I’m not sure the statement or the question, but one day my answer will be, “You can try to reheat french fries or freeze what’s left of an ICEE, but they just aren’t as good the second time.”
I thought the lead story for the ‘CBS Evening News’ would have been the VP debate since their own Elaine Quijano was the moderator. However, it was the second story, the lead story was Hurricane Matthew. I didn’t pay much attention to the debate, but like how Quijano ended one Q&A stating the question was about North Korea, indicating neither answered the question directly.
Speaking of Hurricane Matthew, I found this on Reddit – Hurricane Matthew passing directly over a weather buoy
Kaine and Pence both wore ties the color of their opponent’s party. That made me laugh because I feel like the decisions on a tie for such an event is a subtle attempt to try to woo the opposing party.
In fact, there was a period when some of the networks, like NBC and CBS, had this color scheme reversed. In 1980, for example, NBC anchor David Brinkley declared the NBC map to “look like a suburban swimming pool” as Ronald Reagan’s big win over Jimmy Carter turned the NBC map almost entirely blue. Networks introduced colored maps to their election night coverage as a visual tool to distinguish themselves in the era of color television; CBS was first in 1972, and soon the others followed. By 1996, the television map color schemes aligned to what we are accustomed to now: red for Republicans and blue for Democrats.
My manager asked that I schedule some time to take off work. We can roll over 40 hours of vacation time each year, and for me to not lose any time, I have to burn 112 before the end of the year.
Crawford “was disappointed in her role in implementing the recommendations that resulted” from an independent investigation of the university’s handling of sexual-assault allegations committed by students, including football players, Baylor said in a news release late Monday night.
Late Monday night is 11:49 PM, per WFAA’s Mike Leslie. That’s a very odd time for a news release.
Crawford will be on ‘CBS This Morning’ this morning and she didn’t sign a confidentiality agreement (Baylor wanted to pay Crawford $1.5 million, with an additional $50,000 for signing a confidentiality agreement. Crawford then asked for $2 million; Baylor refused). Bills will be spilled – there’s even secretly recorded audio
Last month KWTX obtained a secretly recorded audio tape of a meeting between Crawford and members of the athletic staff in late July in which Crawford expressed frustration with the administration.
Ben Stiller revealed his fight with prostate cancer yesterday. Until reading this Buzzfeed article, I didn’t realize about one in six men will get it.
The Magnum, P.I. theme song got stuck in my head for some reason yesterday and that lead to wonder how the series ended. (I think it’s because I saw something that reminded me of “scuba girl” featured in the show opening – here at the 14-second mark)
T.C. faces a reconciliation with his estranged wife. Magnum gets some surprising news about his theory that Higgins is really Robin Masters, when Higgins admits, finally, that he is indeed Robin. However, Higgins later recants that admission at Rick’s wedding. Magnum discovers that his former wife and her second husband have died, leaving the fate of his daughter, Lily, in his hands. Magnum decides to re-enlist in the Navy, at the rank of Commander, in order to give Lily a more stable home. The series ends with Magnum, in his Navy dress whites, and Lily leaving Hawaii for another naval base.
And now other Magnum stuff that got my attention when I was looking up that answer:
The answer Magnum provides for quitting the Navy, “I woke up one day at 33 and realized I had never been 23.”
The voice of Robin Masters, heard only a few times per season, was provided by Orson Welles
John Hillerman (Higgins) is still alive at age 83. The last I heard he was living in Texas, possible North Texas. I didn’t know he attended the Universit of Texas for three years.
Not sure why it surprises me, but Tom Selleck is 71 and the guy that played T.C., Roger Mosley, is 77.
Mosley is a licensed private helicopter pilot in real life, but when on the set of Magnum P.I. he was not allowed to do his own stunts. A pilot wearing a body stocking with muscles would be used instead.
There was a ‘Murder She Wrote’ crossover
“Novel Connection” — Jessica Fletcher comes to Hawaii when an attempt is made on Robin’s guests. The plot concludes on Murder, She Wrote in the episode “Magnum on Ice”.
The show also recognized the existence of the fictional elite state police unit that appeared in the series Hawaii Five-O. In the pilot episode, Magnum references the unit’s chief McGarrett by name. This was a tribute to the long-running show starring Jack Lord, that ran on CBS from the fall of 1968 through to the summer of 1980, to be replaced, in essence, in the fall of 1980 by Magnum, P.I.. The successor series to Hawaii Five-O paid tribute to Magnum, P.I. in the 2013 episode “Hoa Pili,” when the cast flew over the island in a helicopter to the sound of the Magnum, P.I. theme.
Didn’t the character Remington Steele also have some long series secret? And I think there was something about revealing MacGyver’s given name.
Here’s how the series ends, note there’s a little something at the end of the credits. I do like how you see Selleck in an Indiana Jones outfit in one brief scene as he was originally cast as the character.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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”
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.
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.
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.
