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• I think I made this stupid mistake before and frustrated I didn’t learn from it the first time. I made an appointment in the early morning with the ophthalmologist to get it “out of the way” for the day only to come back to work and realize I can’t work because my eyes are dilated and I can’t make out a thing on my computer screen.
• The Austin American-Statesman – Data: Find Texas teachers accused of impropriety with a student
  • You can search by either district or name, but here are a few some overall stats.
    
• The BaD Radio guys brought up the topic of water towers yesterday and humbly admitted they didn’t understand how they worked. I’ll be honest, a few months ago I wondered the same thing as I saw a nearby water tower get repainted. I ran across this useful Mental_Floss article, but it also has a nice video of a Fort Worth water tower being cleaned from the inside. I had no idea someone actually puts on a scuba gear and goes inside.
• I said it before, and I’ll say it again, Baylor deserves the death penalty and any supporters of the program are just enablers. Here’s the latest from The Dallas Morning News:
  • Baylor fires strength coach Brandon Washington after arrest on prostitution charge –
    • Baylor strength coach Brandon Washington was arrested early Saturday morning as part of a prostitution sting, according to a report from The Waco Tribune.
      • Washington was a member of the strength training staff at Temple University in 2016. New Baylor head football coach Matt Rhule was hired away from Temple in December.
  • So Baylor had a rape scandal and fires their head football coach as an act of integrity but kept all the assistant coaches. Baylor hired a new head football coach, a son of a preacher. He later played ball at Penn State during that whole Sandusky mess, and when he decided to leave Temple for Baylor, he decides to bring along Brandon Washington, who was just arrested on prostitution charges? While at Temple, I’m certain Rhule knew his strength coach and surely had to know something seedy was going on, but still decides to bring him to Waco – a man who can endanger the lives of young women on campus?   The school tried to whipe everything clean and bring in all new coaches and the first practice hasn’t even happened yet and this happens.
• I’m absolutely convinced the Cowboys could have beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl.  I’m even more convinced Jason Garrett would have made a logistical game time error that would have doom a secured victory.
• I think the only legitimate argument one could make about Tom Brady not being the best quarterback of all time is the changes in rules over the past fifteen or so years to protect the quarterback. However, I shall concede is the best quarterback of this era.
  • Satirically related from 2014 – New NFL Rule Protects Quarterbacks From Brutal Criticism
• Hater, the app that lets you find love based on what you hate
• Wired – Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix
• Amazon’s cashier-free Go stores may only need six human employees – From three to a max of 10 employees
• A bit of presidential trivia from the book I’m reading – While out of office, Herbert Hoover actually had his taxes audited by the IRS.
• The Atlantic – Red State, Blue City – The United States is coming to resemble two countries, one rural and one urban. What happens when they go to war?
• The reminds me of an Empirical AT-AT from Star Wars is falling.

Rowlett water tower, hit by the Dec. 2015 tornado, taken down. pic.twitter.com/HfpcYjbVJy

— Ray Leszcynski (@RayLeszcynski) February 6, 2017