What I Learned This Week - 12/6/13

 Things that make me laugh, a math problem posted at work: "sin(b)/tan(b)= {image of Bill Cosby}.

It's interesting how childhood nicknames that were despised become badges of honor and pride when you have young relatives. For example, I love being, "Uncle Wee Wee".

The barrage of e-mail ads for the holidays makes me feel like I should be a stripper. Buy THIS item and take 40% off!! 

If I jokingly take clothing off while reading e-mails, my wife will leave the room and utter things about "grossness".

My kids now laugh whenever I mock their whining with my Luke Skywalker impression, "but I wanted to go to Tarshi to get some power converters".

It takes me less than a day to become sick of holiday music.

It is possible to be stung by a bee on a cold November bike ride. I have no idea why my forehead offended him.

I never remember that there is always one channel that has a post-Thanksgiving weekend Star Wars marathon. I’m always pleasantly surprised.

I don’t understand the fuss about Amazon’s unveiling of using drones to deliver packages by the year 2017. I saving my excitement for the same unveiling by Ben & Jerry’s. Imagine the possibilities.

A Garmin Edge 500 will not only survive multiple tumbles from a quick moving bike, it also is surprisingly resilient to being run over by a 2013 Hyundai Sonata after said tumble.  For those keeping track at home – no, my moldable epoxy “fix” was not so much.

I have yet to determine which is more fun: playing one of my all-time favorite board games with my kids, or watching them teach their friends/cousins how to play with the same enthusiasm I taught them.

According to my daughter, “etc.” is an acronym for “End of Thinking Capacity.”

Apparently I’m not the only one that punches himself in the face accidentally while trying to pull the covers up higher. 

ZIP, as in ZIP code, is an acronym for “Zone Improvement Plan”. I may have known this, but I re-remembered it.

When I see fast food advertising “artisan” foods, my inner Inigo Montoya comes out, “you keep using that word, I don’t think it means what you think it means”.

I find it interesting that China lunched a moon rover earlier this week that went unreported by mainstream media.

Alligators in Florida have been observed to use tools to attack unsuspecting prey. Currently, they grasp sticks and branches and cover their heads in hopes a bird will find a new perch.  Insert your own fat redneck joke here.

I didn’t know knolling was a word or a thing. I also didn’t know I knoll before I pack anything.

Genetic engineers have successfully used a protein found in jellyfish to make ice cream glow in the dark. I didn’t know we needed this. Especially not at $226/scoop.

Based on the amount of “urgent” or “OMG emergency” e-mails and voice mails I receive when out of the office – people do not listen to or recorded auto-response messages.

The planet Saturn has a very large (20,000 miles across) maelstrom on its north pole that is hexagonal in shape.

The festive seasonal spelling of my name is, “ee”. I’m the first no “L”.