- Anytime I hear the someone say, “Here’s the situation” the next thing that goes through my mind is, “My parents went away on a week’s vacation.“
- Anytime I hear a sequel to a movie that ends with “Two” in the title, I always add “Electric Boogaloo” to it: Die Hard 2 – Electric Boogaloo, Toy Story 2 – Electric Boogaloo, Lethal Weapon 2 – Electric Boogaloo, Pitch Perfect 2 – Electric Boogaloo
- Dallas Morning News – Dallas home sold 4 times with body entombed out back, but whose?
- ESPN ‘Outside the Lines’ continues to track Baylor since local media won’t do it – Police records detail several more violence allegations against Baylor football players – According to the police documents, at least some Baylor officials, including coaches, knew about many of the incidents, and most players did not miss playing time for disciplinary reasons. None of the incidents has been widely reported in the media.
- USA Today‘s Dan Wolken had a strong statement, “And it’s hard to imagine that apologies and procedural changes will be enough to answer for what now appears to be a full-blown, systemic scandal within the culture of Baylor football.“
- Yes, I’m not a fan of the institution, but news like this saddens me. Violence experienced by these young adults, especially of the sexual nature, is nothing to root or cheer or joke about.
- Buzzfeed – The New “Walking Dead” Attraction At Universal Looks Insanely Creepy – They really didn’t show much of what the attraction is supposed to look like other than how they go about making a few props.
- All Four Wheels Fall Off Immediately After Jiffy Lube Brake Job
- Nate Silver – How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump
- Google’s new gigapixel camera captures every paint stroke in famous artwork – The device uses sonar and laser to both focus and line up portions of the works, which it photographs bit by bit. Every image captures the colors and brush strokes that went into making each masterwork in astonishing detail.
- High school junior completes 7,000 pull-ups to shatter world records
- Chinese couple spend wedding night copying Communist constitution – Newlyweds transcribed 17,000-word text as part of a national campaign designed to raise awareness of the party’s rules – In case you were wondering the length of their constitution compared to others – The longest written constitution is India’s with 117,369 words in its English-language translation, while the United States Constitution is the shortest with a total of 4,400 words.
- That David Letterman Tumblr site I mentioned yesterday now has interviewed Anton Fig, roughly a year after the final show.
- Google Patented a Sticky Car Hood That Traps Pedestrians Like Flies – Google was awarded a patent that proposes placing a strong adhesive on the hood of its autonomous cars. This way, pedestrians or cyclists who happen to find themselves being struck by a Googlemobile would be protected from what’s called “secondary impact.”
- Here’s The Very First Teaser For The New ‘Star Trek’ TV Show
- Texas Board of Education election news from “Texas Monthly” – Mary Lou Bruner Has Made Plenty Of Bizarre Statements, But These Might Be The Most Damaging – George P. Bush is turning the Alamo over to the United Nations?
Bag of Randomness for the 19th of May 2016
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