Bag of Randomenss

  • It has to be a joke . . . my dog got another invitation from Hardin-Simmons University to attend an alumni event for children.
  • The wisest person I know from Wise County made me think a lot about a certain statement: It amazes me how people fail to realize that they see the world through a prism that was formed through their incredibly limited experiences.  I totally agree with that statement.
  • I can’t remember the last summer in which California didn’t have a wild fire.  Here’s a photo of the fires from space.
  • It’s amazing this couple is about to have their 19th child.  I bet you can have some very interesting ethical discussions about this family.
  • I don’t like German chocolate cake.
  • I always thought the SMU scandal was considered the worst college scandal of all time since it got the “death penalty,” but this list says different.
  • I actually got an invitation to a movie screening yesterday.
  • The Connecticut’s legislature’s secret to success
  • Roy Sullivan is recognized by Guinness World Records for being struck by lightening more than any other human, a total of seven times.  How did he die?  A self inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 71.
  • Screenshots of Google’s new operating system?
  • The Smurfs arrive in theaters at the end of 2010
  • I may have spoken too soon about HP’s customer service.  Even though I registered my laptop when I first purchased it, and I’m able to log into my HP account and see it online, they cannot find the serial number in their system.  So I emailed them back with what I found on the bottom of my laptop, and they replied back asking me to perform some software updates when the other representative already dertermined it to be a hardware issue and told me they were going to send me a box so I could ship the laptop to them.  In my last communication with them, they asked for my contact information, even though I gave that to them previously and it’s in the body of the email.  I totally jinxed myself praising their service too early.  I had it coming.  The latest . . . a manager will be calling me in the next 3-4 days.
  • Grace
Posted in Personal | 2 Comments

Bank wants thumbprint from man with no hands

Tampa, Florida — While most banks require a thumbprint to cash a check from someone who doesn’t have an account, a Tampa man says that policy was impossible to comply with.

Steve Valdez says he was shocked when he was told he had to put his thumbprint on a check written on his wife’s Bank of America check. Valdez says the check was written to him with the same address he has on his driver’s license. Although he had two forms of identification both with pictures, the bank still required Valdez to give a thumbprint before it would cash the check.

But that was impossible, because Valdez was born without arms and wears prosthetic devices.

Full Article

Posted in Goofy, Interesting, Pop Culture | Comments Off on Bank wants thumbprint from man with no hands

Dallas leads nation in repeat teen births

AUSTIN – Dallas leads the nation in the percentage of teen births that aren’t the mother’s first delivery, a nonpartisan national research group finds in a new report.

Dallas had the highest percentage of teen births that are repeat births – 28 percent – among 73 major U.S. cities in 2006, the latest year for which city-level data are available.

Texas has the highest repeat rate of any state – 23 percent of teen births. And five of the 15 worst-ranked cities are in Texas, according to the group Child Trends, in a report to be released Wednesday.

Full Article

Posted in DFW, Interesting, Texas | 1 Comment