Right before bedtime, DaughterGeeding showed me her autobiography she started to wright. I told her that’s nice and all, but the best part is that she has a big part in choosing how it ends.
Tony Romo joined Instagram yesterday. His first post was a video of his older son throwing the ball to his younger son. I won’t spoil the ending for you if you want to watch.
I’ve written about the “Johnson Treatment” several times, and that was the first thing I thought of when I saw this picture of President Trump. Granted, it only captures a brief moment in time and a single image can be taken out of context, but it was the first thing that popped in my mind.
A little dated but relevant to the above bullet point, here‘s Bryan Cranston transforming into LBJ on ‘The Tonight Show’ giving Jimmy Fallon “The Johnson Treatment”.
The Texas Rangers, the state’s top criminal investigation agency, have opened a preliminary investigation of Baylor University’s handling of allegations of sexual assault by students, a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman told ESPN on Wednesday.
The “Texas Rangers” is a good name for a sports team, but dangit, sometimes it’s confusing as heck. At the start of a story, I don’t know if the criminal investigation agency is being referenced or the NHL team when only “Rangers” is used.
I always confuse Jennifer Beals (Flashdance) for Jessica Biel (actress and wife of Justin Timberlake).
I’m always surprised when Trump doesn’t wear a red tie for a big occasion. But the next time he speaks to Congress, Vice President Pence and Speaker Ryan need not wear matching ties, it looked a little weird, like they were auditioning for the sequel to Step Brothers.
Going into the speech I knew I was going to disagree with a certain amount of content, but I was curious how he would deliver it, how “presidential” he would appear, and if he’d stray from the text and adlib. Regarding all that, he exceeded my expectations for the most part, but as he got comfortable, he started being Trump again but not to the extent most of us are accustomed.
Maybe it was my television, but last night Justice Kennedy looked very yellow, which made me think of possible liver issue. But then again I could have been Justice Breyer, I don’t know my justices very well.
I continue to think the opposing party response to the State of the Union, or in this case, an address to a joint session of Congress, is stupid.
“Immediately upon notification on Feb. 7, the appropriate campus student-conduct process was initiated and Blanchard was suspended indefinitely from all team related activities, pending the outcome of the investigation,” Baylor director of athletic communications David Kaye said, per John Carroll and Mikel Lauber of KWTX. Blanchard has been accused of multiple acts of abuse, dating back to at least last July.
Baylor was notified three weeks ago, so I’m guessing it takes that long for the suspension to go into effect. Either that or Baylor sat on this information and decided to release it a little before President Trump’s first address to a joint session of congress to avoid the media spotlight.
That’s got to tear her up on the inside after standing up for her university and then finding out the school was notified about this almost three weeks prior. But as she said, “I’m tired of people talking on it on a national scale that don’t know what they’re talking about. If they didn’t sit in those meetings and they weren’t a part of the investigation, you’re repeating things that you’ve heard.“
She really is turning into the Kellyanne Conway of Baylor.
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Surreal pics for surreal White House. And yes, those are real photos.
I’m still adjusting to hearing “President Trump”, it just seems surreal, it’s one amazing story. It’s gonna really be really surreal to me when he addresses Congress tonight.
My current position at work is to help automate things so it’s something I think about all the time. I went to the pharmacy the other day and couldn’t help but think how automation will most likely eliminate the job of the local pharmacist.
Interesting baseball factoid from Peter King’s MMQB:
Joe Jackson, the great-great-grandnephew of Shoeless Joe Jackson, is a Double-A outfielder in the Texas Rangers organization, MLB.com reports. Shoeless Joe died in Greenville, S.C., in 1951. Joe the Ranger was born in Greenville, S.C., 41 years later. Shoeless: 6-1, 178. Joe the Ranger: 6-1, 180.
Somewhat related to the previous two bullet points, I often hear talk of putting a chip in a football so officials will know exactly where the football should be placed or if it goes past the goal line. I don’t think a “chip” is going to be the solution. What I think will happen is there will be sensors all over the field with the ball and uniforms made out of special material or some sort of coating which the sensors will be able to detect. The collaboration of the field sensors and material/coating will allow computers to place the ball correctly and tell exactly when a player’s knee was down.
It will be a private mission with two paying customers, not NASA astronauts, who approached the company. The passengers are “very serious” about the trip and have already paid a “significant deposit,” according to Musk. The trip around the Moon would take approximately one week: it would skim the surface of the Moon, go further out into deep space, and loop back to Earth, approximately 300,000 to 400,000 miles. The plan is to do the trip in the second quarter of 2018
U2 has never given Rose a writer’s credit or acknowledged his role in creating the music — which became “The Fly,” the seventh song on “Achtung Baby” — the suit said.
