What I Learned This Week - 10/19/12

1.  There is a fine line between geeky and creepy. Apparently I cross it more often than I realize.
2. I still get a kick of people who say, "That's pretty geeky - even for you". Hey look , there's the line.
3. The lead singer of Silversun Pickups is a MAN. The last two years of motivational workout music now has me a little unnerved. I'm seriously considering deleting them from my playlist.
4. The elk are back in the meadows near my house. Winter is closer than I realized.
5. No, I have absolutely no idea why the airport is packed.
6. According to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the more chocolate that a country consumes, the more Nobel laureates it produces. So if I declare my house as an independent country, we would win every Nobel prize until 2117.
7. A giant eyeball was found on a beach in Florida. The man who found it immediately put it on ice and took it to be identified. Out of all the articles I read, not one answered the question, "How much beer did he remove from the cooler to store the eyeball?"
8. I have a special power - I'm a time traveler with a speed limitation of one second per second.
9. Rice University conducted a new study to see which sex uses the most emoticons in text messaging. Let that sink in.
10. One of the most interesting statics (ok, to me) to pop up on last weeks' Ironman World Championships is that nearly 1/3 (31%) of all the competitors are in my age group (41-50).
11. The only reason spectators show up for the Ironman World Championships two days early is to witness the Underpants Run.
12. "How do you GU?" should not be the sponsorship phrase put on triathlete underpants. Ever.
13. I find the fact that the mars rover Curiosity checked in on Foursquare at the Gale Crater on Mars hilarious. Curiosity being mayor of the Gale Crater is not funny and just showing off.
14. Nothing good ever surrounded the statement, "no, not on my shoes".
15. When coworkers ask me, "what's wrong with whoshisface?", my standard snarky response of, "probably something you did" is not very helpful - but often right.
16. My 16 yr old springer proves to me daily that it is possible to sleep through a nap.
17. I will never be as badass as Lew Hollander - 82, scientist, 23 time Ironman World Championship competitor, 17 time Iron Man finisher...but I can hope.
18. It is not possible to be mad when you attempt to board an elevator and the occupants tell you, "sorry it's full", then hand you a cupcake as the door closes. Chocolate chip with walnuts nonetheless.
19. The fear of bullets is not called living it is actually called Ballistophobia.
20. The fear of long words is Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Doctors can be mean. Very mean.
21. Coworkers that wear a football helmet, epic fake beard and wield a staff with a large glowing crystal on one end only cement the stereotype that engineers have no idea what fantasy football is.
22. The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
23. My boss has personal space issues and dislikes hugs. Applying Kevin rules and trying to hug him every day hasn't resolved his issue.
24. You can get Turf Toe by running on a treadmill. Yes, it sucks.