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Netflix’s daily-updating Top 10 lists roll out worldwide

Netflix will update the list daily, and when you click on the Movies or TV tab, you’ll see separate lists for those categories. The position of the list will vary depending on how relevant the titles are to you, and titles that make the cut will get a “Top 10” badge, so you’ll be able to spot them when you’re scrolling through other sections too.

While Netflix has featured popular and trending content in the past, this is the first time it’s ranking titles in order.

Sometimes I’m haunted by the fact that some folks have only interacted with me once but caught me at my worst, and they will forever think of me negatively.

That time oil diggers accidentally drilled into a salt mine and drained an entire lake.

If you accidentally typed in ALL CAPS in Microsoft word, select the text and give “Shift” and “F3” a try. If you hit those buttons again each word will have its first letter capitalized, hit it again and you get all lowercase. For you Mac users, it’s “Command ⌘ “and “a”.

Yesterday afternoon I accepted the role of general manager for the Rockies . . . of the Coppell Youth Sports Association. There’s a draft on Sunday afternoon which I’ll use to form my roster. But, according to Jimmy Johnson’s old draft sheet, I get a one two and two threes for a first and fifth, which I just may use. Someone break it to BoyGeeding that I’m not drafting him until the 4th. And please don’t tell him that he’s only on the team because I traded five jockstraps and a package of eye black for him. Now I’m off to find a coach who can adequately send slackers to the asthma field during conditioning drills on the first practice.

I forgot to share this BoyGeeding story earlier in the week. His actual birthday (he turned eight) was on Sunday but he had his birthday party the day before. He was fortunate enough to receive presents but I noticed right before bedtime not all of his presents were taken out of their packaging. I asked him why and he said he can’t play with those until morning because the box says “For children eight and up.” He thought it would be “illegal” for him to play with a toy for children eight years old an up on the last day he would be seven years old.

Talent show tryouts were yesterday at our children’s school. I was tole one kid decided to rap Eminem’s Lose Yourself, acapella.  You knew things were off to a slow start when he pulled out his phone to read the lyrics off of a YouTube video. He was instructed that the talent show doesn’t allow for any phone or paper to be used and that next time he should use a version with clean language.

Random nostalgia – When Gatorade used to come in glass bottles. It would be fun to open it for the first time hearing that medal lid pop and later trying to screw the lid back on so that the lid looked depressed (it never worked).

Quarter Pounder Scented Candle Pack

• Set of 6 custom scented candles in glass containers, inspired by Quarter Pounder  ingredients: Bun, Ketchup, Pickle, Cheese, Onion, 100% Fresh Beef**
• Burn together for maximum deliciousness

Medium.com – After Attending a Trump Rally, I Realized Democrats Are Not Ready For 2020 – I’ve been a Democrat for 20 years. But this experience made me realize how out-of-touch my party is with the country at large.

Report: Corpus Christi has the highest utility bills in the nation

The Great Sphinx of Giza Through the Years

How The Mandalorian and ILM invisibly reinvented film and TV production

As detailed in an extensive report in American Cinematographer Magazine (I’ve been chasing this story for some time, but suspected this venerable trade publication would get the drop on me), the production process of “The Mandalorian” is completely unlike any before, and it’s hard to imagine any major film production not using the technology going forward. Meet “the Volume.”

Formally called Stagecraft, it’s 20 feet tall, 270 degrees around, and 75 feet across — the largest and most sophisticated virtual filmmaking environment yet made. ILM just today publicly released a behind-the-scenes video of the system in use, as well as a number of new details about it.

I love the way Young Sheldon ended last night’s episode.

I appreciate those of you who commented on my questions about convicted sex offenders, their involvement and employment in the church, and forgiveness. As I mentioned, I’m not necessarily looking for the right answer, I just like to have some theological back and forth. Several of you support the idea of “forgive but don’t forget” but I think that overlooks the calling to be Christ-like. Protestants interpret God and Jesus as the same (let’s not forget the Holy Spirit), and the Bible tells us that God will not only forgive our sins but forget them as well (in a sense, all three support this). So, in the quest to be Christ-like, it appears that the church should not only forgive but also forget.

I don’t favor any answer which states certain things like this are impossible at the human level but possible at the deity level because I’ve been taught that God doesn’t give us anything we can’t handle (and that interpretation can certainly be debated) (now I’m reminded of LiberallyLean’s mention of “Baptist guilt” for some reason). Certainly, from a worldly moral and legal standpoint doing so should be a no-no, but it seems like something the church “should” do. I’ll tell you this much, I certainly don’t want to be put in such a position to have to make such a decision. But I am glad I take the time to think these sorts of things over rather than settling for an answer which sounds good. As you can tell, I’m more interested in having the discussion than having the answer, it’s sort like the journey is better than the destination kinda thing.

DaughterGeeding has been binge-watching The Simpsons (Yes, I already know I’m a bad parent) and she made the observation that only two characters have eyebrows – Smithers and Milhouse.

