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Regarding the photo above, yes, I know the actor the kid is portraying had a dramatic weight loss story and later died.

This is a nerdy and very adult admission, but you have no idea how happy I was after I discovered the TRIM function in Excel. It’s one of those things in which I wondered, “Where have you been all my life?” Also, I learned how to remove carriage returns, which was almost as joyful.

I forgot that up until 1990, McDonald’s used beef fat to fry their fries.

Yesterday, LiberallyLean mentioned AT&T Stadium’s glass doors, roof, and air pressure when opened. When I took the tour of the stadium in its inaugural year, that was one of the first things they told you. They said if they didn’t open them in a sequence, the pressure would literally destroy the roof, but I forgot the order.

Today’s dose of ‘MURICA! – Bald eagle attacks state’s $950 drone, sends it to bottom of Lake Michigan

ESCANABA, MI – In what state officials are describing tongue-in-cheek as a “brazen attack,” a bald eagle recently snatched a $950 drone belonging to the state of Michigan that was being flown to document shoreline erosion damage in the Upper Peninsula. After a brief tussle, the big bird ripped off one of the propellers from the small spinning aircraft and sent it to the bottom of Lake Michigan near Escanaba, state workers said.

The Lincoln Project is about to come out swinging. I’m interested to see how the punches will land.

“We’ve … been doing this with a purpose,” Madrid said. “These ads have been running in limited runs as we check the analytics to see how the response is. And now, in the last 80, 90 days, it’s all about execution. So we’re now putting the money and the firepower behind it in eight key states where we think it will make a difference by moving Republican votes.”

This digital ad campaign will involve spending $1 million on social media sites, direct email and search engines to reach voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, Texas, Arizona, North Carolina and Georgia. Voters in those states will see eight different commercials that the Lincoln Project made.

Today we begin our $1M digital effort, targeting soft Republicans and Independents with ads analytically proven to lower voters' support of Trump.https://t.co/2WWRmtEVNk

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 13, 2020

Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Why I am not sending my kids back to school

Sunday Lawn Care is a unique online and mail business. They start by sending a soil test kit and then combine that with weather data to create a custom nutrient plan. The tailored plan is delivered up to three times per year and includes products that are non-toxic and safe for kids and pets.

Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks to Get Critical Software Updates

Russell Kirsch, Inventor of the Pixel, Passed Away This Week

Computer scientist Russell A. Kirsch, the inventor of the pixel and an undisputed pioneer of digital imaging, passed away on Tuesday in his Portland home from complications arising from a form of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 91 years old.

Goodness, it’s been a busy and exhausting week. I haven’t had much time to commit to blogging or other things.

The Miami Marlins, beginning Sept. 10, will have a 15-game homestand in an 11-day span. Within that homestand will be four doubleheaders, including a five-day, seven-game series against the Phillies.

I used to help set up and tear down concerts, this looks like it would be a nightmare.

UK’s First Socially Distanced Concert Shows What Future May Hold

The very last Blockbuster is offering an End of Summer Sleepover. I thought their description was cute.

Dust off those membership cards for a sleepover inside the world’s last BLOCKBUSTER. When you call dibs on this stay, you’re booking a night back in the 90s, but this time you won’t have to beg your parents to rent the latest horror flick–we’ll give you the keys to the entire store!

Whether you want to stay up until sunrise or pass out on the couch, we’ve created the perfect space complete with a pull-out couch, bean bags and pillows for you to cozy up with “new releases” from the ‘90s. Crack open a two-liter of Pepsi before locking into a video game, charting your future in a game of MASH, or watching movie after movie. But be wary of reciting “Bloody Mary” in the staff bathroom off of the break room, as you just may summon the ghost rumored to haunt the store. And help yourself to some NERDS, Raisinets and popcorn (heavy on the butter), but make sure you save room for a couple slices.

And remember, the store is all yours for the night! So let loose, blast the boombox and wear your favorite ‘90s denim so that you feel right at home in another era.

Next year Hyundai is launching an entirely new brand in 2021 called Ioniq.

South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Group — which currently consists of Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis — has just announced that it will be launching a new car brand named IONIQ, solely dedicated to manufacturing battery-powered electric cars. The name itself is based on the current Hyundai Ioniq model, which used the word at the time for simply identifying the development project which ultimately led to the hybrid car.

The group says that it currently has three cars already planned for release over the next four years

The Baker Hotel tweeted this artistic photo from the inside. It’s the sort of thing I’d like to show to a high school English class and assign them to write story and see where their imagination goes. I’m reminded of Narnia. I thought the “Crazy” sign was in another part of town. First Baptist Church is on the left and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church is on the right.

With just a day to spare, I renewed the domain name for this website. I came close not doing it and moving everything from this domain to the Geeding.com domain, which I also own and currently redirects to this website. But in the end, “BagOfNothing” is just a part of my life, even if I don’t have a t-shirt for it. One oddity did happen. Upon renewal on GoDaddy, I saw a message which said, “A copy of this receipt has been sent to admin@capturedbydesign.com.” I recall seeing that a few years ago when I last renewed my hosting account, but when I called in to inquire about it they said they couldn’t find anything on their end and I couldn’t find it on any of my account pages. I decided to call again and this time an agent was able to walk me through to the screen in which that email address appeared. The agent looked through my history to see if anything looked out of place, thankfully it didn’t, so I updated the password and set up two-factor authentication.

