Bag of Randomness

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  • Robert Newhouse was a little before my time but I do recall my dad coming home to pick up my brother to meet him at the Ben E. Keith warehouse in Mineral Wells.  My brother was just amazed the size of his Super Bowl ring and that he actually got to hold it and try it on.  I’m not sure why Dad didn’t take me, maybe I was too little.
  • I always got a kick out of Ben E. Keith because my brother’s name is Ben, my dad’s middle name began with an “E”, and of course my name is Keith.  As a kid, I wanted to make that some kind of special connection of ownership.
  • Jason Garrett said he’s not going to have conditioning tests in training camp.  The season is over before it even got started.
  • It was quite touching for the Dutch to return the remains of the plane crash victims with military honors since they died in a war zone.
  • The Dallas Morning News has a great article on the Kidd Kraddick in the Morning crew one year after his death.  The website format for the story is impressive considering it’s the Dallas Morning News, and it goes into detail about his very last moments.  To my surprise that show is more than holding it’s own as they are currently in first or second place in 95 percent of their markets.
  • For about the last three weeks my workday lunch has been a vegan meal consisting of quinoa, kale, lentils or black beans, and some kind of vegetable like green beans, broccoli, or peas.  This is also my fifth week of working out five days a week, but I haven’t been able to lose any weight.  I’m guessing I’m getting too many carbs, but if I were to be honest with myself, I’m probably sneaking in too many bad foods throughout the day.
  • While watching ‘The Bridge’ last night there was a commercial for ‘Sons of Anarchy’ that used U2’s “Bullet The Blue Sky”.  Now I kind of want to start a marathon watching session of ‘Sons of Anarchy’.  ‘The Bridge’ did have a pretty cool robbery by bicycle gang scene.
  • I had a really bad customer service experience with my debit card company the other day where I felt like the representative was talking down to me, but she assured me everything was okay.  The next time I used the card it was declined, so I called back in only to get the same representative again.
  • I has some Chiclets Tiny Size gum yesterday, that’s a first in maybe two decades.
  • SI.com has a feature on new Longhorn head coach Charlie Strong.  It starts off by stating the 53-year-old gets up at 4:00 am and runs five miles at a nine-minute clip.  I wonder if that’s true or just a way to paint a pretty picture.
  • Midwesterners Alarmed to Discover Their Ice-Cream Sandwiches Refuse to Melt
  • The Trauma of Working for an Airline During a Disaster
  • ESPN thinks playground basketball is dying.
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Adult Swim’s New Show – Black Jesus

If you are easily offended, then you probably shouldn’t watch.

From the creator of The Boondocks comes the most anticipated comeback in history — Black Jesus. Premieres Thursday, August 7th, at 11p ET on [adult swim].

[Thanks, Person Who Shall Not Be Named]

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Kayak raised by a whale on Argentinian coast‏

While kayaking off the coast of Argentina, a father and daughter get the surprise–and footage–of a lifetime when two enormous Right whales emerge out of the water before them. With the camera still rolling, the whales move to a collision course with the kayak. Within seconds, one of the whales descends, and raises the tiny boat out of the water on its back.

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