I caught another special on the moon landing. The son of the Soviet premier was interviewed and was asked where he was during the event. He said, “Of all places, at a river in Chernobyl.” As for news coverage, he said there was a small article on the first page of Pravda and then three columns on page five. Here’s another interview with him in which he goes into slightly more detail.
It doesn’t matter what CBS11’s Erin Jones is covering, I’m watching.
Oh, hello doldrums, welcome back.
I’m not sure why I don’t watch Songland on NBC, it seems like something I’d like – how a song comes to be from inspiration and formed into lyrics accompanied by instruments by collaboration. Also, I attended high school with one of the hosts and I’m really proud and happy for him.
I often hear pastors speak about the importance of having a child dedicate his or her life to Jesus before the age of fourteen, that statistically speaking, the likelihood of them being involved in the church after that age drops dramatically. There’s little doubt in my mind that stat is true. I understand their concern and get what they are saying, but the way the message has often come across (at least to me) is that the church has to reach children and youth when they are at their most vulnerable, least suspecting, and that the ability to reason, challenge, and question is a bad thing. I don’t think there’s a way I could word or phrase that in a manner that wouldn’t stir a hornet’s nest and offend. And, I tried like heck to write that last sentence without using two negatives. I know there are times it’s acceptable to have a double negative in a sentence, but I try to avoid it if possible.
The Coca-Cola product placement in the new season of Stranger Things is annoying.
This Jim Carrey deepfake of The Shining might be more disturbing than the film itself. Here’s a three-minute clip if you’re interested, but I actually like this GIF better.
No Spoilers: We’re only two episodes into the new season of Stranger Things, and anytime there’s a mall scene my brain goes into reminiscing overload. I can’t process any of the dialogue in those scenes because I’m transported back in time and my eyes are darting all over the screen taking in every bit of Eighties detail. They do such a great job with the little stuff. For instance, pay attention to the lighting. I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s just right. Their mall is a perfect combination of my two childhood malls, Ridgemar and Hulen. Ridgemar had a warm feel to it, lots of wood with Parque floors and red/maroon carpeting. Hulen was heavy with the tile and used a lot of lighting and brighter colors.
That’s a lot of viewers, especially when you consider how many people share an account.
Apparently, WifeGeeding’s sister got into some sort of parking lot kerfuffle at the local Wal-Mart which involved an elderly man who exited the passenger side of a car parked in handicap parking who banged his can on her vehicle.
While watching a documentary about the return of the Apollo 11 astronauts, I was quite surprised to learn that they traveled to 43 countries in 45 days. In that timeframe, they also gave speeches in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles in one day. I believe planes didn’t travel as quickly and smoothly as they do now, so that’s not an easy feat.
“Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened. And you have your thoughts, but we are a public school and not all of our parents have the same beliefs.“
I miss “Stupid Pet Tricks”.
I watched David Letterman’s interview with Tiffany Haddish, who is a lot more interesting than I thought.
It wasn’t until high school in which she learned to read well.
Her stepfather tampered with the brakes on her mother’s car which resulted in an accident and left her mother with brain damage. Haddish was nine at the time, the oldest of her five siblings, and went in and out of foster care.
Because of her foster care experience, she now supports an organization which provides suitcases for children in foster care. She revealed as a child in foster care she was often shuffled around and sometimes had to carry all their belongings in a trash bag. When she received a suitcase to carry her belongings, she said she felt like a traveler, a person who had direction and a purpose and was no longer trash.
She really cut her teeth in comedy. When in high school she got a chance to attend the Laugh Factory’s Comedy Camp which allowed her to be briefly mentored by the likes of Richard Pryor and the Wayan brothers. She did stand up for a while and all sorts of comedy and entertainment bits which shaped her into the comedian she is today.
