Bag of Randomness for Thursday, March 21, 2019

• I wonder how awkward dinner is at the George and Kellyanne Conway house.
• The high school in my hometown of Mineral Wells is getting a new principal, his name is Dr. Funk. I bet he’s heard every joke possible when it comes to his name. I had a friend in college with the last name of Massingill, he was a pretty cool dude.
• DaughterGeeding read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in less than 20 hours.
• A lot of times when I look at a lifetime of photos of someone, there’s a phase, perhaps in their thirties, in which they look older than they do when they are in their forties.
• Smithonian.com – The Rivalry Between Two Doctors to Implant the First Artificial Heart – Featuring titans of Texas medicine, the race was on to develop the cutting-edge technology
• I find the selection of a photo for an obituary or celebration of life a funeral interesting. Out of a lifetime of photos, a family member will have to choose a single one. Some will choose a photo taken at the latter stage of life, perhaps because it’s most recent and it’s how most people think of their loved one. Yet, sometimes they will choose a photo at a time in that person’s life when they were most active or well dressed. All that came to mind looking at the obituaries in my hometown newspaper, in particular, military photos of loved ones taken in the sixties or seventies.
• How The Very Hungry Caterpillar Became a Classic
• Mr. Rogers’ Selective Service Registration Card
  
• A paraglider lands and a kangaroo picks a fight with him
  

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45 rattlesnakes removed from under house near Albany, TX

“This is nothing. We do this all the time.”

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Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, March 20, 2019

• There’s going to be a Toy Story 4. After watching the last, I don’t think I could be emotionally strong enough to handle another.
• There’s a huge chemical fire which is expected to burn for days near Houston. Authorities state the air quality around the area is safe. I don’t trust the authorities. I remember hearing the same thing from authorities about the air quality around Ground Zero which turned out to toxic and cancerous.
• I guess I never noticed it was spelled without an “h” – Who Still Buys Wite-Out, and Why? – Correction fluids have improbably outlasted the typewriter and survived the rise of the digital office.
• I came across a show on A&E called ‘The Toe Bro’. It’s a reality series about a podiatrist and it’s not for the faint of heart. It’s similar to TLC’s ‘Dr. Pimple Popper’, who I think is a must-follow on Twitter if you like to see pimples explode.
• What Every Kid in the College Admissions Scandal Knew About the Scam – Here’s a succinct — well, uh, a more succinct — list of everyone involved and what they did and did not know.
• Eight years and 1 million photos: What Eric Draper learned photographing George W. Bush
• Cindy McCain shared a vulgar tweet directed at and her daughter.
• The Surprisingly Long History of Throwing Eggs at Politicians
• Perhaps, the greatest Batman scene ever.
  

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Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, March 19, 2019

• Some months seem to go by faster than others. This March feels like it has flown by.
• It’s hard to imagine that the Mavericks will ever have a player greater than Dirk.
• Cow runs away from Indiana police, blocks traffic and goes to Chick-Fil-A
• Beto O’Rourke raises $6.1m in first 24 hours, smashing Bernie Sanders’ record
  • It’s early to prognosticate. But if he doesn’t win the nomination, I don’t see how he can’t be second on the ticket with his fundraising ability.
• I bet everyone has thought about committing the perfect crime or murder.
• Despite landing on a channel or watching a movie on my television and having no need to use the remote, I often find myself holding the remote for no real purpose.
• Since I like to gripe about health insurance and medical billing practice – Insurance gap leaves patients on the hook for unexpected hospital bills
  • “I called admissions. I said, ‘Are y’all still in network with First Health?’ And he said, ‘Yes, we are.’ I thought OK, I’m on my way,” she said. The Jackson area hospital was in network. But the emergency room care was not. Four months later, that cost Mills an additional $1,800. Nearly 65 percent of hospitals across the country use emergency rooms staffed by outside companies. It’s a loophole that allows providers to charge patients more because the emergency rooms are considered out of network.
• GOP senator disinvited to Republican event over vote against Trump’s emergency declaration
  • Here’s an advert for the dinner
    
• Charles Schulz’s Letter About Democracy, Discovered 50 Years Later
  

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