Bag of Randomness

  • Football has been on my mind a lot this week.  Tonight my favorite college team will play for the national championship and on Saturday my favorite NFL team will try to win their first playoff game of the century.
  • I think I like the Longhorns chances tonight, and that’s mainly because of the defense and the defensive coordinator.  No matter who wins, I think the victor will win by four points.
  • If given the choice of the Longhorns winning the national championship or the Cowboys winning their first playoff game in 13 years, I would choose the Cowboy victory.
  • Growing up, the Longhorns I cheered for were never really any good, so I just consider myself lucky to see them win one championship in my lifetime.  I’m lucky to have experience the Cowboys winning multiple Super Bowls and the Stars winning the Stanley Cup, but I’m not sure if I will ever see the Mavs or Rangers win it all.
  • Oh, and how can I forget that the Sidekicks won it all.
  • It’s crazy the last college football game is being played seven days after the start of the year.  I miss the days of fewer bowl games and bowl games being played on New Years Day.
  • There’s a video of a Philadelphia Eagle’s employee spitting on the Cowboys’ blue star at center field.  Man, people around here sure do get bent out of shape about that star.  It’s not like they spit on the grave of Tom Landry or anything, they spit on the playing surface.   I think it’s just part of the drama of this great rivalry and people looking for bulletin board material.
  • I don’t believe the Cowboys have beaten a team three times in a year, which brings a lot of concern for me, but their attitude and energy seems to be different this time around.
  • I’m getting ahead of myself, like really, really ahead of myself.  But if Wade Phillips or Andy Reid ever become a Super Bowl winning coach, it will be quite a sight seeing playing trying to left either of them on their shoulders.  The both look much heavier than Parcells, Madden, or Holmgren did back in their days.
  • I don’t think Mike Shananhan is going to be what the Redskins need.  His playoff record after Elway really isn’t impressive.
  • Pat Robertson has his 2010 predictions.
  • Blossom is coming back to TV
  • Abe Lincoln said all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test his character give him power.
  • The 11 Best Performing Stocks of the 2000’s
  • Celebrity women faces combined into one
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A new e-reader will enter the market

E-readers are likely to get hotter with the next generation of devices sporting color screens and large displays expected to launch through the year.

One of the first products to announce its arrival is the Skiff e-reader, a lightweight device with a 11.5-inch full flexible touchscreen that makes it the largest e-reader on the market, beating the 9.7-inch display Kindle DX.

Unlike other e-readers designed for reading mainly books and PDF files, the Skiff is optimized for newspaper and magazine content and will use Sprint’s 3G network to offer wireless connectivity. The device will debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas later this week. The company hasn’t announced availability and pricing for it yet.

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Lost Recap

The final season of Lost will start to air on Tuesday, February 2, and just in case you need a recap from all seasons pasts, this eight-minute-forty-second video should scratch that itch.

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Women’s feet getting bigger

Women’s feet are getting bigger, with the average shoe size up from a five to a six in the past five years, figures have found.

Medical experts believe that the rise in size is down to the obesity epidemic, pointing to high-density foods such as pizza being eaten during puberty stimulating the growth hormone.

The research from Debenhams found that in 2009, ladies’ size nines sales increased by 23 per cent, while sales of size sixes jumped by 17 per cent.

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