Bag of Randomness

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  • I didn’t know Dallas was getting another fancy bridge, this one is being built by the same folks that build Spaceship Earth in EPCOT.  I added that last nugget for one loyal reader.
  • ‘Modern Family’ always has a good Halloween episode.
  • Shaq called Tim Duncan “Old Man River Walk” the other day which I thought was pretty funny.
  • I’m surprised Christians aren’t easily offended when people use their faith to try to get business, it all seems pretty close to setting up shop on temple grounds.
  • There’s a lot of retouching that goes on in a L’Oréal Garnier commercial (Vimeo).
  • I was watching the ‘CBS Evening News’ coverage of that rocket explosion in Virginia and they interviewed a store owner who had a busted window resulting from the explosion how far the store is from the launch site.  He said, “As the crow flies, probably seven or eight miles.”  That was the first time I heard of the phrase “as the crow flies”.  From the context I understood the meaning, but I had to look it up to see if it was actually a popular saying.
  • I haven’t seen ‘The Daily Show’ use on University of Texas reference since they’ve been shooting from Austin all week.  Good for them for not picking low hanging fruit.
  • NFL-themed burgers hit London diners, including a Cowboys BBQ burger
  • I don’t think I watched but half an hour of the entire 2014 World Series.
  • The story behind that ’10 hours of walking in NYC’ viral street harassment video
  • When I saw this picture of Phil Collins holding a Bowie knife I actually thought it was a scene from LOST, like John Locke holding a knife.
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURICA! – The U.S. takes home another World Series.
  • @darrenrovell – Giants sponsor Virgin America gave passengers on flight 717 from Dallas to SF rally towels to watch game with
  • Justin Long was on ‘The Late Late Show’ last night and did a killer Marty McFly impression.
  • The driver’s seat is front middle – After 70 Years, a Forgotten Concept Car Is Finally Coming to Life
  • I caught the ESPN ’30 for 30′ on Brian Bosworth:
    • Most of my thoughts about him comes from a ten-year-old’s perspective.  I remember a lot of friends getting his haircut in elementary school, only a few got the dye job to go with it.
    • A lot of the show is focused upon him visiting a storage locker full of his football past with his teenage son.  Bosworth does a lot of reflecting and crying over bad decisions, and he often refers to relationship he had with his father saddened how hard he was on him and how he wished he could have pleased him more.  All of that encouraged me to be a better father and made me really start to feel for the man.  He goes on to say that Barry Switzer was really the father figure in his life, specifically he says, “Barry Switzer eclipsed any male figure in my life.”
    • I had no idea he was a local product, Irving MacArthur specifically.  Speaking of local stuff, Dale Hansen gets considerable air time.
    • At one time he was a very straight laced, well mannered, and somewhat shy kid.
    • After he lost a girlfriend to a Texas Longhorn he developed a strong hatred for the university, and “The Boz” was born when a reporter asked him about the school and he went on a long rant about the school color, head coach Fred Akers, and the city of Austin.
    • It was funny seeing the OU coaching staff all wearing polyester maroon pants, and it made me wonder if we’d ever see the likes of such things on the sidelines again.  It also made me miss how old jerseys looked, how they were just netted/meshed without sewn numbers and letters, but some kind of iron-on material.
    • It was a bit weird watching Mack Brown talk about his days at Oklahoma since so many must associate him with UT.  Brown was the offensive coordinator at OU during Bosworth’s time.
    • The Boz was a combination of Prime Time Deion Sanders and Dennis Rodman, so you can say he was ahead of his time.
    • I never thought Bo Jackson’s touchdown run over him was all that impressive.  Well, maybe it was impressive, but I tend to think the lore of it is bigger than the actual event.  Bosworth was able to bring him down and he wasn’t put on his back.
    • I guess he was really the first big time athlete to get busted for steroid use.
    • In his rookie year in Seattle he called out John Elway before a game and the Denver fans bought a whole bunch of Boz Bozo t-shirts.  But here’s the kicker, those t-shirts were made by Bosworth’s company.
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Bag of Randomness

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  • WifeGeeding’s book club read Gone Girl and last night she watched the movie with a bunch of female friends.  If I mysteriously die or disappear, please keep this in mind.
  • We can endure it, America, keep your chins up – in a little over a week there campaign ads should no longer be airing.
  • Pat Sajak looks like the kind of man that doesn’t wash his hands after using the restroom, either number one or number two.
  • It bugs me when I see people lose a lot of weight and they just credit it to “I just stopped drinking” or something of the like.  I’m chubby and don’t really have any vices that I can give up to have the pounds drop off.
  • It just feels a bit weird to me that the College Football Playoff poll members all met just five-and-a-half miles from GeedingManor.  Silly thought of the day – The College Football Playoff poll should consist of either a governor or U.S. senator from each state.
  • I bet Tony Romo’s back is fine, it’s just the Cowboys staff thinks they are being smart by trying to confuse Arizona.
  • I haven’t watched much of the World Series, but I saw a touching moment when a Giants outfielder caught the final out of an inning and made the extra effort of jogging over to a little kids in a Royals uniform and but the ball in his glove.  The game was in Kansas City in case you were wondering.
  • While watching Tom and Jerry with the kids, I’m amazed the owners of the house never notice the exceptionally cut mouse hole in the baseboards of the house.
  • I’m sure every geek watching ‘Agents of Shield’ last night really enjoyed seeing Adrianne Palicki in a Star Wars shirt.
  • The Dallas Morning News‘ Business section tweeted, “New rankings show SMU is a better college than Texas, Baylor, A&M” but the link they provided didn’t work.
  • Google BBS Terminal – What Google would have looked like in the 80s
  • Random Phil Collins quote, “”When I got older and became successful, I decided to spend my money on original items from the Alamo rather than on Ferraris.”
  • That man part of that homophobic assault at DFW Airport is from Tennessee and has the middle name of Christmas.
  • The local news stated that the new Nebraska Furniture Mart just started to stock its store and it will take a total of five months to complete that task, with 60 trucks being unloaded nightly.
  • Best line from last night’s ‘Daily Show’ in Austin that came from a parody country song, “When teachers tell kids HOWDY…nearly half of them say hola.”
  • ‘Moses was schizophrenic’: Christian Bale ignites religious row ahead of Exodus movie release by describing prophet as ‘barbaric’
  • ‘Operation’ game inventor can’t afford his own surgery
  • Buzz Aldrin on an actual hoverboard
  • A nice story about Tom Hanks and a taxi cab driver.
  • Time waste of the day: Type a sentence into this website and it will create a video message of your text using various movie clips
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!.
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I didn’t realize catcalls were still a thing

A woman walks around NYC and gets harassed by a bunch of men, it’s all recorded on a hidden GoPro by someone walking in front of her.  I wonder if this happens in Texas as we aren’t so concentrated as a population and the culture of being southern gentlemen, that’s not to say we don’t have our fair share of jerks.

 

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