What I Learned This Week - 10/25/13

1.  Toyota recalled over 850,000 vehicles because of potential problems caused by…….spiders. I know several grown men who will be completely freaked out by that.
2. I love the internet for allowing me to see the Ohio State band perform their version of a moonwalk formation.
3. I understand the need for lots of things…….except camo socks. 
4. The success of a weekend can be directly measured in the amount of Facebook photos you have to un-tag yourself in Monday morning.
5. I’m not allowed to make PMS jokes. Period.
6. Harvard medical school has identified a new disease; “Wind turbine syndrome” which can occur in people living near large wind turbine arrays. It is categorized by headaches, ringing in ears, insomnia and dizziness. Others call it “college”.
7. I never thought I’d say this but, I agree with Darth Vader. Obamacare would be much better if it covered lightsaber injuries.
8. There is a certain level of schoolgirl giddiness I get when I see a firmware update is available for one of my electronic devices.
9. For some reason the following word has made into my vocabulary, “automagically”. 
10. It is very possible that the iOS7 graphical interface was made using Microsoft Word. I didn’t realize Word had such a “powerful” graphic editing package.  Watch and be amazed here: http://bit.ly/1aEsr8W
11. If you misspell #Manning, you will discover new trend among women and Instagram/Twitter. Hmmph.
12. Healthcare.gov has over 500 million lines of code - approximately two times the amount of code for Facebook, Windows 8, and OS X combined. 
13. I don’t understand why the world can’t standardize on a screw head.  Pick anything except a flat head.
14. I’m no fitness guru, but if you get on the treadmill next to me and start knitting, I’m fairly certain you are missing the point of exercise.
15. Electrical Engineers shouldn’t ask me my opinion on the changing out the lights in the workplace gym.  The good news is that the gym is now less crowded.  Apparently I’m not the only one that doesn’t like how much brighter my sweaty-fat-parts looks in the mirror.
16. Approximately 45,000 hamburgers are eaten in the US every minute. This reminds me, I’m hungry.
17. My teenage daughter and her friends have it right; being weird is a side-effect of being awesome.
18. The flavor one associates with bubblegum is actually a made up of vanilla, wintergreen and a form of cinnamon.