PNC Park as I look back. Right on the river. Heinz Field is the same way.
Couples put bad locks on the bridge
Fountain where three rivers converge. Heck of a park, too.
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10.17.2014
Random Friday Morning Thoughts On An iPsd In Pittsburgh
- Arrived yesterday afternoon The airport has a pretty amateurish statue of Franco Harris' Immaculate Reception.
- Flying is exciting and a beating. But for the first time in years the American Ailines flight attendants didn't act like they were all going through a bitter divorce.
- Renting a car should be easier especially when you do everything online beforehand.
- I decided to immediately "run" over to the NFL Hall of Fame Google Maps hates me because I think I took every backroad in southern Ohio. Then again, this part of the country seems to hate the freeway. And signs.
- But the leaves are turning and I saw some incredible country. Just beautiful.
- I think I drove by Kent State (4 dead in Ohio).
- And by the way, the news up here is all Ebola all the time. Dallas is getting lots of attention.
- The NFL Hall was impressive. At least the one room with all of the busts was. That's one thing they didn't cheese up. But, in true NFL fashion, the place had a gigantic gift shop.
- I got back to Pittsburgh after dark so I haven't seen how downtown looks in the light. But at night it looked fantastic. Downtown was packed with pedestrians on what looked like a classy Sixth Street.
- I hate driving in a crowded area and everyone knows every highway and byway except me.
- I'm staying on the North Shore and was in quick walking distance to Heinz Field for the Pitt/Va Tech game. I figured the stadium would be almost empty (interest was so low that mt ticket cost $19 on stubhub). But it was a good and rowdy crowd.
- A guy in the hotel lobby was describing the game to someone else with a lot of intensity. "What was the final score?" Reply: "I don't know. I left early". (Insert my head shaking). That game wasn't over until the last seconds.
- This appears to be walking town and I'll do that this morning. I'm not sure I'm up to another long day sitting.
- Baylor/West Virginia tomorrow with an early start. That has trouble written all over it.
- My stomach has hurt all week. Could it be .... (Dah dum)
10.16.2014
Former Ardmore Stripper Got Paid?
 | Robert Wilonsky (@RobertWilonsky) |
Looks like a mediator found a way to make ex-stripper's lawsuit against Jerry Jones disappear share.d-news.co/GDWjcmb pic.twitter.com/Eckazzf2PK | |
Barry
Random Thursday Morning Thoughts
- Ebola!!!! I'm scared to go outside this morning. Is there anyone left alive?
- Ebola has more of an impact as a photo op mechanism: (1) The President gathers his cabinet for the cameras yesterday, (2) The Dallas mayor and Dallas County judge may trample each other headed for the camera, (3) There is an actual Congressional hearing today on Ebola! and (4) Dallas County Commissioners will meet to day to declare Dallas County a "disaster area". Embarrassing.
- Belton ISD has closed three of its schools because a couple of its students were on the same plane as the Second Ebola Nurse?
- The blog will be a little different over the next couple of days as I begin my football trip this morning to West Virginia. (No way I'm staying in Ebola Land. I'm getting into a compressed tube that moves at over 500 miles per hour. In the sky!!!)
- I took the new express lanes on 820 to DFW Airport during morning rush hour. Verdict? Fantastic!
- If I can pull it off, I'm going to go to the NFL Hall Of Fame from the Pittsburgh airport.
- Some guy on here yesterday was blaming the stock market dip yesterday on President Obama. Any chance he judges climate change based upon one day's weather?
- Ed Bark got mad at me again on Twitter yesterday, and I didn't even start it! I am absolutely amazed how people in the local media are so thin skinned. Man, I take a beating far worse than he does before 9:00 a.m. every morning -- which is probably attributable to the fact that I have more readers. (For the majority of you who don't know who he is, he runs a TV web site which he created after "taking a buyout" from the Dallas Morning News.)
- Hey neighbor: Why is your dog barking like a fool at 4:30 a.m.?
- Fox News put up one of their polls last night that said 58% of people think the "world" is "going to hell in a hand basket." (Actual quote). I'm stunned their angry viewership only responded with a 58% margin.
