’ve been hearing some Republicans attacking Thurgood Marshall lately since Elena Kagan use to clerk for him.  That may not be a good idea and could come back to haunt them.
  • I’ve been thinking about my dad a lot lately, and one thought that crossed my mind is how I have monthly bills that are now common ‘necessities’ that he didn’t pay when I was a kid.  For instance, the Internet and cell phone bills.  Oh, and the monthly subscription to bacon of the month club.
  • We had bookcovers in school in which the main local advertiser was a funeral home.  I always thought it was a bit odd that on the front of all my books was a picture of a funeral home.
  • Grace
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