What I Learned This Week - 1/4/13

1.  After watching Harry Potter with the kids again, I'm pretty sure Professor Minerva McGonagall is played by Michael Cain.
2. 2013 is the first year since 1987 to have four unique digits. I have no idea why that is important.
3. A comic of my youth is no more. In edition #700 of the Amazing Spider-man, our beloved Spidey is killed and is "replaced" with Doc Octavius (yes, the bad guy now gone" good"). This will start a new series of comics in its place - "The Superior Spider-Man", which is a dumb title.
4. It's been a WHILE since I bought a comic and was shell-shocked with their current prices - $8 for a comic? $45 for the last Spidey? No, thanks.
5. I find it funny that of the most viewed pages of Wikipedia in 2012, #2 was "wiki" and #9 was "Google". How did these people know how to use Wikipedia?
6. My young bird dog is a mouser, much to my wife's dismay.
7. A Chicago woman developed a cyborg cockroach that took commands via tweets. My apologies to my friends that mistook my recent tweets of "DIE" personally. The world doesn't need cyborg cockroaches.....yet.
8. The moment I see a speck or anomaly on a movie screen, I can't stop watching that portion of the screen for the remainder of the movie.
9. One of the century rides I do is quoting CS Lewis to motivate people to ride. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – They realize he's dead, right?
10. On days when I feel as if I've eaten too much I start quoting Jabba the Hut, "Bring me Solo and the Wookie....and a cheesecake".
11. I'd much rather be too cold than too hot.
12. There are few times I hear all my girls and my wife laugh in unison. The one thing that guarantees to make it happen is Betty White's Off their Rockers.
13. Scientists, studying how the Norovirus transmits from various pathways, have developed a robot that projectile vomits named "Vomitting Larry". Apparently using college students was too easy.
14. I don't care what the Aeros CEO states, their new "breakthrough" in aircraft technology is just a blimp. A fancy blimp.
15. Starbucks hopes cheap $1 reusable cups will sway customers from disposable cups, if they really wanted to get rid of "disposable" products they should just make you bring your own mug.
16. My kids often surprise me. Sign on door, "We do not allow concealed weapons in this establishment". My oldest daughter looks at the sign and states, "I guess I have to take my hands out of my pockets".
17. Many people are up in arms about an 18-point set of terms and conditions some parent s made for their 18 year old and his new iPhone. My kids have a similar contract for computer use - I am not ashamed.