Bag of Randomness

  • I remember back in the day watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and then Love Connection (we’ll be back in two and two), and then Late Night with David Letterman.  Now, there’s nothing between The Tonight Show and Late Night.
  • Sometimes I wish I was an undercover cop just so I could write traffic tickets.  It would be cool to roll down the window and put one of those single magnetic flashers on the top of my car like you would see in an 80’s cop show.
  • The average American uses 57 squares of toilet paper a day.  Link
  • The WB33 decided to hire a native Texan and former Miss Missouri USA as a sports anchor.  Link I have to admit, that headline does sound a bit confusing.
  • I wonder how many street vendors are making money off Michael Jackson’s death selling merchandise created themselves.
  • I also wonder how much tax revenue was brought in to the city because of the death.
  • For those of you that saw his ghost footage on CNN, here’s an explanation.
  • Is it even possible to bleach skin?
  • Paul McCartney will be playing at the new Cowboys Stadium soon, but I’m too young to appreciate his music.
  • KMart has a new Christmas website.
  • I had a feeling something like this might happen .  .  . Remember when I posted about my dental visit?  Turns out they not only read my post but are now following me on Twitter.
  • Now I feel a bit awkward about that eye candy comment, but it was meant as a compliment.  I mean, check out that girl on the Twitter link.  And in that picture is the computer that I used to fill out my forms and sign using my finger.
  • And I have to go back and get two cavities filled.
  • WifeGeeding and I visited a Dr Gilliland in Dallas yesterday to discuss a procedure about replacing an implant that lies in here ocular cavity were her glass-eye rests.  If she decides to go through with it, it could make for some good blog material.
  • One of my college roommates was a Gilliland, but it appears they are not related.
  • WifeGeeding and I spotted something very strange in our neighborhood the other night.  We  made a run to our local 7-Eleven which is located in a small shopping center or strip mall for a late night Slurpee; and outside one of the connected restaurants parked side by side was a Bentley and a Maserati.
  • I counted four Bentleys on way to my dentist appointment the other day when I drove through the Preston Hollow neighborhood.
  • Infinity cars have caught my attention as of late.
  • What’s the plural form of Infinity and Lexus?
  • Before the doctor appointment WifeGeeding and I ate at Freebirds and saw a guy wearing a Hardin-Simmons football shirt.  He actually knew my old roommate Gilliland.  But I forgot his name already.
  • A very interesting toilet paper on an airplane toilet experiment Link (you have to sit through an ad first)
  • Strapless Suspenders? [Link removed per request]
  • www.TheMostAmazingWebsiteOnTheInternet.com
  • Grace
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Baby Born At 12:34:56 On 7/8/09

STILLWATER, Okla.–A quirk of the clock and the calendar has given a Stillwater family an unforgettable memory.

When the time lined up on Wednesday afternoon at 12:34:56 on 07/08/09, it was more than just a twice-a-century alignment. They also had a unique reason to celebrate.

“It just so happened that when they took me back, when he got here, it was 12:34:56,” said Lydia Uhrig.

Her son’s birth certificate says his birth happened at 12:34:56 at 07/08/09.

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New wonder material, one-atom thick, has scientists abuzz

WASHINGTON — Imagine a carbon sheet that’s only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips.

That’s graphene, the latest wonder material coming out of science laboratories around the world. It’s creating tremendous buzz among physicists, chemists and electronic engineers.

“It is the thinnest known material in the universe, and the strongest ever measured,” Andre Geim , a physicist at the University of Manchester, England , wrote in the June 19 issue of the journal Science.

“A few grams could cover a football field,” said Rod Ruoff , a graphene researcher at the University of Texas, Austin , in an e-mail. A gram is about 1/30th of an ounce.

Like diamond, graphene is pure carbon. It forms a six-sided mesh of atoms that, through an electron microscope, looks like a honeycomb or piece of chicken wire. Despite its strength, it’s as flexible as plastic wrap and can be bent, folded or rolled up like a scroll.

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