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• Google is expected to unveil their new U.S. wireless service today, and it’s speculated that they will allow customers to pay only for the amount of data they actually use each month and customers can only use the Nexus 6 smart phone.  My contact with Sprint ends in September, and I’ve been frustrated with the lack of coverage in the area and have been wanting to jump ship.  This Google news is quite interesting, but it looks like Google will be using both Sprint and T-Mobile networks, the worst two in the area, so it might not be worth it for me to switch to them.
• I’ve got a feeling this will be the next big news story for at least the rest of the week, starting off slowing and then gaining a lot of traction – U.S. marshal caught destroying camera of woman recording police – Just check out this GIF of a marshal creeping up on that lady and then snagging and what appears to be breaking her camera.
• Yesterday on the ‘CBS Evening News’ I learned one in every five eggs consumed in the U.S. comes from Iowa.
• The morning show on The TICKET brought up a subject I always wondered about – If you own a home on a golf course and a golfer accidentally breaks the your window with a bad shot, is the golfer liable for the damage?  I’m not saying the random person that called with the explanation is the final authority, but is answer made sense.  He stated there’s a Florida case that sets the precedence.  The homeowner assumes liability for buying a home on the golf course, and the golfer is only liable if he willfully or purposely tried to damage the house.  FORE!
• For a ninety-day supply of a certain medication (technically, a super vitamin that’s labeled as medical food) I’m prescribed, it costs about $180 via mail order.  Recently a generic has become available which will only cost me ten bucks every ninety days.  With an unopened bottle of the $180 medication, I was wondering if I could return it for a refund.  To my surprise, the mail order pharmacy said I could keep the medication and would just refund me the entire $180.  Even though I’m sure they can’t give out an unopened sealed bottle to another customer for safety concerns, I was surprised at how easy my request was.
• The new NFL schedule was released yesterday which caused me to take a look at the Cowboys schedule and the weekend I’ll be traveling.  The Cowboys will be playing on Sunday night against the Saints, and I think I’ll luckily be able to catch most of the game.  But I have to admit, the older I get, the less important watching any sort of sporting event gets.  I guess it helps that all my teams (sans Rangers) have won at least one championship in my lifetime.  Other than the Packers, the Cowboys seem to have a pretty easy second half of the season.
• Over the weekend, I was in a conversation about how we no longer get excited about any upcoming event like when we were kids.  I use to get this zeal, an eagerness with butterflies in the stomach that would keep me from falling asleep when it came to things like a birthday or Christmas , traveling, or going to a special event.  Now, nada, zero, zip.  Some in the group felt this was just a male thing.  I miss that feeling and would like to know how to reclaim it.  Heck, even my trip to Vietnam or any U2 concert didn’t even create that long lost feeling.  Maybe I’m dead inside.
• Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!
• This was a popular video yesterday.  Little kids were blindfolded and were able to find their mother from a lineup of other mothers.
• The pictures in this Metro.co.uk link don’t contain nudity but it may not be appropriate for the workplace – Game Of Thrones series 5: Meet Rosie Mac the official body double for Daenerys Targaryen
• Toyota’s North American headquarters in Plano will be about twice the size originally proposed – more than 2.1 million square feet — bigger than a downtown skyscraper.
• Ralph Nader waits for Bush and Obama to answer his rude, bizarre letters
• Here’s a three-year-old NPR article that starts out with a terrible death of a cosmonaut.  His molten remains are displayed at the top of the article.
• Letterman had the Piedmont High School Bird Callers on his show last night, their 19th appearance.  Overall, they have appeared on ‘The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson’ and ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ for a total of fifty times.  The first kid who did his bird call is the son of a man that appeared on Carson who did the same bird call.
• GIF – This would be a great summer camp prank.

Blue Bell Caramel Kettle Crunch!!! pic.twitter.com/cPzc2wHW42

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• I’ve been in the doldrums as of late, but yesterday I decided to take BoyGeeding on a bike ride which seemed to help a bit.  There’s something about being able to spend time with your child with wind and sunshine hitting your face that puts things in perspective.
• I didn’t hear any mention of Willie Nelson at the ACM Awards.  There were plenty of Texas references during the telecast, and Nelson would surely be in the Mount Rushmore of Texas music, so that’s a bit surprising.
• I love ‘Mad Men’, but the way AMC decided to divvy up the final season, I just kinda want to get it over with.
• I have a feeling we’re not going to see any direwolves in ‘Game of Thrones’ this season, but if we’re lucky, Ghost might make an appearance.
• Last night Jon Stewart mentioned his last ‘Daily Show’ will be on Thursday Aug 6.
• Sometimes bathroom renovations don’t go as planned.
• There was a news story yesterday about a Texas woman who lost her leg in the Boston Marathon tragedy who ran the race this year with a prosthetic.  WifeGeeding playfully joked she did a half-marathon with a prosthetic.  I told her, “Eye see what you did there”
• I’d buy stock in Blue Bell if they weren’t a private company.  If they were publicly traded, their stock price would be taking a big hit now, but you know it’s going to recover.
• About two weeks ago I saw the movie Interstellar via on-demand and I just can’t get the movie out of my mind, watching just about every legit YouTube video about it.  The film’s director, Christopher Nolan, will be on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ‘StarTalk’ television show on the National Geographic Channel next week.  Later this week I plan on either renting or buying the Blu-ray just to see the three hours of the behind the scenes stuff.  As for  last night’s ‘StarTalk’, the series premiere, I think we got a better look at Tyson’s office, which looked cooler than it did than what we saw in his ’60 Minutes’ feature.
• The show that came on after ‘StarTalk, ‘The Big Picture with Kal Penn’, stated that in the next two years, we’ll write more words on Twitter than in all of the books ever printed.
• In the segment after his monolog, David Letterman has been replaying some of his most memorable moments, and it’s been a fun trip down memory lane for this fan.  He’s not going to do it, but I wish he’d do another show wearing sneakers, khakis, and a blue blazer like the old NBC days.  Travolta was on the show last night, and it looked like he put too much toupee glue on his head as something was strangely visible in his temple area.
• A woman who works at a creative advertising agency decided to wear the same outfit everyday for three years.  She basically did this to save her creative energy for the workplace and to save a bit of time every day.
• TIME – The science of Internet trolls
• It’s just a great last name for a Secretary of State – Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!
• Buzzfeed – Scientists Used An MRI To See What Happens When Your Joints Crack
• Newly discovered frog species looks a lot like Kermit the Frog
• Sunday was the premiere of the new season of my favorite survivalist show ‘Naked and Afraid’:
  • I’m amazed at how far humans have come from separating ourselves from nature and the elements.
  • This episode was filmed in the Everglades, and I also saw a Florida vacation commercial during the show, so I wonder if that’s some sort of arrangement.
  • Usually, there’s a lot of suffering, but the male contestant totally made survival look easy.  His female companion was also awesome, but she fell sick and had to tap out on day sixteen of twenty-one.
  • The female had a goal of killing a gator for food but wanted to take some uncalculated risks in getting one.  Her male companion objected several times citing safety over adventure, and she flat out called him a p—-.  To her credit, she apologized the next day.  She never caught a gator, but after she left due to dysentery, the male was able to kill one with a noose and machete.  He later built a smoker out of big leaves to cook the thing, and it worked during rainfall.
  • It was stated that the lactic acid in sweat is what attracts mosquitoes.  The female complained about being constantly bit inside of her, well, you know.  It reminded me of an episode from last season where the female kept getting leeches attached to that same area.