Bag of Randomness

  • I’m thankful for my blogging friends.  I haven’t met the majority of you, but you often make my day with your comments and/or emails.
  • I try not to think too much, it makes me constipated.  The last time I thought, I was constipated for a week.
  • It doesn’t surprise me, but I’m often amazed how people can bring divisive political talk when the topic at hand isn’t related to politics.
  • People are passionate when it comes to politics, but a lot of times I find Christians being unchristian when the passion of their hearts start to overflow.
  • This weekend I tried to update the WordPress software for this website, and I failed, miserable.  For a while, I actually lost everything I ever created and then couldn’t get it back to normally.  So as of right now I have the old version of WordPress, and was lucky that I was able to use some old files that I saved to get it back up and running.  Right now when I look at my files I have about three of everything.
  • WifeGeeding and I watched the movie Big Fish this weekend.  It’s a movie I wanted to see over the years, but never really made an effort because it’s a Tim Burton movie, and I’m not that fond of his work; but a few months ago I was able to get it on the Tivo.  Overall, good movie, and it had one absolutely beautiful ending.  For those of you that don’t much about the movie, it’s basically about a dad at the end of his life who loves to tell tall tales every chance he gets and a son who becomes annoyed by the tales and his father.  The movie had WifeGeeding and I tearing up quite a bit at the end.  For her, it made her think of her father and how he has never met a stranger, and for me, it reminded me a lot of not only the relationship I had with my father, but also his death, as I was the only one there when my father died and how I had to make the most difficult call of my life . . . calling Mom after he took his last breath.  Granted, I’ve been through some life events that made this movie special to me so I have some perspective, but if you are looking for one of those movies that will make you appreciate your father, give this one a try.
  • I think another really good “dad movie” is Field of Dreams, especially this scene.  I sometimes tear up when Coster summons up the courage to ask that question.
  • I was just going to link to that one part with the question, but I love that whole scene as it builds up to that moment.
  • That movie is now 20 years old.
  • I thought the woman who played his wife did a good job, but every time I see that movie I always wonder why they didn’t find someone more attractive.
  • The new U2 album continues to grow on me, and I have to thank their performance on Letterman all last week.  Those songs sound so much better live than on the album, and after exploring the lyrics I’m starting to understand the beauty of the new album, especially with all the Biblical imagery.  Thursday’s show was my favorite, it included just about everything in pop culture that I really like: Letterman, Jon Stewart, and U2.
  • Details of their new tour should be released today, and from what I hear it’s going to be great – a 360 degree stage in a stadium atmosphere.  So it looks like they will be playing in the new Cowboys stadium, that is, if that big-over-the-field-HDTV doesn’t get in the way.  If they don’t play there, I imagine they’ll be in the Cotton Bowl.  Man, Jerry should have got them to open up the new place to start off their tour.
  • The one thing I love about U2 is how they make an effort to please the fans.  For instance, the closest seats are the cheapest.
  • It appears that Dora the Explorer is growing up and Barbie can now get a tramp stamp.
  • I found this putting a brick in a dead person’s mouth article a bit interesting.  Link
  • The scariest picture of the Kool-Aid man, ever.  Pic
  • I’ve been wanting another Tivo unit for my workout room, and I was lucky enough to get one at the Circuit City closing for $50.
  • Super Mario was spotted in NYC.  Pic
  • Evil Icicle
  • Here’s a nice story about the Methodist church has an English teaching ministry.
  • A school district made a goof using eBay.  Article
  • A Flickr Clock
  • If you are a YouTube addict, you can add one of these stickers to you TV.
  • A couple of years ago I took a photo of a toilet in Vietnam, thankfully I didn’t have to go at this place.  And in case you are wondering, that comes t0 about $5.70 U.S. dollars.
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Most Popular U2 Songs on iTunes

It looks like instead of Boots they should have gone with Magnificent .  I’m a bit surprised at how many people like Moment of Surrender.

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Remorseful stranger’s money gives East Dallas church a ‘miracle month’

A mysterious stranger with a conscience left a cashier’s check for $3,255 at Dallas’ Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, explaining in a note that he was trying to atone for crimes of his past.

Two other times this year, the financially strapped church has had scatterings of $20 bills turn up unexplained in the vestibule, apparently stuffed through a gap in locked front doors.

Though no note came with those donations, the Rev. Canon Victoria Heard speculates they were from the same man.

Regardless, she’s grateful.

“It was a godsend, especially in the middle of the winter when our fuel bills are the highest,” said Heard, canon-in-residence at the Far East Dallas church.

An envelope containing the cashier’s check, $13 in cash and the note was discovered in a back pew on Jan. 11.

The man signed his note with a barely legible “Michael.” His last name was on the check, but Heard declined to share it, saying she could not violate a “confession situation.”

Church leaders have searched membership rolls and asked former and current members, and no one knows anybody by the name on the check.

The handwritten note begins, “I paid every single debt I had in life but could not find or locate 14 of them or I wasn’t sure.”

Then it lists 14 crimes, including “White Rock robbery – $100,” “Stolen car at woodmeadow – $800,” “A set of knives from a fellow soldier in Iraq – $300” and “A lot of CD’s in a velcro pouch from an ex-friend in Tyler Texas when I was a kid – $300.”

Yet another crime mentioned is “Eckerd’s (for stolen candy) – $25.” The note adds that “Eckerd’s is now CVS pharmacy.”

The 14 listed amounts total $3,268 – equal to the cashier’s check combined with the $13 found in the envelope.

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U2’s Kiss The Future Tour

Kiss The Future, U2’s world tour in support of its new album “No Line on the Horizon,” will play stadiums around the world, beginning June 30 in Barcelona, Billboard can exclusively reveal. Details of the tour will be announced March 9.

It’s a groundbreaking tour with production that includes a 360-degree audience configuration, ambitious staging and a cylindrical video screen. “We’re very excited about the idea to go on the road with this album,” the Edge says. “It’s an album that I think is going to translate so well to the live context. The songs we’ve tried in rehearsal are sounding fantastic, so that’s got everyone really fired up.”

U2 will be playing in a setting unique among all previous tours, by any artist. The tour will be global and lengthy. U2 will stay in Europe through Aug. 22, then hit American shores on Sept. 12 with a show at Soldier Field in Chicago. The band will play in North America until Oct. 28 and plans on working the globe until the fall of 2010.

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Per manager Paul McGuinness

“This is going to be a very big tour, the biggest shows we’ve ever done,” he reveals. “We’re going to play stadiums only. Football stadiums. That excludes, for instance, baseball stadiums because the production that we’ve designed is 360º. It’s a stage with the audience on all sides.”

Will the stage be in the centre of the arena?

“Not quite in the centre, it will be towards one end of the field in a typical football stadium, so the places we’re playing will be tiered football stadiums; no flat fields, no festivals, no baseball stadiums. Only big, tiered stadiums.”

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