What I Learned This Week - 4/4/14

1.  According to my youngest, the golden rule means that every hole of a waffle must be filled with either butter or syrup.
2. According to a coworker, if you flip off someone the exact moment lighting strikes is named a “Thunderbird”.
3. Accidentally splattering some homemade orange chicken on a Windows Surface pro with enable the on screen keyboard and spell “heRgah!”…..that is apparently an animal hospital in Oklahoma. I’m probably reading too much into that. 
4. I was unaware this is universal, I thought it was my just my select friends but when girls have a GREAT night out, they talk about it for months. When guys have a GREAT night out, that night will never be spoken of or even joked about.
5. In startling news, researchers concluded that while no diet is best, “a diet of minimally processed foods close to nature, predominantly plants, is decisively associated with health promotion and disease prevention.” – Did. Not. See. That. Coming.
6. While listening to the band "Blind Pilot", my oldest and I concluded there is woeful under usage of xylophones in modern rock.
7. According to my youngest, the downside of having so many freckles is that it is difficult to determine which is a freckle and which is a splatter of chocolate sauce post ice cream eating.
8. The snowiest April on record for Denver Colorado occurred in 1933 when Denver accumulated 33.8 inches of snow.
9. I admit I semi-fell for the “Gmail selfie” gag earlier this week. And by “semi-fell” I read the pop-up when entering Gmail, verbally stated “we’re a culture of morons”, and closed the pop-up.
10. Gmail turned 10 years old this week…..sadly I have forwarded messages (like my Rocketmail SMTP settings) saved that are older than that.
11. My lab likes party hats and will wear one indefinitely as long as there is a treat in sight.
12. A Coworkers Chuck Norris calendar does not contain an April 1st, just the message, “Chuck Norris is no one’s fool”.
13. For whatever reason, dihydrogen monoxide joke e-mails have been circulating my office this week and they all make me laugh. I think my favorite is, “Did you know that 100% of people exposed dihydrogen monoxide will die?”