What I Learned This Week - 2/7/14

1.  The word “Ewok” is never verbally used in any portion of the movie “Return of the Jedi”. It only appears in the credits.
2. "Peecycling" is the use of your own urine for fertilizer. 
3. My sarcasm is not recognized by all.
4. Boobytrap spelled backwards is partyboob, and that makes me happy.
5. Best modification of a game by my kids & their friends this week, “Dwayne Johnson-paper-scissors”.
6. Flappy bird is the most inefficient and fragile bird I’ve ever seen.
7. When I’m in boring meetings, I ask attendees in my head if they can hear my thoughts. I’m just waiting for someone to say aloud, “yes”.
8. My Facebok video review is mostly posts and pictures of my wife. Oddly, that makes me happy.
9. According to several different news sources, every single phone and computer with a wi-fi connection at the Sochi Olympics has been hacked with information removed/copied from the device. That amount of hacking power to accomplish this boggles my mind.
10. The movie, “Back to the Future” is now a musical that will open in London in 2015.  That makes my head hurt.
11. I've never been a Red Hot Chili Pepper fan but once upon a time there would have been outrage that the Red Hot Chili Peppers played the halftime show of the Super Bowl with their guitars unplugged.
12. According to my kids, there is a new level of awkward when you tickle someone who isn't ticklish. They've named that level, "Dad".
13. One of my daughter's friends is so good at sleeping, he can," do it with his eyes closed."
14. I'm addicted to the Sochi tweets describing the housing/restaurant horrors in the Olympic village.
15. Professional/Olympic ski runs/jumps test courses with “people” called forerunners prior to any race event to ensure “safe” speeds throughout the course/jump. In Sochi, these forerunners averaged 20mph SLOWER than the competitors causing a few “minor” problems such as athletes injuring BOTH knees.
16. According to Vladimir Putin, all Sochi hotel showers have video surveillance. Better yet, the majority of hotel rooms are “lushly” decorated with semi-nude photos the Putin. Yes, shirtless riding a bear is considered “semi-nude”. Seriously.
17. Apparently people are displeased with the content of their "Facebook Lookback" video, so in the coming weeks they will editable. No offense, but I'm pretty sure I don't need to see those.