Bag of Randomness for Friday, November 4, 2016

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  • Something for my fellow P1s and P2s of The TICKET – I watched the hour long Dale Hansen interview of The Musers, which you can watch here if you missed it.
    • They seemed pretty nervous and out of place at first, but then they warmed up to the guys we know and love.
    • Craig and George’s starting salary was about $32-35,000. Gordon started as an intern but his first-year salary was about $5,600.
    • Gordan has an “obsession” with Lee Harvey Oswald. If you watch carefully, you’ll see the iconic photo of Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby in the background but over his shoulder on some shots. I thinking someone purposely placed that there as an inside joke to all of us. This meme, or whatever you want to call it, of that photo, always cracked me up.
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    • I thought the Fake Norm was done by Gordon, not George.
    • I never knew how they got their name, The Musers. When they were in the afternoon and the Hardline was on before them, a listener would often send a fax ending it by telling the hardline to stay hard and he’ll be staying tuned to the more gentle musings of Dunham and Miller. It evolved from there.
  • During last night’s ‘Big Bang Theory’ there was a Trump campaign commercial in cartoon form. It started off like ‘The Simpsons’ but instead was ‘The Clintons’. I thought it was a bit clever and a little bit funny, but the cartoon version of a pervy Bill creeped me out. And yes, a pervy real life version is creepy as well.
  • Arkansas thinks queso, or ‘cheese dip,’ is their ‘biggest culinary treasure’
  • The Dallas Morning News ranked the 30 best neighborhoods in the area.
  • Missing man’s Facebook account suddenly comes alive, terrifying family
  • According to this NY Times article, a credit card with a $450 annual fee is really popular.
  • Get off my lawn!
  • People who don’t “get” that sports is more than athletic competition won’t “get” this – A Cubs Fan Drove All Day To Listen To The Game At His Father’s Grave
  • I’ve written about my displayer of college football being played on days other than Saturday, this guy just penned his displeasure at the Bit Ten – Doyel: Greedy Big Ten will damage high school football
    • Hell, the Big Ten’s decision to televise six Friday night football games over each of the next six years is going to crush more than high school football. It will crush high school volleyball, baseball, track, soccer …How do you think high schools fund their non-revenue sports? They fund them with the money they make on Friday night football. Those $5 tickets. That $1 soda. Those 75-cent Snickers. It adds up.

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Bag of Randomness for Thursday, November 3, 2016

