Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, March 8, 2016

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  • WifeGeeding and I tried using a hoverboard for the first time yesterday. She got the hang of it in like ten seconds and in no time started to do tricks (90-seconds of her being goofy). I traveled about a good 18-inches before I called it a day.
  • I keep forgetting ‘Better Call Saul’ is on Monday nights, thank goodness for that auto-record feature.
  • I always get a kick how my kids eagerly run to things all the time, and I wonder at what age did I stop doing that myself.
  • It wasn’t until yesterday I learned that Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign was mocked. I was about seven years old when the campaign started, and from my perspective and memory, it had a real positive impact. Heck, I remember playing in the front yard one day with a friend when two guys in a Camaro stopped and asked if we wanted to try drugs that taste like candy.  We simply said, “No” and then replied back with the same one-word answer for all their other questions, even if didn’t actually answer what they were asking, all because of that campaign. Eventually, they drove off. Thankfully they never got out of their vehicle, but we kept a good distance nonetheless. I can still remember the weird mustache the guy in the passenger seat had.
  • I received the Hardin-Simmons alumni magazine in the mail yesterday. It’s already outdated as it provides an update on the presidential search committee when a new president was announced last month. However, it noted that a current student (a female at that), the student body president, was part of the committee. I wonder if that’s common for most universities to allow current students to be part of the process. And since when did they allow females in a leadership position? That’s a slippery slope they are taking. (Note: If there was such a thing as a sarcasm font, it would have been used in the last two sentences.)
  • A nugget from Peter King’s MMQB – “The University of Hartford has a basketball player named Pancake Thomas. His first name is actually Cleveland. But he got the name Pancake, he told the Hartford Courant, this way: “It was something to do with my mom’s pregnancy, when I was in her stomach. No one knew she was pregnant—nobody, at all, but my grandmother. My mom’s stomach at the time was flat, even when she was pregnant with me. So when they brought her to the hospital, my dad thought she was just having a stomach ache or something. But as he was parking the car, she was in labor. I was just a surprise baby. That’s why my grandmother called me Pancake.”
  • Modified all-electric Corvette claims new speed record of 186.8 mph – Reportedly the fastest for a street legal all-electric vehicle
  • Buzzfeed – 18 Things You’ll Understand If You’re Dating A Texan
  • Today’s dose of Texas license plates
  • Today’s does of Texas license plates II
  • Alaska Airlines is adjusting a plane’s flight plan so passengers can see today’s solar eclipse
  • Jalopnik – The Unlikely Story Of How This Ford Gave Birth To BMW M
  • The Guardian – A fifth of adults have forgotten how to do fractions or percentages
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Team Fighting Championship

I didn’t know this was a thing – You have two teams of five from different countries fight MMA style in a huge ring.

Here are the rules:

We are using rules as close to real life as possible but in the meantime safety of the participants is our main priority. Our rules forbid blows to the Adam’s apple, groin kicks, biting and spitting. The team of five professional judges referees each fight. There are five fighters in each team in each fight. The rule of each fight is “the last man standing”; participants can give up by themselves or by the referee decision.

Here are two fights. I set up each video to start at the beginning of the match since the actual start of the video just shows a bunch of promotion stuff like girls dancing.

USA vs Russia

UK vs Latvia

 

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Bag of Randomness for Monday, March 7, 2016

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  • Against my will, I was forced to eat a Cici’s yesterday and the Michael Bolton (you know, that no-talent a– clown) song “How Can We Be Lovers If We Can’t Be Friends” started to play. That might have been the first time I heard the song this century.
  • I’ve got a sinus infection (’tis the season) and part of the routine is taking Mucinex D. I’ve always taken two tablets per dose for as long as I can recall; but yesterday, for some reason, I actually read the directions and shockingly discovered I should have been taking only one tablet at a time.
  • Tuesday should be a bit of a reprieve for local allergy sufferers. If you scroll to the bottom, it will list the five best and worst cities for allergy sufferers. The five worst for yesterday were Tampa, FL, Abilene, TX, Lorado, TX, Dallas, TX, and Fort Worth, TX.
  • I mowed for the first time this year over the weekend.
  • I’m still having trouble waking up early, but doing so this weekend allowed me to take the family out for early breakfast each day, and it was fantastic.
  • One of my neighbors owns a countertop business. In exchange for watching his black lab for three nights when he and his family live it up in Vegas, he’s going to install a granite countertop in the kids bathroom. I think I’ve come out ahead in that deal.
  • The ‘Mythbusters’ series finale and reunion show was much better than I expected. One thing I appreciated about the reunion show was they talked about all the lame myths the really didn’t want to do but were forced to for one reason or another. I also learned that a candy bar has more energy in it than a stick of dynamite; however, the energy in the candy bar is distributed very slowly over a long period of time and the dynamite’s energy is distributed in a flash.
  • I bought new socks. I love the feel of wearing new socks.
  • This weekend was so packed I didn’t get a chance to watch even one episode of the new season of ‘House of Cards’.
  • WifeGeeding was happy with the ‘Downton Abbey’ series finale.
  • I’ve often heard of the statistic that a surviving spouse lives on average two years, sooner if their love or bond was quite strong. Heck, I think I first heard of it after Pat Nixon died, with my mother and father saying that there’s no way the former president would live past two years. He died ten months later. With that in mind, I thought Nancy Reagan would have died within that time frame, especially seeing how she publically mourned after her husband’s death.
  • He did the math – YouTube – How Many People Are Left Alive in The Walking Dead Universe? – In short, 382,885 humans are still living.
  • Flavor Flav delivered the Salt Lake City weather for their local Fox affiliate recently. Oh, and he helped with a pet segment.
  • ‘Joe the Plumber’ praises Trump, cites his ‘beautiful women’ – “He’s a winner. He’s made billions. He’s dated beautiful women. His wife is a model. That’s not to sniff at. And a lot of people believe he can bring that kind of success to the White House.”
  • Buzzfeed – Someone Showed Up To A Trump Rally Dressed As The Wall He’s Proposing To Build
  • Buzzfeed – These Firefighters Say They Were Suspended For Rushing A Sick Toddler To Hospital – The duo has been accused of violating protocol because they didn’t wait for an ambulance to arrive.
  • DaughterGeeding learned to tie shoes this weekend, and once she mastered it, looked for every opportunity to tie our shoes, even if it meant “accidentally” untying them.
  • Business Insider – The 20 cities where Americans work the hardest – Local cities on the list: Garland, Irving, Plano
  • Military.com – Navy Loosens Body Fat Rules to Retain Sailors – The service branch loosened its body fat restrictions in January and is allowing those who failed their exams three or more times to get one more opportunity to be tested this spring under the more lenient guidelines. The Navy said it has been losing too many talented sailors. Some were resorting to liposuction, diet pills and other measures to save their careers.
  • This Amazing Fan Film Showcases All The Things We Love About Darth Maul
  • Wired – The Force Awakens And A New Hope Are More Similar Than You Think – …so he sought out character comparison data by scraping the scripts of both films to determine the number of scenes in which various characters appear, then tallied how often they interact with other characters.
  • Inventor of email and savior of the @ sign, Ray Tomlinson, is dead at 74
  • GIF – This dog really doesn’t like the taste of a lime.
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