Bag of Randomness

  • When I got back from lunch yesterday I’m waiting for the elevator door to open, and as it opens I see two people waiting to step off, my cubemate and my business hero, the legendary Herb Kelleher.  Herb stuck out his hand and said hello to me as if he knew me for years.  For the rest of the day, I was in a tizzy.  There are just a few people that I actually want to shake hands with, Herb, of course was one of them.  If you are a dedicated reader of this blog, you can probably guess some of the others.
  • Now if I can only get a picture with him.
  • The only adequate thing that I can describe that handshake is to liken it to when He-Man summons the Power of Grayskull.
  • I bet the average American can name more NASCAR drivers than NHL players, which tells you that if the NHL wants to grow its audience it needs to work on getting their players out in the mainstream.
  • DFW seems to always have a new subdivision being built, and in the summers there’s always water restrictions, which makes me wonder why houses aren’t build with some sort of rain water catching device to store water underground to use to water the lawn during the summer.
  • A best friend of mine (a math major) loved the movie Stand and Deliver which starred Edward James Olmos who played the real life Jaime Escalante, a math teacher who took a bunch of  “unteachable kids” in L.A. and created a nationally acclaimed calculus program.  Unfortunately Escalante has cancer and is having trouble paying his medical bills, but Olmos and the cast are doing what they can to help out with the expenses.
  • I goofed the other day when I posted what I thought was a cool looking logo for the London 2012 Olympics.  Thanks to reader Sam, you can view the ugly looking logo here.
  • Most Addictive Sounds in the World
  • I couldn’t help but look at Ellen’s neck last night on American Idol. Her face may not look 52 years old, but her neck certainly does.
  • What comes after the iPad?
  • Rat out a person cheating on taxes and make some money. [Thanks, D]
  • LOST – Simpsons style
  • 67 Million-Year-Old Snake Fossil Found Eating Baby Dinosaurs
  • The sun is white not yellow
  • An interesting piece on avoiding suicide
  • Grace
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From a loyal reader in Topeka

Hey Geeding,

This is [name withheld].  I have a favor to ask you, and if you decide against it please do not worry about losing a reader/fan.  My hometown is Topeka, Kansas.  I love my hometown.  Topeka has struggled over the years with a multitude of problems from state budget issues to an unusually high crime rate.  We have gotten a bad reputation and it is very unfair.  A couple of my friends have started a movement to attract the attention of Google and their Google Fiber Experiment to Topeka.  We feel that this will be the shot in the arm that Topeka desperately needs.  We have gotten so many people in the area on board that our Mayor just proclaimed that for the month of March we will be known as Google, Kansas.  We could use all the help we can get.  If you could please feature this story on your blog I think it would not only entertain your readers but they may also help to spread the word.  Thank you for your consideration, here are some links for you to read about all of this….

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/01/google-kansas/

http://thinkbigtopeka.com/

http://cjonline.com/news/local/2010-02-25/big_thinkers_flash_for_topeka

http://cjonline.com/news/local/2010-03-01/topeka_to_be_google_kansas

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