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Bag of Randomness for Friday, June 8, 2018

• Yesterday was the last day of the school year for the kids and the first night of summer vacation was spent allowing them to stay up late and watch The Wizard of Oz on TMC. I started it with a trip to the doctor for a sinus infection.
• Amazing, and something I never thought could be done – Scorching-Hot Lava Evaporates Entire Lake in Hawaii
  • Fiery lava from Hawaii’s ongoing volcanic eruption has completely evaporated the water from Green Lake, the Big Island’s largest freshwater lake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The assassination by evaporation began this past Saturday morning (June 2), when lava from Fissure 8 flowed into the lake and boiled the water away. The lake didn’t go peacefully, either. Rather, the boiling water turned into a thick white plume that reached high into the sky, the USGS reported.
• A New Jersey special-education teacher willed a $1 million to her school district so it can be used on scholarships for special-education students.
• It involved a tomahawk – Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, and the 26-Year-Long Practical Joke
• Religion News Service – Fewer couples are marrying in churches. Does it matter?
  • The opinion piece points out the lack of church bells in churches nowadays, something so obviously true with all the modern church building but something I never thought about. My old church in Mineral Wells had a bell but I only recall it being rung once.
• Some folks tried to carjack a Nissan Leaf but they couldn’t figure out how to operate the car and as well as some other stuff.
• IHOP’s new name is confusing the masses. But for Arabic speakers, it’s always been IHOB.
  • That’s because in the Arabic alphabet, no letter exists with a hard “p” sound, making it tough for Arabic speakers to pronounce the letter P.  Arabs have worked around this issue with the closest alternative — the Arabic equivalent of the letter “B” (ب).  Across the Middle East, Pepsi is known as “Bebsi.” Pizza is “bizza.” 
• Kindergarten teachers are creating school lockdown nursery rhymes.
• This Dallas Morning News article starts off with topics common for anyone familiar with the Baptist faith and I’m sure really aren’t that controversial to any member of a Baptist church-  Who is Robert Jeffress? A guide to the Dallas pastor’s controversies
• I like all these concept U.S. dollars by artist Andrey Avgust. There’s a video at the top of the page, but just scroll down and you can see all the images.

  

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Bag of Randomness for Thursday, June 7, 2018

• Yesterday, the First Lady made her first media appearance in 26 days. I feel like I’m watching a real life remake of the movie Dave which has been slightly altered. That’s my favorite Kevin Kline movie and got me tracking the career of Frank Langella. Other than the First Lady making an appearance, I was amused at how VP Pence followed President Trump’s lead with the water bottle.
• Even though the first summit hasn’t happened yet, and who knows if it will, President Donald Trump and has floated the idea of a playing golf with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un at his Florida resort if they end up getting along. I believe Kim Jong Un’s father has claimed to shoot five aces in his very first round of golf.
• Larry King’s son was drafted by the White Sox.
• Pennsylvania news – Graduating 8th grade class gifted bulletproof backpack plates before heading to high school
• For you TICKET fans, here’s Norm as a baby being held by his great-grandfather.
• Vulture – 30 Comedians Give Advice to Their Younger Selves
• The Guardian – Meet the people who still use Myspace
• All Cadillacs will have semi-autonomous features starting in 2020
• Kindergarten graduations are stupid, but it’s not like I’m going to pull my son of his. He had a fantastic kindergarten teacher and I know he’s going to miss her. He had a bit of a crush on her at the first of the year and was shy to speak. There were a total of three kindergarten classes and he was the very last student out of all three to walk in, I hope that’s not going to happen when he graduates in 2030.
  
• I feel like he’s practicing for some sort of presidential pose here. The kid behind his left sure doesn’t look happy to be leaving kindergarten.
  
• The ceremony started with the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. and Texas flag. President Trump would have been proud, not one student protested. 
• I’ll spare you any more pictures, but whenever the kid is on stage, he never smiles or looks for his parents in the stands, he also stands at attention the whole time. He might have a military career ahead of him.

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Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, June 6, 2018

• I messed up trimming my beard and decided to shave it off, it’s been a while since I haven’t had hair on my face. In speaking with a lot of bearded men, we grow beards as a means to hide a double chin. I expect the beard to be back in a few weeks.
• I’m guessing Buckingham Palace has a musty smell to it.
• Random prediction – A version of the USB outlet will take the place of the standard household plug and will be adopted worldwide, different outlet adaptors won’t be needed when you travel.
• I’ve thought this for a while, but I don’t think championship sports teams, professional or college, should visit the White House. I want the president to do something else with his or her time. In case you are wondering who were the first champions to visit the White House, this old ESPN article breaks it down:
  • The tradition of sports teams visiting the White House dates to at least Aug. 30, 1865, when President Andrew Johnson welcomed the Brooklyn Atlantics and Washington Nationals amateur baseball clubs. Ulysses S. Grant played host to the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, in 1869.
  •  John F. Kennedy was the first president to welcome the NBA champions, when the Boston Celtics visited in January 1963, and the Indiana University men’s basketball team is believed to be the first NCAA champion to visit the White House when it was hosted by Gerald Ford in April 1976.
  • The first Super Bowl champion to visit was the Pittsburgh Steelers, who joined the World Series-winning Pittsburgh Pirates in a dual ceremony with Jimmy Carter in February 1980. It was Ronald Reagan, however, who made the practice of honoring championship teams at the White House a regular occurrence.
• Philadelphia Eagle Chris Long makes a solid point – @JOEL9ONE – Fox News used the faith of Christian men dishonestly to push an agenda. That wasn’t an “error,” but intentional and strategic. They’ve deleted the segment + apologized on twitter, but many viewers don’t have twitter. An on air apology to all Christians would be the classy move.
• Not that I keep up with fashion, but when I heard Kate Spade died, I confused her with Tory Burch, who I think is a very beautiful 51-year-old. Offhand, I can’t name any other famous Torys.
• 50 years ago today, LBJ was alerted of RFK’s death at 3:31 AM EST.
• I predict we’ll end up seeing a photograph of Dennis Rodman, President Trump, and Kim Jong Un together – Dennis Rodman will be in Singapore for Trump-Kim summit
• They’ll explain why on June 11, I’m sure it’s a gimmick and won’t be a permanent change – IHOP Is Changing Its Iconic Name to IHOb
• Bill Gates is gifting a book to every U.S. college graduate
  • It’s called Factfulness, by the late global-health expert and noted sword swallower Hans Rosling, and it is packed with advice about how to see the world clearly. Although I think everyone should read it, it has especially useful insights for anyone who’s making the leap out of college and into the next phase of life.
  • So I am giving Factfulness to everyone who’s getting a degree from a U.S. college or university this spring. If you’re being awarded an associate’s, bachelor’s, or post-graduate degree, download your free copy of the book below. (Unfortunately, because of international publishing rights, it is available only to graduates from U.S. schools.)
• I love how these two greet each other.

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