Bag of Randomness

  • Jump the river and kickball were great games to play as a kid.
  • I think ABC World News has done a phenomenal job covering the oil spill.  Last night they covered all the new non-conventional techniques of oil spill clean up from using hay, special sponges, and new machines – all the stuff that you’ve more than likely have seen on YouTube.  You can watch the segment here.  They have also done a great job of asking some of the most obvious questions, the kind you wonder the answers to, to the appropriate people.
  • I find FireFox to be a memory hog, and even when I close it, I still see that it continues to run in the background.
  • Some people think I’m nuts because I see eye floaters all the time, but it’s true.
  • When oil is cleaned up from the beach, where does it go?  Landfill?
  • I had a dream that my friend Richard kept sending me post cards from around the world from places the Peace Corps have been sending him.
  • I seldom travel, but when I do, I like to send post cards.  Sometimes it’s just nice to get something in the mail that isn’t a bill or junk.
  • I’ve been thinking about working on obtaining a certificate to enhance my career.  I would prefer a PMP, but I don’t have the project management managing experience to qualify, so I’m leaning towards the CBAP from the IIBA which I do have enough professional working hours in that discipline to qualify for.
  • While talking with our pediatrician the other day he mentioned that his daughter recently broke some bones that required casts, and that his insurance covered everything except the casts themselves because they were categorized as an orthopedic device.  I thought that was worth noting as we both have the same insurance company.
  • I’m not sad the Big XII is about to die.  I don’t follow college football as much as I do the NFL, but I am a Texas Longhorns fan, and as long as the rivalries with OU (specifically at the Cotton Bowl) and TAMU are kept in tack, that’s about all I care about.
  • New Orleans Saints Raffling Off Super Bowl Ring – all to help those affected by the oil spill.
  • Royal Crown soda was the first to use aluminum cans.
  • Bachelor and Graduate Degrees per Square Mile – Austin is the highest ranked Texas city at 24, and Dallas and Houston are back-to-back at 31 and 32.  San Antonio comes in at 39.
  • Here’s an interesting discovery made by a happily married couple.  One grew up in Florida, the other from Canada.  The couple met at work and eventually got married.  The wife had a picture of herself as a toddler at Disney World, but the father noticed in the background of the photo was his father pushing him in a stroller.  Yeah, I know, it’s like a lost episode of LOST or something, maybe they have some mutual friend named Jacob.
  • 9 iPad Alternatives Worth Checking Out
  • How to melt an iPad
  • A little more info on that newspaper that keeps showing up in TV
  • Celine Dion has a lazy river at her house?
  • NASA wants to put a picture of you on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit.  I uploaded a picture of me, WifeGeeding, and BabyGeeding. http://faceinspace.nasa.gov/
  • For the New Yorkers in my life – The Tourist Lane
  • Grace
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Delta sends Cleveland kid to Boston and Boston kid to Cleveland

One thing is for certain, I wouldn’t want to be the customer service rep having to call the parents about this mistake.

Here’s a mix-up that’s bound to send shivers down parents’ spines and maybe induce a touch of mischievous excitement in their kids.

WOIO TV reports that Delta Airlines accidentally put a girl bound for Cleveland on a Boston flight last night, and stuck a boy bound for Boston on a Cleveland plane.

Nine-year-old Kieren Krenshaw looked absolutely delighted to be talking into the TV cameras this morning, intoning, “It was just weird. I was like I’m supposed to be at Boston, not Cleveland!”

Kieren and the unnamed Cleveland girl were both traveling as unaccompanied minors on a flight from Spokane, Washington, through Minneapolis-St. Paul, airline spokesman Paul Skrbec told Yahoo!. At Minneapolis they were “inadvertently boarded on incorrect connecting flights as a result of a paperwork swap,” Skrbec said.

“We apologized to the families, re-accommodated the children to their final destination cities at no cost, arranged full refunds for the children’s tickets, provided credits to the families for future travel, and refunded their unaccompanied minor fees,” Skrbec added.

Skrbec emphasized that the airline notified the families as soon as Delta realized its error, and that the children were under supervision at all times.

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Interesting Tornado Damage Pic

A childrens bicycle is shown Sunday, June 6, 2010 impaled into the side of a home after a tornado hit in Millbury, Ohio. Authorities say tornados and thunderstorms that swept through the Midwest overnight killed a number of people in Ohio, destroyed homes and damaged a high school gymnasium where graduation was to be held Sunday.

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Paying it foward with umbrellas

If you happen to get caught in the rain around town this weekend without an umbrella, don’t be surprised if a perfect stranger hands you a bright yellow one to keep — just because it’s a nice thing to do.

It’s part of a pay-it-forward project that started two years and 1,000 umbrellas ago and already is generating interest from around the world.

At the time Julie Kresen was driving around Squirrel Hill in a downpour when she spotted a very wet girl waiting for a bus.

Her eyes darted back and forth from the poor drenched soul at the bus stop to an umbrella on the floor of her car, and she quickly decided that giving up her umbrella was the right thing to do.

“She was so thankful, and I felt great about it for hours,” said Ms. Kresen of Emsworth. “I just started thinking, ‘Man, I want to give everybody an umbrella.’ “

And with that rainy day, an idea started to bloom.

Full PittsburghPostGazette.com Article

It’s a pretty cool concept I think.  Someone give you an umbrella when you most need it, and one day you do the same.

http://1000umbrellas.org/

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