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  • Police shootings. School violence. Racial injustice. Terrorism. Church burnings. An election that won’t seem to end and only seems to get more revolting. Forgive me for being a bit maudlin and kitsch, but watching the string section of the Cleveland Orchestra play the national anthem and hearing the crowd sing as “one” gave me a sense of serenity. The setting was a great, a World Series game seven for two legendary franchises who haven’t won a championship in a literal lifetime, and it started with the singing of our national anthem done in a solemnly simplistic way for our national past time. Too often, events like these like to spruce up the national anthem with fireworks and over-vocalization. It was nice seeing it done “old school’, almost like something you’d see on a Friday before the start of a high school football game with the high school band doing the honor.
  • I would have loved to have seen that game played at Wrigley. But that crowd in Cleveland had a heafty amount of Cubs fans.
  • Extra innings and a rain delay? If this was a movie, it wouldn’t be believable.
  • Theo Epstein for president?  In 2002 he became the youngest GM in the history of Major League Baseball when the Boston Red Sox hired him at the age of 28, and two years later the Red Sox won their first World Series championship in 86 years. He’s hired by the Cubs in 2011 and now they win their first World Series championship in 108 years. In 2005, Epstein and his twin brother started a foundation named The Foundation To Be Named Later.
    • But then again, Terry Francona was the manager for the Red Sox when they won and he almost pulled it off with the Indians this year.
  • Thirty-nine-year-old David Ross of the Cubs hit a home run in his last game, at a World Series game seven.
  • Cubs Owner Tom Ricketts Flew 400+ Cubs Employees To World Series
  • Minor league baseball news – Jacksonville Suns changing name to Jumbo Shrimp
  • After ten days of antibiotics, the doctor has given me ten more days of a “stronger” antibiotic.
  • I knew Adele was in town for two concerts but had no idea she got in costume and trick-or-treated in Highland Park –
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  • You Can Now Use LastPass On Multiple Devices for Free
    • LastPass will no longer charge extra to access your password vault from different types of devices. That means free users can now access their password vaults from their phone and their desktop at no extra cost.
  • The cookie version of the Keurig –
    • The ChiP (look at that capitalization) is a convection oven specifically designed for proprietary cookie pods. The oven can apparently sense the cookies’ temperature and knows when to stop baking them. Users just have to scan their pod container through CHiP’s app, and the oven will handle temperature, baking, and timing. The app and CHiP’s speaker will let users know when the cookies are done.
  • YouTube – Boiling Water Until It Freezes – I put water in a vacuum chamber to bring it to its triple point.
  • Woman gives birth in car, hospital charges full delivery fee
  • An odd local death for this 11-year-old
    • Kenneth was found entwined in a jump rope with wooden handles. The rope was wrapped around his neck. It was caught on the playground equipment and his weight on the rope kept it from slipping, officials said. Criminal investigators said the death did not appear criminal or intentional.
  • A friend’s widowed father decided to take a trip to China by himself. To make a long story short, he had a fatal heart attack near Tiananmen Square. Our friend was notified by a 2:00 AM phone call from her father’s mobile phone but from someone whose English wasn’t very strong. It appears it will take around four to six weeks to have his body returned home. A couple of American tourists witnessed what happened, followed him to the hospital, and got in contact with our friend to give her some details. Her father seemed perfectly fine and then basically dropped to the ground unexpectedly. They alerted some nearby uninformed personal/security, who responded diligently, and he was rushed to one of the best hospitals but nothing could be done.
  • Buzzfeed – This Dad’s Photo Of His Daughter’s Last Eyelash After Cancer Treatments Is Incredibly Moving
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Bag of Randomness for what I wish was Friday, November 4, but in reality is just Wednesday, November 2, 2016

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  • I love this new picture NASA released of Saturn yesterday. The image was captured back in July and was taken from about a million miles away, literally. For scale, each pixel is 68 miles. The top of the planet is quite unique, it’s a hexagon. Actually, it’s a hexagonal jet stream, and it changes colors.
  • I finally watched the National Geographic special with David Letterman. He goes to India and learns how they user power. He’s only in about a half or third of the show. I will tell you, if you lean conservative in your political beliefs, you won’t enjoy this episode.
    • It starts off with Dave blow drying his beard. But a lot the show has a serious tone, with an occasional bit of Dave’s humor thrown in.
    • A lot of this is obviously scripted, but it’s not like a reality show or anything. However, Dave seemed really at ease narrating and in any scene he’s put in as a fish out of water.
    • Something I found interesting because it reminded me of the neighborhood where my family in Vietnam lives. The power infrastructure is so bad, that 30% of the electricity is lost in transmission.
    • SNL’s Cicily Strong does a lot of the episode, but because she’s from SNL, I had a hard time taking her seriously thinking a joke was around the corner.
  • Speaking of energy, my good friend Andy updated his blog with a six-month update on the solar panels he installed on his house.
  • After ten days of antibiotics, I’m not feeling any better. I’m at the point now I with the doc would put me in the hospital for a few days.
  • BBC – Native English Speakers Are The Worlds Worst Communicators
  • Bono Just Became Glamour’s First Man of the Year
  • Danny Trejo tries his hand at selling cars
  • The world’s shortest airline routes
  • Paula Lavigne (@pinepaula) – Baylor launches a new website – http://www.baylor.edu/thetruth/ – to provide more information and updates on sexual assault issues.
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  • Until reading this Buzzfeed article, I had no idea Christopher Reeve’s son was a sports reporter for ‘SportsCenter’ on ESPN. Here’s his ESPN bio.
  • The New Yorker – The New Evangelical Moral Minority – If the Southern Baptist church can’t be bigger, Russell Moore wants it to be better.
  • I always thought spiders started from the inside and worked their way out.

    Super satisfying just in time for Halloween. 🙂

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