Happy Eggs are happy! Happy Monday was published and links had been shared on Facebook and Twitter. It was a little later than I usually have breakfast and as a I dropped two eggs in the pan I noticed this face smiling back at me. Obviously I ran to get my phone and take a pic. First the eggs were happy. Then the eggs were scrambled with shredded cheese. Then the eggs were a sandwich. The old saying is true: You are what you eat so then I was happy!
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Live long and prosper. September 8th was the 55th anniversary of the series premiere of Star Trek. The original series was cancelled by NBC after only three seasons but Gene Roddenberry, the Great Bird of the Galaxy, would eventually get a motion picture and another series on television. Today there are multiples franchises of films and I think we’re up to nine series if you count everything. But it all started this week 55 years ago in 1966 with what Roddenberry described as “Wagon Train to the stars.”
This is the week for anniversaries and we’ve got a bunch of them.
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Periodic Table of the Bible – This chart divides books of the Bible into groups such as Pentateuch and Gospels. Click on the image to view full size. The year the book was written appears above the abbreviation while the title and writer is listed below. At the time of publication they were giving away self-adhesive cards that will stick to pretty much anything and are weatherproof/dishwasher safe. Click to here to find out more.
Continue readingThere are many things I could do for the price of my morning coffee. That may be true but that money is earmarked for coffee.
-Clark Bunch
Hurricane Ida is of immediate concern to anyone along the Gulf coast. What had been forecast to be a category 1 storm just a few days ago now has the potential to make landfall as category 4. The projected path of this storm will place the center just west of New Orleans meaning the storm surge coming in from the ocean will be much stronger than with Hurricane Katrina because of the direction of wind rotation. So while we have known about this storm for several days the forecast has recently gotten much worse. Pray for residents of Louisiana as well as Mississippi and Alabama who will also be directly affected. The relief efforts will begin shortly, give emergency crews time to get in and do what they do first.
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Jeopardy is back to looking for a host. Mike Richards, who was just recently announced as the permanent replacement for Alex Trebek, has stepped down after taping only five episodes. Comments that he made on a podcast back in 2013 and 2014 that are both sexist and possibly racist threatened to tarnish the good reputation of the show. He will continue as executive producer; which made his selection suspect in the first place. Imagine if a pastor search committee interview a bunch of folks and then appointed one of themselves. Apparently the producers looked all over and then the executive producer… hired himself. Well now he has cancelled himself, at least as host of the show. Fans are once again voicing their opinions. I thought Ken Jennings was being groomed to host even during Alex’s final season and that was a done deal ipso facto. After a long line of guest hosts Levar Burton, Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings lead the fan based polls. For the time being those five episodes with Mike Richards will air but Jeopardy will begin recording new episodes with guest hosts that are yet to be announced next week. And the search continues.
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If you build it, they will come. The line is actually “If you build it he will come” but many people remember it the other way. On Thursday night, as in the 1989 film Field of Dreams, they came. The Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees walked out of the corn and onto an official MLB field for one game in Iowa. Shown above is the actual scoreboard used in the game, which had guys on the catwalk changing the numbers by hand. Those two teams, the same teams that played in the movie, wore vintage style uniforms and played a real game in front of 8,000 fans. Kevin Costner spoke before the game and later stopped by the booth to chat with Joe Buck and John Smoltz.
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The United States has taken a solid lead in the number of total medals but still trails China in gold. Some have noted that the US is not dominating the Tokyo games the way they did in Rio and London. Heat and humidity have played a hand in many competitions and like everything else in 2020 pandemic protocols have created additional stress factors. There are some high points for the US at these games. Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky won gold and set records in the pool and Molly Seidel took bronze in women’s marathon. That’s the first medal in that event for the US since 2004. There’s still a lot to watch as many events will final today. There will be televised events throughout the day on NBC with Track & Field finals (several events for men and women) scheduled tonight at 8 PM. The United States will face Spain in the women’s water polo final in prime time, US vs. Japan in the women’s basketball final at 10:30 PM, women’s volleyball final US vs. Brazil at 1:30 AM. Closing ceremonies air Sunday evening.
UPDATE: Allyson Felix becomes the most decorate Olympian in Track & Field history with 11 medals!
Tokyo Meal Count – The United States is tied with China for the number of total medals but falling even further behind in the quest for gold. China is really showing up and showing out this year. This is a busy weekend with track and field events starting up and overlapping swimming and gymnastics that haven’t finished. Daniel Jepsen is back from vacation and has a full Olympic special edition on the Saturday Brunch. He covers some events that have been dropped over the years (such as live pigeon shooting and solo synchronized swimming) and unveils the 2024 Olympics in Paris logo. The internet is having some fun with it, per the usual.
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The Satur-deja Vu turns 100! In number of posts, not years. Post #100 was actually last Saturday, this being post #101. Even that technical detail is not precisely correct. Back when this weekly column started in 2019 it took a few weeks to come up with a good title. Double Take 5-4-19 was the first weekly review that would in time become the Satur-deja Vu. I tried Hindsight, Saturday Doubletake and even one post simply titled Still Need a Title. So if you count those we are actually up to 106 posts as of this week. Don’t overthink it. With 52 weeks in a year it took about two years to reach 100 review posts. Happy Monday has been posted weekly since 2012 and is now well over 400 posts. The Master’s Table has been online since 2008 and this post will make 1,633. There have been 2,469 comments made over the past 13 years. There are currently 668 WordPress followers, 192 Facebook followers and another 24 email subscribers. All right, enough numbers. Thank you for being a part of what we do here!
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They’re calling it a one in a million shot but it’s probably more rare than that. Over a million Americans could easily play golf this weekend without this happening to a single one of them. Tomas Gomez was going to make one final drive as thunderstorms approached in San Antonio, TX. Friends and family were able to get this shot on video of his golf ball being struck by lightning in mid-air. This was probably God’s way of saying “All right, y’all head on inside now.” Video here, including an interview.
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