Funny Encounter With The President

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I found this great story on Reddit last night.  You see that young man in the casual polo shirt on the right?  Here’s the story:

The Obama administration sent an invitation to his speech in Utah at Hill Air Force Base. We thought they wanted a representative from our company in the audience. Turns out they wanted the representative for a special round table with the president. Due to this mix up we sent my friend (a leader in our CAD dept) instead of the CEO.

Edit. I still haven’t had a chance to talk to my friend in the picture. but I have learned that the event did not have a lot of communication beforehand. it sounds like the leaders of the company sent him because he is in the air force [sic] and part of the speech Obama gave was about employing veterans in our industry. It wasn’t known by our company before hand obama [sic] wanted our representatives input in such a small group meeting.

Other notable people around the table were U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop and Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker.  Article

You can check out the full Reddit thread there – My friend at work was accidentally sent to a special round table meeting with President Obama. guess which one he is (story in comments)

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Bag of Randomness

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  • I got another email from AOL stating that my email was being used an an alternate email for a person I’ve never heard of and all I needed to do was click to confirm.  Of course I didn’t click to confirm, but I can’t find anything on Google about other people experiencing this same issue.  I’m not sure if’it’s a scam, and if it is, how it would work (other than the link being misleading, which it doesn’t seem to be per the code behind the link) or if it’s just another mistake.
  • I was using a hand truck the other day and had to go up and down several steps.  At the time, I wish mine had this modification.  For the longest time I use to confuse a dolly for a hand truck.
  • Broadcast TV Finale Dates 2015: The Complete Guide
  • Everytime I take communion I think of of this GIF.  I laugh everytime.
  • Today’s dose of MURICA!
  • The projected 2050 religious makeup of each region of the world – For the year 2010 in North America, the top two are 77.4% Christian and 1% Muslim.  In 2050, those two are projected to be 65.8% and 2.4%.
  • 1% Problems – A few months ago, Stuart Leaf was sitting in his Brooklyn Heights apartment when he got a call from his wife asking when he’d be home. It turned out “we’d both been home for three hours,” he said—their roughly 11,000-square-foot condo is so large that neither one realized the other was there.
  • Woman Denied Entry At Disney’s Magic Kingdom For Trying To Bring In Baby Bengal Tiger
  • Joss Whedon says there won’t be a post-credit scene after Age of Ultron
  • I thought Senator Rand Paul graduated from Baylor, but I’m wrong, per his Wikipedia page – Paul left Baylor early, without completing either his Bachelor’s degree in biology or in English, when he was accepted into the Duke University School of Medicine. At the time, Duke did not require an undergraduate degree for admission to its graduate school. He earned a M.D. degree in 1988 and completed his residency in 1993.
  • I still don’t think we’ll see Brian Williams back in the anchor chair at ‘NBC Nightly News’ – ‘Shell-shocked:’ new details about NBC’s handling of the Brian Williams scandal
  • I was surprised to hear that the twelve-year-old AT&T Center in San Antonio was getting a $100 million renovation after the Spurs’ season, but I guess I was more surprised to learn that Whataburger has been one of the concession providers for years.
  • Leaves have now appeared on the crepe myrtles, but so far no flowers.
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