A woman is stunned when her new driver’s license came back with a picture of an empty chair

Smart pic by Biden of Senator Harris. Vetted and ready. Historic. A racial, gender, and generational diversity ticket. And in one person he brought together the two significant social movements of past five years – MeToo and Black Lives Matter.

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) August 11, 2020

Hamilton Was Watched By More People In July Than Anything On Netflix – Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton is the most viewed title in July triumphing over all Netflix titles with over twice as many viewers.

This domain name is about to become available to the public if I don’t do something about it.

The start of school is going to be nothing short of a disaster when it comes to COVID-19. I’ve already seen a plethora of pics posted on social media of highschoolers taking maskless group photos at parties and general group photos (e.g. drill team, band, senior class, etc).

Armchair political speechwriter, rough draft:

My fellow Americans. Let’s be blunt, we are in the middle of an epidemic and it’s going to temperarily change our way of life. How long, well, it’s up to you, it’s up to all of us. But we’ll overcome this. I know this because, as a nation, we’ve done this before. Americans who endured the Spanish Flu in 1918 were tough,strong willed, utilized every weapon of modern medicine they could at the time. We are grateful they have set us up for victory as we face this current epidemic. So, let us honor them. Using the courage and lessons our ancestors have learned from their experience, we’ll conquer this virus and our own actions will serve as an example for future generations to follow. Let’s be part of that American legacy. They’ll look back proudly at how we banded together as a nation as we honored and took care of our neighbros doing the simpliest of things like wearing a mask, to providing wide spread testing, and equiping our medical professionals with the essentials to provide the fastest result for a vaccine.

This is an interesting idea but the story itself reminded me of seeing the first Spirit Halloween store in my neighborhood open about three weeks ago. Surely they don’t get customers every day? That must be a boring job, but there’s probably a lot of inventory and display work to get it up and running.

Amazon may turn dying JC Penney and Sears stores into warehouses – Malls may regain some relevance in the internet era.

A few months ago, DaughterGeeding came up to me and said she was worried about BoyGeeding. She said late at night when they talk, he says he feels sad for no reason and can’t explain why, and that this has been going on for a while. I told her the next time that happens, to send him to talk to me no matter how late it is. One night he came downstairs and asked to talk. He shared that he doesn’t understand why he feels sad sometimes, that sometimes he can go from happy to experiencing sadness but nothing happened to make him feel sad. We talked through things as I was trying to better understand his perspective and to see if anything was possibly trigging this experience. My goal wasn’t so much to fix it but just to show he could trust me and open up without feeling judged, thinking this sort of emotional bond needs to start now if I ever want him to be willing to share stuff with me when the s— hits the fan in his teenage years and he’s trying to cover something up. I couldn’t identify anything but told the eight-year-old that I think our mind works a lot like our body. That if we want to jump higher, we have to work out our muscles to strengthen them so it can be easier to jump. So, maybe our minds want to be happy or maintain happiness, but to do that, the mind has to remind itself about the sad so we can appreciate and recognize the happy, otherwise we might miss it or not know when happiness is around. I admit, I reached a bit and the analogy kinda fell apart. I actually think I said something different because it somewhat sorta made sense at the time. But anyways, he then said he thinks he understands and it’s probably a lot more like a flu shot. He then explained his thought in fine detail using terminology that surprised me, but in childlike speak. He basically said, “It’s like we inject ourselves with a little part of the dead form of the flu virus. And our bodies kinda like think the body is under attack so it creates special white blood cells to fight off the dead form of the virus which leaves us a stronger immune system to fight off a living form of the virus. So maybe the sad feelings are like the flu shot, like the sadness I feel is a dead part that can’t hurt me but it’s used to help my mind be prepared just in case some sad or bad stuff happens. Because if bad or sad stuff happens and I never got ready for it, when it first happens, it would be really bad, like really bad, like I would be really, really sad. But this way, it’s still bad, you know, but I can be better ready when it happens, so instead of being, I dunno, like 90-percent sad I would only be something like only 25-percent sad.”

Three Texans lost their lives on Saturday counting sheep.

Three Texas Parks and Wildlife Employees Perish in Helicopter Crash During Bighorn Sheep Survey

AUSTIN— While conducting aerial surveys for desert bighorn sheep in West Texas on Saturday, Aug. 8, three Texas Parks and Wildlife Department employees died in a helicopter crash on TPWD’s Black Gap Wildlife Management Area in Brewster County.

The victims include Wildlife Biologist Dewey Stockbridge, Fish and Wildlife Technician Brandon White, and State Wildlife Veterinarian Dr. Bob Dittmar. The pilot, a private contractor, survived the crash and was transported to El Paso for further treatment.

I had no idea this area had rats this size.

One headline said “Fort Worth, Don’t Feed the Giant Swamp Rats.” But now the famous nutria in Baker Park apparently have a fan club feeding them dog food @KaleyAJohnson @HowertonNews Suzie Torres video pic.twitter.com/1YA1q4yub4

— Bud Kennedy / #ReadLocal (@BudKennedy) August 8, 2020

Here’s a YouTube video of a woman doing a handstand on the blade of one of those power-producing windmills.