10.15.2014
Ebola Has Left The Airport!
 | Matthew Haag (@matthewhaag) |
What's this guy doing next to a patient with Ebola? pic.twitter.com/QGZzwymGaL | |
Get Me This Ebola Puppy!!!!
Ok, may not be an actual pic of the Ebola puppy, but he looks just like him.
(And I'd name him "E".)
Random Wednesday Morning Thought
- Third Ebola diagnosis!!! Panic! Everyone panic!
- There was actually a Facebook rumor going around yesterday that an entire Texas town had been quarantined. How dumb can you be to spread that story?
- Things you need to fear more than Ebola: Cancer, heart disease, pneumonia, the flu, enterovirus D68, car wrecks, snakes, fire, a sniper, carbon monoxide, high blood pressure, and depression. And that's off the top of my head when I'm still half asleep.
- Wasn't there going to be some indoor snow skiing complex open up around Alliance Airport?
- There's a criminal trial going on in Wise County right now where someone is accused of possessing a "trace" of methamphetamine. That's less that 1/100 of a gram according to DPS. In other words, if you cut up a Sweet N Low packet into 100 equal parts, the defendant is accused of possessing less than one of those parts. And the purity of that less than 1/100 part wasn't even tested. Your tax dollars at work.
- I went back and rewatched the fourth quarter of the TCU/Baylor game: (1) Amazing, (2) That was probably pass interference on Baylor on 4th down, (3) That probably wasn't pass interference on TCU on the final Baylor drive, (4) I never thought I'd see the day Gary Patterson gave up on his defense. (5) That crowd had to be the whitest in the country for the season.
- The BagOfNothing guy lives by Dallas Cowboys' Doug Free. As much as I don't care about the NFL, I'd pepper that guy with questions at every opportunity. He'd eventually end up hiding out from me.
- That Paradise Model has become active online again.
- Junior In The House: "I learned something about parents! They spend half their time telling their kids what they do wrong, and the other half telling others how wonderful their kids are when we aren't around!" Lot of truth in that.
- Junior In The House: "Hey, name the four person rock band that doesn't sing!!" (Me looking at her in confusion.) Her: "Mount Rushmore!" (Me: Looking at her in more confusion.) Her: "Oh, wait! I meant four person rock group." (Me: Head shaking.)
- We've still got (and are keeping) the Maltese that I found while jogging over a month ago. I saved her life but she follows Mrs. LL around everywhere she goes.
- "A 55-year-old Springtown grandmother was sentenced Monday to 10 years of probation after pleading guilty to murder in the fatal beating of her 15-month-old niece more than 32 years ago." I have a million questions about this.
- Shout out to the guy who told me about the "Fallingwater" house in Pennsylvania and the George Washington battlefield. I'm going to try and pull both of those trips off on Friday. (I'm taking a long awaited football trip.)
- I bought gas at $2.89 a gallon this morning. I'm sending a letter to President Obama to thank him.
- I heard a rumor that a Wise County resident showed up at the Fort Worth Court of Appeals yesterday to present a petition to the court in the Terry Ross case before oral arguments. Hoss, appellate arguments are a little more nuanced than Judge Judy.
- That underwear that the Cowboys' Joseph Randle was accused of stealing was a two pack valued at $40. I think I speak for all men when I say, "Am I wearing cheap underwear?"
10.14.2014
I hope this wasn't intentional from this Paradise church
 | Grace Fellowship (@gfcfamily) |
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Barry
The Only Shocking Thing Is That He Waited This Long
 | Bud Kennedy (@BudKennedy) |
And here we go: @WendyDavisTexas is "just like Obama" in new @GregAbbott_TX ad m.youtube.com/watch?v=foGE_s… pic.twitter.com/DKiN1rD9X6 | |
Are You Smarter Than a Ph.D. In Physics Candidate?
Probably not. But I bet you can tell a better story.
NFL! NFL!
 | Clarence Hill (@clarencehilljr) |
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Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle was arrested by Frisco police Monday night for shoplifting "a bottle of cologne", per a source.
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Joseph Randle arrest report: pic.twitter.com/t0j6N6a5wk
— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) October 14, 2014
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