Bag of Randomness

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Bag of Randomness

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  • 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.
  • YouTube – A clip from “You Have to F**king Eat” narrated by Bryan Cranston
  • I didn’t think it would possible, in today’s world, for anyone to be elected to a high office without a college education, but it turns out Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker never completed his degree.
  • I wonder what percentage of Texas men own an actual pair of cowboy boots, 15%?
  • Buzzfeed seems to come out with some sort of Texas related post about once a month – 25 Things No One Tells You About Moving To Texas
  • Temping GIF of the day – Deer gets hit by a cop doing 90 mph
  • Dang, I’m impressed – So I ordered a lettuce burger thinking it would come on two pieces of lettuce..
  • How Much Money Big Cable Gave the Politicians Who Oversee the Internet
  • GIF – Not that’s how you win a pillow fight
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!
  • Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes on the exploitation of college athletes
  • 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.
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He Didn’t Have A Real Conversation Until Age 15

I may have shed a tear as I realized just how well I have it in life and just appreciating the attitude of the teacher in the video.

Patrick Otema, 15 was born profoundly deaf. In the remote area of Uganda where he lives there are no schools for deaf children, and he has never had a conversation. Raymond Okkelo, a sign language teacher, hopes to change all this and offer Patrick a way out of the fearful silence he has known his whole life.

More about this video:
This video supports a 30 minute documentary, 15 and Learning to Speak, in which Reporter, Kiki King, and Director, Daniel Bogado, visit Uganda where the work of inspirational sign language teachers is transforming the lives of profoundly deaf children and adults across the country who have never been able to communicate – until now.

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