Your Bag of Nothing for August, 21, 2024

 

  • I saw this mentioned on Twitter, and a lot of folks were offended. I just read it as an observation. Obviously, Indians excel in other areas of life, but it’s still an interesting observation – Despite a population of 1.5 billion, India won zero gold medals in the Olympics this year.
  • There’s nothing graphic here, but here’s a Twitter video of a dog slowly descending his testicles into a stream to cool them off. Despite there being nothing to object to, I just couldn’t bring myself to embed the video.
  • The University of Texas Longhorns’ starting quarterback will appear in an upcoming Dr. Pepper commercial with former Oklahoma Sooner legend Brian Bosworth. During SEC media days, I couldn’t help but notice from several prominent Texas A&M fans and reporters how much they respect Ewers because he comes off as a very kind Christian man. I must admit I judged a book by its cover when he came out of Southlake and sported that mullet and a bunch of tats.
  • Even though I saw one of the shows, I’m still looking forward to this.
  • Fede Álvarez is the director and one of the writers of the new Alien: Romulus film that hit theaters last weekend.  He thought he’d be a nice guy and make a comment on the Alien subreddit. One of the moderators thought he was an imposter and permanently banned him. Thankfully, and with an apology, the error has been corrected.
  • When Obama was running for president, he was always introduced to U2’s City of Blinding Lights. It was nice to see the same song played as he was introduced by his wife last night.
  • I think most of my readers are conservative and can’t stand former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But I always thought this was a cool photo of a young Pelosi meeting President Kennedy. This week at the DNC, she got to meet his grandson Jack Schlossberg.

  • This moment last night still has me laughing. Yes, it was a moment of Idiocracy. He definitely brought more energy than Kid Rock did at the RNC.

  • Times have changed. But I still support what these two former Republicans said.

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Your Bag of Nothing for Tuesday, August 20, 2024

  • I like how the NFL allows players to be creative with their cleats one Sunday a year, and I like that MLB allows them to be creative with their bats. It was fun to see home runs hit with them. Here are more of the bats if you are interested.
  • Hey, I know that place! My 49th birthday is in ten days. Thirty-three years ago, on that day, my dad drove me from Mineral Wells to Weatherford just so I could take my driver’s test as soon as possible on my 16th birthday. I think at the time, the DPS office in Mineral Wells only offered the driving test twice a week, and I would have to wait an extra day or two. In those days, a DPS officer rode in the passenger seat and told you where and how to drive and that was part of the test. It certainly was intimidating. My dad didn’t have to do that. I certainly could have waited a few days to take the test in Mineral Wells, but it really wouldn’t have changed anything significant in my life. But that’s part of a father’s love, and I miss.
  • Man, so much for the DNC giving President Biden a warm thank-you and send-off. What an embarrassment for all the speeches to go long and knock the president off primetime coverage. But for this liberal, it was still worth staying up for. It also caught BoyGeeding’s attention and he asked if he could stay up to watch it. I live for moments like these, so despite it being a school night, I let him stay up a bit longer. He had all sorts of questions and comments, and I didn’t get to pay a lot of attention to the speech, but that was just fine.
  • English ain’t easy, it be confusing.

  • I thought I’ve seen every footage and knew every story related to September 11, 2001 and the World Trade Center. But yesterday was the first I ever saw any of this.

  • The passage of time sure is interesting.

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Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, August 19, 2024

  • Unsurprisingly, Bono can pull off wearing a bib. Speaking of one of my favorite persons, yesterday’s Sunday school material started with a quote from Bono. I have never really looked at Psalms very intently, other than hearing Bono say that the Blues are the modern-day equivalent. I knew it was songs and poems, primarily written by David, but I didn’t understand the Psalms’ art, depth, and style. Today’s lesson was about how some of the books use the stair-step structure called a chiasm. And after studying how it was used in Pslams, we were encouraged to write and share ours. And it was beautiful hearing other people’s versions because it let me see a more intimate side of how they see our creator.
  • With the Cowboys making Trey Lance the backup quarterback, the writing is on the wall for Dak. This will be his last year as a Cowboy. Jerry had all these years to sign him for a much lower price than what the market is demanding, and Jerry isn’t going to pay Dak market price for the lack of playoff wins on his resume. He’s hoping Lance will improve and end up taking over for Dak at the start of next year. But there is no arguing about what a nice guy Dak is and continues to be.
  • There’s a COVID uptick and everyone’s allergies have been killing lately.
  • I continue to stand by the statement that I think less of a person if they take part in Greek organizations in college – Missouri student unable to see, walk or speak after ‘worst frat hazing injury ever in US’
    • I’d like to know how many of these “brothers” have visited and helped take care of him since the incident.
  • Is anyone else surprised that Greyhound is still around?
  • He stormed the Capitol and a senator’s office. Then he became a cop in a small NC town.
  • Couple sues Atlanta hospital for allegedly losing part of patient’s skull following brain surgery
  • I ran across a new article written about the ill-fated Titan submersible last week. Apparently, it’s certain they knew death was coming.
    • Crew of Titan sub knew they were going to die before implosion, according to more than $50M lawsuit – According to the lawsuit, the Titan “dropped weights” about 90 minutes into its dive, indicating the team had aborted or attempted to abort the dive. “While the exact cause of failure may never be determined, experts agree that the Titan’s crew would have realized exactly what was happening,” the lawsuit states. “Common sense dictates that the crew were well aware they were going to die, before dying.” The lawsuit goes on to say: “The crew may well have heard the carbon fiber’s crackling noise grow more intense as the weight of the water pressed on Titan’s hull.
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Your Bag of Nothing for Friday, August 16, 2024

  • NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Bad decision! –Nicolas Cage to Play NFL Icon John Madden in David O. Russell’s Biopic

    Amazon MGM is backing “Madden,” which will be written, directed and produced by Russell. The filmmaker was reportedly considering Will Ferrell and Hugh Jackman to star in the film before Cage was cast.

  • My late mother turned 76 yesterday. For her birthday, I would normally ask my readers to read something as my mother enjoyed reading.
  • I started this blog on one of her birthdays. That’s right, believe it or not, but this blog turned 19 yesterday.
  • The Harris Walz campaign are rolling out videos of the two getting to know each other. I watched one video in which they discuss music. It wasn’t surprising to hear Walz talk about Springsteen and Bob Seger and Harris about Prince. But I was surprised Harris’ husband is a big Depeche Mode fan.
  • It’s nice to see President Biden is lightening up; he had a pretty good one-liner speaking to a bunch of visiting influences earlier this week:
    • “You break through in ways that I think are going to change the entire dynamic of the way in which we communicate, and that’s why I invited you to the White House, because I’m looking for a job. You think—when I retire, where do you think I’m going? I got contacts, man, you all think I’m kidding.”
    • Of course, at his age, no one expects him to be building houses like Jimmy Carter, who, surprisingly, just won’t die. he’s been in hospice forever. But Biden is right, presidents have contacts, some you can’t even imagine. I wonder what he’ll do or what he has in mind. I’m guessing something small, like a retired POTUS podcast. Hey, that’s an idea. What if all the former living presidents got together on Zoom or some other medium and talked about their lives or current events once a month? You could get a presidential historian like Jon Meacham to host and keep the conversation flowing. Being such a people person, I could see him teaching and really enjoying it.
  • A 22-year-old NewsNation reporter in Chicago was killed last month after she was struck by an oncoming commuter train. You’d probably think it happened because she wasn’t attention because she was looking at her phone or couldn’t hear the train because she had earbuds on, but both were in her purse. The article mentions the parents following her commute home using the Life360 app and slowly realizing what happened in real-time, which is gutwrenching to read as a parent.
    • Then after five or so minutes, Bentkowski noticed her location started going backward toward the city instead of Northwest Indiana. He thought someone stole her phone, then the GPS dot started going 70 to 80 miles per hour toward the University of Chicago Medical Center. “I got a bad feeling she was the one who was hit, as soon as I saw she ended up at University of Chicago I hopped in the car and drove down there,”
    • Something that also must have been gutwrenching for them was watching a video of the accident with sound.
      • Family viewed video of the incident and told WGN News no horn was blown by the conductor and the train accelerated quickly. “No noise, no nothing. From the video all you hear is a thud,” Bentkowski said. “Then the engineer blows a horn.”
  • Yesterday the Musers talked about Texas high school stadiums. I thought it was interesting and smart of the folks in Denton to put the video board directly across the field behind the visitor stands so the home crowd doesn’t have to turn their heads. The visitors also have a scoreboard, but it’s off to the side. I almost want to go on a rant about how all high school stadiums, including the one in Mineral Wells, all have to have a video board. It seems they are standard now, even for small towns.

    This one is also interesting. It doesn’t look like that right now as it’s being repaired from storm damage.
  • Staying on the topic of athletic venues, the LA Clippers’ new home, the Intuit Dome, opened this week, and it’s caught my attention. Every seat will have a USB charging port. There’s a HUGE screen out front for fans who can’t get inside to watch the game outside with a basketball court in front of it, which is designed to be used by the community, and can be rented out for various special events. One concourse features a display of high school basketball jerseys from every single school in the state of California. Here are a few pics and videos.


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