Bag of Randomness

  • This may be the last post this week unless I can find some spare time.
  • Yesterday’s plan after work was to pick up an allergy nose spray prescription on the way home from work, work out, prep for class, watch Lost, and find a few interesting links for my loyal readers.  Things didn’t go to plan.
  • There was a wreck on I35, so I took an alternate route to the pharmacy.  OK, just one small wrinkle in my plan.
  • Turns out my new health insurance doesn’t cover my nose spray.  WIthout insurance it would cost about $115 for a 30 day supply.  I plan on asking the doc for something else.  I’m thankful for having healthcare in the this great land of ours, but sometimes stuff like this frustrates me.
  • As soon as I get home I really had to go number two.  After sitting on the thrown for a moment or two I notice water is leaking from the bottom of the toilet.  Yup, that’s a confidence builder.   I rush through my normal routine, turn the water to the commode off, remove all water, and unbolt the toilet from the floor so I can replace the wax ring that’s underneath it.  That wet-dry vac I bought for twenty bucks a couple years ago finally came in handy.
  • I head to the nearest Lowe’s only to run into another traffic jam.  Blerg.
  • I need more than a wax ring, but I failed to remember if I had a three or four in line.  I buy two of everything so I can return the unused stuff.
  • On the way home WifeGeeding calls and wants to know why the toilet is not where it’s suppose to be.  I playfully tell her stop being so nosy.
  • When I arrive home WifeGeeding and I eat some leftovers in a bit of a hurry so I can fix the toilet and get back to my plans for the evening, but it looks like I won’t be able to fit in a workout.  Blerg.
  • As I’m working on the commode WifeGeeding tells me it would be a good idea if I go ahead and paint the small room where the toilet is located since we can now fit a ladder in there to reach the trouble spots.  See, half the room was already painted, but we never finished it because of football season and we couldn’t fit a ladder in there.  All that to say . . . I started to paint.  Blerg.
  • After painting I spent wayyyyyy too much time trying to get the toilet bolted to the floor.  The hardest part is trying to line up the bolts evenly as you put the toilet in place.
  • After I clean up I decided to read the mail.  Turns out escrow didn’t cover all the tax, so we owe almost $500.  It’s a good thing I have to work overtime this weekend.  But I rather spend my weekend relaxing.
  • I finally get to watch Lost even though it’s been on for thirty minutes.  God bless the DVR.
  • There’s no time to search for any interesting links, so you are just left with a bunch of random thoughts.
  • Speaking of Lost, I only have one thought right now.  They must be back in time.
  • I now have to prep for class.  Four hours of lecture and activities takes lots of prep work.  I found early on that if you aren’t prepared, you don’t have confidence, and if you lose the confidence of your students you lose credibility.  But here are a few more thoughts . . .
  • There was a tri-college Bible study I use to attend on Thursday night while I was in college.  I would say about two to three thousand would usually attend.  There’s one night I’ll always remember.  I was sitting next to one of my old roommates (and the shortest roommate I ever had) when the speaker told us to turn to a certain passage.  My roommate looked at me, smiled, and said, “Isn’t that just a beautiful sound.”  The sanctuary was silent, except for the sound of several thousand Bibles with pages being turned.
  • That guy was my roommate during the time my father was dying, and I never thought I treated him respectfully enough during that time.  Even though I was going through a tough time, I’m still upset at myself for not being a better friend.
  • But then again, he was from White Deer.
  • Several years ago I met up with him on a golf outing and he actually hit a hole in one, the first and probably last I will ever see.  Note:  That’s him on the right, but not when he hit that hole in one.
  • There’s something else I’ll always remember about that guy, out of all the men I know, he’s most in touch with his feminine side.  All my other friends would agree.
  • I wonder why NutriSystem only offers their food online.  I would think they would make much more money by selling them in stores.
  • One of my oldest friends called me out of the blue while I was at work yesterday and told me he just visited my father’s grave.  I can’t tell you how touching that was.  I was so touched I really didn’t know how to respond.
  • Sorry for the lack of links, posts, etc.
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U2 Album Leaked Weeks Before Official Release

LOS ANGELES (RushPRnews) 02/18/09-It was bound to happen. The last few weeks before a big name release, so many things can go wrong between the studio and the store. Through subterfuge, malice, over-excitement, negligence or accident, the digital files that make up an album will somehow escape. With “No Line on the Horizon,” it was just a matter of time before the machine cracked.
I’m told that “No Line” first appeared online about a week ago at the Napster Mobile site, but since few people know that this site exists, nothing much happen.

Then at about 4am ET today, an Australian site called Getmusic somehow put the album up for sale. Was that intentional or an accident? It doesn’t matter. Fans found it and now the entire finished album is spreading across the universe at the speed of light. . . . . .

Apparently, there was a leak through an Australian online music store called Get Music at around 4am ET today.

