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  • I never heard of Flag Pole Hill until the last two winter storms, but from all the local news reports and Corby Davidson from The TICKET, that’s the place to take your kids when it snows.
  • While channel surfing last night I think a girl on ‘American Idol’ wore the blue/black-white/gold dress.
  • Is Texas Southern, Western, or Truly a Lone Star? | Texas Monthly‏ – I didn’t expect much when I started reading this article but I learned some new stuff and found it pretty insightful on how Texas chose to distance itself from Dixie and to be more aligned with the American West:
    • Nationally, Dixie was stigmatized as a backward, ignorant, and violent hotbed of Ku Kluxry and religious hypocrisy. Why remain linked to all that baggage? Why not, forward-looking Texans began to think, align with the West instead? Back then, and to a certain degree today, the West was seen as optimistic, the place of second chances, the land of the golden tomorrow, a stark contrast when compared to Dixie’s melancholy and tragic yesterdays.
  • TXCN to sign off on April 1
  • Google’s new wireless may launch by the end of this month, but users may only be limited to one phone, the Nexus 6.
  • More proof that HOA’s are heartless – A 6-year-old Missouri girl with leukemia wanted a playhouse in her backyard and Make-A-Wish was going to make it happen, even going as far as making sure the shingles on the playhouse would match the house.  But as you would guess, the HOA said no and didn’t really provide any detail as to why.  After word leaked to the public, they are now in the reconsidering phase.
  • Regarding Sunday morning political shows, there was a time when I thought nothing would beat ‘Meet The Press’, but then Tim Russert died.  And for some reason, I thought ‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos’ would easily take over the top spot.  But to my surprise, ‘Face The Nation with Bob Schieffer’ is now the top program in the most important demographic.
  • This Is What Lockheed Martin’s Laser Weapon Can Do to a Truck From a Mile Away
  • Lockheed Martin Claims Sustainable Fusion Is Within Its Grasp
  • LiberallyLean.com posted a Dallas Morning News article about a bad purchase experience at Target.  Of all things that bugged me about the article, the one thing that stood out was his reference to a Blu-ray player.  Instead of using the correct spelling, Blu-ray, he used “Blue-Ray” and “blue ray”.
  • What 170-Year-Old Beer Uncovered From a Shipwreck Really Tasted Like
  • Buzzfeed – 12 Burning “House Of Cards” Season 3 Questions Answered By The Showrunner
  • More exodus at ‘The Daily Show’ – The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee leaves to start her own satirical news show – Her show will be on TBS, and I’m assuming it will wither lead or follow Conan.  I think this is a big win for TBS, and there’s been grumbling of a lack of a female presence in late night talk shows.
  • Contenders line up for Shed of the Year 2015
  • Former Baylor student at center of bizarre ‘stolen valor’ incident
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!
  • I talked to an old college friend yesterday and most of our conversation was around a literature class we had together.
    • We were all assigned a poem and instructed to go to the library (no Internet back then) and research the material, and then the next time the class met, we were to stand in front of the class, read it, talk about our research, and provide our own interpretation. I can’t recall the poem now, but all the research stated it was about masturbation and I was too embarrassed to discuss such a thing standing in front of class.  I ended up calling the professor at his house (something common at a small university) explaining the situation and he allowed me to select my own poem. I chose one about basketball called ‘Fast Break‘ because I thought it was really cool how it’s was written – one long run-on sentence that picked up speed as you read it, as an actual fast break.  Looking back at the event, I wish I would have followed through with the original assigned poem.
    • In one lecture the professor referenced C.S. Lewis, who I wasn’t familiar with, and talked about the author’s great writing and his strong Christian faith.  I confused Lewis for Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and those Dianetics commercials, and questioned the professor how he could praise such man at a Christian university.  He and the rest of the class laughed at my ignorance, which didn’t bother me, and looking back, it’s pretty funny.
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The Camera Must Have One Heck of a Battery to Keep a Charge That Long

Jonathon Keats wants to set a world record in photography that he won’t live long enough to see. Nor will his children, or his children’s children for many generations. It’s a project that won’t complete for a millennium.

Keats plans to capture the world’s slowest photograph, a 1,000-year-long exposure of the city of Tempe, Arizona, that will be finished in the Spring of 3015.

The camera for the project will be unveiled tomorrow at the Arizona State University Art Museum. When installed in place at the museum’s sculpture garden trellis three floors above ground, the camera will be pointed at the city’s skyline in order to capture how civilization changes over time.

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