What I Learned This Week - 1/17/14

1.  A woman in Portland Oregon broke the Guinness World Record for steak eating. She ate a 72oz steak in under three minutes. You can watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuqPL6X-aCc .  Several of my college buddies just hung their heads in shame.
2. If I have to read a statement multiple times, it’s likely I didn’t catch the sarcasm.
3. A 60 mph wind gust contains sufficient energy to turn a 4x4 treated cedar post leg of a swing set into a skillion toothpicks.
4. The default birthday gift for men over the age of 35 – alcohol. Recipients are never disappointed.
5. According to researchers at MIT, 52% of Earth’s population will live in a water stressed environment by 2050 – meaning there’s not enough fresh water to meet demand. I experience this on every run.
6. Google makes a custom greeting search screen on your birthday. That’s strangely creepy and awesome – creepsome.
7. 8% of the poop of the average person consists of dead bacteria.
8. My wife and kids now “borrow” my Denver Broncos sweatshirts/t-shirts on game day. I’m surprisingly fine with that.
9. Best response from one of my kids this week, “I didn’t slap her, I high-fived her face!”
10. Every time I let me dogs out to pee, I let my kids know I’m the answer to the song.
11. A sophomore at Wake Forest University has created a wave energy harnessing device that captures waves from the university pool and converts it to electricity. On his small scale project he was able to generate enough power to light the pool facility each day. With the size of waves I make I think my local pool should start offering discounts for my training sessions.
12. Whenever computer software wants to install a program using a wizard, I’m always disappointed that a long-bearded fellow wearing a pointy hat and carrying a staff never shows up to help me.
13. The United Nations has kept the “Doomsday Clock” at five minutes to midnight citing one of the greatest reasons ever – “Killer Robots”.
14. Outhouse racing is actually a sport, and not it's not how fast you can get to the restroom.
15. Google Now is coming to Chrome desktop…..finally. Unfortunately the launch date is TBD.
16. University of Michigan security expert, created a mathematical model that can predict when a cyber attack is most likely to be initiated. The model has been confirmed by events dating back to 2012. So my college professor was right, “The world is one big math problem”
17. According to the Phoenix Global Wealth Monitor, one out of every 18 Colorado households has investable assets of more than one million dollars. Surprisingly Colorado did not make the top 10 on that list.
18. Although I should be remorseful, there is a certain sense of victory when the battery in your heart rate monitor dies. That’s right; I trained so hard I wore you out!
19. I'm going to put a bottle opener on my dog's collar so I can actually find it when I need it.