Bag of Randomness

  • Yesterday was a long day, I ended up working an extra four hours at work.
  • And then I had to come home and try to repair our bed.
  • How did our bed break?  Well, a friend is painting the bedroom as a favor to us and he shoved it a bit too hard.
  • Nothing a little J.B. Weld can’t fix.
  • I hope.
  • McCartney on Letterman, returning to the Ed Sullivan Theater, was pretty cool.
  • He had a good “magazine dropping” line last night.
  • Being someone who really didn’t know much about him, he came across as very charming.
  • McCartney played outside on the marquee, and the crowd outside was just massive.  I found some great pictures that were recently uploaded to Flickr.
  • I remember the first time I saw him, I think it was on an MTV awards show where he made a surprise appearance, and I wondered why everyone was cheering for the old man no one knew.
  • I’m going to have to work Saturday.  Blerg.
  • The Dallas Morning News has this new feature called the Problem Tracker.  It’s a way for people to report problems such as potholes, graffitti, broken stop lights, etc in a GoogleMaps format.
  • I like the idea of nurses tweeting from the operation room so that family members can follow.  Link
  • Speaking of Twitter, someone from the audience now tweets during the Price is Right.  Link
  • Jimmy Valvano died back in 1993, and ESPN continues to honor his legacy.  That’s a very cool thing.
  • NASA will let you send your name to Mars free of charge.  Link
  • Can Twitter Kill Your Church
  • A bit of a dark joke: Helen Keller Simulator
  • As a kid, I remember hearing a lot of Helen Keller jokes, and laughing even though I didn’t know who she was.
  • The same thing happens to us Texas – We all don’t wear boots and cowboy hats, or ride horses to work.
  • When reporting about banks, the media should use more specific terms such as commercial banks and investments banks to help their audience.  I’m guessing someone without a finance or banking background can get easily confused and wouldn’t know what bank is which.  I mention this with all the talk of Goldman Sachs in the news the last couple of days.
  • I’m not saying dumb down the news, but the audience needs a little guidance every now and then.
  • For my fellow Star Wars fans: Wookieepedia
  • For you Davey and Goliath fans, here are the lost episodes.
  • I just recently found out they were part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
  • Grace
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A Quadrillion-Dollar Credit Card Bill

With a bill that large, he should have waited for KRLD Restaurant Week.

A North Texas man has a 17-figure credit card statement after a bank glitch resulted in an eye-popping charge.

This is what it looks like: $23,148,855,308,184,500.00.

Here’s how to say it: 23 quadrillion,148 trillion, 855 billion, 308 million, 184,000 and 500 dollars.

It’s more than 2,000 times the national debt — and, according to Jon Seale’s online credit card statement, it’s what he spent July 13 at Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck.

“For that amount of money, I could actually own Wolfgang Puck himself,” Seale said.

Seale, a husband and father of five from Trophy Club, spent much of Tuesday making calls to Wachovia and Visa in hopes of getting the exorbitant charge removed from his Wachovia Visa Buxx credit card. Both companies told him they were working to resolve the issue.

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Soldier who says Obama isn’t president doesn’t have to deploy, Army says

U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, the reserve soldier who says he shouldn’t have to go to Afghanistan because he believes Barack Obama was never eligible to be president, has had his deployment orders revoked, Army officials said.

Lt. Col. Maria Quon, U.S. Army Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Army Human Resources Command-St. Louis, said Tuesday evening, Cook was no longer expected to report Wednesday to MacDill Air Force Base in Florida for mobilization to active duty.

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