What I Learned This Week - 5/16/14

1.  You know things are going to get serious when a Jedi drops his cloak.
2. Jeopardy uses Urbandictionary.com as a fact checking source. I suddenly have the urge to submit nonsense words.
3. Network TV apparently has no faith in director JJ Abrams cancelling three of his shows. Maybe that means he’s spending the proper amount of time on Star Wars VII.
4. The interactive live map of whale migrations in Hawaii is completely mesmerizing. I contribute it to the addition of NOA’s surface wind and current data. (http://whales.smartmine.com/)
5. When a Garmin bike computer is connected to a computer for data transfer it acts exactly like a portable flash drive. One can accidentally copy music and movies to it filling the device full - rendering it inoperable during a bike ride. 
6. On average, I get more comments about this weekly post in person than I do "likes". I ain't even mad.
7. If you are gracious enough to walk across the room at a party and to bring me a beer while you get one for yourself, you always get to get to pick which flavor to hand me. You did all the work - I'm just thirsty.
8. I'm fairly certain "dark chocolate covered things" will be my downfall.
9. Nepal is the only country in the world whose flag is not rectangular shaped.
10. Your brain is more active sleeping than it is watching TV.
11. Water has the interesting property of mystery. If you drop your phone in water, you panic. If one of your kids falls in water, you laugh.
12.  The male Moor frog turns from brown to blue during mating season – and there are so many jokes for this color change. 
13. I think almost everyone has experienced the Schrödinger’s cat principle at least once…..right after dropping their smart phone. While it lays face down, the belief is the phone is both broken and fine until you touch it to confirm which was right.
14. Two separate groups of scientists have confirmed the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has entered an irreversible collapse which will result in an unstoppable 10-foot rise in sea levels if it melted. Although it will take several hundred years to happen, you should probably move to high ground right now.
15. I’m so glad I didn’t see the movie, “Gravity” in the theaters.
16. It’s alarming the number of travelers that enter my airport and are surprised there aren’t visibly pot-smokers “everywhere”. 
17. Every street has a version of this week’s interwebz craze, “Carter the banana kid”.
18. Yugo car jokes are completely lost on today’s teens.
19. Googly eyes make everything funnier.
20. I'm not the only one who loses eyeglasses on their head.