Bag of Randomness

  • Here’s a nice, neutral, somewhat brief, and informative article about the McCain and Obama economic tax plans.
  • I learned a new word, wont.  When I first saw it, I thought someone mispelled a contraction.
  • I’ve been married for a little over five years and just discovered how much women spend when getting their hair done . . . jaw dropping.
  • In case you ever wanted to look at a high-resolution picture of John McCain [2400 x 3040], here you go.
  • That photos shows a weight lifting tie, some face stubble, a little ear hair, and very trimmed eye-brows.
  • This blog gets about 300 spam comments a day which I why I use a spam filtering tool.  Sometime, unfortunately, not all legitimate comments get through.
  • MSNBC is accused of being too liberal and does something about keeping it’s journalistic integrity.  Fox News has been accused of being too conservative and has never done anything about it.
  • I’m interested to see what SNL has in line for us regarding politics.
  • I’m not sure how I did on my Southwest Airlines Blog-o-spondent interview, but I should hear some news today.  Thanks again to all of you that voted.
  • I never had a girlfriend in high school or college.  At the time I was in the Baptist monastery.
  • I just have a feeling that the Cowboys are going to disappoint me this year, and I don’t like our chances against the Eagles.
  • It’s fun watching football and not playing fantasy football for a change.
  • I still have a plant that a friend gave me after my father died a little over ten years ago.
  • I have a friend who is named after Jimi Hendrix.
  • With satellite TV, I have never had as many channels as I do now and I still can’t find anything to watch.  But that’s where the greatness of Tivo comes in.
  • I almost killed a bunny the other day weed-eating.  He was in shallow little hole and didn’t budge at all when I got right next to him.  Thankfully I saw him in time.
  • I sleep with two pillows.
  • Sometimes I just like to listen to musical scores.  Dances With Wolves is one of my favorite.
  • I’m tempted to buy things out of the Sky Mall.
  • I recently discovered that El Paso is not in the Central Time Zone, all this time I thought all of Texas was in that time zone.
  • I haven’t worn jeans, khakis, or any kind of dress pants to work since May.
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Armstrong to return for ’09 Tour

Lance Armstrong will end his retirement and hopes to compete in the 2009 Tour de France, according to a cycling journal report.

The 36-year-old seven-time Tour de France champion will compete in five road races with the Astana team in 2009, the cycling journal VeloNews reported on its Web site Monday, citing anonymous sources.

Armstrong’s manager Mark Higgins did not immediately respond to a voice mail left by The Associated Press.

The move would reunite Armstrong with Johan Bruyneel, now the team director for Astana.

VeloNews reported Armstrong also will compete in the Amgen Tour of California, Paris-Nice, the Tour de Georgia and the Dauphine-Libere.

The Astana team, however, was not allowed to compete in this year’s Tour after Alexandre Vinokourov was kicked out of the 2007 Tour for testing positive and the team quit the race.

VeloNews, which said Vanity Fair will publish an extensive article detailing Armstrong’s comeback, said the cyclist will race for no salary or bonuses and post his internally tested blood work online.

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An E-Mail Plea: Help Pay My Tuition!

The e-mail looks like a scam: “I have to come up with big-time cash,” writes Max Stephenson. The 18-year-old is headed for New York University, he explains, but his mom is on disability, his dad works three jobs, and all his grants and loans only cover half of the school’s $50,000 annual tab. So to cover the gap, he’s hoping 10,000 friends of friends of friends will each put $2.50 in the mail or send the money via PayPal. “If you’re worried I am one of those internet rip-off artists, call NYU’s admissions office at 212.998.4500,” his e-mail continues, “and ask for someone in international admissions — they handled my admissions as I was recruited to play ice hockey for Russia and spent last year there.”

The thing is, his plea is legit. And two weeks after Stephenson sent his e-mail to 300 of his friends and his parents’ business contacts — and asked them to forward it to anyone they could think of — he says he has already received close to $6,000 from more than 2,000 people.

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