Bag of Randomness

  • I was having a conversation with a friend at work when the topic of boiling water came up and turned into a bit of a friendly debate.  He felt that most people would refer to the boiling temperature of water as 212° Fahrenheit and I felt that most would say 100° Celsius.  The debate turned into what would 100 random people answer, and whether or not an international background would be of any influence.  So to find an answer, I posted a poll on this website and it turns out I am in the wrong as you can tell from the graphic above.
  • My reasoning for my answer was that 212 was harder to remember that 100, and in science classes I remember being taught about the 100° – huh, shows you what I know.
  • I have tried the Julia Child omelet technique and it is absolutely fantastic.  Using this technique resulted in the easiest, fastest, and best eggs I have ever cooked.
  • I caught the end of the Xavier and Kansas State game – wowzers.
  • I can really relate to this article about the high-deductible health plan.
  • This weekend I’m gonna learn me some baby CPR.
  • I keep running into the article that states a quarter of Republicans think that Obama is the Anti-Christ.  I wasn’t on planning on posting it because it was a bit hard for me to believe, but then I learned that a liberal coworker of mine actually believes he’s the Anti-Christ.
  • For the first time in a long time, The Office was pretty darn good.
  • Not that’s just a really crazy looking flash drive.
  • Kordian Lewandowski made his own version of Michelangelo’s “La Pietà”. He used the Nintendo characters Mario and Princess Peach.
  • A look at wireless carrier market share in the Dallas area – Lets just say there are a lot of iPhones.
  • Superheroes vs. Supervillains Bracket – How can Superman lose?
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U.S. bases in Afghanistan say goodbye to Whoppers, DQ

Whoppers, Dairy Queen sundaes and the latest movies will soon disappear for U.S. military personnel serving in Afghanistan, according to a blog posting by Sgt. Maj. Michael T. Hall discussing changes to morale, welfare and recreation facilities on U.S. bases there.

In an effort to put more focus on fighting the Taliban, the military is cutting back on “non-essentials” in Afghanistan, Hall announced on the International Security Assistance Force Afghanistan blog this week. Hall is the command sergeant major for ISAF.

On large U.S. facilities such as the Kandahar and Bagram air bases, that includes closing restaurants such as Burger King, Dairy Queen, Orange Julius and Pizza Hut, dropping first-run movies from base theaters and cutting the amount of canned and bottled imported from the States, Hall writes.

“This is a warzone – not an amusement park,” he writes.

“Supplying nonessential luxuries to big bases like Bagram and Kandahar makes it harder to get essential items to combat outposts and forward operating bases, where troops who are in the fight each day need resupplied with ammunition, food and water,” Hall says in the blog posting.

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‘Man with the golden arm’ saves 2million babies in half a century

An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.

James Harrison, 74, has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia.

He has enabled countless mothers to give birth to healthy babies, including his own daughter, Tracey, who had a healthy son thanks to her father’s blood.

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