Your BagOfNothing for Tuesday, June 4, 2024

  • It was surprising to hear about the death of Larry Allen. When he left the Cowboys to play for the Niners, I thought it was a classy move of him to call his Mark Tuinei’s widow and ask permission to wear his number to honor his late teammate. I used to see Allen around Coppell and Lewisville from time to time. He lived directly behind the Ace Hardware in Coppell, which used to be owned by former teammate John Gesek. I only had one interaction with Allen. One Saturday night, we were walking to our cars in a dark Barnes and Noble parking lot. He was wearing an oversized FUBU basketball jersey. We parked directly in front of each other, head to head. As we both opened our car doors, we made eye contact, smiled, and gave each a head nod without saying a word. I’m sure he was thankful I was there to protect him.
  • I took DogGeedingII and OtherDogGeedingII to the vet for a well-check visit. It was a little embarrassing because they had a lot of flea bites. But the vet was sympathetic, saying they have been really bad this year, and she has a flea problem at her house despite not having any pets. I learned a few things about fleas I didn’t know before, like you can’t just immediately get rid of them because of how they lay eggs. Flea collars don’t work well except for the Serento brand, and the market is flooded with counterfeit collars. And there’s a pill they can take monthly that keeps fleas off them.
  • Flea collars make me think of one of my favorite Simpsons moments. They take in a lot of dogs and Marge puts flea collars on the kids because it’s just easier that way.
  • If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would say the WNBA planned for that hard foul on Caitlin Clark to happen just to draw up interest. They are slowly adopting the WWE approach.
  • Pixverse has a new tool that’s easy for you to play with. You can now take a still image in a photo and make it move in any direction.

  • For those of you who think CSPAN can never be entertaining:

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