Swimming Under Ice and Breaking Holes For Air, Polar Bears Chase A Drone
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I Am Jesus Christ – Official Announcement Video Game Trailer
This brought to mind an old U2 lyric from If God Will Send His Angels.
Jesus never let me down
You know Jesus used to show me the score
Then they put Jesus in show business
Now it’s hard to get in the door
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Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, December 11, 2019
- While watching Wheel of Fortune, nine-year-old DaughterGeeding walks in with a bewilder face and asks, “Where’s Pat?” We explained he missed the show because of surgery and Vanna is filling in. She retorted with, “And why didn’t you tell me about this?”
- I did the math, it’s about $28,430 – Chinese father sued after toddler scratches 10 brand new Audis in showroom
- Bus full of schoolkids evacuated over too much Axe body spray in Florida
- “Harbinger households”: neighborhoods that consistently buy products that get discontinued, buy real-estate that underperforms, and donate to losing political candidates
- In The Surprising Breadth of Harbingers of Failure (Sci-Hub mirror), a trio of economists and business-school profs build on a 2015 Journal of Marketing Research paper that claimed that some households’ purchasing preferences are a reliable indicator of which products will fail — that is, if households in a certain ZIP code like a product, it will probably not succeed. The original paper calls these “harbinger households.”
- Dallas Has Been Dispatching Social Workers to Some 911 Calls. It’s Working.
- Last year, Dallas’ police and fire departments teamed up with Parkland Hospital to rethink how they responded to 911 calls involving mental health crises. They placed a social worker inside the dispatch center to triage calls and sent out a special team staffed with a mental health professional whenever possible. They targeted South Central Dallas, the area with the highest concentration of mental health-related calls. The hope was that social workers could handle these cases without relying on the city’s overcrowded emergency rooms and jails.
- The 10 Best Literary TV Adaptations of the Decade
- Take note that we attempted to judge the shows in question on their own independent merits; while many of us have read the books these shows are based on, we didn’t base our decisions on fidelity to, or creativity of departure from, the original text. We just wanted to pick the best television experiences.
- You Killed my Father. Prepare to Die” Compilation
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Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, December 10, 2019
- I love WFAA’s Jesse Hawila’s brutal and honest approach.
- For some reason, the basement of the Alamo was left off this list – The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design
- To my good friend who recently moved and changed his email addresses and phone numbers – I’m sending emails to your new email address and replied to your messages, but I don’t think you are receiving them.
- It’s always a bummer to read about medication your taking which helps you live a somewhat normal life, to maintain functionality, might be more dangerous than thought, in particular when it comes to depression and suicide. And, I’m a bloke who thinks about suicide daily. (Don’t go freaking out on me, I’m too chicken or lazy to go through with it and never came close to writing a letter.)
- Chronic Pain Is an Impossible Problem – A “safe” alternative to opioid painkillers turns out to be not so safe.
- Though gabapentin and baclofen are much safer alternatives to opioids, recent research suggests that they’re not as safe as some doctors might have hoped, especially in combination with other sedating medications. The findings are a frustrating turn that suggests there’s still no silver bullet for chronic pain.
- Chronic Pain Is an Impossible Problem – A “safe” alternative to opioid painkillers turns out to be not so safe.
- Georgia Youth Minister Tommy Callaway Caught Groping Reporter On Live TV
- For some reason, almost every article about this doesn’t state his church or denomination affiliation. Since this happened in Georgia, I automatically assumed he was affiliated with a Southern Baptist church; however, he could have been Mormon, Church of Christ, or even another religion. In actuality, he is associated with a United Methodist church. It appears he’s a part-time youth minister as he has a fulltime job working at a tobacco company. That doesn’t excuse him, but I think it’s worth mentioning. I’m curious if he volunteers and isn’t on the church payroll, which I think is an important distinction.
- This man slapped the reporter’s bottom. I confess to being ignorant regarding terminology. I thought “grope” meant or implied having a firm grip on something for at least several seconds, and thus, a slap wouldn’t be constituted as a grope. I’m wrong, and neither action is acceptable.
- A study by WalletHub ranks the quality of care at Texas nursing homes last in the nation.
- How Artists on Twitter Tricked Spammy T-Shirt Stores Into Admitting Their Automated Art Theft
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