Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, August 22, 2017

  • I was certain that was a doctored photo, but Snopes says it’s real.
  • I asked one of my coworkers in D.C. if she took time to see the eclipse. She said she couldn’t because it would go against the Hindu tradition.
  • I think my friend Andy missed the eclipse because he had to take his wife to the ER. I hope she’s recovering well and glad to hear his priorities are straight.
  • Dallas will be in the path of the next total solar eclipse which happens in seven years. I wonder if Pete Delkus has tried to make a forecast for that date as a bit, which he seems full of.
  • GIF – Satellite Imagery of 2017 Solar Eclipse
  • Traffic during the eclipse.
  • This guy on Reddit had one of the more impressive eclipse photos yesterday.
  • I didn’t get to see much of President Trump’s address to the nation, so I don’t have any comment on the content, but he seemed to deliver it well.
  • Police called as activist blots out swastika in park west of Montreal
  • Confederacy-loving student shown in viral flip-off photo kicked out of Christian college
    • Armentrout was told that his final year of enrollment at Pensacola Christian College was being terminated. “I have been released from my school and will be unable to return to college to finish my senior year,” Armentrout told WXII in an interview. “I’m processing this and making adjustments to my life to compensate for this scrutiny.”
  • Matt LeBlanc: I could have been Phil Dunphy on ‘Modern Family’
    • “I remember reading it thinking, this is a really good script, [but] I’m not the guy for this,” LeBlanc said. “I’d be doing the project an injustice to take this.”
  • Here’s another picture of that gas station with all the Tesla charging ports, but this time full of Tesla cars.  It will be interesting to see how gas stations adapt and evolve. In case you are wondering, this is in southwest Missouri.
  • A lot of Trump fans in Kentucky – Poll: McConnell’s approval in Kentucky at 18 percent
  • Samuel L Jackson and Magic Johnson mistaken for ‘lazy migrants’ by Italians after shopping in Tuscany
  • The Secretary of the Treasury’s wife appeared to be endorsing fashion products on his Instagram. But once she was called out on it by a reporter, she edited the post. , but not before lashing out:
    • Linton responded with a tirade in which she told the woman, “Your life looks cute” and urged her to “Go chill out and watch the new game of thrones.” Linton set her page to private after the outburst, but not before screenshots of her comments were picked up by The New York Times and other outlets. “Have you given more to the economy than me and my husband? Either as an individual earner in taxes OR in self sacrifice to your country?” she wrote. “Pretty sure the amount we sacrifice per year is a lot more than you’d be willing to sacrifice if the choice was yours.”

  • The secretary visited Fort Knox yesterday.
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Bag of Randomness for Monday, August 21, 2017

  • Our kids don’t start school until next week, but today is the first day of school for a lot of kids, and it’s pretty darn cool it coincides with the solar eclipse. That’s going to make a great memory. I also think the path of the solar eclipse is pretty neat, how it will cross the U.S. diagonally, almost in half.
  • Even with anesthesia, having a needle stuck in your spine still hurts. But the worst part of the experience was about 20-minutes after the dye was injected for the x-rays and CT scan. The injection caused additional pressure on my nerves and it felt like I had two massive hamstring cramps.
  • Jerry Lewis lived a long life, made a lot of people laugh, and made the lives of many suffering from muscular dystrophy better for just a hair under a half-century. Not perfect by any means and certainly full of flaws, but he certainly impacted lives for the better and impacted the majority of my Labor Days.
    • Lewis didn’t tweet often. His last tweet was back in May of 2016 in regards to his 90th birthday with a woman in lingerie presenting him a birthday cake.
  • What the heck is up with our Navy as of late?! With today’s technology, there’s no excuse for collisions to happen.
  • I received this picture from a friend. It’s a glimpse of the future. If you can’t tell, there are about eight Tesla charging stations in front of those gas pump.
  • Elon Musk Continues To Add Basic Features To Tesla Cars Based On Twitter Feedback
  • An important milestone for humankind, Debbie Gibson’s ‘Out of the Blue’ album turns 30 years old.
  • YouTube (language warning) – Foo Fighters featuring Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up
  • A nice piece of advice from Adam Savage, “First buy the cheapest tool you can find, and when you break it it means you used it a lot, then buy the best one you can afford.”
  • Last night’s ‘Game of Thrones’ caused me to look up the word “wringing”, which means to complain fretfully.
  • @DallasNews – ICYMI… Former Ranger Derek Holland gets sentimental in return to Arlington, writes ‘thank you’ on the mound
  • Some Liberty University Grads Are Returning Their Diplomas To Protest Trump
  • NASA – Eyes Eclipse 2017 Web Application – In this interactive, web-based 3D simulation, you can click anywhere on the Earth to preview your view of the August 21st, 2017 total eclipse.
  • ReligionDispatches.org – I Created the Hashtag #EmptythePews Because It’s Time for Evangelicals To Walk Out of Toxic Churches
  • Solid-Gold Toilet to Be Removed From Guggenheim in September
  • Word Usage in Sacred Texts
  • Word Analysis: The Bible
    • The number 1 word is “Lord” (this includes both the upper case “Lord”, which refers to God and the lower case “lord”, which would refer to a someone’s superior), with 7,759 occurrences, followed by God, at number 2, with 3,977 occurrences. Interestingly, “Jesus” makes the list (ranked # 10 with 1,273 occurrences), despite the fact that the New Testament accounts for less than 23% of the 274,000+ words
  • Random grammar humor: I love eating babies and smiling.
    But I hate punctuation.
  • Now you can see what Donald Trump sees every time he opens Twitter
    • . . . we’ve created @trumps_feed, an account that checks whom Trump follows every five minutes and then retweets any new tweets from them over that period. The net result is a replication of what Trump would see on those occasions that he switches over from the Mentions tab.
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Bag of Randomness for Thursday, August 17, 2017

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