Bag of Randomness

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  • Yesterday someone left an anonymous comment about how difficult it is to read this blog because of my poor grammar and punctuation errors which distracts from the content.   I went back and took a look at yesterday’s Bag of Randomness and she (In my mind this anonymous commenter is the sexy librarian type with a hint of Dana Scully) was right on.  I have a tendency when I’m tired not to review anything I’ve written before I publish a post, and what I originally posted was difficult to read and just terrible.  Granted, a lot of it was done on my phone sometime after midnight, but I should have given it a once over.
  • I took the wife and kids bowling yesterday afternoon.  It was DaughterGeeding’s first time bowling, and I’ll be dang, she got a spare the first time up.
  • We all know that Charles Manson is crazy, but you have to be on an entire different level of crazy to want to marry Charles Manson.  Let this be a lesson to all men out there, women be crazy.
  • Barry over at LiberallyLean responded to my Ed Carter like rant about his thought on adults over the age of 40 cheering passionately for a professional sports team citing Tank Johnson yelling “I’m a free agent baby!” when the Cowboys lost the last game of the 2008 season 44-6 at Philadelphia.  Of all the players he chose to pick, he chose the one with a plethora of legal troubles who was suspended by the league.  That’s like me trying to say all college football players are selfish immature punks based only on players like Brian Bozworth, Lawrence Phillips, or Johnny Manziel, when in reality, most players carry themselves respectfully.  We both should just have our own show on The TICKET and have it out…..  In our next segment, we debate the merits of Peter King, if Pete Rose should be allowed in the Hall of Fame, and if it’s time for Jerry the owner, to fire Jerry the general manager.
  • Oh, and here’s another reason why adults are passionate about professional sports . . . maybe some of us have relied on his “reliable” sports genius predictions and have money riding on the game and fear our bookie making an uninvited appearance at GeedingManor with a baseball bat because I haven’t paid up in two weeks.
  • Of the two new hip-hop stations, one is more overall top forty and the other covers the genre more in depth.
  • The FedEx man dropped a package at our door, rang the doorbell, and then drove off.  The only problem with that was that the package wasn’t addressed to us but to someone at an apartment complex.  About fifteen minutes later he came back to pick the package back up and give us the package that actually had our address on it.
  • Free Condom Locator
  • I don’t know how ABC News did it, but getting George Stephanopoulos to interview Darren Wilson was a huge win for them.  For the first time in a long time, I actually turned in to watch ‘World News Tonight’.
  • Potential presidential candidates sure are keeping mum about this whole Ferguson topic.
  • While perusing around Reddit I found an old but interesting story about how Koreatown was saved during the Los Angeles riots with armed rooftop Korean store owners.  Sidenote: I had no idea there was such a thing as Koreatown, and “L.A. Riots” sounds like a name for a sports team.
  • GIF – Taking a selfie in space
  • Houston pastor refuses to bury 93-year-old woman who didn’t tithe enough while in a coma
  • I’m glad they stuck with the same music – Jurassic World – Official Trailer
  • The Thanksgiving Recipes Googled in Every State – Texas: ‘sopapilla cheesecake’
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Must be one heck of a table (and please use a coaster)

It costs more than $44,000 in tuition to attend Kean University for four years, and many of the school’s students struggle to pay the bill.

But the taxpayer-supported school in the township of Union spent $219,000 so far and has authorized up to $270,000 — about the average price of a house in the nearby working-class neighborhood — for a custom-made, circular conference table that seats 23 and features data ports, microphones and an illuminated map of the world in a glass panel at its center.

The table was bought without competitive bidding, which is normally required under New Jersey law for purchases at state colleges and universities. Instead, Kean hired a company in China to manufacture the table. The school recently established a branch campus there and wants to strengthen ties with the Chinese government.

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Bag of Randomness

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  • Yesterday I discovered that my last eight or ten tweets haven’t been posting to my account because they all have been pictures that I was sending to the now defunct Twitpic.
  • I’ve never eaten at the famed Joe T. Garcia’s.
  • The Wonder Woman movie may actually be pretty legit now that Michelle MacLaren is set to direct and develop it.  If you aren’t familiar with her work, she executive produced and directed a lot of ‘Breaking Bad’  and ‘X-Files’ episodes and directed episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Game of Thrones’.
  • Off hand, I’m not thrilled with the choice of Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch starring in the next ‘True Detective’.
  • I recently watched the Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt movie Edge of Tomorrow and was pleasantly surprised, it’s a highly under-rated movie.  You can think of it as an action packed sci-fi Groundhog Day.
  • Barry over LiberallyLean.com will often make the point about how he doesn’t understand how any grown male over 40 cares about who wins a professional sports game.  Lucky for me, I have about nine-and-a-half months left.  My passion for all sports has declined over the years as my perspective of what’s really important has broadened, but for me, it reminds me of the bond I had with my late father.  We didn’t connect on a lot of things, but watching the Cowboys together is a feeling I never want to slip away, and I like the feeling I can be connected with a community and not have to have tuition dollars tied to it.
  • Funny thing, but even though I can see why people would root for a college team for the reasons I stated for a professional team and many more legitimate and sentimental reasons, I always get the feeling college fans are the kind of folks that can’t let go of their youth and refuse to think that the best time of anyone’s life is the college years.  Whenever I see someone’s house flying a flag from their college I just want to go all Elsa on them and yell “Let It Go!”.
  • And yes, I like the Longhorns and I never was a student (except for a business certification class), but to me, it’s more of a state pride thing that started when I learned how neighboring states would meet almost halfway on a neutral field to a game.  It may not make sense to you, and it’s not suppose to, but it does to me.  And the way college sports has changed over the last thirty years, you might as well call it professional.
  • I mentioned the best years of anyone’s life may be in college.  While an undergrad, I was a leadership minor and had the Dean of Life (or whatever his title was) for a class.  He was told us that if we thought college was the best years of our life, we might as well point a gun to our head and pull the trigger.  That moment had a profound effect on me as I went through a mental checklist of things I thought were important moments and achievements in life.
  • How Austin’s McGarrah Jessee advertising agency celebrated the hiring of their 100th employee (YouTube).
  • I haven’t informed or educated myself well enough about the whole Ferguson situation to form an opinion.  Sure, I have my initial thoughts and feelings on the matter, but it’s based on speculation and assumption.
  • Charles Manson gives hope for all single guys out there.
  • Chicago radio hosts find out they’re fired live on air
  • Probably one of the top four most awkward moments of the Clinton presidency – GIF or YouTube
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