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3.16.2006
3.15.2006
Those Charles Schwab . . .
real person/animated ads are hypnotic.
You can watch some of them here if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Pearl Jam . . .
. . . remember them? (The most waste of talent band in the history of ever.) Anyway, they have a new album coming out and this is the album cover.
Suddenly, I want a fajita.
(But I still stop down for "Jeremy" and "Better Man")
March Madness
The next two days are oddly weird, fun and depressing.
It's Spring Break (which really means nothing to me) and the NCAA basketball tournament is firing up tomorrow. So at around 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, it will be the start of 48 NCAA basketball games played in four days.
Some of those games are at the AAC in Dallas. I've already checked. It's sold out.
So I'll just go to work like a regular guy.
My Spin Zone
The guy keeps writing books, the guy keeps getting more and more paranoid, but is this the best possible picture he could come up with for his next book that will be released in September? I think he may be near death. (And, buddy, lose the flag. It's cheesy.)
Google Calculator
In the Google search box type in any equation to get a quick result . . .
2232/12
34 * 45
232 + 8 + 76
57856/ 12
Think This Might Push Her Over The Edge?
"HOUSTON — Rusty Yates, whose former wife drowned their five children in a bathtub in 2001, said Tuesday that he is getting remarried."
And I'd be a little worried about the sanity of the new bride.
3.14.2006
Oddest Story Of The Night
"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The reigning Miss Deaf Texas died after being struck by a train, officials said."
Sharon Stone . . .
. . . may be promoting her new film, Basic Instinct 2, by kissing a wall in Israel.
Bad And Good
From a story in the Star Telegram:
The Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved temporary funding Tuesday to continue operating the county’s drug task force as state officials debate how to spend dwindling federal narcotics grant money. [Editorial Comment: That's a bad use of taxpayer money]
The court agreed to spend $465,000 to fund the county’s narcotics team through June 30 — a 90-day stop-gap measure — while it awaits word from the state on its grant applications. [Editorial Comment: That's waaaay too much money]
[Editorial Comment: Now the good news about your tax dollars] Federal grants, distributed through the Texas governor’s office to fund narcotics enforcement in Texas, have declined nearly 70 percent to $14 million this fiscal year, compared with $33 million in 2004-05, said Rachael Novier, a spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry.
Engagement Pictures
There were 19 engagement pictures (not wedding pictures) in the Lifestyle section of the Dallas Morning News this weekend.
Only one guy had a tie on.
That may be common. I've never really paid attention before.
More Dallas Morning News Stuff
Also in the Sunday paper was the story of Denise Day whose mummified body was found in a Dallas home a few weeks ago.
I learned this about her:
(1) She graduated from SMU in 1976.
(2) She was married one time but it lasted only 11 months.
(3) He ex-husband said, "My ex-wife was handicapped. She had trouble existing in the world you and I exist in."
(4) The medical examiner has no idea what was the cause of death.
Two Different News Stories
(1) Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) on Monday said Chairman and Chief Executive Henry M. Paulson Jr. received total compensation of about $38.8 million in 2005.
(2) On March 12, 2004, someone shot and killed four people in eastern McKinney. Police are still looking for who killed Matthew Self, 17; Austin York, 18; Mark Barbosa, 25; and his aunt, Rosa Barbosa, 46. The current reward for tips leading to an indictment is $37,500.
I'm not good at math, but I think the reward is 1/1000 of Paulson's salary. But I could be wrong.
Things That Change That I Wasn't Aware Of
Browsing the Dallas Morning News over the weekend, I learned that the golf course off I-35 in Denton (across from UNT's stadium and by the Radisson Hotel) was shut down in 2003.
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