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• Two of Lou Holtz’s Notre Dame football players were enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame over the weekend.  I wonder what’s the most players a college coach has had enshrined in the Hall of Fame at one time.
• @RickGosselinDMN – The two Notre Dame HOFers (Bettis & Brown) combined acceptance speeches ran 64:59. The 5 other HOFers combined for 45:09.
• The Hall of Fame Speech Junior Seau’s Daughter Couldn’t Give – My heart just crumbled when I saw Seau’s mother uncontrollably weep once her son’s bust was revealed.
• In Tim Brown’s speech, he stated the jacket was made by Haggar, and briefly talked about his relationship with the Haggar family in Dallas.  Per Haggar’s Wikipedia page, they provide jackets for several key things:
  • “Official Provider of the Gold Jacket to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinees since 1978”
  • “Official Clothing Partner and Provider of the Hockey Hall of Fame Jacket”
  • “Official Provider of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Jacket”
  • “Official Provider of the Alumni Jacket to the NFL Alumni Association”
  • “Official Provider of the Alumni and Ring of Honor Jackets of the Dallas Cowboys”
  • “Official Provider of the Alumni Jacket to the Miami Dolphins”
• The son of Haggar’s founder is part of one of the funniest presidential phone recordings.  LBJ called him to order six pants, the best he’s ever worn, and talked about his bung hole and belches.  His lack of manners always cracked me up.
• I forgot Brown finished his career in Tampa.
• If there’s one thing I enjoyed about the ‘True Detective’ finale, it was the death scene in the dessert.
• GIF – A woman had the best of intentions of helping to put out a fire.
• Dallas mayor saves choking woman at local restaurant
• You Can Buy an Entire Old West Party Town in Texas for $400K
• Bill Murray to Appear in ‘Ghostbusters’ Remake
• The First Teaser For HBO’s Sci-Fi Western ‘Westworld’
• Woman Runs London Marathon Without a Tampon, Bleeds Freely to Raise Awareness
• Buzzfeed – A Guy Gathered Volunteers To Paint An Old Man’s House After Teens Called It Ugly
• Adorable dog GIF of the day
• Big Houses: Cool pools for the summer: 20 stunning pools at D-FW homes on the market
• While reading this article about the owners of Pecan Lodge, I can’t help but think they are just really good, salt of the Earth kinda people, especially with this answer:
  • With all of that attention and hard work that you’re putting into this barbecue, is it a little infuriating — even the tiniest bit — that Dallas is still really not part of this national conversation about Texas barbecue. It’s all about Franklin’s (in Austin), all the time.Diane: No, not at all. Aaron has earned that spot. He’s the real deal. He and Stacy are really good, really hardworking people. That’s not hard for us. Who cares? It’s a win for Texas. We have good barbecue in Austin, in Dallas, in some little small town. It doesn’t matter. It’s a win for the state over all.I think a lesser person might be bitter about that, or jealous, or whatever.

    Justin: The way that I look at it is that this is a really hard business to be in. If we’re successful and someone else is successful, good for them. I’m happy for them. The last thing you want is for someone to go into this business and fail. It’s devastating. We barely made it through the first year, and I don’t know that you could call it making it in the second year, but it did start to turn for us then. I don’t want to see anyone go down.

This is a video from March which cracks me up.  DaughtGeeding is upset at her brother and keeps referring to him as Walter, his real name, and he’s upset she’s not referring to him as Batman.  In the video, you hear BoyGeeding say “Wah uh” which is him trying to say “Walter”.  It’s one reason why he’s in speech therapy, he likes to leave out certain consonants, but we still love him.

The last three seconds kill me every, dang, time.