Anytime I hear someone use the word “stake” or “mistake” I immediately think of a scene in Duece Bigalow in which a woman asks, “Did you stay steak?” But when I hear someone use the word “steak” I only think of steak.

I think our government can come up with a better title for the role of undersecretary.

If you are running for office and happen to be extremely wealthy but won’t release your tax records, or older and won’t release your medical records, there’s something you don’t want people to know.

I don’t know how fast President Trump and his limo traveled going around the Daytona 500 race track, but I think that might have been the fastest the public has seen a presidential limo go since the JFK assassination.

I replaced the four fluorescent bulb light fixture in our kitchen yesterday. I never did like that light, the cold glow always reminded me of the opening scene in Joe vs. The Volcano. The new fixture looks much better, like something which belongs in a home and not in an office or shop. It’s LED and much brighter and allows me to change the color temperature. Upon turning it on for the first time (yes, I did the Clark Griswold “Joy to the world”) I asked myself why didn’t I do this earlier. Then it dawned upon me, oh, yeah, LEDs like this haven’t really been available or affordable until recently.

These Lyrics Do Not Exist – Lyrics generated using Artificial Intelligence

Wait for it, this woman has some amazing leg and ab strength. Also, that dude in the backpack must have been in a hurry.

Larry Tesler, the computer scientist responsible for cut, copy, and paste, has passed away.

In the spirit of being freaking proud of myself and also knowing I'm about to be fat shamed on the Internet, I present to you me, a 38 year old mom and teacher, doing a thing I was afraid to do when I was a 14 year old gymnast. Next week: add a full (and straighten my legs) pic.twitter.com/4YpFRArgtd

— Nicole Clemens (@Nicolemens) February 18, 2020

Well-known Grand Meadow bus driver dies https://t.co/x7FUIPj727

— Post Bulletin (@PB_News) February 18, 2020

The headmaster at our children’s school had a Dan Quayle “potatoe” moment but I think it may have been worst considering his love for the Founding Fathers and how much they seem to be at the core of everything at the school. He walked into an elementary school class and they were reviewing a lesson over U.S. currency. He briefly addressed the class and quizzed them on who was on the nickel. In all seriousness, he thought Alexander Hamilton was on the nickel. I’m flabbergastered.

When I say the Founding Fathers are at the core of everything at the school, it’s not hyperbole. For instance, here’s a collage of items you’ll find walking the halls. It’s a great school, no school is perfect, and at the risk of sounding ungrateful for my country, the school can sometimes pour on patriotism a bit thickly.

I heard Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton muse about a light-hearted political theory yesterday – Politicians with three-syllable sounding names tend to get elected over their opponents. He cited that’s why Donald Trump won over Hillary Clinton, Gregg Abbot is our governor, and that’s why Micheal Bloomberg likes to go by “Mike Bloomberg”.

My state representative’s campaign send me yet another text asking if I would consider voting for her. I replied back, “I’ve replied to a previous text that she had my vote as well as on the phone. However, I may change my mind because someone in your campaign put a yard sign in my front yard without my permission and the nonstop texts and calls.”

Texas church with sex offender pastor first to be ousted from SBC under abuse reforms

A Texas church pastored by a man who sexually abused two pre-teen girls is the first to be removed from the Southern Baptist Convention under new sex abuse reforms.

Ranchland Heights Baptist Church in Midland has for years been pastored by Phillip Rutledge, who was convicted of sexual assaulting 11 and 12-year-old girls in 2003, according to court records and the Texas Department of Public Safety.

This would be an interesting topic to have a back and forth with with some of my pastoral friends. People have to be held accountable for their actions, but Christians are taught to forgive and be like Christ. If Christ forgives our sins and tosses them as far as the east is from the west, and if all sin is weighed equal in God’s eyes, at what point can Christians forgive the most wicked of sins after corporal punishment has been served and true repentance of error and sin occurred? For instance, I can’t see how a congregation would allow a convicted sex offender to ever be a youth minister, or any leadership position in the church, no matter how genuine his or her life has been turned around. If a person can’t get a second chance at a church, what hope does hath he? I don’t expect an answer from anyone, it’s really a rhetorical question, but I doubt I’ll ever find an answer I feel comfortable with.

Per their webpage, SpeedZone Dallas Is Permanently Closed.

Dallas’s Geeky New ‘Star Wars’ Themed Pop-Up Bar – Sip a Baby Yoda cocktail in this temporarily Death Star-designed bar

A Baby Yoda themed drink is made with vodka and green melon liqueur, and garnished with limes to resemble The Child’s iconic ears.

There’s a huge six-foot Millennium Falcon model dangling above drinkers, a towering Chewbacca, Darth Vader wedged between two Stormtroopers, and a twinkling ceiling to offset its new Death Star-themed bathrooms. Of course, the cult films will also play on repeat across most of its TVs.