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Bag of Randomness for Friday, September 9, 2016

• There are some companies I’ve pledged to never do business again, and then they’ll buy the competitor I’m doing business, so I’ll switch to another competitor, and then they’ll eventually buy that business and then I’m stuck eating humble pie.
• Yesterday in Alpine, TX, a 14-year-old female freshman student shot and injured another female student before turning the gun on herself. There was a time in which that would lead the local news and make the national news. But yesterday, I didn’t see it land in one of the top local stories or even mentioned on the national news. The world has changed.
• I just discovered the cossack squat and thought I’d try to add it to my workout. In researching the move, I came across this GIF of a very fit woman totally killing the move with two heavy kettlebells. Color me impressed.
• GIF – College in a nutshell – I’m thinking with camera phones, this doesn’t happen as much as it used to.
  • The instructor has his board erasing technique down, always erasing up and down, not side to side. If you do it side to side, your booty will shake and wave back and forth. At least that was a tip a friend who teaches high school told me.
• NY Times – How to Pick the Fastest Line at the Supermarket
• Creepy GIF of the day comes from the horror film The Omen.
• Alleged KCK bank robber, 70, chooses prison over home and wife
• Ex-Baylor coach Art Briles apologizes: ‘I made mistakes. I did wrong’
  • He was pretty adamant he did no wrong, but last week he signed with super agent Jimmy Sexton. I’m thinking he’s so desperate to work again, he was “forced” by Sexton to apologize to repair his image.
  • It boggles my mind how no other coaches have been let go, which implies that only Briles was at fault on football related matters. My mind is more boggled that Briles’s son and son-in-law are still coaching the Baylor football team as assistants, especially the son-in-law after his wife (Briles’ daughter) went off on an epic rant against Baylor.
  • I’m surprised that Baylor was able to open the season without a single sanction or penalty from either the Big XII or the NCAA. Granted, my knowledge when it comes to what they and the legal system can do within any time frame is very limited, but it seems like something would have been done before the start of the season.
  • I was attending a Baptist church when the Dave Bliss Baylor University scandal hit. The topic reared its head during Sunday school, and one grandmother, an alum, said he was just one bad apple. I responded by saying I fear the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and she gave me a death stare. I’m not sure if she’s still alive, but 15-years later, I’m sadly right. I used to wear Baylor gear, but they were thrown out around that time, my loyalties have moral limitations.
• The Atlantic – Sex Ed Without the Sex – In West Texas, a Christian pregnancy center has grown increasingly involved in reproductive life—including teaching sex ed in public schools.
  • West Texas in this case, is Midland.
  • One paragraph mentions Joshua Harris’ book I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Man, that book was super popular during my last two years in college. I admit, I was a fan and succumbed to his suggestion of not going on “single dates” (one boy, one girl) but “group dates” (several boys and girls, no alone time). However, my last “group date” crashed and burned, and during that date, I met a girl and asked if she would like to go out with me the next night, just me and her. We were engaged seven months later. And now I refer to that girl as “WifeGeeding” on this here blog.
• In more West Texas (Alpine area) news – An overlooked corner of West Texas is believed to contain billions of barrels of newly-discovered shale oil
• No, really, the headphone jack is more useful than you think! – From filmmakers to concerned parents, there’s a rich ecosystem of “appcessories” that use the headphone port for two-way communication.
• Nineteen-Year-Old Woman Wins Free Pizza for a Year and Donates Every Last Slice to Homeless Youth Shelter
• Louisiana Judges Issue Harsher Sentences When The LSU Football Team Loses
• A Surprising Number Of People Can’t Recognize Voices
  • An inability to identify people by their voices is a poorly understood deficit called phonagnosia ― a term coming from “phone,” meaning “voice” in Ancient Greek, and “agnosia,” meaning a “loss of knowledge.” And the condition might be much more prevalent than we thought, according to a new study published in the August issue of Brain and Language.

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Bag of Randomness for Thursday, September 8, 2016

• An MD was kind enough to leave a comment yesterday. I always wondered if being called “Doc” is annoying to them, like the abbreviation and lack of use of the last name is disrespectful. Or when they hear they phrase, “What’s up doc?”, do they immediately think of Bugs Bunny or it’s so commonly used it doesn’t do a thing.
• Timewaster – The Google allows you to play tic-tac-toe.
• I knew every MLB ballpark had different field dimensions, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I learned not all home and visitor dugouts are on the same side. In case you are wondering, 18 clubs (including the Rangers) have their home dugouts on the first base side, 12 have their home dugouts on the third base side.
  • Random bit of dugout trivia – Historic Cardines Field, home of the Newport Gulls, uniquely features both dugouts on the first base side.
• Times have changed – Playing on natural grass a rare luxury for Texas football teams
  • Synthetic field turf had been around for a decade and a half and now it’s everywhere. Among 6A and 5A programs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, only Cleburne plays all its home games on grass. The Frisco schools use Toyota Stadium on a regular basis but their other two home sites have artificial turf.
• There was a lot of talk yesterday about The Dallas Morning News endorsing Hillary Clinton, the first Democrat in 75 years and nearly 20 elections.
  • That made me wonder, why the heck wouldn’t they have endorsed LBJ, a product of the Lone Star State? Thanks to television critic Ed Bark, I learned it they decided to abstain in the 1964 LBJ and Goldwater race, and then it made sense. An endorsement of the home state boy who became president in your city only after the acting president was assassinated in your city would have been in bad taste and/or a conflict of interests.
  • The Star-Telegram’s Bud Kennedy provided an image of the Dallas Morning News’ last endorsement of a Democrat for president, I think.
  • I never understood why a newspaper would endorse a candidate considering the media is supposed to be unbiased.
• Florida news – Woman seeking revenge on ex-boyfriend sets wrong car on fire
• Recently spotted in a Florida Wal-Mart –
  
• California news – Woman sees her photo on funeral fund jars, but she’s not dead
  • If that happened to me, I’d like to know how much money was donated.
• Spotted in South Carolina
  
• There was a story on the ‘CBS Evening News’ (video) in which Arizona Congresswoman Martha McSally was interviewed. In the segment, a picture of the retired United States Air Force Colonel as a pilot was shown, and I thought she was a Top Gun “Maverick” doppelganger.
  
• How to raise a genius: lessons from a 45-year study of super-smart children – A long-running investigation of exceptional children reveals what it takes to produce the scientists who will lead the twenty-first century.

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