For a brief time, they apparently made the album available for sale. Whether it was a human or software error is now irrelevant. I’ve got twelve fresh U2 songs playing in iTunes right now.
The mix sounds finished and the running order is exactly what we’ve been told it would be.

Let’s go through the album . . . .

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Bag of Randomness

    • I know some of you are looking at the above image and thinking you may be on Barry’s blog, but trust me, you’re on BoN.  This dancer for the NBA’s New Jersey Nets says she’s a direct descendent of Abraham Lincoln, and that piece of wood she is holding is from Lincoln’s log cabin.  Article
    • Reader David was nice enough to send pictures of the plane that landed in the Hudson being transported by truck through a downtown area.
    • Recently we heard two satellites in orbit recently crashed into one another.  More recently we saw falling debris over the north Texas sky.  It was first assumed that the debris was satellite parts, but now the story is that it was a meteorite the size of a truck.  Tie all that together with the UFO sighting in Stephenville, TX and the inner Mulder in me wants to believe.
    • Turn your VCR into a toaster.  Link
    • Beginning around 1900, senators began inscribing their names in the drawers of their desks.  See Obama’s signature here on the same desk with Robert Kennedy’s and others.
    • I’m really enjoying, and feel really challenged by the When Christians Get It Wrong sermons I’ve been listening to.  I recently listened to the In Dealing With Homosexuals sermon that was extremely touching, and it ended with Micah 6:8.  During the sermon he even made a brief comparison to evangelical and mainline interpretations which I found interesting.  I never thought I would be one of those that would fall in love with a church via the web, but who knew?
    • Baby floor sweeper.  Link
    • Obama’s Elf.  YouTube
    • Star Wars force trainer.  Link
    • My wife and I were brought together because of a extra ticket to a Mavericks game.  I recently discovered this was the same for one of my readers as well.  Thanks for buying that team, Mark Cuban.  If that team would have continued to suck, both Andy and I probably would still be single.
    • It’s official, the first event in the new Cowboys stadium is going to be a bunch of country music artists.  Vomit.  Blerg.  Grrr.  Urghhh.  S.  Jerry would have done better if he reunited Wham! and Captain and Tennille, or scheduled Stars on Ice or the Ice Capades.  Or how about a Bill Gaither concert?  Heck, I’m even up for rolling Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin’s carcass out there.  I’m about this far from defecting to another franchise.  Saints/Bengals/Cards/Chargers/Titans here I come.
    • If he really wanted to appeal to the regional masses, how about a tejano concert?
    • And if I correctly recall, the first football game will be between OU and BYU?  Sheeesh.  He could have at least sheduled two Texas teams.  Who wouldn’t want to watch Hardin-Simmons vs Howard Payne.  Oh . . .
    • The stadium will be filled regardless.  Not because of the acts or the team, but people will attend just to sight see.
    • I think the last time I saw something planned so well was the liberation of . . . oh, nevermind.
    • Come on, Keith.  Think happy thoughts . . . happy thoughts.  Go to your happy place.  Get yourself a video-watch-phone.
    • It looks like Willow Creek Church in Chicago is having some “sexual impurity” issues with one of their pastors.  Article There’s one thing I did appreciate about this article, the leadership of the church stated they were going to pray for him.  I think most of the time the church just cut ties and ignores a tremendous opportunity to minister to someone who has fallen on rock bottom.
    • But Saddleback Church wants their members to fill some empty grocery bags.
    • Are you a theistic evolutionist?
    • Faith of Britain Day is a day that focuses all of the positive energy in the country towards achieving our hopes and aspirations. For exactly two minutes on March 6th at 11.00am our consortium of psychics and healers will act as a channel for the positive thoughts of the entire country.
    • “Keep obesity away from your child” is the tagline of a new campaign by Texas-based Hispanic shop LatinWorks for an organization called Active Life Movement. Instead of fat kids, the ads show fat toys: a superhero, pirates and a Barbie-like doll.  Link
    • I found the new Bristol Palin interview interesting.  Being very protective of her family, I’m surprised her mother would allow her to be interviewed, but I thought it was a good thing she had her own thoughts and opinions and felt comfortable expressing them even if they are different from her high profile mother.
    • But I wonder if it is hypercritical (that may be too strong of a word) to tell the media to stay away from her family, but she’s allowing her daughter to be interviewed.
    • House prices on the Dubai artificial island have dropped fifty percent.
    • Missing Iraq billions could be ‘greatest fraud in US history‘
    • That’s some serious ear hair.
    • No I will not move to the side of the road.  Pic
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    60 Minutes “Herb and His Airline”

    This is a CBS 60 Minutes feature on Herb Kelleher and Southwest Airlines that originally aired on October 15, 1989. In part one, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft interviews Herb and explains how Southwest operates, highlighting its differences from other carriers. The show’s full opening sequence is included.

    Part 1

    Part 2

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