Bag of Randomness for Thursday, August 6, 2015

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  • You’ll still have BagOfNothing.com to start your morning, at least for the next two years.  Yesterday I finally made the effort to call GoDaddy to renew hosting and domain names.  Even though I only renewed hosting for two years I decided to renew BagOfNothing.com for five, and Geeding.com (which redirects here) for another ten.  Thanks to those of you that wanted to contribute financially to keep this thing going.  It’s tempting to accept such a gesture, but I’d feel weird doing so.  I’ll stop doing this thing if my life gets too hectic or if I find there’s a lack of readers either thought comments or daily page visits.
  • To give you a rough idea of what I pay to run this thing, it’s close to ten bucks a year just to keep the domain and a little under a hundred for hosting.  I’m sure I could get a better deal if I shopped around, but I don’t want to deal with the trouble or stress of moving things over.
  • I appreciate all the comments about pocket knives.  Heck, y’all knowledge about them is pretty impressive. I could easily carry my father’s, and it will one day be given to my son, but I think I just enjoy less clutter in my pocket and that’s why I’ll start with the key knife I bought and will go from there.
  • This Insane Corn Dog Has Five Different Sausages Inside Of It
  • San Antonio is getting Google Fiber, and I’m jealous.
  • I get the impression from Donald Trump that he’s not too involved in debate prep.
  • I wonder what will get higher ratings tonight, Fox News that will carry the debate for the Republican candidates, or Jon Stewart’s final ‘The Daily Show’.  I’m going with the debate as it hits more demographics.
  • I think it’s odd that many Fox News personalities attack Stewart.  The man is a comedian first and first most, of a fake news program of all things.  If he was a member of the actual media, a politician, or a pundit, I could understand why they give him so much attention.  But then again, maybe he’s an easy target for a demographic that can’t stand the man and that pulls in ratings.  Somewhat similar to the Yankees and Cowboys – no matter what, love them or hate them, you want to watch them, to cheer them on or see their demise.  No matter what, they get ratings.
  • Arby’s has been a punching bag of Stewart’s for a long time, so I got a kick out of last night’s show’s open which was actually sponsored by the fast food joint and they also had the first commercial spot which had a special goodbye to him.
  • Louie CK was Stewart’s guest last night, and I never saw CK so well groomed.
  • Staten Island news – Lawyer seeks trial by combat to resolve lawsuit
  • Mississippi – Mississippi trucker wins Democratic gubernatorial primary after spending $0
  • Today’s does of ‘MURICA
  • Techcrunch – Graava Is A $249 Action Camera That Edits Highlight Videos For You
  • A neat little interactive map – What if your hometown were hit by the Hiroshima atomic bomb?
  • Wired – Inside the Company That’s Made Viral Videos Big Business
  • I finally watched the season finale of ‘Halt and Catch Fire’.  There are lots of rumors that due to its low ratings, AMC will cancel the series, but it’s loved by critics.  I like it because it’s based in the early 80’s and it’s in Dallas and it’s fun to pick up on local stuff.  For instance, Belt Line was mentioned.
    • The Atlantic – The AMC drama found its legs in season two, and it could prove a worthy successor to Breaking Bad and Mad Men if it scores a third season.
    • TIME – Halt and Catch Fire Became the Next Mad Men When It Stopped Trying to Be
  • Thanks to one loyal reader, I’m enjoying another AMC show, ‘Humans’.  It’s great sci-fi with solid drama about the moment of singularity with robots that resemble lifelike humans. Thankfully it has just been renewed for a second season.
  • Robert Downey Jr. is the world’s highest paid actor … again – Some of us are old enough to remember that no studio wanted to take a chance on him because of his behavior and drug use.  It looked like his last role was going to be on ‘Ally McBeal’ and he even had to be written out of the script because of drug abuse, again.  Of all people, it was Mel Gibson that helped revive his career.  He’s fortunate he’s gotten many second chances and guidance, many are never able to kill those demons.  His first wife, Deborah Falconer, has a prosthetic eye.  I only know this because she was featured in a video in which you can’t tell which eye is fake, and we were told to watch the video as WifeGeeding was about to have the procedure.
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London will soon be home to the world’s longest slide

Today is a great day, because today it’s been announced that the ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower is going to be turned into the world’s tallest slide.

The sculpture – which was designed by Turner-prize winning artist Anish Kapoor – sits in the Olympic park, and at 114m is the UKs tallest sculpture.

The slide will start at the 80m point and spiral around the tower five times before a final 50m route down to the ground.

The descent will take about 40 seconds, and you’ll be travelling at an average speed will be six metres a second.

Oh, and there’ll be transparent sections on the slide, so you can marvel at the view.
Source: Anish Kapoor’s Olympic ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower to become a slide | Metro News

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Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, August 5, 2015

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  • Yesterday I realized that the namesakes for my children have birthdays two days apart, Aug 2 and Aug 4.
  • I’ve heard Bartley’s BBQ in Grapevine was a hidden gem so I gave it a try.  WifeGeeding took advantage of their free BBQ sandwich, all you have to do is text “BBQ” to 56274.  I’ve heard they are hit and miss, and yesterday wasn’t one of their best days.  The meat cutter didn’t really seem to care that we were there and he trimmed off too much char on the sliced brisket.  The ribs also seem as if they weren’t cooked long enough as some of that connective tissue proved troublesome.
  • Yesterday is was announced that Darren Woodson would be inducted into the Cowboys Rings of Honor.  During his press conference, he talked about how Jimmy Jimson brought all the rookies out to the star at Texas Stadium and talked about the history of the Cowboys.  That’s something all Cowboys fans love hearing and gives you an idea of why he was protective of it when TO celebrated on it.
  • Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Re-Enact the Dez Bryant ‘No-Catch’
  • GIF – Well I wasn’t expecting that!
  • I’ve noticed that funerals and memorial services are turning into a “celebration of life” which makes things less grim.  For instance, I learned that the owner of the escaped anaconda recently died, so I decided to look up his obituary.  It mentions that after the service, the public is invited to a swimming party at the neighborhood clubhouse.
  • My pastor, who grew up in Chicago, thinks us Texans are too gentle when it comes to death.  He likes to stress that people don’t “pass away”, they “die”.  I find this odd from a Christian perspective.  The Jewish faith doesn’t really believe in a heaven or an afterlife, but the Christian faith does. So I could understand a Jewish person saying that people don’t pass away but die.  For a Christian, at death, a person passes on from life on Earth to some other existence in Heaven, Purgatory, or the Ice Capades.
  • Buzzfeed – A Paralyzed Woman Has Done A Lingerie Photo Shoot To Prove Disabilities Don’t Limit Sexuality
  • Buzzfeed – Here’s The Stone Mormons Believe Joseph Smith Used To Translate The Book Of Mormon
  • Mark Hamill provides humor with his autographs.
  • Recently I mentioned how my father used to carry a pocket knife.  I now kinda do the same since I bought a pocket knife that looks like a key, and now it’s on my key ring.
  • Gov Scott Walker news from Vox – According to his financial disclosure forms, he’s carrying $10,000 to $15,000 in debt on a Barclays credit card that charges him a staggering 27.24 percent interest rate.
  • Gov Bobby Jindal was in a Buzzfeed push-up competition.
  • 92-Year-Old Registers To Vote For First Time To Cast Her Ballot For Trump
  • Chinese Winter Olympics anthem is rip-off of Frozen song, say online critics
  • I don’t know why I don’t have ‘Drunk History’ set on auto-record because everytime I catch it, it’s funny as all get out.  I love how they get mainstream actors to portray characters and lip synch what the drunk person telling the history lesson.
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