Bag of Randomness

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  • We went to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science yesterday.  The facility and everything in it is great, but we went at the wrong time of year because I think every school district in the state of Texas and Oklahoma was there.  While there is one area specially set aside for little children, I don’t think this was a good place to take toddlers.  But hey, as parents, you give things a try, you live, you learn, and turn any frustrations into memories to laugh at later down the road.
  • Parking for the museum was under the Woodall Rodgers overpass, which seemed like a great way to utilize space and it provides great shade for your vehicle.  As you approach the building there’s some great big signage telling you where to park, but we found the main entrance a bit hard to find.
  • Speaking of the museum: Perot Museum of Nature and Science Partners with National Geographic Society
  • I’ve always wanted to try Fuel City Tacos, mainly because D Magazine is always ranting and raving about them (#27), so since we were in the area it was time to give them a try.  The tacos were good, but not great.  Perhaps one of the selling points is price, I think each taco was a buck forty.
  • It’s always a bit weird driving out of downtown Dallas and taking that last stretch that the Kennedy motorcade took.  Everytime I take that route I imagine what it would be like to be the driver of that limo and seeing how long it would take me to get to the Parkland Hospital exit, and it’s always a longer drive than I’d expect it.
  • Forbes has updated their list of the World’s Most Powerful Women, I was familiar with all the top five except for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
  • Students upset to discover yearbook photos were altered to show less skin
  • I’m surprised Vimeo doesn’t have more of a following for hosting videos as the quality of streaming is better and there’s less adverting, but I guess people just don’t want to switch from one platform to another.
  • GIF – A goblin shark’s bite looks alien like.
  • Sean Lee’s fight with the injury bug reminds me of former Cowboys receiver Mike Sherrad.  He showed a lot of promise early in his career but kept getting injured, and I thought the guy really couldn’t catch a break when he was rehabbing jogging on a beach and breaking a tibia and shin bone.
  • I had no idea that attorney Jim Adler spoke angry Spanish so well.
  • An interesting read: Rick Perry’s Wild Plan to Take Jobs From Blue States – It’s so crazy, it just might work – One criticism I have about the article is that it failed to mention recent company moves, like Toyota North America’s move from San Fran to Plano.
  • This caterpillar looks like the head of a snake.
  • The Spelling Bee had a tie?
  • The California golden bear has come down from the flag to help promote energy/power management in commercials.
  • For loyal reader Ben and anyone else that are big fans of all things Disney – The Hardest Disney Quiz You’ll Ever Take
  • DaughterGeeding turns four tomorrow.
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Bag of Randomness

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  • The whole family went to a trampoline park in Frisco yesterday and to our surprise a film crew from CMT’s ‘Making the Squad’ walked in followed by the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders to shoot footage for an upcoming episode.
  • The only thing true in that previous bullet point is that we went to a trampoline park in Frisco.
  • While jumping around at the trampoline park a little female toddler came up to me and asked, “Will you jump with me? My daddy doesn’t want to jump with me.”  And then she pointed to a man way off in the distance looking down on his phone.
  • I watched the entirety of the History channel’s ‘The World Wars’ and not only did I enjoy it but it answered almost every major question I had about the subject, but I can’t figure out how in six hours of programming that Dwight D. Eisenhower wasn’t even mentioned once.  The series was heavy on Generals MacArthur and Patton, and even Marshall was lightly featured.  But I can’t believe a five star general and  Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe wasn’t even mentioned once, even during the D-Day segment.
  • The C in George C. Marshall stands for . . . Catlett.  I would have never guessed that in a thousand guesses.
  • Somewhat surprisingly, Dick Cheney was highly complimentary of FDR in that series.
  • A fact I was reminded of but forgot, Keri Russell is a 1992 Coppell Cowboy/girl.
  • I’d be willing to bet big money that marijuana deliver by drone will be a possibility in either Colorado or Washington in five years.  While watching an episode of Vice the other day there was a business proposal in Colorado called Speed Weed, think Domino’s Pizza deliver but for weed.
  • Buzzfeed – Here’s What Happens When You Spend 24 Hours At Disneyland
  • An Australian paper reviews five of Dallas’ neighborhoods.  Oak Cliff wasn’t mentioned, but recently I read and finally put together that radio station KLIF was named in honor of Oak Cliff.
  • Baylor Law students host free legal clinic to veterans
  • Texas Is Losing Out on Millions of Dollars Thanks to Its Defective Property-Tax System
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