Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, July 14, 2014

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  • WifeGeeding won an argument yesterday.  I stated that Thanksgiving is always the last Thursday in November and she retorted it was actually the fourth Thursday in November as there are sometimes five Thursdays in November.  She was correct.
  • With the news that Atticus Finch may not be the man of ideals we thought he was, I’m wondering if parents that have recently named their kids after him are experiencing a bit of cognitive dissonance.  They shouldn’t, no one’s perfect.  Besides, you have to consider that Go Set A Watchman was written before Mockingbird, so the Atticus everyone fell in love with is the most recent one.  But then again, one has to consider what he became, what he grew into…okay, this is getting confusing, I just wouldn’t be concerned about the name.
  • When it comes to politics I’m certainly not a conservative, but if I was, I think Gov. Scott Walker would be my guy.  He’s a Christian, fought unions and won, and beat them again after a bitter recall, and he can really play up that “man of the people” label since he never graduated college and still was able to obtain the top job in his state.  Oh, and he definitely knows what a sandwich is.
  • I’m not sure there’s a cooler Iron Man toy [YouTube].
  • I prefer typing on a keyboard with a 10-key, it’s just easier to input numbers.
  • Buzzfeed – Inside The Wonderful World Of Flight Attendant Internet
  • @darrenrovell – Before the 1979 Masters, CBS announcers were given 33 rules from Augusta National. This is real
  • GuideLive – Here’s where you can eat on the cheap during DFW Restaurant Week
  • Crazy Texas Mommy posted a crazy text that involves a child looking for a lost tooth that he swallowed.
  • I was watching the latest episode of ‘Naked and Afraid’ and a woman cut her finger to the bone with a machete that needed medical attention.  A small medic crew arrived on the scene and she was given two options by the producers: (1.) Get stitches without any anesthetic and risk infection and continue on with the challenge. (2.) Leave (quit) the challenge and get the proper medical care in a hospital.  She decided to stay in the challenge and get the stitches without anesthetic stating that quitting would hurt more.
  • GIF –  This dog does some serious underwater fetching.
  • Flags will be at half-mast on the 26th of each month until June 2016 – The County Commission of Dent County, Missouri, voted unanimously today to lower flags on two county buildings to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 26 decision legalizing gay marriage — or, as the county’s presiding commissioner puts it, “the U.S. high court’s stamp of approval of what God speaks of as an abomination.”
  • Jimmy Fallon’s first guest last night was Paul Rudd who was promoting his new Ant Man movie.  When it was time to view the clip, it actually went to a clip of Rudd’s appearance on David Letterman’s old show introducing the clip.
  • DaughterGeeding is going to a charter school next year and she can only have a blue or black backpack.  Just before we knew of her acceptance, I did some spring cleaning and donated a brand new black backpack given to me by a former employer.  At the timg I thought if all it was doing was collecting dust, someone should benefit from it and off it went to a charitable organization.
  • If you are interested in following NASA’s New Horizon as it flys by Pluto, here are some Twitter handles worth following:  @NewHorizonsBot and @NASANewHorizons
  • How far is Pluto?  Here’s some analysis.  It takes 8.3 minutes for light from the sun to hit Earth.  It takes 5.5 hours for sunlight to hit Pluto.  For us to communicate with it, it takes 4.5 hours to reach the spacecraft.  It’s amazing we can send something so far away, traveling about 31,000 miles per hour, and reach a moving object and then get pictures and data back.
  • Mental Floss – The German POWs Who Lived, Worked, and Loved in Texas
  • Buzzfeed – This Is For Everyone Who Is Totally Confused By Season 2 Of “True Detective” – I haven’t really enjoyed this season, but that article sure did help clarify a lot of things.
  • Happy Bastille Day.
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Bag of Randomness for Monday, July 13, 2015

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  • We sent to Lone Star Park along with our closest neighborhood friends on Saturday night.  I broke even only because I didn’t wager, I just enjoyed the company.  One of my friends actually went back the next day and almost got hit by that car the police were chasing, and the car actually ended up in the eating area of Lone Star Park.  CBS11 asked permission to use his tweet of the picture he took of the cops inside the facility, but I never got around to watching the news to see if it made the broadcast.
  • When we got home from the horse races on Saturday night I couldn’t understand why I saw a new tweet on David Letterman’s Twitter account.  I then noticed the tweet referenced Steve Martin and Martin Short and chalked it up to some old picture being retweeted, but after looking at the attached pictured, I noticed Dave had one hell of a beard and it was a new tweet.  It turns out Martin and Short was doing a show in San Antonio, and of all places, that’s were Dave made his first on-stage appearance after retirement to read a Top Ten list about Donald Trump and then sit and chat with the duo about his childhood and parents, and he was kind enough to say some nice things about the Spurs and the city (you gotta play it up for the home crowd, Easy Cheers 101).  Considering who he was on stage with, I really loved Number Two.
  • A Taco Bell employee in California dropped off his Nissan 350Z at the dealership to get worked on, but later in the day while he was at work, he noticed his own car going through the drive-thru with two of their mechanics inside.
  • GIF – Speaking of fixing things in your car, here’s a solution for broken windshield wipers.
  • Buzzfeed – A Rafting Guide Saved A Baby Bear That Was Stranded By A River
  • ‘The Brink’ is a thousand times better than ‘Ballers’.
  • While trying to fall asleep the other night, I started to think of ways that the Hulk could be killed, and then it hit me, drowning.  However, a little research tells me I’m wrong because he has a special gland.  That link also informed me that Bruce Banner is only 5’9.5″, which means he’s a quarter of an inch taller than me.
  • I’m not so sure how much I believe the section in this article that mentions Ben Affleck ran into Christian Bale at a costume store while shopping for their kids and Bale giving Affleck a small but humorous piece of advice, “Make sure you can piss in that suit.”
  • Though I think it’s almost impossible to avoid any small spoilers in Harper Lee’s second novel, Go Set A Watchman, which is a continuation of To Kill A Mockingbird, but was actually written before Mockingbird, this is what I want to post without giving anything away.
    • The Wall Street Journal has a very solid review of the book, and I think this one sentence from the review tells you all you need to know – Yet for the millions who hold that novel dear, “Go Set a Watchman” will be a test of their tolerance and capacity for forgiveness.
    • The Guardian has the first chapter available online, and it’s read to you by Reese Witherspoon, a spectacular choice.
  • Evangelical Pastors Gather To Learn Another Calling: Politics – Hundreds of conservative evangelical pastors across the country are being trained to run for political office. The project is part of an effort to mobilize an “army” to do battle in the culture wars.
  • It used to be skyscrapers was a way for big cities to “legitimize” themselves.  Today, I think it’s sporting venues.
  • Last night I saw a commercial for a toilet in which a woman was talking about how nobody likes skid marks.  We are getting closer and closer to Idiocracy.
  • Mexico’s most secure prison had their most famous inmate escape through a lighted and ventalated mile long tunnel. Seriously, if you were watching a movie which started off like that, you’d roll your eyes thinking how it wouldn’t even be plausible but was willing to curve believability for entertainment purposes.
  • Oklahoma tops Texas – Miss USA 2015 Winner Is Miss Oklahoma Olivia Jordan! Ylianna Guerra Miss Texas First Runner-Up!
  • Something for classic car lovers – Cuban car guys star in first US show shot entirely on the forbidden island
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