Bag of Randomness
- One of my college pastors died this week. He had a penchant and a real gift in telling bad jokes over and over again that got funnier and funnier for some reason, and he liked to say Coach Jesus.
- In other pastoral death news, Robert Schuller died. If preachers die in threes, then Billy Graham must be on the on-deck circle.
- DaughterGeeding, her friend, and her brother like to act out Jesus dying on the cross and his resurrection, and they wanted to perform the skit during chapel time at their preschool. So if you are up for a four-minute video about said subject in which the camera goes out of focus towards the end, here you go. I just got a kick they brought their own props from home and used a toy Black & Decker plastic hammer to nail Jesus to the cross.
- Buzzfeed – This Guy Created The Perfect VHS Cover Art For Modern TV Shows And Movies – These actually gave me a good chuckle.
- Buzzfeed – This Is What It’s Like When A Band Plays “Letterman” For The First Time
- Buzzfeed – A Pregnant News Anchor Went On-Air To Read The Hate Mail She Gets About Her Maternity Clothes
- Interestingly enough, the only two locations of Super Chix are in North Texas, Plano and Arlington – KFC’s parent company has unleashed a Chick-fil-A killer – I don’t it will hurt Chick-fil-A, their customers are just too damn loyal.
- Work had me bummed out yesterday. I’ve been working on something for quite a while which increased quality and efficiency significantly, but the credit went to someone else who isn’t very well liked. It bothered me for a good couple of hours, but then was able to move on better than I expected.
- ‘House of Cards’ Renewed for Fourth Season
- Pope Francis Told to Cut Back on Pasta After Weight Gain
- But there’s that thing about actually being accepted – Stanford just made tuition free for families earning less than $125,000 per year
- Fox4 has a new female sports anchor and Ed Bark tweeted her LinkedIn profile. If your summary starts of with ” My father served in the US Navy for 22 years . . .” then your professional experience must be lacking or you suck at writing a resume or CV. There’s nothing wrong with being proud of your papa, but you need to tout your professional experience and accomplishments, not start off with some sort of goody two-shoes story. Heck, I’ve seen high school scholarship applications better than that. But then again, she’s the one working in a top five market in a career she loves and I’m not.
- WifeGeeding thought it was strange for a certain senior in high school to decide to go to college somewhere different than his parents. I thought it was perfectly normal for a kid to pick a college of his choosing without any parental pressure.
- LiberallyLean posted a great video of window washers being abused by the wind on the 91st floor of a building.
- Repurposed x-rays of broken bones used to make lamps
- First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress Blames 9/11 on America’s Child-Killing Problem
- Eating Fast Food After Workouts Is Just As Effective As Protein Supplements
- I just watched five hours of Scientology DVDs and this is what I learned
- How Pinterest Is Revolutionizing Your Child’s Classroom
- 345-Pound Tennessee Titans Lineman Chance Warmack Has a 6-Pack – I didn’t know you could have a six-pack with love handles.
- James Corden did a neat little experiment on last night’s ‘Late Late Show’. He went through a neighborhood trying to find a house that would allow him to broadcast the show from their living room. So they found a guy with two roommates who agrees to do this, and then you have James Corden and Reggie Watts on your couch, and the next thing you know Jeff Goldblum and Beck walks through your door and you couldn’t have dreamed of such a thing earlier in the day. Corden likes the format of having all guests on at the same time, and he held true to this again but this time with all people of the house for the whole show with the celebrities. I’ll admit it wasn’t all that funny and made for a lot of awkwardness, but I was highly entertained. The homeowner actually had five vinyl Beck albums so it must have been an awesome experience to have the musician as a guest on his couch and then perform in his living room.
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I don’t want to live anymore
Man’s Kidneys Fail After Drinking Too Much Tea: Case Study
(Reuters Health) – – The puzzling case of a 56-year-old U.S. man who suddenly developed weakness, fatigue and body aches is leading doctors to warn that massive consumption of tea may be responsible for some unexplained cases of kidney failure.
It’s being called iced-tea nephropathy by the New England Journal of Medicine, which published a letter describing the case.
I come close to drinking a gallon of tea a day.
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Woman Wrote Her Own Obituary Before Dying Of Cancer
You can read the whole thing here, but this piece really stood out to me:
I remember cutting small rosebuds still wet with dew to wear to school on spring mornings, and I remember the smell of newly mowed grass. I remember the thrill of leading our high school band down King Street in New Orleans for Mardi Gras (I was head majorette). I remember representing Waynesville in the Miss North Carolina Pageant, and yes, I twirled my baton to the tune of “Dixie.” It could have been no other way.
And this part towards the end also caught my attention:
So…I was born; I blinked; and it was over. No buildings named after me; no monuments erected in my honor.
But I DID have the chance to know and love each and every friend as well as all my family members. How much more blessed can a person be?
So in the end, remember…do your best, follow your arrow, and make something amazing out of your life. Oh, and never stop smiling.
If you want to, you can look for me in the evening sunset or with the earliest spring daffodils or amongst the flitting and fluttering butterflies. You know I’ll be there in one form or another.
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