Bag of Randomness

  • I received a little recognition and gift at work yesterday.
  • Every Monday morning I always read Peter King’s Monday Morning Quarterback.  He brings a great insight to the game, lots of behind the scenes kind of stuff, and even veers off football to pop-culture a little bit.  Well, he will be taking the next four weeks off, but he made mentioned there will be four surprise guest columnists . . . I’m very intrigued.
  • Twitter sign of the times
  • I found this very interesting regarding the Baylor and Texas Tech football game at the new Cowboys Stadium this November – alcohol will not be sold in the general concession areas like other college games per a provision Baylor included in the contract.  Baylor tend to be the most liberal of Baptist colleges, but they are still Baptist, so that didn’t really surprise me.  But I’m surprised that Tech would still play the game . . . that campus is known for drinking, and drinking heavily.
  • As I stated before, every person I knew from my home town that went to Texas Tech did not go there for an education, they went to party.  And everyone of them came home either as a drop out due to excess partying, or because of a surprise pregnancy.
  • I remember how a lot of the Hardin-Simmons crowd use to get upset and make fun at how Baylor was losing all their morals.  I was in student at HSU when Baylor allowed their first on-campus dance, and a lot of talk this was just the beginning of the end and how the lost Jesus.
  • When I was a student at HSU, we were required to go to Chapel twice a week and earn so many Chapel credits per semester for four semesters, if you didn’t earn the credits, no diploma.  One Chapel was usually all serious and more religious s based, and the other was more less so.  During one end of semester Chapel in December a local elementary school performed.  During the performance you heard the Macarena being played and of course all the kids started started with the hand motions and such of the dance, when another kid ran onto the stage and yelled, “Stop you guys!  This isn’t Baylor!”
  • I mentioned this before, but when I was a student at HSU we were tounge-in-cheek about not being able to hold dances on campus, so they were held off campus and advertised as “foot functions.”
  • When I was there the trustees or board of regents or supreme overlords wouldn’t allow a folks dancing class (a PE credit) on campus.  I hear that today they are on campus, but I don’t know about full fledge dancing.
  • I’m still peeved that the first football game at the new stadium will be Oklahoma and BYU.  Jerry has failed at the first non-sports, sports, and football events at the new place.
  • For the first time in the history of ever I really not excited about the upcoming football season.  Old age?  Lack of playoffs from the Cowboys in over a decade?  I dunno.
  • Impressive Jell-O molds
  • First zero-gravity wedding
  • Something happened yesterday regarding the Voting Rights Act and the Supreme Court.  I read an article about it, listened to a segment about it on NPR, and heard Charlie Gibson discuss it and I still don’t understand what happened.
  • Last week I mentioned that Brian Williams has started to play some upbeat music during the news, I noticed that ABC has changed their intro-intro music as well.
  • As you know, one thing that really bugs me is the amount of prescription drug commercials that air, and that I think a doctor should decide what’s best to prescribe a patient, not what a patient sees advertised on TV.  Well, I was trying to think back and remember a time when there wasn’t prescription drug commercials, I couldn’t recall any watching the evening news with my father.  But I was reading this article and found out it all started in 1997 when the FDA first allowed drug companies market pharmaceuticals to the masses, not just doctors.  The result . . . more patients asking for drugs that they don’t need.
  • I can only imagine the lobbying the drug companies did to get the FDA to allow that decision.
  • Southwest Airlines CEO agrees to be interviewed by an 18-year-old blogger.  Link
  • I ate a snow cone yesterday, it was probably the first one I had in years.
  • Snow cones made great dates in college.  I call up a girl and tell them I was on my way to get a snow cone and they were invited to tag along.  If they said no, no big deal, I was on my way anyways.  But if they said yes, I could afford a snow cone.  It was a great no pressure date that usually resulted in great conversation as the sun started to set.
  • There was a local snow cone stand in my home town in which the lady that worked inside use to smoke, and you can smell and even taste the smoke that attached itself to the Styrofoam cups.  Yuck.
  • What the heck is up with the missing South Carolina governor?  It sounds like he’s safe, just hiding out.  Rick Perry, feel free to follow.
  • Fathers that attended church in England got beer for Fathers’ Day.  Link
  • While returning a movie yesterday, I parked next to one of my dream cars, the Magnum P.I. Ferrari, but this one was white.  I would seriously drive one of those, I like the dated look.
  • And I would of course have to grow a mustache and wear a Detroit Tigers hat with a Hawaiian shirt.
  • The PC (USA) seems to be having a tough time with membership and giving.  Link
  • Grace
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A bit of a tear jerking moment

Pixar grants girl’s dying wish to see ‘Up’

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie.

From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.

After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue.

The company flew an employee with a DVD of Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’ Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie.

The animated movie begins with scenes showing the evolution of a relationship between a husband and wife. After losing his wife in old age, the now grumpy man deals with his loss by attaching thousands of balloons to his house, flying into the sky, and going on an adventure with a little boy.

Colby died about seven hours after seeing the film.

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Thank you British Government. From Keith, Not Kieth

LONDON – It’s a spelling mantra that generations of schoolchildren have learned — “i before e, except after c.”

But new British government guidance tells teachers not to pass on the rule to students, because there are too many exceptions.

The “Support For Spelling” document, which is being sent to thousands of primary schools, says the rule “is not worth teaching” because it doesn’t account for words like ‘sufficient,’ ‘veil’ and ‘their.’

Jack Bovill of the Spelling Society, which advocates simplified spelling, said Saturday he agreed with the decision.

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