Bag of Randomness

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  • I’ve had a good bit of luck repairing my laptop’s oddly wired power harness and replacing my Chromebook’s screen by buying discounted parts off eBay and finding tutorials on YouTube.  So now I’m going to try to replace my phone’s cracked screen.  Last night I found a bunch of helpful videos and bought the replacement screen for only five bucks with free shipping.  Of course, now I feel like I’ve jinxed myself by talking about this beforehand.  “Well done is better than well said.”
  • You see a lot of local commercials for Dr David Kim for bariatric or gastric surgery.  One man used him for the gastric sleeve procedure and lost a lot of weight, mainly because to his surprise his legs were amputated.
  • If I’m correct, DeMarco Murray is in the last year of his contract.  It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Jerry doesn’t re-sign him after the season and get a newly reinstated Adrian Peterson for a bit of a discount as other teams avoid him for his recent transgressions.
  • If I’m reading the Cornell University website correctly, freshmen have to take a swimming test and if they don’t pass, have to enroll in a swimming course.
  • I wonder if “freshman” will change to a gender neutral term one day.  I’m not saying I’m for or against the idea, just wondering if it will change.
  • I’m not a fan of HOAs and I’m not a fan of my HOA charging a fee to pay our semi-annual dues online, means I write a check for it and send it snail mail to save a tiny chunk of change.  I think these are the only two checks I write a year.
  • Gross or genius? French officials announced a law change that will allow homeowners to install toilets in their kitchens and living rooms – It does of course remind me of a scene in Idiocracy.
  • Nome, Alaska is moving forward with plans to tax churches.
  • Top 100 places to work in DFW – 2014 – It was a bit surprising to see a church in the small companies list.  Moldy, I do believe that’s your church.  Well, not your church but the one you attend.
  • I’ve never used an emoji.
  • Florida man assaults girlfriend after she makes pancakes instead of waffles for birthday 
  • DART posted a time-lapse video of a rail replacement that’s actually pretty neat, but  it’s quite long – YouTube
  • Paddington Bear creator’s shock as film is deemed ‘unsuitable for young children’
  • ‘Runner’s high’ can turn into a real addiction
  • Happy birthday, Richard.
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Bag of Randomness

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  • Yesterday I learned there’s a difference difference between upgrade eligibility and end of contract date when it comes to mobile phones.  Regarding my contract with Sprint, I thought it would end at the end of the month, but that’s just when I’m eligible for an upgrade, my contract doesn’t actually end until the end of September.  So the cheapest and quickest way for me to switch carriers would be to take advantage of T-Mobile’s early termination deal, but I’m not sold on their coverage, especially when it comes to East Texas. #FirstWorldProblems
  • NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg did a Reddit Ask Me Anything yesterday and someone asked her what was the most quirky fact that people would be surprised to know about the Supreme Court.   She said Justice Ginsburg often works until 3 or 4 in the morning and then will come back to court in the afternoon.
  • The Bill Cosby rape allegations story is a bit weird.  It seemed everyone loved the guy and then a month ago comedian Hannibal Buress criticized him about the eight year old allegations.  Last week Cosby and his team tried to get his fans to create memes on Twitter about himself, but that backfired when a lot of the memes brought up the allegations, and now the main focus is on Cosby and his past.  I’m not saying Cosby should be defended or is in the right, but it seems weird how none of this was brought up and now it’s front and centered, as if it was coordinated.
  • WifeGeeding and I are catching up on ‘The Knick’ which lightly follows the case of Typhoid Mary, which caused me to look up her Wikipedia page.  I had no idea she spent almost three decades in isolation.
  • I thought Jimmy Fallon had a funny line on Bono’s bicycle crash saying it was a result of them riding a tandem bike.
  • My first thought was this was going to be something to like ‘Firefly’, and the cast seems almost too good to be true with the likes of Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris –  HBO’s sci-fi western ‘Westworld’ is coming next year with an insanely good cast
  • The Sad Fates of the World’s Six Tallest Unfinished Buildings
  • TechDirt.com – Ted Cruz Doubles Down On Misunderstanding The Internet & Net Neutrality, As Republican Engineers Call Him Out For Ignorance
  • Graphic Pictures Warning – Vice.com –  Learning to Read Corpses at the Texas State Body Farm – The article states they don’t use bodies that have been through chemotherapy because is affects the insects and they don’t want the birds to get sick.
  • There’s a chance Aggies and Longhorns would play each other in the Texas Bowl.
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