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• I finally gave boiled peanuts a try.  Granted, they were in a can, and I warmed them up according to the instructions, but I’m not a fan.  Maybe if I had some freshly cooked from Georgia I’d like them better, but I doubt it.  According to this video, you are suppose to put them, shell and all, in your mouth, and eat them kinda like a sunflower seed.
• While watching the Sixties ‘Batman’ show, it was revealed the Bruce Wayne’s great-great grandfather founded the Yale University secret society Skull and Bones.
• We are members church affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and after Sunday’s sermon, there was a quick meeting with the congregation to address the recent news  about the change in the wording of its constitution to allow gay and lesbian weddings within the church.  The members our church are overwhelmingly conservative and didn’t really have any concerns since the state of Texas doesn’t recognize that kind of marriage, so such a thing can’t happen yet.  And it seemed they were comforted when our pastor stated that even if it did become legal, he wouldn’t perform a ceremony that included like genders.  There was some small talk about moving to another denomination, but after talking about the financial problems that lead to a court appearance and a $7.8 million settlement over property ownership between PCUSA and Highland Park Presbyterian’s decision leave the denomination, things quieted down.  I’m still predicting that our church will leave in the next two years, for sure the next five.  Man, I loath church politics and denominational strife, it gets the church off their intended purpose.  Allow me to quote on Los Angelean profit, “Can we all just get along?”
• I believe my pastor is honest about his stance on gay marriage, but part of me wonders if he had the opposite stance, how many members would leave our church and what kind of financial burden that would bring.  It’s just a guess, but I’d say the church would lose about 75% of its members and would close its doors in less than two years.
• I’m actually surprised Senator Ted Cruz will actually run for president, I thought he was too smart to do such a thing, that he has greater influence without the restrictions of the White House.  Granted, I don’t see him getting close to his party’s nomination, and it will be interesting to see people in his own party attacking him, but I do like how he’s foregoing forming presidential exploratory committee.
• GIF – Pig enjoying the beach
• Buzzfeed – 23 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About “Mad Men,” According To The Cast And Creator
• Buzzfeed – Couple Discovers They Were In A Home Video Together 16 Years Before They Met – The video was taken at an amusement park called Sesame Place in July 1988 when Jourdan was 10 years old and Ryan was 13
• ’60 Minutes’ had a segment on Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson.  As a fan I was familiar with just about everything on the segment, but I was most fascinated with how his office at the Hayden Planetarium looked.  Other than having a copy of Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’, it was more bright and sterile than I’d imagined.  His latest podcast features Elon Musk.
• The people running the Dallas Stars video board have been behind some good gimmicks as of late – Stars trolls return: This time, Baylor football is under attack
• In case you were wondering what Joe Millionaire was looking like today.
• Ping Pong 360 looks pretty challenging.
• With all the snow and rain as of late, I’m expecting a great bluebonnet season.
• North Korea threatens to blow up balloons with DVDs of The Interview sent over border
• Since there’s so much bad news about NFL players, here’s something that’s more on the positive side – One of the Baltimore Ravens Just Published an Insanely Complex Study in a Math Journal – The title of the co-authored paper is “A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians”.
• I’m about six episodes in watching the original series of ‘Star Trek’.  So far it’s been real interesting. I think it turned me off as a kid because I was expecting more action and adventure stuff with great special effects, but now as an adult, I realize this show started two decades before Star Wars, so the special effects are understandably different; and ‘Star Trek’ isn’t about action or adventure, but more about thought provoking scenarios about humanity. I liken the first six I’ve watched to the Twilight Zone.
• I used a 56K modem for a week and it was Hell on Earth
• Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!

We drive a 2007 GMC Acadia that has a remote start.  The remote start works perfectly 100% of the time, even if the engine has been cold for a long while.  Once I enter the vehicle, all I have to do is put the key in the ignition and turn it slightly so I can put it in gear, there’s no noticeable change other than the radio turning on.

However, when I try to cold start the engine by normal means, that is, no remote start, just inserting the key in the ignition and turning it, the engine has trouble turning over.  If the vehicle has recently been driven, there’s no issue with the engine turning over, so this only happens during a regular cold engine start.

I would think if the vehicle had trouble turning over starting it normally, it would also do the same via remote, but that’s not the case.  And of course, I’ve taken it to my mechanic but they can’t replicate the issue, probably because they aren’t allowing the engine to cool long enough.

Spark plugs are relatively new, FWIW.

Thoughts?