Bag of Randomness

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  • I have a friend whose last name is Bone and he will often just sign his name (in unofficial capacities) by drawing a bone, something resembling a femur.  Bone is very close to our kids and was nice enough to send them a postcard from Florida during a recent visit, and in typical Bone fashion, signed it by drawing a bone.  The kids were stoked to get something in the mail and we read the message on the card with them, but DaughterGeeding noticed the letters B-O-N-E were missing, so we told her the picture he drew of a bone was his name.  Her face turned real sad and then she said, “Mommy, I feel sorry for Bone, he doesn’t know how to write his name like I do.”
  • WifeGeeding and I got into a heated debated like the rest of the Internet over the color of this dress – she saw blue and black while I saw white and gold.  It’s obviously white and gold, if you see anything other than white and gold, you love ISIS.  But to be honest, I looked at the image about two hours later, tilted my screen and then back to the normal position, and now only see blue/purple and black.
  • Yesterday I learned that George Dunham of The TICKET isn’t even 50-years-old, I thought both he and Craig were in the mid-50’s.
  • Last night Fox4 basically had a segment that was nothing more than an infomercial for a supplement company Troy Aikman decided to invest in by having the company CEO (complete with slicked back hair) and Aikman as on set guests.  The segment was embarrassing enough but went over the top when Steve Eagar ended the segment by providing the website.  I haven’t watched Fox4 in years but Eagar looked eerily thin, it reminded of when Matthew Perry lost a massive amount of weight during his Vicodin addiction.
  • But I have to give big props to Fox4’s Mike Doocy for basically calling out his own station for non-news and adding “There are times when I can see why big-time athletes hate the media. This is one of those times.”  I think he’s becoming Dale Hansen with “Commentary” segment.
  • I recall talk of a movie being made about the life of Josh Hamilton, I think Ben Affleck’s brother, Casey, being a part of it.  They need to tap the breaks on the script or production considering his latest troubles, a lot of unfinished chapters are left in his life, and there might not be a happy ending.
  • Today’s “Random Fail” in GIF form – A former Wise County DA separates his shoulder playing in the snow.
  • I don’t know why, but I’d like to see Tim Tebow on ‘The Amazing Race’ or ‘Survivor’.
  • A college student made a functioning Batsuit and stress tested it by having his dorm mates punch and stab him with a knife while wearing the contraption.
  • A couple new hotels are being built in the area.  Yesterday I saw some kind of crane being used to lift mattresses through side windows on the upper floors.  I thought they would just load ’em up in the elevator.
  • Instagram Pic – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger next to Katy Perry who is wearing a left shark hoodie, at least I’m pretty sure it’s left shark.
  • How 14 major news outlets explain net neutrality
  • The Dallas Morning News has set a goal for the reporters to have at least one thousand Twitter followers.
  • I never understood why new music and movies on DVDs were released on Tuesdays, but it looks like new music will now be released on Fridays.
  • By the time you read this, I may be halfway through the new season – 21 Things You Might Not Know About ‘House of Cards’ – I guess my biggest surprise in this list is that Kevin Spacey got Woody Allen stuck on Netflix by use of a gift subscription.  You know, I actually logged at 11:05 PM to see if Netflix was using Eastern Time, but nope, I had to wait until midnight Central.
  • For my fellow U2 fans, here’s the latest on Bono.
  • Tempting link of the day – Here’s What It Looks Like When Someone Has Their Belly Button Cosmetically Removed
  • Verizon issues furious response to FCC, in Morse code, dated 1934
  • i09 – Every Member Of The Avengers, Ranked
  • Jeopardy > Wheel of Fortune
  • Bloomberg brings you the story behind the boxer brief.  The boxer brief makes up 40% of the market and boxers make up 18%.  And here’s another Bloomberg article about the decline of cereal sales that I found pretty darn interesting.
  • In case you ever wondered why cotton is a bad choice for outdoor adventure, here ya go.
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURCIA! is brought to you by SMU.
  • More stuff I learned from my cadaver book:
    • The brain survives six to ten minutes after the heart stops pumping blood to it.
    • Before stethoscopes and other methods to determine death, there were some strange techniques to see if a person was still alive, such as slicing the soles of their feet with razors or jamming needles into toe nails. Also used, a red hot poker into the dark end and nipple pinches, or even a pencil up the nose or aggressive tongue pulling.  I remember after my mother’s head injury they were trying to test her responsiveness and the doctor twisted her nipple as she basically laid motionless.  He apologized for having to do so, and that image is burned into my memory.
    • Operation room staff have been known to report sensing a spirit or presence when the heart is removed from a transplant patient. The heart actually still beats after removal for a minute or two, sometimes surgeons even drop them, then they are simply wash and do just fine. The heart eventually stops beating until the cells are starved from a lack of oxygen.
    • There was lots of experiments done about the soul and where it resides – heart, brain, and even the liver because of how it looks.  Often a bed would be weighed and they’d see if there would be a weight difference after the heart stops beating.
    • Transplant patients will claim to experience memories belonging to their donors, but once research is done it turns out not to be true. About half transplant patients have postoperative physiological problems.
    • There are some small differences between a male and female heart, but when you put a female heart into a man, it will beat like a female heart, and vice versa.
    • Organ Donation or tissue harvesting, which includes leg and arm bones, will slightly alter the profile of the body, so PVC piping or dowels are inserted to normalize form and help the mortuary staff.
    • There was a lot of historical legal references detailing when a person is actually declared dead, especially as medical technology advanced and how one could be brain dead but the heart keeps pumping. A murderer unsuccessfully tried to claim that even though his victim had no brain activity, it was the transplant doctor that removed the heart and ended life, and thus should be the actual killer.
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