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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We got an actual Christmas card in the mail yesterday from one of WifeGeedings relatives. Come on folks, tap the breaks.
I’ve never had a cracked screen on my phone until yesterday, and I don’t know how it happened. My contract with Sprint ends at the end of this month, and I think we’re going to go the Verizon route since they have better reception in the sticks of East Texas where WifeGeeding’s parents live. I actually want to give T-Mobile a try but their East Texas coverage isn’t that strong. AT&T isn’t an option as I consider them partners with the devil.
I got some Subway to got yesterday and when I get my tea, I like to have mostly unsweetened tea with just a splash of sweet. When I got home, it appears the Subway crew accidentally pulled a switcheroo by putting the sweet in the unsweet and the unsweet in the sweet.
Andy Warhol’s “Triple Elvis” sold for $81.9 million yesterday and I was amazed that I actually stood right next to that expensive piece of art, but it turns out I only stood next to the Double Elvis.
Late night was made for me last night with Jon Oliver basically taking over ‘The Daily Show’ and Jon Stewart as a guest on Letterman. I haven’t seen Dave laugh so joyously in such a long time, but he certainly did so with Frank Caliendo.
Speaking of late night, I’m looking forward to U2 week on Fallon next week.
I haven’t eaten sauerkraut in over twenty years, but last night I had a small craving for it. After eating it, I don’t think I’ll have it again for another twenty years.
Jimmy Kimmel has Mike Myers and Tears for Fears for guests last night, for a moment I forgot what decade I was in.
‘Modern Family’ made a The Miracle Worker reference last night, and I have a feeling that went over the majority of its audience’s heads. I’m bet the water scene is the most memorable part of the movie. To my surprise, that movie has a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Funny line from last night’s ‘Survivor’ from a contestant’s father, “Wesley’s a good kid, he ain’t been in jail yet.”
Our local Hallmark store sent us as Christmas card that arrived in the mail yesterday.
For my fellow U2 fans that didn’t catch U2’s EMA peformance – MTV.com
I finally got around to reading the Rolling Stone issue with U2 on the cover:
The journalist compared Bono to Kirk and Edge to Spock, which really is a great way to look at their friendship.
One part of the article talks about the Edge working on a secondary sound and modified guitar part for hours upon end. Bono offered Edge some advice that didn’t really work out, but the next morning Edge states, “It was the wrong idea, but it lead to the right idea.” I found a major life lesson in that. Sometimes when working on a problem, what you think might be helpful doesn’t really contribute, but a good way to look at it is that overall, it helped you get to the right solution or destination.
Bono and Steve Jobs had a major falling out to the point “go f— was used” (by whom, it doesn’t say), but patched things up before his death.
I like how honest Larry and Adam are about their disappointment in No Line On The Horizon.
Bono mentions that when it’s all said and done, our loved ones will remember us not for our achievements and most profound moments, but for our least profound moments. I’d agree with that, when I think about my mom and dad it’s always the little things that I miss. Mom never used a fork and knife to eat her waffles. She buttered the waffle and wiped it across the small pond of syrup on her plate. Dad’s routine when he got home was to change out of his work clothes and I remember how meticulous he was hanging up his pants, making sure the crease was just right as he put them on a hanger.
Their next album, Songs of Experience, should drop in about 18-months. The idea is to have the indoor Songs of Innocence tour jump outdoors then the companion albums is released. I’m not sure what all that means regarding concert experience but I’m looking forward to it. One of the songs is about a dialog between a younger and older Bono.
“I see love as a decision not made in the heat of the moment. I see it as an enduring that that doesn’t depend on feelings to verify it, though it’s great when they do.”
Bono’s wife is a big fan of The Fray. They are with the band one evening and Bono toasts them ending it with, “In Ireland, it’s in every writer’s diary: Beware of the cradle at the bottom of the stairs. That’s all I’ll say to you.” I have no idea what that means and even Googled that phrase to no avail.
