Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, October 4, 2016

• GIF – Watching a ladybug take off to flight in slo-mo is a bit cooler than I thought.
• I don’t know Michael Reagan (Son of Ronnie and Jane Wyman) all that well, but this tweet somewhat surprised me – @ReaganWorld Michael Reagan – My father would not support this kind of campaign,if this is what the Republican Party wants leave us Reagans out.Nancy would vote for HRC
• I was flipping channels last night and saw Joan Jett and Bette Midler on ‘The Voice’ and was surprised at the amount of cosmetic surgery both obviously received.
• ‘Gotham’ introducing a twin/cloned Bruce Wayne, with the young actor portraying him in nothing more than a long-haired wig, seems like a “jump the shark” moment.
• Interesting Netflix marketing ploy – Netflix released two different trailers for its documentary Amanda Knox: one asking viewers to believe her; the other, to suspect her.
• Here’s What Happens When You Crush A Car Spring In A Hydraulic Press
• Amazon is cracking down on biased customer reviews
  • I like to check out Amazon reviews of a possible purchase, but usually use Fakespot.com to see how valid the reviews are.
• GM Has Built A Stealth Truck for the Army
  • The Chevrolet Colorado ZH2 is an electric truck powered by a hydrogen fuel cell that runs far quieter and cooler (between 60 to 80 degrees Celsius) than conventional automobiles. It’s almost a forward operating base unto itself, capable of producing 25 kilowatts of continuous power (and up to 50 kilowatts at peak output), along with two gallons of water per hour. The vehicle itself is a modified Chevy Colorado, rigged for off-road performance with bigger tires, better suspension, longer wheelbase, etc.
• A great shirt for any Oklahoma Sooner fan (seriously)

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Bag of Randomness for Monday, October 3, 2016

• There are a growing number of drivers who have never had to insert the key into the door, trunk, or ignition.
• It totally cracked me up that Joe Buck called out Troy Aikman for making a KTCK The TICKET reference yesterday, confusing probably about two-thirds of their viewing audience.
• Very cool of Fox to take us to Vince Scully’s last call without actually leaving the game.
• Terrance Williams just doesn’t understand how to be part of a two-minute drill.
• Jason Garrett has some odd celebratory mannerisms.
• I love how the Cowboys offensive line will still do the Landry shift on the last play of the game when they are winning and are running the clock out.
• I can not tell you one college football result from this weekend, it was totally off my radar.
• WifeGeeding has a friend who attended the game in Santa Clara and she said there were so many Cowboys fans it felt like a home game for the Cowboys.
• A Cowboys fan in the stands threw Jerry Jones a plastic helmet to sign. Jerry didn’t catch it and it looked like it bonked him on the head and social media went nuts. I’m not sure what’s the big deal, an old man didn’t catch something and because he’s rich and famous it’s supposed to be funny or humiliating? Now if it knocked off his toupee he’s been trying to pull off and stuck to the helmet, that’s worth laughing about.
• The Dallas Cowboys have their own version of Winston ‘The Wolf’ Wolfe or Mike Ehrmantraut, and I feel like this is a story our local media should have written rather than The Washington Post.
  • When the Dallas Cowboys have a problem, this is the man who makes it go away
    • You’ll find a lot of Josh Brent, Michael Irvin, and Dez Bryant mentions. Here are some highlights:
    • This David Wells isn’t famous, but he might be the most influential behind-the-scenes figure for the NFL’s most valuable franchise. Part crisis manager, part fixer, part therapist, he’s tasked with helping public figures, not becoming one. All teams have in-house security experts and problem-solvers, employees who untangle legal problems. But this extra layer of protection may be unique to the Cowboys. Wells brings a special set of skills, so when something or someone jeopardizes the image of pro football’s signature franchise, the Cowboys know whom to deploy.
    • “I haven’t had a question that Dave couldn’t answer, I can tell you that,” said Adam “Pacman” Jones, the Bengals cornerback.
    • “A tremendous asset to the franchise,” Jerry Jones said. “. . . I won’t get into detail of the kinds of things [Wells does], because he does everything.”
    • He became a folk hero at the courthouse, rushing to a crime scene to interview bystanders before investigators could, or marching into a courtroom with a witness no one else could get to. Wells was so effective, the lawyers who hired him stopped caring about how he did it.
    • He already knows the lawyers who are cozy with his or her honor. “I hate to say this,” Wells says. “I know who to hire based on what that relationship is.”
    • For every incident that generates a negative headline, Wells said, 10 are handled without the public’s knowledge.
    • He travels in advance for most Cowboys road games, often stays in the team hotel and usually attends training camp in Oxnard, Calif. He won’t discuss his financial arrangement with the team beyond saying he works on an as-needed basis. Wells boasts that when an incident involving a player occurs, he often knows before Cowboys Coach Jason Garrett does.
• Carnegie Deli will close at end of 2016
  • I took a class in college in which we spent a week in NYC visiting financial institutions and such. I really didn’t want to go because my father had been very ill and he ended up dying two months later, but upon his urging, I went. This was the days before everyone was connected by a mobile device, and it turns out all my classmates made plans without me and I was left all by my lonesome in a hotel room that had a great view of a brick wall. In my bit of self-pity, I roamed the streets of Manhatten for something to do but ended up just walking most of the night. It was getting late and I still haven’t eaten, and the next thing I know I see the Carnegie Deli across the street. Remembering Adam Sandler included it in “The Chanukah Song“, I thought I’d check it out. There were only three or four other people eating in the restaurant and I had this feeling like I was all of a sudden in a Woody Allen or Martin Scorsese film. I had one of my best meals there, and there was something about the atmosphere, me being alone, and just processing the stress of figuring out what to do with my life with graduation approaching and knowing I was about to lose a parent, that made me feel that my life was going to be alright. It’s a moment I reflect upon often and have enjoyed going back for a meal with each visit to NYC.
  • Their other locations will still be open, but I’m sentimental to the iconic Seventh Avenue location:
    • Fans will still be able to get their favorite deli eats at the company’s other locations including Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Deli Las Vegas at The Mirage Hotel & Casino, Carnegie Deli at The Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, PA and annually at the U.S. Open in Queens.
• Why Bo Chose Baseball – How one scout persuaded one marvel of physicality, Bo Jackson, to turn away from the NFL.
• Some folks get bent out of shape with Trump sending tweets at odd hours of the night. I’m pretty sure he’s just scheduling those tweets to send out automatically.
• Baylor assistant coach reportedly confronted rape victim after talk
  • Glad to hear the players were genuinely engaged and respectful, but the actions of that unnamed assistant coach are weird, he goes as far to say there’s “a conspiracy going on against Baylor football”
• GIF – A steamroller rolls over a golf ball
• 102-year-old St. Louis woman checks ‘arrest’ off bucket
• 9-Year-Old Graduates High School and Starts College, Wants to Become Astrophysicist: ‘I Want to Prove That God Does Exist’
• Texas Monthly has a good article on Snow BBQ’s legendary Tootsie.
• Florida millionaire gets ‘terrible shock’ as he discovers he married his own granddaughter – The bride, a 24-year-old exotic dancer, said she felt ‘an overwhelming sense of despair’ upon finding her father’s photo in her 68-year-old husband’s family album
  • The album included photos of the man’s children from his first marriage, from whom he had long been estranged. His wife recognised her husband’s eldest son as being her own father. “When I saw my father in that photo album, I just felt an overwhelming sense of despair,” she told the newspaper.
  • The couple insisted, however, that they have no plans to divorce. “If we’d never found out, we would’ve lived out lives happily together, and us being related shouldn’t change that,” the man said.
• The original Westworld is a premise in dire need of a reboot
• Chinese Consumers Hate That New-Car Smell
• NY Mag – Five Days That Shaped a Presidency – Barack Obama shares with Jonathan Chait a very early draft of his memoirs.

