Bag of Randomness for Saint Patrick’s Day 2017
- I’m one of those few who still enjoys mowing his own lawn. For me, it feels good to get outside since I’m in front of a computer screen all I just feel like it’s a right of passage of owning a home. Yesterday evening was the first mow of the season.
- Most of you know I’m very fond of my battery powered mower. It was always a hassle filling up a gas can and then trying to make it home without it spilling in the car. I’d usually place it inside a trash bag because I know if one drop of gasoline got in the interior the car would smell forever. Perhaps I’d feel different if I owned a truck. I also love how quiet my battery powered mower is and it never lacked in the power department; well, except now. The battery is near death and the manufacturer, Ryobi, no longer makes a replacement battery. That’s a major limitation, you are at the mercy of the manufacturer to supply batteries and hope they keep them in supply. So I bought a new battery powered mower which is 20 volts more powerful and I can’t believe how light it is, about twenty pounds lighter than a gas-powered mower. It was so light, five-year-old BoyGeeding was able to mow a couple rows/lines all by himself, under heavy supervision with me by his side, of course. I think I was able to cut my mowing time by about a third because of how light the mower was.
- I see a version of this article about what will happen after the Queen’s death every now and then, but I found this part pretty interesting, it’s euthanasia.
- “The King’s life is moving peacefully towards its close,” was the final notice issued by George V’s doctor, Lord Dawson, at 9.30pm on the night of 20 January 1936. Not long afterwards, Dawson injected the king with 750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine – enough to kill him twice over – in order to ease the monarch’s suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of the Times, which rolled at midnight.
- Recently Sylvester Stallone opened up about his diet during the filming of Rocky III. It was the amount of coffee he ingested which stood out.
- During the period I only ate very small portions of oatmeal cookies made with brown rice and up to 25 cups of coffee a day with honey and a couple of scoops of tuna fish. Sounds incredible right? At the time my body fat got down to 2.9 which is a really dangerous level. I may have looked pretty good on the outside but inside it was very dangerous thing to do.
- Buzzfeed – Great Scott! This Auto Parts Store Has A Perfect “Back To The Future” Easter Egg On Its Website
- Buzzfeed – An Airport Security Dog Has Been Shot Dead After Breaking Loose And Running Onto The Runway – It happened in New Zealand.
- ‘Keep going!’ Trump sends birthday letter to oldest living Pearl Harbor vet – The oldest living U.S. veteran of the Pearl Harbor attack, a 105-year-old Poway man, received a birthday letter Thursday from President Donald Trump.
- SNL will now air live in all US time zones
- To be honest, I thought they already did. The last four episodes of the season will be hosted by Jimmy Fallon, Chris Pine, Melissa McCarthy, and The Rock. There’s no word on musical guests, but I have a feeling U2 will close the season out to jump start their tour.
- Matthew Perry beat up Justin Trudeau in grade school: ‘I’m not bragging’ –
Friends actor said he and a classmate beat up future Canadian prime minister because he was ‘excelling in a sport that we weren’t, so it was pure jealousy’ - Do Bay Leaves Even Do Anything? – Bay leaves are the dryer sheets of the kitchen.
- Mark your calendars – Monday, March 20 is Cone Day and Dairy Queen will be giving away free small vanilla cones.
- This is a picture of one of Saturn’s moons, Pan.
- The Atlantic – America’s Empty-Church Problem – The culture war over religious morality has faded; in its place is something much worse.
- St. Patrick’s day factoids:
- St. Patrick was never canonized a saint by the Catholic.
- He was actually born Scottish and only came to Ireland because he was captured by pirates as a child.
- March 17 commemorates his death.
- St Patrick himself is said to have used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity of God to the pagan Irish.
- The reputed burial place of St Patrick is Down Cathedral.
- A leprechaun is actually a fairy and originally were said to wear red.
- To say ‘Happy St Patrick’s Day’ in Gaelic, the native Irish language, “Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!“
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Bag of Randomness for Thursday, March 16, 2017
- I hear NBC’s ‘This Is Us’ is a great television show, but I’m at a point in my life where I can no longer watch emotional television or movies because it hits me too hard. When I was younger and didn’t have much perspective or experienced a lot of perils of life, it was easy to watch that sort of stuff. Now, I just can’t bring myself to do it.
