Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, December 2, 2015
- Close to eight o’clock last night UPS delivered a surprise package from Google. For being one of the first to partake of their Project Fi wireless service, they sent a Christmas present which was a Lego kit to make my own phone charging stand.
- I have no idea how it happened, but I got on Fellowship Church Pastor Ed Young’s email list. In my Inbox yesterday was a message from him saying you can now stream his content on Netflix.
- The last story on the ‘CBS Evening News’ last night tugged on my heartstrings. I thought it was just going to be another one of those mushy “pay it forward” stories, but this one was a little different. A mother with two young children was at a grocery store and rang up a bill of $200 when her card was declined. She was planning on going home to get another card, but a young man behind her paid the bill, wouldn’t take “no” for an answer, and just asked that she pay it forward. A few days later she was able to track him down at the gym where he worked and talked to his boss saying, “I just wanted the manager to know what kind of a beautiful person they get to work with.” It was then that the manager informed her that he died in a car accident.
- I’d like to express my thanks to all of you that took some time to provide me with some smoking tips, they are all appreciated.
- Congress loves Hitler – Since 1996, the earliest date Capitol Words’s database goes back to, House representatives and senators have said the word “Hitler” 1,771 times—an average of 7.7 times a month.
- Ted Cruz’s campaign website is offering a 20% discount if you use promo code CYBERCRUZ where you can buy these items.
– $87 Football Jersey
– $25 Onesie
- TIME – Percentage of various college majors still living at home with their parents
- Disney Frozen themed plane getting unfrozen
- Oklahoma Wesleyan University President Dr. Everett Piper: ‘This is Not a Daycare. It’s a University!’ – “A liberal arts academy is about learning. It’s not supposed to be a place to suppress controversial ideas,” Piper said. My point was to challenge my own industry — to look my academic peers in the eye and say: ‘We’ve caused this.'” Piper, who has been the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan since 2002, said in his post that if students “want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn’t one of them.”
- Buzzfeed – A Woman Is Sharing The Awesome Story Behind Her “Bad” Looking Birthday Cake – A Michigan woman is getting a ton of attention on social media after she shared a heartwarming encounter with a grocery store bakery employee with autism.
- Buzzfeed – This Guy Gave Public Enemy A Lift To Their Gig In His Ford Focus
- Last night Jimmy Kimmel introduced Bono as “the lead singer of the U2s”.
- This Shot of a Diving Kingfisher (Bird) Was 6 Years and 720,000 Photos in the Making
- Bearded as every – New York Times – David Letterman, Even Retired, Keeps On Interviewing
- What’s in a name? – Michigan’s Jake Butt wins Big Ten tight end of the year
- Deep South Edition – Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!
- Here are all the original Star Wars trilogy vehicles to scale
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U.S. Legality Driving Map
These are just a few of the most frequently Googled questions Americans have about driving. However, in the US there’s no simple answer – it depends on which state you are in.
To bring you up to speed, we’ve mapped the answers so you can see what is against the law and what isn’t in each state.
JustPark.com – Is It Illegal To Drive…?
Here are a few examples, but I left out some of the additional details they provide at the bottom of each graphic that helps clarify several things:
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Superman Unmasks Batman in New ‘Dawn of Justice’ Teaser
I’m not sure what’s up with Batman’s trench coat looking attire, and he sure does look stocky.
So Batman is really Daredevil, and he can see! Whoa, that’s a plot twist.
On Reddit, I found an interesting discussion about how Ben Affleck is wearing black makeup around his eyes and then it’s gone in the reveal. That’s one of the first rules when you wear the Batman mask, you always paint the area around your eyes black so your skin doesn’t show.
Someone actually spotted this mistake in Batman Returns, something I’ve never noticed before. At the 2:15 mark, Michael Keaton is wearing black makeup, and then eleven seconds later when the cowl is removed, it’s gone. The video below should be cued to that exact spot.
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