If you are eating breakfast and/or the sensitive type, you may want to skip to the next bullet point. WifeGeeding and the kids have been in East Texas for the past few days. I’ve been driving our Nissan Leaf around town but noticed it smelled, which really bugged me. I searched in both the front and back seats but couldn’t find anything noticeable, but did spray some Febreeze. The next day I the noticeable stench was stronger, so I took I washed the car and vacuumed the seats, removing floor mats and everything. Later that day I took the dogs to the dog park and they both threw up, but thankfully it was only on the kids’ car seats and the cleanup was as simple as hosing them off and putting the fabric in the washing machine. The following day I went grocery shopping and when I got home, it dawned on me that I never checked that trunk area of the hatchback. Sure enough, I found the source. It appeared to be an old cantaloupe which may have been in there for weeks. It was still in a plastic grocery sack. With a deep breath and an outstretched hand I carefully picked the bag up and could tell the whole thing was gelatinous as slowly it lost its form. Unfortunately, there was a small tear in the back and as I removed it from the car the liquid contents dripped from the car to the outside trash can. The items which were dripped on were tossed, I wasn’t even going to try to salvage them and did my best to remove and extract the odor as best as humanly possible. Now I fear this will become like the Seinfeld “The Smelly Car” episode.
I bought a new desk and the table top was nicely packaged in a huge single piece of styrofoam. BoyGeeding thought it looked like the carbonite Han Solo was frozen in. Also, that thing produced the largest amount of static electricity I ever experienced. As I moved my hand close to it the hair on my arms stood straight up and as I got close the pain was so intense I couldn’t bring myself to touch it.
Speaking of my new desk made by Realspace, I could be happier with the assembly instructions, they should be applauded. I can’t speak for the quality of the product as I haven’t even used it for a day, but those instructions and the packaging were impressive. Every part was labeled with a sticker for the corresponding step. For the smaller parts, all the contents were inside a sealed plastic bag, and inside that bag were smaller sealed bags labeled with each corresponding substep in the instruction manual. On top of that, they included a bag labeled “Extra Hardware” in case you stripped a screw or something.
On Saturday I went to the movie theater to watch Spider-Man: Far From Home with a few friends. At the very climax of the movie, the part I’m assuming the title character defeats Mysterio, the power goes out in the building due to some thunderstorms. The only lights which stayed on were from the exit signs and the projector room, which surprised me, I thought some small backup battery powered lights would also come on. The staff were very friendly and informative and checked in on us often. However, after about 25-minutes, they said because of the trouble they are having with rebooting the projector, we can either take a raincheck or walk across the hall to showing in progress which was only about a half hour into the movie. We had to take the raincheck. I’m assuming we were at the very climax of the movie because a few times the audio started up and (possible spoiler) Spidey and Mysterio were talking about the glasses. When I got home I found a summary of the movie and a few video clips of the two post0-credit scenes.
As far as the top picture goes, the best I could find was that his name was Petre Mshvenieradze who was a Soviet water polo player of Georgian descent.
Ronald Reagan was the first president to wear hearing aids while in office. The second sitting President to be fitted for hearing aids, Bill Clinton. They are the only two presidents to wear hearing aids while in office.
When George Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States, he did so using a Bible loaned from St. John’s Masonic Lodge No. 1, Ancient York Masons. That was only because no one thought to bring a Bible to the event. Jacob Morton, a Mason and the Master of nearby St. John’s Lodge, offered to run and grab the Bible from the altar at St. John’s. The Bible wasn’t closed but opened randomly due to haste. I would have thought the random section would have been in the middle portion of the Bible, but it was open to chapters 49-50 of Genesis (Jacob blesses his sons, Joseph dies). That Bible, as you would probably expect, was the King James Version. It also contained the Apocrypha, something most protestant Bibles omit. I like to refer to the Apocrypha as the Splenda or artificial sweetener of the Bible; they are “sacred” but not actually Sacred. The oath was administered by the Chancellor of New York, Robert R. Livingston, who was then the highest judicial officer in the state. John Jay did not become the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court until five months later. However, Chief Justice Jay did not administer the oath of office for Washington’s second inauguration, that was done by Supreme Court associate justice William Cushing for reasons in which I’m unclear. A nice tidbit of Cushing, he was the last judge in the United States to wear a full wig.
John Quincy Adams used a U.S. law book when administered the presidential oath of office. Theodore Roosevelt used nothing at all for his first inauguration.
The Yankees and Red Sox played a series in London. I strongly believe the only two teams to play in front of the British Royal Family should solely be the Angels and Mariners with our national anthem sung by Enrico Pallazzo.
To my handful of readers in Canada, Happy Canada Day!
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