- I bought one of those Echo units from Amazon. The kids love it, but WifeGeeding things it’s a bit too much technology and that maybe it’s out to get her. The Echo uses a voice that goes by Alexa and I think that voice reminds her in the BBC/AMC television series “Humans”.
- On my day off, I took the kids to school and then worked out and started finish and start another house project. It was then off to get my weekly allergy shot. Since I have to go to a steel supplier in Richardson to get a lengthy flat bar, I decided to eat at Haystack Burgers and Barley. I just should have more food in my stomach before I partake of my favorite beverage there.
- Dallas Morning News – D/FW Airport serves as backdrop for Ellen Degeneres’ Travel Channel series
- Nothing is more disturbing than having ‘serial child molester’ and ‘Speaker of the House’ in the same sentence.” Judge Thomas Durkin during Former House speaker Dennis Hastert sentencing
- Former House Leader Tom DeLay asked leniency for Hastert, “So I know his heart and have seen it up close and personal. We all have our flaws, but Dennis Hastert has very few. He is a good man that loves the lord. He gets his integrity and values from Him. He doesn’t deserve what he is going through. I ask that you consider the man that is before you and give him leniency where you can.
- I wonder if a letter from DeLay helped or hurt things.
- Dyson’s first beauty product is a hair dryer – Four years in development, the company spent $71 million (and took four years) to make its hair dryer, with the sort of specifications and research backstory of a car. The press release explains the 600 prototypes , over 100 patents pending, and a cast of 103 engineers that worked on it. It helps to explain the price ($400), but even salon-level hair dryers hover around the $300 mark.
- DeWalt — yes, the drill maker — gets into the mobile business with rugged MD501 smartphone
- GIF – 1920s Battleship Smoke Curtain. Here’s a detailed YouTube video about it.
- 12-year-old accidentally finishes half marathon – She thought she was in the 5K line.
- Take a look inside Cowboys’ future ‘war room’ (more like Star Wars) in new Frisco facility
