A preview of the next U2 tour

After selling out countless arenas this decade, U2 are heading outdoors this year with their first U.S. stadium tour since 1997’s PopMart Tour. The band members, who release No Line on the Horizon on March 3rd, haven’t yet announced dates for the tour or details about what they’ll play. But they hope to keep ticket prices unusually low, and they’re already planning an innovative setup that will allow for 360-degree seating around the stage, which will be moved closer to the center of the field than in any other stadium show. “It’s an engineering feat that creates this real physical proximity to the crowd,” Bono tells Rolling Stone, adding that the band wants to maximize space in the enormous venues to accommodate the many young fans it has made this decade with hits such as “Vertigo.” “We’re going outdoors to try to meet that audience.

Full Rolling Stone Article

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An Unexpected Visitor Came to the Office Today

Since the Texas Rangers aren’t going to win this thing anytime soon, I thought I would get a picture with the trophy when I had a chance.

Facts about the trophy I did not know:

  • It’s made by Tiffany & Co, just like the Super Bowl’s Vince Lombardi Trophy.
  • It weighs about 30 pounds and is made of sterling silver.
  • There are 30 gold painted flags, each representing a MLB team.
  • The latitude and longitude lines symbolize the world, but you can’t see them in this picture.
  • The baseball contains 24-karat vermeil baseball stitches.

And yes, I actually had to look up the word vermeil.  The only vermeil I knew was a guy that coached in the NFL.

So far I’ve taken my picture with the Stanley Cup, and now this trophy.  I’ll see if I can find that Stanly Cup picture and post it.  Jerry won’t let me in his office to get a picture with the Super Bowl trophies.  Snob.

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Bag of Randomness

  • Not everyone is comfortable about bathroom talk, but it’s a topic I’m about to talk discuss.  So if you aren’t comfortable with bathroom talk, skip the section below in blue.  It’s my blog, and I’ll blog what I want to, so before you rake me over the coals for writing about such a topic, please consider I didn’t have to warn you in the first place.
  • Yesterday I made a comment about people that wipe standing up.  Yes, I’m talking about what you do after you go poo.  Well, some readers were too shy to comment, but several Standers emailed me.  They were completely perplexed as to why someone would actually do such a thing sitting down as they didn’t want to touch the toilet seat or get their hands near what’s in the toilet.  But off hand (no pun intended), and I don’t know how to delicately put this, I just think standing makes things messier by the smearing when cheeks come together and the possibility of stuff running down the leg.  Now it turns out one of the Standers is Canadian, and he took an informal office poll of the male office workers and just about all of them are Standers.  They thought maybe it was just a male thing to do.  Perhaps this is a regional or Canadian thing?  I did search The Google and this forum on Yahoo! Answers was the cleanest one I found, and offhand I would say 80% are Sitters.  I’m emailing Gordon Keith of The Ticket about this.
  • Southwest now has a customer for life.
  • Once upon a time
  • Tom Selleck was on the Daily Show the other night and talked about his ranch and how his family got really attached to this one cow.  The cow died and he had it cremated so he could spread the ashes, and was actually surprised that when the ashes came back there in in a very large container about the size of a pop-corn bucket.
  • I can’t recall the last time I wore cowboy boots, probably back when I was in elementary school.
  • Nope, I remember, it was for a high school play called Roaming Joe and Julie.
  • I can’t recall the last time I wore a pair of Wrangler jeans, I’m thinking it was elementary school.
  • The last time I wore anything corduroy was in middle school.
  • I think it was the same for a netted shirt.
  • I haven’t posted a random TV show intro in a while, but no one has said anything, so I guess that wasn’t a real popular feature.
  • I once sat in Don Ho’s lap.
  • I once wrote a letter to Donald Trump.  A reply was sent back to me, but it wasn’t from him.
  • It was almost 90 degree yesterday, but this weekend the temperature should be in the low 60’s.
  • WifeGeeding was once a Yamboree dutchess.
  • I wasn’t popular in high school, but I wanted to be included in one of those “Most Likely to” or “Best” or “Worst” categories, so I campaigned to be the “Worst Driver.”  When the results were tallied up, I was tied for “Most Friendliest” and “Worst Driver.”  I was so friendly, I turned down the “Most Friendliest” so one of my friends could be in a category and I am now known as the Worst Driver of the the class of 94 from Mineral Wells.
  • I never had to wear glasses or contacts.
  • I like writing with a cheap Bic pen, preferably black.
  • I simply cannot wear tube socks with shorts.
  • I think the last time I had tube socks with stripes was in elementary school.
  • There was a span in my young adult life that I just didn’t really care about my appearance and would show up to work with bed hair.
  • Life would be so much better if I could take my dog to work.
  • In high school a lot of friends carried around a beeper/pager.  I never really understood the reason for it.
  • I’m thinking about cooking a brisket this weekend.
  • The best potato salad in the world is found in a restaurant in Abilene.
  • I often think I’m not living up to my potential.
  • I don’t have any tattoos.
  • I never thought I would live to see the day, but Pat Robertson’s Regent University now has a young Democrat group.  Article I don’t think such a group existed at my university, and don’t know if one was formed since I left.  But the Young Republicans were a popular group on campus.  I never knew such as thing existed until a saw a bunch of college students wearing a t-shirt of Ronald Reagan in front of an American flag saluting.
  • My cell phone is falling apart, I wish the Palm Pre would already release.
  • I’m looking forward to some R and R this weekend.
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Bag of Random Lost Thoughts

  • Widmore made mention that Locke’s parents had a sense of humor with his name, so he made sure his alias also had a bit of humor to it as well.  Both names, John Locke and Jeremy Benthan, represent two opposing thoughts of two 17th and 19th century western philosophers – natural law verses Utilitarianism.  If you really want to check out something kind of creepy about Benthan about how he wanted his body preserved after death, read this Auto Icon section.  Yup, that Widmore is a funny fella.
  • I didn’t really get the whole Locke introduction, where he was dressed up like an Jedi.  But the way this show has been going, I wouldn’t be surprised to seem him wield a lightsaber.  If you are looking for a better sci-fi connection, I’m thinking Spock from Star Trek III The Search for Spock.  And since I’m on a Star Trek kick, remember Spock’s quote at the of the second Star Trek movie?  “The need of the many outway the need of the few.”  Utilitarianism at its best.
  • Frank Lapidus was able to land Flight 316 pretty much in one piece on Hydra Island?  Maybe he’s related to Sully.  Remember, Hydra Island is a small island off the shore of the The Island.
  • I think Locke wanted to sit in that wheelchair as much as he wanted to be put in a coffin.
  • So Widmore use to be President Other and was replaced by Ben.  Other than a power trip, I wonder what’s the reason for the takeover.
  • Ben killed Locke, but not before getting more precious information out of him, but I’m sure Ben knew that to get back on The Island he would need Locke to get back there, and that once back on The Island he would run into an alive and well version.
  • It was nice to see Walt, but I think Locke just couldn’t bring himself to bring the kid along much like he didn’t want to contact Sun.
  • You know, if I died and came back to life knowing I was prepared for burial and put in a coffin, one of the first thoughts in my mind would be . . . who has seen me naked?
  • I wonder if Locke’s ex is really dead.
  • Did you notice the name of the hardware store Locke bought the extention cord from?  Pic
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