- A fan recently sent Dirk Nowitzki a potato.
- After watching ‘The Americans’ on the DVR last night, this image popped up on the screen. My first thought was, what is former ‘Daily Show’ correspondent Aasif Mandvi doing on WFAA?
That’s not Mandvi but reporter Jobin Panicker. Isn’t “Panicker” a funny name for a reporter? Anyways, here’s a picture of Aasif Mandvi.
- Buzzfeed – Disney Princess Bikinis
- GIF – Jedi with a GoPro
- GIF – Don’t stop petting
On last’s night’s ‘Modern Family’ Haily got “the Barnicle” put on her car. I’ve never seen such a thing, but it’s an alternative to a carboot. Per TechCrunch:- The Barnacle is a bright yellow 20-pound piece of plastic that sticks to the windshield with 750 pounds of force. The parking enforcement officer only has to pump the device a half dozen times to stick the two giant suction cups to the glass. He sets the alarm and tracking system using the keypad built into the device. If you come to your Barnacled car and try to drive away anyway, a high-pitched alarm will sound.
- I’ll also like to state this is a clear case of hidden paid advertisement. #PlayfullyTrolling
- He Got a Bad Grade. So, He Got the Constitution Amended. Now He’s Getting the Credit He Deserves.
- This story involves the 27th Amendment. He received a “C” on his paper as a college sophomore in 1982, and 35 years later he got the professor to sign a form to officially change the grade to an “A+”.
- Most people would have just taken the grade and left it at that. Gregory is not most people. “So I thought right then and there, ‘I’m going to get that thing ratified.’”
- “In light of the student’s heroic efforts to prove the professor and T.A. wrong in their assessment of his term paper, Mr. Watson deserves A+. Goodness, he certainly proved he knew how to work the Constitution and what it meant and how to be politically active,” she says. It still has to be stamped by some people at UT, but when it is, 35 years after Gregory wrote his paper, he’ll finally get that C changed to an A.
- Texas woman in midst of modeling shoot when struck by train
- Substitute teacher hid box of wine in purse, police say
- Regarding optics, I think the top of this article has a tremendous picture of President Trump speaking to a crowd with Air Force One in the background – Trump Force One Is Ready for Takeoff – After decades in the sky, the president’s fleet is finally getting an upgrade—unless the new passenger-in-chief adds turbulence.
- Some tidbits:
- Presidents weren’t even allowed in helicopters until 1956. After a Camp David evacuation drill, during which President Dwight Eisenhower’s limousine got stuck behind a truck on a winding road, the Secret Service relented on its long-standing safety objection to single-engine helicopters. The next year the Air Force procured two small, bubble-nosed Bells, similar to those seen in the opening sequence of M*A*S*H. Eisenhower took precisely one flight. It was another evacuation drill, this time in July, and he baked as the cramped cockpit’s canopy absorbed the full power of the Washington sun. When it came time that fall to take another helicopter, Eisenhower asked for a large Marine transport aircraft—and the tradition of the Marines flying the commander-in-chief was born. One of the first things they did was install an air conditioner.
- The U.S. is the only country that provides its chief executive with helicopters around the world. That is, when heads of state of other countries go abroad and need a vertical lift, they often rely on the hosts’ equipment. When the U.S. president goes overseas, he brings his own helicopters—often in flights of three, to serve as backups, fly staff, and function as decoys for would-be assassins.
- As dreamed up, the new Marine One could fly more people farther, faster, and at a higher level of performance than any other executive helicopter on the planet. The idea was to create a true Oval Office in the sky, with videoconferencing, a galley, and a flushing toilet, as well as heavy armor and protection from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Eisenhower would have approved of the climate control: The cabin had to remain between 68F and 76F, whether the outside temperature was -5 or 100.
- Some tidbits:
- Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years
- At the age of 20, Christopher Knight parked his car on a remote trail in Maine and walked away with only the most basic supplies. He had no plan. His chief motivation was to avoid contact with people. This is his story
- Snow in coming!
