- WifeGeeding has a friend who decided to try on her high school cheerleading uniform, the first in about 14 years since she graduated high school, and it appeared to be a perfect fit.
- An acquaintance of WifeGeeding is abusing the service dog program just so her chihuahua can fly in cabin and uncaged with her and be accepted at her hotel. I may not be getting the full story, but it sounds like all she had to do was go online and fill out a form and pay $15o for a vest.
- Local weatherman Pete Delkus has officially lost it with this tweet. I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to have a bigger ego than Mike Snyder. But there’s no competing with Dale Hansen of course, but he gets a pass in my book for some reason.
- Some Longhorn fans were having a bit of a conniption on Saturday because the football team had metallic logo decals on their helmets which slightly broke with their traditional uniforms. Heck, I watched a quarter of the game and couldn’t tell a difference.
- There’s been a radio format change in the area, 94.5 is now playing classic hip-hop, which means it’s about to be a preset on my car stereo.
- Speaking of the radio and what’s on my presets, NPR is selling temporary tattoos, ranging from panthers to skulls to mermaids.
- SisterGeeding and her husband gave me a Squatty Potty for Christmas last year. On Friday, Buzzfeed had a video that was actually a disguised commercial for the product. On Friday night, the Squatty Potty was one of the pitched products on ‘Shark Tank’, and the creators (a man and his mom) mentioned that most are sold during the holidays for presents. All that to say, their marketing department aligned things pretty well while trying to look like they weren’t advertising.
- SNL thoughts – (1.) Pretty solid and funny this week. (2.) I don’t think Michael Che has made it through a Weekend Update segment without fumbling his words at least once.
- Just a reminder for my fellow U2 fans – It’s U2 week on ‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’. EDIT: Bono will need surgery on his arm after crashing his bicycle in Central Park, so the week long gig is cancelled. I kind of feel for Fallon’s staff, now they have to try to book a week’s worth of guests on extremely short notice.
- Something only my fellow Ticket fans will understand – The great equalizer decided to pay me a visit this weekend.
- Guide to Spam-like Products
- Smithsonian redesign hopes to give DC’s National Mall a futuristic facelift
- GIF – Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!
- @TexasMonthly – How does Baylor navigate a changing culture while staying true to its Christian roots?
- My in-laws are big time Baylor supporters and this article helped me get an understanding of their concern during fundamentalist President Sloan’s era. Per the article, he created a center for intelligent design, which is no longer in existence. It also states that the biology department has a webpage with a statement about evolution. For the heck of it, I look up Hardin-Simmons’ biology department’s webpage and there’s no such statement. I do remember in one science class a few students arguing with the professor about evolution and how unreliable carbon dating was when evolution was brought up. And yes, I attended Hardin-Simmons, not ACU. Get it right, people!
- I wasn’t aware that Baylor has required its professors to be Christian or Jewish. The Christian part wasn’t surprising, the Jewish part was.
- YouTube – Christian woman interrupts Muslim prayers at the National Cathedral
- Orange County (Florida) Public Schools has allowed religious groups to hand out Bibles at their schools for years, but now that the Satanic Temple also wants to hand out copies of “The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities”, they are now reconsidering the policy.
- Federal drug agents launch surprise inspections of NFL teams following games
- An ESPN article on Texas football – 9 Exits on America’s Football Highway: A 540-mile stretch of I-20 reveals the stae of football – in all its joy, regret and insanity.
- What Radar Guns Can’t Tell you About the Speed of Pitches
- People are now drinking coffee out of a bell pepper.
- It’s not the Adam West version – The first official Batmobile ever built is headed to auction
- In Mandy Patinkin’s ’60 Minute’s’ interview, he stated that before every interview or big performance he recites the name of every person he’s known that has died. He credit’s this behavior to a line in ‘Carousel’ – “As long as there’s one person on Earth who remembers you, it isn’t over.”
- MomGeeding died eight years ago today. In some ways it feel like yesterday, in other ways, it seems like twenty years ago.