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Bag of Randomness for the Last Friday of September 2016

• DaughterGeeding created and posted that sign on her door. Translated into adult, it reads, “Do not come in please, people, thanks!” The other day she was in her room with the door closed and BoyGeeding barges in. She yells, “Can’t you see the sign I put on the door?” And BoyGeeding retorts, “Yes, I saw the sign… but I can’t READ YET!”
• Dang it, anytime I reference that one particular line, I feel obligated to post a link to this or this video.
• Y’all know I’m a bit of a romantic at heart. This year for Christmas there was one particular gift I want to give WifeGeeding, but it’s custom-made and required time to be created, so I had to plan early, which was sometime this summer. I was able to obtain it this week and decided I’d go ahead and wrap it. But since we don’t have the Christmas tree up, I thought I’d just place it on the fireplace mantle until the tree is assembled sometime after Thanksgiving.
  
• Only 5 people have ever finished this nearly 4-pound South Texas taco
• GIF – The most impressive Donald Trump t-shirt I’ve ever seen.
• A reporter for the NY Times wrote about how Texans love the shape of our state. I wonder what state cares least about the shape of their state, I’m going with either Colorado or Wyoming.
• Ector County, Texas news – Woman sentenced to 8 years behind bars for stealing ring from a corpse
• The last game – After a five-decade long desegregation battle, two football teams face off for the final time in Mississippi town
• Dallas Theological Seminary becomes 1st in U.S. to make course on child sex abuse a must for would-be clergy
• These Medical Terms Still Bear the Mark of the Third Reich
• Alfa Romeo Fiat of Dallas Will Closer
• HP will stop blocking its printers from using third-party ink
• U.S.: Wells Fargo illegally repossessed 413 servicemembers’ cars
• Swedish girls at this year’s rope skipping world championship

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This would make waiting in lines a bit nicer

Reminds me of the Disney Pixar movie WALL-E.

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