Bag of Randomness

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  • Yesterday WifeGeeding accepted a teaching position at our kids’ preschool for the next school year and my manager called to inform me of a raise (albeit, it’s just a merit increase), so we decided to quickly find a sitter and celebrate at her favorite steak house, III Forks.  Unfortunately, I’m still recovering from my stomach bug and paid the price afterwards.
  • I wonder if those controversial Bud Light bottles will become a collectable and what they’ll be worth in twenty years.  I also wonder if that last sentence, as well as this one, should end with a question mark.
  • The perfect website to look for an adjective that starts with a specified letter – AdjectivesThatStart.com
  • If I were to guess, I’d say less than 5% of new church buildings built this century have an organ.
  • Mental Floss – How 50 Texas Cities Got Their Names
  • That’s about 7,000 gigabytes – Verizon warns FiOS user over “excessive” use of unlimited data
  • Last night’s ‘Daily Show’ interviewed sure felt tense, it reminded me of what the late Tim Russert was capable of.  I bet it was the most serious and tense interview in the history of the show.
  • AT&T sends 83-year-old man $24,000 bill (for dial-up)
  • VICE – The Very Serious Business of Figuring Out How Earth Will Handle First Contact with Aliens
  • America’s Police Will Fight the Next Riot With These Stink Bombs
  • The best way to manage your photos online in 2015
  • Dallas Morning News ‏- An inside look at American Airlines’ massive new Dreamliner
  • Now there’s a wearable for tracking your farts
  • NBC copies Netflix by making David Duchovny’s new show available to binge-watch on day one – 13 episodes of Aquarius will go online after May 28th premiere
  • New York Times – U2’s Flight to Now (Turbulence Included) – Concert touring news
    • It looks like Bono has gone blond, and I don’t think that’s a good thing.
    • HBO is shooting a tour documentary.
    • The tour has sold 98 percent of the 1.2 million available tickets for its 68 concerts
    • For each city there were suppose to be two concerts, one night and the next, with two different experiences, but that has been modified –  The initial idea was to work up two entirely different concerts, but U2 worried about leaving out staples or having fans think they’d gotten the second-best show. As of last week, it planned instead to have a relatively fixed first half and a varying second one — separated, for the first time on a U2 tour, by an intermission.
    • Stage description – Running nearly the length of the coliseum floor was U2’s triple platform: a large rectangular stage (a strip of which could light up as “I” for Innocence), a smaller round stage (“e” for experience) and, between them, a walkway that’s wide enough to become a third stage, sometimes sandwiched between LED video screens.
    • They are using the ceiling for their sound system – The tour’s most striking innovation isn’t immediately obvious. U2 has moved its sound system to arena ceilings: an oval of 12 speaker arrays that sends the music downward evenly everywhere in the arena.
    • The first half of the concert, before the intermission, is supposed to create a cloud of division and make you feel a bit down, but – The second half of the concert breaks down the divide and, true to U2’s past, promises healing and love. “When we undo that division, we’ve got to really glue them together,” Bono said.
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Using Cups to Tally Up Shows

Only half that mirror David Letterman is looking into is visible.  The other half is covered by cups, and each cup represents a completed show.  I found that interesting, and I guess it’s better than using some silly spreadsheet.

The New York Time has a nice feature on David Letterman as his final days of a late night talk show host ends, here are a some highlights:

  • He didn’t have any involvement or consulted in the choosing of Stephen Colbert as his successor, which bothered him a little, and he’s now totally over it.
  • It seems like he expected Jon Stewart to take his place and then Colbert, and also thought it would have been a great opportunity to have a person of color or a woman as host.
  • He’s always been an avid runner.  Six weeks after his quintuple bypass surgery he ran for five miles..
  • He knows how he wants the last show to go. Comparing how Carson did his, he wants to make it more cheery, upbeat, and funny.
  • After he settles down, he sounds like he’s open to do a little this and that on television.

Even though his show doesn’t have a strong social media presence, I do like how his show will have guests write a message on a card and tweet it out before the show.  Here are some examples.

 

 

 

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