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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Newsendorsing 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.
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.
The doctor I was seeing sold his practice and moved on to other things. One thing I liked about him is that depending on the illness, you could ask for a prescription to be sent to the pharmacist and not have to go in for an office visit. Many doctors to this. The new practice is not a believer in such a thing. Appointments are difficult to schedule, and I’m thinking the only reason they refuse to call in any prescription to a pharmacist without an office visit is purely financial on their part. There’s a part of me that can’t blame them for trying to make a profit, but then there’s another part of me that think they should be flexible.
BoyGeeding asked who was stronger, He-Man or the Hulk. I’m going with the Hulk. He-Man may be considered the “most powerful man in the universe,” but, the Hulk’s “capacity for physical strength is potentially limitless due to the fact that the Hulk’s strength increases proportionally with his level of great emotional stress, anger in particular.”
I would also say the Hulk is strong than Superman, but Superman would in a battle of outsmarting him. See, the Hulk gets stronger the more stressed and angrier he gets, Superman would find a way to keep him from getting too stressed and angry, limiting his strength, and then duping him into something.
I miss how cartoons like He-Man and GI Joe would end with some sort of recap detailing a life lesson displayed in the show.
And this should pull at your heart strings, and a fitting tribute:
In lieu of a funeral, Dewdney asked that people read to children
Dallas DA Susan Hawk will finally resign due to mental health reasons. Say what you will, but for her to voluntarily step down takes courage.
All the ITT Technical Institutes are shutting down. When I was a kid and was stuck watching old reruns of shows like ‘Get Smart’, ‘Hogan Heroes’, and the like, I used to see their commercials ad nauseam. One that stood out was the guy that graduated from high school, going to ITT, and then moving in his new apartment to start a career when all his friends were drudging through college.
“Cause you can’t get the jobs of tomorrow, til you get the skills of today.“
I’ve mentioned how I enjoy watching the CBS sci-fi dramedy ‘BrainDead’ and how I get a kick that every episode starts with a quirky musical recap. WifeGeeding doesn’t watch the show, but she wants to watch and listen to each musical recap before I delete it from the DVR. It turns out she’s not the only one who doesn’t watch the show but watches only the musical recaps. Here’s the latest which has a bit of a ‘Family Guy’ gimmick.
“To say I’m disappointed in the hiring of Skip Bayless would be an enormous understatement,” Aikman said. “Clearly, [Fox Sports president of national networks] Jamie Horowitz and I have a difference of opinion when it comes to building a successful organization. I believe success is achieved by acquiring and developing talented, respected and credible individuals, none of which applies to Skip Bayless.”
Barry, over at LiberallyLean.com, is standing firm in his belief that Longhorn fans were booing Tyrone Swoopes when he entered the game and not yelling “Swoop” or “Swoopes”. It’s my understanding he thinks it’s because Texas fans have been thirsting for a new QB and they were upset when Swoopes entered the game, but I doubt that since the “18-wheeler” package was used successfully at the end of last year and was hinted at being used again this year. I wonder if Barry thought Dallas Cowboys fans were booing Daryl “Moose” Johnston and not yelling “Moose!” every time he touched the ball upset Emmitt wasn’t getting the carries.
[Insert TICKET drop “we’re having fun here, no?” here]
I skimmed an article about the Miss America pageant and thought this line was ironically funny, “In the bizarro world of Miss America, losers smile and winners sob.”
IBM’s Watson analyzed hundreds of horror movie trailers to figure out what makes an audience jump. Editors don’t need to worry about losing their jobs quite yet: The AI system suggested its ten “favorite” clips and a living, breathing human being edited it all together.
I’ve written about how much I like the new Vikings stadium. On last night’s season finale of HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks’ they gave us some great viewing angles of the field, that place is something special.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that the new requirement is in place to help block the use of stolen and shared tickets. Older children and adult visitors have already been having their fingers scanned for years.
Approximately six months after Tim Brummel of Atlanta had a vasectomy, he noticed his wife start showing symptoms of being pregnant.
That’s when it dawned on them that after a five-month follow-up examination with the clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, Tim was never called back about the results. When he called them to check, he said they told him there may have been a snag in the procedure.
Tim said he then wanted to confirm his suspicions without his wife finding out, so he drained the toilet one night and tried his luck with a urine pregnancy test the following morning. When it came up positive, he decided to surprise his wife with the good news and capture her reaction on camera.
