I had no idea Yogi Berra spent time as a Met and an Astro as a coach.
While eating an apple, the wire on DaughterGeeding’s snapped apart. I told her if she stuck to eating junk food that never would have happened.
I caught the second half of The Shining yesterday afternoon. DaughterGeeding was in the room and I thought she’d leave since she’s not into scary stuff, but it sucked her right in and any time I attempted to change the channel she asked that I not.
With all the mass shootings as of late, I reflected upon the first I could remember, the Luby’s shooting in Killeen. It happened back in October 1991, the gunman killed 23 people. and wounded 27 others. At the time, I thought nothing like that would ever happen again.
Our new pastor knows how to capture my attention.
“Gravity always wins.” – Alfonso Ribeiro, America’s Funniest Videos
The most straightforward answer to have a captain with 35-plus years of service is for the captain to have previous enlisted experience. In the case of Maverick, this scenario doesn’t fit with the movie’s timeline.
Another possible scenario occurs if there’s a break in service. Maverick left active duty and did some time in the Navy Reserve. Then later, he returned to active duty. With more than five years in the reserves, Maverick could be pushing 37 years in uniform.
The final scenario for Maverick would be if he were retired but retained in service, a scenario that keeps individuals in uniform after reaching their statutory retirement. Generally speaking, cases of individuals being retired but retained are rare, but not unheard of, according to Naval Personnel Command.
I first watched Marlon Brando’s Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) during my teenage years with my father. It was airing on TMC on Saturday and I rewatched most of it and then got stuck researching stuff about the film, the historical event, and Brando.
Brando loved Tahita so much he bought one of their islands, actually a twelve-island atoll.
In real life, Brando married one of his costars, a woman who played the character Maimiti, a daughter of the Tahitian king. She was his third wife. Brando’s second wife actually played the same character in the 1935 version of the film with Clark Gable.
The story really happened, it’s a historical event, though the film isn’t historically accurate. The ship was burned and destroyed by mutineers in 1790, but remnants of the ship were found in 1957.
For the film, MGM had a replica of the original ship built and it was launched in Nova Scotia in 1960, sailed via the Panama Canal, and to Tahiti for filming. MGM originally planned to burn the ship and film it for part of the movie, but Brando protested. The ship then went on a promotional tour, even sailing down the River Thames in London. At one point, Ted Turner owned the ship and later it appeared in other films such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Due to Hurrican Sandy, it sunk in 2012. Two of the crew members died, the captain and a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, the character Brando portrayed. For whatever it’s worth, she was a former USC Song Girl.
…simply that the direct-view periscope, which had to penetrate into the body of the submarine itself through the hull, has been replaced by optronic masts equipped with cameras. The new optronic masts no longer penetrate the hull. They’re stored snugly inside the sail when not in use, but can extend upwards out of it to take a look when needed.
I saw him fall while trying to walk on stage at a campaign event earlier this year. Maybe it’s simply a part of being 77-years-old, but I can’t help but wonder if something else is going on, that this little falling trend is part of some undiscovered or undisclosed medical condition. But then again, I tend to be entertained with potential conspiracy theories.
Yes, that is indeed the legendary Joe DiMaggio in an Oakland A’s uniform. Odd sight, isn’t it? DiMaggio retired as a Yankee in 1951 but lacked two years to qualify for the league’s maximum pension allowance. The A’s owner had just moved his the last-place Kansas City franchise to Oakland and was looking to make some PR and eventually convinced DiMaggio to sign a two-year contract as the A’s Executive Vice President and Consultant. It seems like the Rangers took a page from the A’s playbook when they moved to Texas and hired Ted Williams.
Here’s an odd story out of Abilene. The police chief wrote on Facebook that the man at the intersection of Highway 83/84 and FM 707 is not homeless, not wheelchair-bound and makes $1,000 panhandling on the weekend. That man contacted a television news station to contradict those claims and stated, “I think the chief should walk a mile in my shoes.”
Everyone remembers The Golden Girls on NBC, but many don’t remember the spinoff show with all the girls except for Dorothy. The spinoff show lasted one season on CBS and was named The Golden Palace, which I think sounds like a Chinese restaurant I once ate at in Oklahoma. Worth noting, the show also starred a young Don Cheadle as a hotel manager and Cheech Marin as a cook. Dorothy did make an appearance in two episodes. Oh, and the same theme song was used but wasn’t the beloved version you are used to.
I don’t think this still images adequately captures Morgan Freeman’s facial expression during this scene as the camera pans. I always thought it was a remarkable bit of acting without a bit of dialog.
I saw someone on Twitter suggest Scott Bakula play the part of Jeffrey Epstein in a movie. That’s a good casting choice, but I feel kinda bad for Bakula if he was offered it.
This is actually a bit of local news as the minister’s church is in Dallas, and the minister is a she. I’m not trying to make light of gun violence or start a theological debate about a woman’s role in the church. However, I’m slightly entertained by the thought of how some of my friends who are deeply ingrained in the Southern Baptist Church and are passionate Second Amendment supporters are going to react.
When I looked up the church, I thought the first photo Google associated with it was interesting.
As most of you know, I work from home. It’s summer, so the kids are around and I interact with them throughout the day. Yet, without fail, when I log off my work computer for the day and walk downstairs, DaughterGeeding will ask me, “Dad, how was your day at work.” I bet most parents would give a colloquial response, but I feel like I owe it to her to be truthful and not play her off. I’ll tell her if it was good, bad, fast, slow, stressful, meh, and provide a bit of detail. It’s a daily routine of mine to ask her how her day at school went (as well as her brother). I expect them to be a tiny bit descriptive, just as I am. I can’t expect something different from them than the example I set.
An Arizona man was distraught to learn that his mother’s body was sold to the United States military for “blast testing,” which involved strapping it to a chair before an explosive device was detonated underneath, an investigation revealed.
The past month has brought presidential racism back into the headlines. This October 1971 exchange between current and future presidents is a reminder that other presidents have subscribed to the racist belief that Africans or African Americans are somehow inferior. The most novel aspect of President Donald Trump’s racist gibes isn’t that he said them, but that he said them in public.
On July 29, 1858, Europe and North America were connected via telegraph by a 2,500 mile, long, 0.6-inch wide cable. Queen Victoria and President Buchanan exchanged congratulations via Morse code, it took 2 minutes and 5 seconds per letter. The cable operated for less than a month due to a variety of technical failures. And I’ll be honest, I thought it was “Morris code”.
Harvard University, founded in 1636, claims itself to be (v.i.) “the oldest institution of higher education in the United States”.
The University of Pennsylvania, established in 1740, considers itself to be America’s first university, a title it claims on its website and in other published materials. The university has published a book about being the first university in America, and its website contains numerous instances of the phrase “America’s First University”.
The College of William and Mary’s website states, “The College of William and Mary was the first college to become a university (1779).”
Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876 and claims to be “America’s first research university”
If you spot tornado and unsure of its movement, use a straight object like a telephone pole in between you and the tornado and you can see which way it’s moving. If the tornado appears to not be moving or becoming wider, it’s coming towards you, so start moving perpendicular instead of forward or backward.
