Melting a padlock with a torch

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Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, April 26, 2016

• WifeGeeding told me one of her friends had breast augmentation surgery, and I jokingly asked if that was her way of hinting that was something she wanted for herself. I also jokingly said there’s probably a Groupon for it, and then I decided to research that claim, and sure enough, you can get a Groupon for such a thing. Nothing says “Happy Mother’s Day” more than a Groupon for breast augmentation. Note: There’s a thousand dollar difference between the saline and silicone options.
• It dawned on me recently that I will let my perception of the past shape the person I am or want to become. It’s like I let the past become more powerful than what is and what can be.
• This surprises me, I thought he’d be the voice of ‘Monday Night Football’ until they wheeled him out on a gurney – Mike Tirico’s move will cause major changes at NBC, ESPN
• ‘Saturday Night Live’ Will Cut Ads by 30% Next Season – It will do this by removing two commercial breaks per episode, giving viewers more content, said Linda Yaccarino, chairman-advertising sales and client partnerships, NBC Universal. And for advertisers, NBC will also be offering a limited opportunity to partner with “SNL” to create original branded content. These native pods will only occur six times a year, Ms. Yaccarino said.
• 101+ Restaurants with Free Food on Your Birthday
• Dallas Observer – The Lame Dallas Versions of America’s Most Iconic Streets
• Today’s dose of Great Britain trolling
• The Washington Post – How Oklahoma Cops Took $53,000 from a Christian Band, a Church in Omaha, and an Orphanage in Thailand
• It looks like the Bates Motel is on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Fast Company – Meet The New Mavericks: An Inside Look At America’s Drone Training Program – We traveled to Holloman Air Force Base for a glimpse of the future of war—and the future of work.
• Since  more than a handful Texas lawyers read this blog – Nearly one-fourth of Texas law grads are unemployed or underemployed – Just a decade ago, earning a law degree was the sure fire way to a guaranteed job and a six-figure income. Not so much anymore. Despite paying as much as $200,000 for their legal education, nearly one-fourth of the 2,072 Texas law school graduates of 2015 are unemployed or underemployed, according to new data compiled by The Texas Lawbook. Statistics show that less than two-thirds of law school graduates in Texas from 2015 have full-time jobs as lawyers 10 months after graduating. About 12 percent of graduates are employed full-time in non-lawyer professional positions.

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9-year-old boy sells lemonade to pay for his own adoption

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Bag of Randomness for Monday, April 25, 2016

• I really, really enjoy ‘Game of Thrones’. I really, really, enjoy ‘Silicon Valley’. But I’ll say this, it’s so hard watching one right after the other on HBO, they are so totally different. And I must say, the addition of the great character actor and Dallas native and Ticket P1, Stephen Tobolowsky, to ‘Silicon Valley’, is better than icing.
• BoyGeeding still wears his Disney MagicBand which acts as your room key, park ticket, and payment device when you’re on Disney property. He pretends it’s a communication device, though we aren’t quite sure who he’s talking to. At his tee-ball game, right after he hit the ball, you can see him start talking to his wrist as he runs to first base. He then continues this around all bases and we just get a big kick out of it.
• Speaking of Disney – Buzzfeed – Disney Fans Will Freak Out Over This Week’s “Simpsons” Couch Gag – This week, The Simpsons brought in legendary Disney animator Eric Goldberg head up the couch gag, and it’s pretty magical
• I didn’t do a hard fact check on this Reddit post, but a quick web search seems like it’s right – TIL When Prince released “1999”, 1999 was as far in the future as it now is in the past (16.3 years).  As a child of the Eighties, this comment resonated with me, “My friends and I were talking and when the song came out, partying like it was 1999 meant we would be older, free to do what we wanted, go to clubs, etc; now the line’s meaning has changed, as partying like it’s 1999 means going back to little to no responsibility, clubbing til all hours instead of having to get to sleep early, etc. TL;DR still want to party like it’s 1999“
• Buzzfeed Australia – This Guy Set A River On Fire Near A Gas Mine And The Footage Is Going Viral
• Bruce Springsteen performs ‘Purple Rain’ during Prince tribute at Brooklyn concert
• BBC – The man who bet his house on his mobile phone invention
• Fast Company – How Fitbit Became The Next Big Thing In Corporate Wellness
• GIF – Poor kid just didn’t stick the landing
• Cam Newton surprises seventh graders by hopping fence to play football with them (Video) – Newton was driving along Friday past the Community School of Davidson in Davidson, N.C. when he spotted a student wearing his jersey on the playground. Th_wp_link_placeholdere Panthers quarterback stopped, asked the teachers if he could stop by, hopped the fence, and started playing football with the students, and just watch and listen to the chaos that reigned.
• Here’s the simple reason planes have winglets – Winglets allow the wings to be more efficient at creating lift, which means planes require less power from the engines. That results in greater fuel economy, lower CO2 emissions, and lower costs for airlines. An airline that installs winglets on its fleet of 58 Boeing 767 jets is expected to save 500,000 gallons of fuel annually.
• The Draw of Death Row – With “dark tourism” on the rise, Huntsville’s prison museum is thriving. – I was quite impressed with the bouquet of flowers made by toilet paper.
• YouTube – Man eats 12 cans of corn in 13-minutes. Note: I didn’t screen it for foul language or anything.

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