- According to this article, that picture is from the current mosquito problem in Houston. I also saw a story about how a lot of bats died in the area and that’s one reason for the influx.
- BoyGeeding likes to point out all the Waffle Houses we pass on the road. But half of them he identifies are actually Wells Fargo buildings.
- I think Joel Osteen and Clay Cooley are long lost, brothers. Both are a little too happy to be on TV.
- While researching spinal fusion surgery, I discovered it came to be from treating children with polio in the 1950s.
- When I was at my neurosurgeon’s office I noticed a signed letter of appreciation from someone in the book I’m reading. It turns out my doctor operated on one of LBJ’s Chiefs of Staff and former Postmaster General, who is still living at the age of ninety-three.
- I spend way too much time reflecting on the past and worrying about the future. I recently ran across this Lao Tzu quote and it floored me, “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.“
- A story from Walt Disney’s son-in-law:
- “My father-in-law saw me play in two football games when I was with the Los Angeles Rams. In one of them, I caught a pass and Dick ‘Night Train’ Lane let me have it from the rear. His forearm came across my nose and knocked me unconscious. I woke up in about the third quarter. At the end of the season, Walt came up to me and said, ‘You know, I don’t want to be the father to your children. You’re going to die out there. How about coming to work with me?’ I did and it was a wise decision on my part.”
- WifeGeeding and I watched part of a Walt Disney documentary on PBS last night. We had a good laugh when she was dosing off and made a comment of how Disney’s polio came back. I raised my eyebrow and asked where did she hear that? She was certain it was just stated in the documentary. Thanks to the magic of the DVR, we figured out he was experiencing pain from an old “polo” injury.
- The new Nissan Leaf will only have a single pedal and I don’t think it’s going to catch on.
- The new Leaf can be driven with a single pedal, which Nissan is calling the e-Pedal and describes as “revolutionary.” The e-Pedal handles starting, accelerating, decelerating, and stopping; releasing the pedal applies friction and regenerative brakes that can bring the car to a total stop even on steep inclines.
- Laurene Powell Jobs is using Ronald Reagan in political ads to attack Trump’s DACA decision
- The spot uses Ronald Reagan’s farewell address at length as he lauds the country’s diversity.“If there had to be city walls, the walls had doors. And the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here,” Reagan says from the Oval Office, as diverse faces of Americans are shown. “That’s how I saw it, and see it still.”
- U2 will be on ‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’ on Thursday night. If you are a U2 fan, set your DVRs to run late since the show will air after the first game of the NFL season and then the evening news.
- In case you were wondering where all the Houston area trash from Hurricane Harvey will go:
- It’s unclear where all this junk will go (calls to Houston’s Solid Waste Management office were not returned), but the area appears well-equipped to handle it. As Bloomberg BNA notes, the “Houston-Galveston region has 27 landfills, with a total of 34 years of capacity under normal disposal rates.” If local officials take a lesson from the post-Katrina cleanup, they’ll create temporary landfills to conserve space at the facilities equipped to handle more toxic trash. In New Orleans, “sticks and bricks” sites were set up to gather woody demolition debris in areas that did not protect the groundwater as well as landfills.
- I haven’t followed the Ezekiel Elliott news closely but I’m confused by a lot of things.
- I keep seeing headlines that his six-game suspension is upheld but he’s playing in Sunday’s game. I thought “upheld” meant “confirm or supported”. So in my mind, if his suspension was upheld, that would mean his suspension is legit and he wouldn’t be playing.
- Yesterday he was in a U.S. District Court in Sherman, Texas. Sherman? Why the U.S. District Court in Sherman and not somewhere else? I’m guessing because the Cowboys are now located in Frisco and it has something to do with proximity?
- I thought an arbitrator was involved so I don’t understand where a District Judge comes into play.
- I’m not condoning anything he did or cheering for the guy, but if I understand correctly, whatever he did was before he was in the NFL, right? It seems odd for the NFL to punish the guy before he became part of the league. I guess the NFL has that authority because of a deal with the players’ union?
- I’m like Jon Snow, I know nothing.
