2.02.2024

Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Well, that was awful and depressing. It happened in Depoy, Kentucky.


  • District re-alignment for Wise County schools in football was announced.   Decatur has become part of Fort Worth - and I think almost all those teams are historically awful. As far Bridgeport, I wasn't familiar with "Eagle Mountain" High School. And for good reason -- it opens this Fall.




  • The Liberally Lean Weather Team forecasts rain beginning late this afternoon with the heaviest downpour at 10:00 p.m. 
  • Crazy good national job numbers (yet again) were just released.
  • Here's dashcam video of the car going over the Woodall Rogers flyover killing four. "The two women have been identified as Sabria Lacey and Raejon Aubert while the two men have been identified as Alexander Gowans and Isaiah Lisbon." All are in their early 20s, and the car was stolen. 

  • Not sure what's going on here. The Alert was "issued [yesterday] for 37-year-old Lacey Lyn Overby after police said she was abducted from a fast food restaurant in Lancaster while buying a meal for a man believed to be homeless." She was "found" in Laredo. That's all we know. 


  • I think they are going to convict the mass shooter's mom in Michigan. I like her testifying yesterday, but I didn't like the way she testified. Cross-examination begins this morning, and you can watch it on YouTube. (And I've come around a little on her defense lawyer. She's still in over her head but, man, she takes the case personally. I appreciate that.) 

  • There's a wacky case going on in Waco where a lady is charged with manslaughter and failure to stop and render aid of a Baylor student. She didn't get arrested until an anyonoums tip was sent in two years later. Good details here.



  • Put me in the group.

  • Two days ago there was great fanfare as tech company heads appeared before Congress so Congressman could get their sound-bites.  Lindsey Graham was one of them. You could say the same thing to AR-15 manufacturers, right?

  • Mar-a-Largo post-trial party pic.

  • Tech stuff
    • This New York Times article praises the use of Perplexity as a Google search replacement. It's pretty cool. 

    • Apple's first shot at VR is expensive and a little clunky, but this concept is fantastic. We can go anywhere in the world and visit in person with anyone we want without leaving our chair. 

  • The Business of Warehouses Second™.

  • Fun college football fact: The following are conference games that all occur on the same weekend (October 26th) this Fall. Try to explain that to yourself two years ago.

  • Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office, despite having a full male DNA profile, has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 4 years and 221 days.