Bag of Randomness

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  • The Emmys had a real fun and loose vibe to it this year.  I don’t remember the BBC having so many nominations in previous years.  If I’m bummed about anything regarding winners, I wanted ‘House of Cards’ to at least get one win.  And I was actually surprised that ‘Breaking Bad’ went out with such a bang, but it was well deserved.
  • The “In Memoriam” and transition to Billy Crystal speaking about Robin Williams was eloquently done.  Crystal seemed like he was going to break down a few times.
  • I’ll often tell DaughterGeeding “You don’t need [such-and-such], you just want [such-and-such]”.  Yesterday I heard her yelling that at her brother when they were fighting for the same toy after he said he needed it.
  • After cleaning out the lint in the dryer exhaust pipe, our clothes are drying at a significant faster rate.
  • A great point was made by a friend during an email exchange regarding the Simpsons marathon.  While the shows are fun and entertaining, we may be enjoying them more because it reminds us of where we were at certain points in our life when we first saw them.
  • A friend I haven’t talked to in over a decade will coach his first high school football game as a varsity head coach.  I regret not keeping in touch with him other than a Christmas card, so I sent him a handwritten letter yesterday telling him I’m proud of him and wishing the best of luck.
  • Yesterday Dan from The TICKET talked about lightning hitting his house which killed his HDTV.  He thought he lucked out since he bought the additional insurance on the HDTV, but there’s a lightning clause.
  • Try before you die – A business in Japan will let living souls try on makeup, outfits, and coffins for their future funeral.
  • Matt Damon accepted the ice bucket challenge, but instead of using clean water he used toilet water.
  • I learned from Reddit that the average toll to pass through the Panama Canal is $54,000, and the most expensive regular toll fee is US$375,600.  Wikipedia
  • Aaron Paul had a ‘Breaking Bad’ scavenger hunt.  You’ll never guess who was waiting at IHOP.
  • And I thought the NFL was a bunch of stiffs – The NHL wasn’t happy with Krusty the Clown vomiting into the Stanley Cup
  • WifeGeeding was talking to a friend yesterday about her daughter’s first day of school.  It was kind of a big deal because she transferred to a new high school.  She got sent home because her shorts were too short, something she could get away with at her old high school.
  • GIF – A cockatoo‏ pulling Milk Bones out of a box and feeding a large dog.
  • GIF – A cute dashcam moment
  • GIF – This horse is not camera friendly
  • NYTimes.com – The Brazilian Bus Magnate Who’s Buying Up All the World’s Vinyl Records
  • Vanna White started on the ‘Wheel of Fortune’ turning letters back in 1982.  It wasn’t until 1997 that all she had to do was touch box for the letters to appear.  That’s a 15 year run of turning letters, and 17 years of just touching them.  So yes, she’s now been revealing letters by touch longer than she had turned them and I just find that interesting.
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Bag of Randomness

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  • You are reading the blog of a person that can make painting a laundry room much more difficult than it should be.  But then again, I’ve only used my paint sprayer and compressor once and that was about two years ago, so I was a little rusty.
  • The laundry room project came at the most opportune time, I noticed one of the hoses attached to the washing machine was about to give out and the pipe where the dryer exhaust pipe was full of lint.  The thing is, I occasionally check and clean the tube that connects the dryer and the exhaust pipe, but never the pipe.
  • I was in the Home Depot restroom yesterday when a man rolled his shopping cart in and park it outside a stall, and then he went into the stall to do what you do inside a restroom stall.  It was so strange to see him roll this shopping cart in a small restroom, it was all cumbersome for him to maneuver past the privacy wall.  In case you were wondering, his shopping cart had a toilet seat and several light bulbs, and no, he didn’t try out the toilet seat – at least I don’t think.
  • We wanted to eat some decent barbeque but didn’t want to stand in line for about an hour, so we decided to be at Lockhart a little before opening.  I was the fifth to be served so I should have got some of their top brisket, but even the fatty stuff was a bit dry and lacked flavor.  The first time I ate there it was phenomenal, but each subsequent visit it gets worst and worst.
  • I learned there are two types of brisket you can buy at the grocery story, the lean flat rectangle of brisket and the whole packer brisket.  I want to cook the whole packer brisket to get the most flavor, but the Weber Smokey Mountains don’t seem large enough to contain one, unless you want to spring for the bigger more expensive one.
  • I can’t remember where I read it or heard it this weekend, but this thought has really stuck with me – at some point your mother picked you up and set you down for the last time, and neither of you knew it at the time and probably don’t remember it.
  • It seems like ISIS has come out of nowhere and all of a sudden very powerful.  I thought the CIA “took care” of thing like this before they got out of control?  Perhaps I watch too many movies, but I’m sure we’ll hear ISIS non-stop during this next election cycle.
  • ISIS the Rock Band Mistaken for the Terrorist Group
  • I thought reading an article about the Supreme Court would be a bit bland, even if it was about determining obscenity, but this part really stood out: These films ranged from scientific documentaries to the improbable escapades of lesbian nymphomaniacs. Justice Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights hero, took merciless pleasure in narrating the clips for the special benefit of Justice John Marshall Harlan Jr., an elegant former Wall Street lawyer who was by then losing his eyesight.
  • We are going to call the next decade the Twenties.  That seems a bit weird as we all remember the Twenties as stuff we learned in history class.  I guess we’ll just start calling them the 1920’s.
  • I never really thought about it before, but the atomic bomb was built before color television.
  • I wish there was just a channel that rotated episodes of ‘The Simpsons’, ‘Family Guy’, and ‘King of the Hill’. – ‘Simpsons’ marathon more than triples ratings for FXX | Variety‏
  • I heard a lot of parents were taking their kids to the One Direction concert at AT&T Stadium last night.  I guess I’m a bit surprised that group wasn’t at the VMAs.
  • Taylor Swift loves to write songs about how all her ex-boyfriends have wronged her and how it’s always their fault.  One day she’ll get married and write lovey dovey love songs, but then get divorced and write and sing songs in a manner more angry than Alanis Morissette when she was at her best.  Swift does have a cute new song and video, but she’s fooling herself if she thinks she’s singing country music.
  • India has a rice bucket challenge to try to help the hungry.
  • Chef cooking snake dies after cobra bites him – 20 minutes AFTER head was cut off
  • A shower thought found on Reddit: If you eat chilled meat and beans with jalapeños in Santiago during winter, than you’re eating chilly chili in Chile with chilies when it’s chilly.
  • Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds
  • This $50 Bloody Mary Includes An Entire Fried Chicken
  • There was a Go Topless rally in San Antonio yesterday, but everyone covered their nipples with red tape.
  • I was watching a ‘Naked and Afraid’ special and the first thing a guy requested to eat after 21 days was a bag of Doritos.
  • There’s a Southwest Airlines commercial where the crowd at the Rangers game is singing “Love Love Love” by the Beatles.  It would be cool if they actually played that at the Rangers game, it could be our version of “Sweet Caroline”.  But judging by the crowd at yesterday’s game, no one would be there to sing it.
  • The Simpsons marathon on FXX has a commercial that uses the name Keith.  Unless someone tells me otherwise, I’m going to believe it’s directed solely at me.
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