What I Learned This Week - 2/1/13

1.  Rick van Beek is my new hero. So is Dick Hoyt. Anyone who can do a triathlon while toting another person, especially their child (full grown), through the entire race deserves accolades in my book. In their shadows, I suck.
2. I thought it would be wonderful to have my kids enjoy the same music as I. Sadly, I should have seen the non-stop-single-song-repeat-sessions coming. I don't like music anymore.
3. Canada’s new $20 bill has a Maple Leaf that is not indigenous to Canada on it. Hmph, Canadiens.
4. When having contractors price a basement remodel and you tell them you're an engineer, there is a universal eye-brow raise along with a heavy-hearted, "oh".
5. Units of pain can be measured by an MRI. Scientists have titled these units of pain, “del”. No, that's not where the computer company got their name as fitting as it may be.
6. If you type: http://google.com/pacman into your browser search bar, you can play a version of 80’s arcade game on your PC/phone.
7. If you type “Illuminati” backwards into your browser search bar and add “.com”, it will take you to NSA’s website. That's just creepy to know.
8. My life has a lot of amazingly caring mothers in it. These women will swarm my house when bad things happen and my wife and I are not home....or I buy wine.
9. Te’o-ing –putting your arm around an imaginary person.
10. Atari filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, I honestly didn’t know they were still in business. A search of their website uncovered you can play revamped version of all their classic games in your browser. Centipede is just weird.
11. A Dutch team of “scientists” have constructed a small piece of “artificial” meat using a type of ink made out of live cells. Based on this technology they plan to 3-D print an entire hamburger. Sadly a 3-D printed hamburger will cost you $300,000. No word on the taste.
12. Libraries in Australia have declared all of Lance Armstrong’s biographies fiction, and moved them out of the non-fiction section. That makes me happy, happy, happy.
13. Whenever I see a Star Wars episode with Samuel L. Jackson in a scene, I am always surprised the F-bomb never leaves his lips. Sometimes I adlib it in.
14. My wife and I cannot go out for a quiet dinner alone without at least one of us stating, "This is weird not having something bother us".
15. Some people think vegetables have wings.
16. I found a company that sells Star Trek uniform cycling jerseys. My wife said she'd divorce me if I bought one...especially the red shirt one. Singledom here I come.