Bag of Randomness

  • WifeGeeding recently passed a certification test, and I took her out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate.  Lent has really done a number on me, I’m just not impressed eating out anymore.
  • You now have the ability to book a flight to Mexico on Southwest.com.  You can read more about it here.  Rumor has it that the QA lead that helped implement that is one sexy and intelligent half-Asian dude.  Well, that’s what I hear.
  • The Texas Rangers has someone named Taylor Teagarden, talk about one sissy sounding name.  That name sounds like it would fit into a story about some artsy college age aristocrat attending Princeton.  But not the seminary at Princeton, of course.
  • I’m surprised the Cowboys didn’t shop any of this year’s draft picks for picks for next where, where the talent level appears to be stronger.  But then again, Jerry is running the draft.
  • Speaking of which, I was also surprised that the Cowboys drafted Texas A&M QB Stephen McGee.  I think Graham Harrell out of Texas Tech would have been better.
  • When I Googled “Cowboys draft” the second main result was a link to last year’s draft.  Weird.
  • I bet some arses got chewed, I mean really chewed out, for that silly photo-op shot over NYC yesterday.  You know, Photoshop not only is effective, but would have been a lot cheaper.
  • As a part-time instructor of finance and someone that spent a quarter of his life working for a financial giant, I still keep tabs on the market and do a little bit of analysis.  Yesterday was interesting with the early morning news of the swine flu.  The hospital or medical industry was up for the day, but the travel industry was down – hotels took a small hit, but the airlines took a bigger hit being down over 7% for the day.  With people wearing masks to protect them, do you think people feel real safe boarding a plane with self contained air?
  • I’m still debating on what to do with my extra U2 tickets.  I looked up the value for the section they are in on StubHub and they range in value from $125 – $2000.
  • WifeGeeding has a good memory, she remembers that last time U2 rolled through town I kept my tickets in a fireproof safe.
  • I really enjoyed House last night, and of course cracked watching The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother.
  • That Michael Jackson Auction has some really interesting stuff.
  • Is Hitler a Mormon?
  • The Christian Book Expo was a flop last year only attracting 1500 visitors, about a tenth of what they expected.  It won’t be back next year.
  • Natalie Portman started a new website.
  • Did you know that the FireFox logo was inspired by an image in a children’s Bible?  Link And a little more about Daniel Burka and that logo.
  • The Bacone – A cone made of bacon with scrambled eggs on the inside topped with a biscuit and country gravy.
  • “But the little man gives the cross a certain flair.”  Link
  • Grace
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Turning Texas From One State to Five

Last week, we discussed the political implications of Texas choosing to secede from the Union, something which — as is apparently unknown to its governor Rick Perry — it has no more and no less right to do than any of the other 49 states.

What Texas could choose to do, however, is to divide itself up into as many as five states, a privilege given to it as a condition of its annexation to the Union in 1845. What would Texas look like if it chose to do this? Would dividing a large, red state into five smaller, reddish states benefit Republicans in the Senate? In the Electoral College?

The answers are not so clear. But first things first, we need to come up with a logical way to dived Texas into five parts.

A bit of a long read, but very interesting, especially if you live in this lovable but sometimes topsy-turvey state.

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Expedition Grizzly on the National Geographic Channel

I already have my DVR set to record this show, it just seems too darn interesting.

800-pound grizzly bear Brutus is the curious best friend to renowned naturalist Casey Anderson, who has raised him since birth. Together, they’ve set out on a yearlong mission to chronicle the lives of Yellowstone’s vulnerable grizzly bears.

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