• This summer is killing me emotionally, coming of age wise.  Letterman retires, Stewart hangs it up, my old phone died, I turn 40 at the end of the month.  I’m not sure I can take all of this.  Hey U2, please stick around just a little bit longer for my sake.
• Stewart finale thoughts:
  • I loved how they brough back all the old correspondents, even though you could see that coming.  The same goes with the Trevor Noah appearance and bit.
  • It was nice to see Wyatt Cenac make an appearance after his so called falling out with Stewart.  You can say the same about Sen. John McCain.
  • Craig Kilborn is still alive.
  • Stephen Colbert is good at going off script, and as good as he can be going into character, it’s easy to tell when he’s being sincere.
  • I love all the Arby’s appearances.
  • The Goodfellas behind the scenes skit was fabulous.  It reminded me of Letterman’s behind the scenes piece, but this was much better, and I always love it when the man in charge is able to give all the off camera staff a hat tip.
  • And just like Letterman, he didn’t want the teary sendoff, he just sent it off to a great band and made the show run long.
  • “This show isn’t ending, we’re merely taking a pause in the conversation…That’s our show…Here it is, my Moment of Zen.”
  • I’ve posted this before, but I shall post it again.  Stewart found out MTV was cancelling his show and at the height of David Letterman’s fame, he made sure to be on Stewarts last show and told him, “Cancellation should not be confused with failure.”  I’d say Stewart rebounded well.
• Jon Stewart raised more than $2.2 million for autism with final episode
• There’s a Republican presidential candidate debate with Donald Trump as the headliner and there’s no ‘Daily Show’ coverage from either Stewart or Noah.  Man, they scheduled the finale and reboot badly.
• I’m looking to get a screen protector for my phone, any suggestions? Off hand, I’m thinking of getting something from Zagg or BodyGuardz.
• DaughterGeeding is about to enter kindergarten at a charter school and yesterday we took her in for an evaluation at her new school, basically some tests to see where’s she at.  The charter school is about to start its first year of existence, is run in collaboration with a college in Michigan, and seems very strict about things.  For instance, kids have to wear uniforms with the school’s emblem.  A lot of the staff moved down from Michigan and seem a bit cold and sterile, and they were all under-talkers.  When they spoke to us, it was as if they thought they were speaking at an acceptable volume but it sounded like a whisper to both me and WifeGeeding, and we weren’t in an environment that needed to be quiet for any reason.  It makes me wonder if Michigan folks are quiet people like many think New Yorkers talk fast and Texans talk slow.
• It’s going to take a while getting used to a school that doesn’t have a principal but a headmaster.  It sounds so formal.
• Construction wise, the school is going through finishing touches, and even though the assistant headmaster gave WifeGeeding and BoyGeeding a mini tour while I was away filling out paperwork, I wasn’t allowed to check anything out.
• The teacher’s aide that evaluated DaughterGeeding was going over her completed test with us because WifeGeeding asked about something, and in doing so, the aide discovered that he looked over an entire page of tests he was supposed to give DaughterGeeding.  I wonder if WifeGeeding didn’t ask a question that caused him to look at the paper, would the blank page be counted as if she couldn’t comprehend the material or if they would have contacted us to come back and finish the overlooked section.
• In some ways, I’m starting to see me becoming a “that parent”.  For instance, DaughterGeeding can write the entire alphabet, we’ve seen her do it many times at home, but she left out several letters on her evaluation.
• I remember watching the episode of the Johnny Carson ‘Tonight Show’ after his son’s death from a car accident.  At the very end of the show, he asked for a few brief moments to talk about his son.  He addressed his son’s passing and stated he wanted to show a picture of his son, one better than his driver’s license photo which has been plastered all over the news.  From that moment, whenever I see a picture of a dead person on the news, I wonder how that photo was selected, and I wonder what’s the last picture people will see of me.  In a way, I kinda think it will be like the Elvis stamp – Fat Elvis or Thin Elvis?  Chubby Geeding, or Chubbier Geeding.  Longhaired Geeding, or Bald Geeding.  Bearded Geeding, or Clean Shaven Geeding.  Hopefully, not a younger looking Hitler Geeding.
• Random Johnny fact –  Carson attended neither of his parent’s funerals.
• I watched a little bit of the debate last night.  I’ll have to hand it to Fox News (something I thought I’d never say) but they seemed hard on the candidates and asked some hard personal questions, with some good follow-up questions.  I expected the candidates to lay off each other and focus on a unified message of anti-Obama and anti-Hillary, but they seemed to go after one another quite a bit.  In particular, Christie and Paul’s exchanged seemed heated.
• TIME – Earlier on Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina—or someone on her staff—used a hotel printer to print out a closing statement for the Fox News debate, then forgot to pick it up.
• Rick Perry gets a pass for possibly saying “Ronald Raven”.  He definitely knows who the man was probably just had debate dry mouth.
• All my work passwords can be typed with one hand from the home row.
• GIF – Wisdom tooth extraction
• Rolling Stone ranks the 25 Best ‘Daily Show’ Correspondents.  I always like how they all held a “Senior” title in a specialized field.
• Buzzfeed – The 19 Strangest Items From Republican Primary Candidates’ Official Online Stores