What I Learned This Week - 7/12/13

1.  There are few things I dislike more than watching a family member board a plane without me.
2. I don’t understand how I cannot get 4G service in various locations throughout my very hi-tech town yet the Taliban can upload hour long videos from a cave.
3. Scientists have discovered that most socks aren’t lost. During the counting of pairs when sorting socks, your brain usually remembers the missing sock of a pair and not that it was later matched.
4. After 44 years, I still don’t understand the need for silent letters in the English language.
5. I’ve never liked phone e-mail signatures and didn’t find them useful until I read one that stated, “Sent from my phone by my thumb – please excuse the typos”.
6. The San Francisco Airport uses goats to eat away at an environmentally sensitive portion of the airport to reduce the potential of brush fires.
7. An artist in England found a collection of old comics in a dumpster and decided to repurpose them for a sculpture. Upon revealing his latest work, several collectors identified many of the comic covers as first print/editions worth over $30,000. Seems like something I would have done.
8. At least once a year I read a “new” article about how scientists believe the Earth once had two moons. I usually end up equating the logic used to prove this theory to the fun game, “I’ve got your nose”.
9. When my oldest gets married, she’s making her husband change his last name and her last name to “Dentist”, this way whenever someone goes to visit; they have to state, “We’re going to the Dentists”. I get a big grin whenever I think about it.
10. There is an uninhabited (by man anyway) island of the Bahamas (Big Major Cay) that is full of pigs that swim.  I will now have restless dreams of snorkeling and running into a large snout.
11. 3-D printers can now print liquid metal. Cyberdyne Systems Series 800 model 101 Terminators can’t be far behind.
12. A bucket of chicken is never the answer. Especially in one sitting.
13. No matter the duration of my time to myself, all available time with friends and activities that I want to participate it in will occur simultaneously - resulting in the stress I tried to escape by being alone. 
14. Especially on bicycles, sometimes it's righty loosey.
15. The extent of diarrhea is directly proportional to how well the dog is hiding. If you are not greeted by a happy dog - worry...and get the steam cleaner.
16. It is true that some people do not belong in the wild.
17. Sometime you can be blinded with good news.
18. I had forgotten how much I dislike having a fever and the hot and cold flashes that goes with it.