What I Learned This Week - 8/29/14

1.  475 days until Star Wars Episode VII is in theaters.
2. Mogwais should not do the ice bucket challenge.
3. Not all people like cow bells.
4. Quadcopters and Labrador Retrievers are a hilarious mix.
5. Sometimes the only way to get the house clean and throw a party.
6. I'm not the only one that thinks my dogs are pretty cool.
7. Every night should end with sitting on the deck admiring a fire in the chiminea and counting satellites.
8. Adding tarps to the end of a slip and slide makes it “adult size”.
9. Best comment in meeting this week, “If lightning strikes the path of least resistance, why doesn’t it only strike in France?”
10. There is such a thing as a grilled mac-n-cheese sandwich. My middle daughter has found euphoria.
11. Sometimes deleting a photo is the best course of measure.
12. I will read any article that has “exploding toads” in the title…..just “exploding” or “toads”.
13. Apparently the decision to choose between “gray-mane” and “battle-born” is a hard one.
14. “Hypersonic weapons” are not a series of red-sneaker-wearing-hedgehogs drinking monster beverages and brandishing tridents.
15. I still refer to the hashtag symbol “#” as “pound” which confuses coworkers requesting information via text and I reply “#sand”. 
16. The sultry “dog days of summer” get their name from ancient astronomers who noticed that those days coincide with the period when Sirius, the Dog Star, rises at the same time as the sun.
17. It would take approximately 1,200,000 mosquitoes all sucking at the same time to completely drain the average human of blood – I actually thought it would be more.
18. James Bond has killed 150 men and has slept with 44 women since the first movie came out in 1962.
19. People who fear Friday the 13th suffer from “friggatriskaidekephobia”. I have a fear of trying to say that.
20. There is a movement afoot for “topless equality” and several groups have held many local demonstrations in very public areas – like the finish line of the Pro Cycling Challenge. Interestingly the demonstrations are never at a Hooters.
21. All warning signs should include a caption that reads, “This sign will be used as Exhibit 1”.
22. According to ALL Apollo mission moonwalkers, the Moon has the distinct smell of spent gunpowder.
23. There have been lots of articles about China’s development of a “supercavitation” principle water craft that could travel at 750 mph underwater. I want to know, okay see, what happens when a submarine traveling 750 mph hits a whale.
24. According to my girls, "testicles" are man-boobs in the penis area.
25. My coworkers refer to my use of e-mail and text as "using the force". I think that's pretty OSM.