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- I mentioned that the city came out to look at my water bill because they noticed I was using drastically less water than everyone else in the area, and my water usage from the last bill I think was only about five bucks. Yesterday I awoke to low water pressure and I tracked it down to a busted sprinkler pipe in the front yard that was gushing water up from the ground. Any savings I made from last month will be negated from this snafu.
- I cracked open an egg yesterday, and I think that’s the first time I’ve done that in over a decade as I’ve only used Egg Beaters. DaughterGeeding’s class is in need of some egg cartons for Easter and so I thought I’d chip in by buying some actually egss.
- Lately I feel like I’ve kept my guard up around my family, that I’m refusing to let loose, and that disappoints me and I can’t figure out why I do it.
- This email thing isn’t going to bring Hillary Clinton down, but that was a lackluster excuse she made stating it was for convenience and that she didn’t want to carry around two cell phones. It’s quite simple to access multiple email accounts on one mobile device.
- Last night Jon Stewart brilliant roasted Democrats and Republicans for being hypocrites depending on who is in power. I’m gonna miss that guy. Our political parties so closely resemble each other it’s scary.
- Not because of length, but circumference – Florida teen undergoes world’s first penis reduction surgery – Shaped like an American football, it was almost 7 inches long and had a circumference of 10 inches when flaccid.
- Yesterday on The TICKET, Norm interviewed Elvis Andres who stated that he now has to hired a couple bodyguards when he goes home to Venezuela because kidnapping is a viable concern.
- I don’t fly often, but for those of you that do, you might enjoy SeatGuro.com. It’s fully of surprising data about seats on a plane, like little undesirable quirks such as misaligned windows, narrower widths, proximity to the lavatory, and all sorts of other stuff. Here’s an example from an American Airlines flight.
- GIF – How the Panama Canal works – I really didn’t know it was stair-stepped or tiered. Here’s a video time-lapse of going through the canal on board a ship. And in case you were wondering how long it would take to go through it, per Wikipedia, between 8 and 10 hours.
- How world leaders’ salaries stack up – South Africa above the UK, that surprises me.
- SolarCity, MP2 Energy Offer Solar to Texas Homeowners for Less than Utility Power without Local Incentives – Texas’ first unlimited solar buyback program achieves cost breakthrough with national implications
- The New York Times has a bowling piece that takes place in Plano – The Greatest Bowling Story Ever Told
- Historical border claims of the Republic of Texas overlaid on top of a modern day landcover map, including urban areas and interstate highways
- This happened all the time in Mineral Wells – Teens arrested for stealing goat to ask girl to prom
- I’ve always found his work a bit too dark for my liking – Tim Burton to Direct Live-Action ‘Dumbo’ for Disney
- The Verge – At a recent press event, the Smithsonian showed off the original 11-foot model of the Starship Enterprise . . . and shot photos of the ship at different angles in order to re-composite the images in modern Star Trek film stills.
- The Verge – Apple’s shareholders really want Tim Cook to buy Tesla
- Disney’s $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband
- If companies do a simple Internet search before hiring a job applicant, I wonder how tough it would be for Parker Rice and Levi Pettit to get job in four years. It must be a devastating situation for a parent to be in. One of the parents is a commercial Realtor, and serves on the boards of the Town North YMCA and North Dallas Chamber Baseball League – I wonder how much the sins of the son will affect his business and standing in the community.
- I love Dirk, but I’m afraid it’s time to put a fork in him. There’s no way he’s just “saving it for the playoffs.”
- GIF – You don’t fear death when you decide to do a backflip escaping from an avalanche.
- Happy birthday, George.
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Bag of Randomness
- DaughterGeeding has a doll with a toy thermometer. BoyGeeding wanted to play with it but thought it was a rectal thermometer and he attempted to try on himself. So yesterday I have to give a talk about never to put anything up that part of his anatomy.
- We got a soft-opening invite for the new Nebraska Furniture Mart that allows us to go between now and March 18.
- Speaking of furniture, I must see a Cindy Crawford Rooms To Go commercial no less than eight times a day. And here I thought she was overexposed in the Nineties.
- I really like how OU’s president has tackled that frat issue head on. It’s weird how those guys didn’t want black men to be a frat brother but would worship them and plan days and trips around what they do on the football field. S— got real once a recruit backed out.
- OU closes fraternity over racist chants — and African-American chef loses job
- No Spoilers – Jonathan Banks is the actor that plays Mike Ehrmantraut on ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’, and after watching last night’s episode I want to write a letter to every Emmy voter and tell them why Banks deserves the award and not to bother watching anyone else’s work. Gosh, he was outstanding. Also, I recently found out he was in the movie Airplane! You can catch his four-seconds of glory in this clip starting at the 14-second mark.
- Kevin Spacey was on Letterman last night and he talked about Jack Lemmon, one of his mentors. This quote he attributed to Lemmon tugged the heartstrings a tad, “If you’ve done well in the business you wanted to do well in, then it’s your obligation to spend a good portion of your time sending the elevator back down.”
- I knew Elvis wrote a letter to Nixon, but I didn’t know it was on American Airlines stationary.
- Any Democrat that criticized Karl Rove for using his personal email for administration purposes when he worked in the White House but are excusing Hillary Clinton are hypocritical idiots.
- I could appreciate golf more if each swing was treated like a free throw in basketball where the crowd could yell as much as they want, as if noise was an element of the game. I think the Ryder Cup does this. It’s the pretentiousness and all of etiquette of the sport that turns me off.
- I ran across a great football question on Twitter over the weekend – Who will leave the NFL first, Tom Brady or Johnny Manziel?
- Maps – What Every U.S. State Is Best/Worst At
- Meet Mark Cuban’s lawyer who has the coolest, most challenging job in the legal profession
- White House Communications Czar Dan Pfeiffer reveals the strategy—and looks to the future of POTUS PR in the social media era
- Gawker – Every Single Product Advertised in the Super Bowl, Reviewed by Me
- Quiz – A shocking amount of what we’re reading is created not by humans, but by computer algorithms. Can you tell the difference? Take the quiz.
- Buzzfeed – A team of Cornell researchers figured out how fast a zombie outbreak would spread across the United States.
- GIF – The game of LIFE according to ‘The Simpsons’
- Today’s dose of ‘MURICA! – Minor league baseball team unveils funnel cake bacon cheeseburger
- McKale? McDonald’s to roll out kale in US: Sources
- Ghostbusters franchise in the works, second movie to feature dudes again
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