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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

• I didn’t watch much of the Super Bowl pregame show but was surprised it was sponsored by Turkish Airlines. I can’t recall ever seeing any advisement from Turkish Airlines ever or even knew they existed.
  • Turkish Airlines sponsorship on Fox pregame show causes a stir
• Right after the opening kickoff, you used to see the stands light up in flashes from cameras, but this was the first year I didn’t really notice it. My guess is most attendees just use their phones to take pics and most don’t have the flash on, not to mention, the flash on a phone doesn’t work all that great.
• I thought the playing surface looked very subpar for a Super Bowl. You could easily identify the seams, a huge square in the middle of the field, to place the NFL logo and the endzone’s showed a bunch of green patches where it was supposed to be red or blue.
• First rule of a Super Bowl party, show the game. Second rule, no suit and tie or any type of formal wear.
  
• The oil industry can afford a Super Bowl commercial? Well, the game was hosted in Houston, and it’s considered Texas Tea.
• Alternative Fact – “Super Bowl” was originally spelled “Souper Bowl”.
• BBC American football coverage:
  
• I’ve always felt when Lady Gaga is on the national stage, she totally brings it. She’s a fearless entertainer, and I loved her half-time performance. A lot of far-Left people were upset she didn’t use this huge stage to make some sort of political statement, she went above that and instead started the performance with patriotic music. In a small sort of way, she was doing what she could to unite the country.
  • Or if you are a flaming liberal, look at it this way. The start of the show was an artistic protest, which started loving and patriotic, but she became overwhelmed and jumped to her death. Think of it as some sort of metaphor of how someone once loved their country and was so sad of current affairs decided to end it all.
  • It would have been neat if she snuck Left Shark somewhere as a backup dancer.
  • When she started to sing “Telephone”, I thought Beyonce might make an appearance, because she’s in the video and she’s from Houston. But I’m glad she didn’t have any surprise appearances whatsoever.
• We have a neighbor whose native language is Polish. In a recent Facebook post, she stated she avoids using “can’t” and instead says “can not” because with her accent, she doesn’t want to accidentally verbally insult someone.
• Not a complaint, just an observation – There seems to be a lot more Trump bumper stickers than before the election.
• On Saturday the family went hunting for a Star Wars pinata at the Harry Hines Bazaar and were totally out of our element. I saw a lot of custom made t-shirts, and since we were in a Mexican neighborhood, there were many “creative” anti-Trump ones.
• My favorite “megachurch” pastor is Adam Hamilton and NPR has segment/article on him – Kansas City Clergyman Seeks Way To Pastor Across The Political Divide
• A donut chain real popular in the midwest, Hurts Donut, is open in Frisco and there are hour long lines. Heck, I still haven’t had a Top Pot donut.
• Florida News – Man parks truck on top of car to defend family in road rage incident, police say
  
• I guess Texas Tech is getting a new football field.
  
• I’m not sure why, but I like Ezekiel Elliott’s signature.
  
• Generate you own Trump executive order here.
• My goodness, the SNL “Sean Spicer Press Conference” skit was one of the best of this century. It took the whole audience a bit to recognize it was actually Melissa McCarthy, and once they did, you got a feeling you were watching something that would become part of SNL lore. People are going to be referencing things like “moose lamb” for decades, though my favorite prop was the knot. Surely she’s going to win the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.