What I Learned This Week - 11/7/14

1.  405 days until Star Wars The Force Awakens (aka: Episode VII) is in theaters.
2. There is a WD-40 cologne....I'm slightly intrigued.
3. The word "smitten" is woefully underused in today's society.
4. It should be mandatory that all spare tires mounted on the rear fender of a vehicle have a working clock in the center of the wheel.
5. “Metal Banjo” is a thing.
6. Adding Bailey’s Irish Crème to S’mores Dip makes it an adult-only dip and a sure fire way to make kids whiney.
7. If you hand me your iPad that controls your network music and tell me to pick a song, I’m fairly certain you and everyone at the party will regret it.
8. Everyone wants Willie-O’s steak marinade recipe and no, that’s not a euphemism for anything.
9. Spotify hates AC/DC.
10. Everyone can “dance” to the “Electric Slide” and/or “Cupid’s Shuffle”.
11. It’s Dot Soup season.
12. According to coworkers: engineers + coffee + time + difficult problem = productivity with a byproduct of sarcasm.
13. The inventor of petroleum jelly, Robert Chesebrough, ate a spoonful of it every day, claiming it had great health benefits. He lived to be 96.
14. Star Wars Stormtroopers eat “Troop Loops” for breakfast.
15. Following the sign that reads, “Beer 🡪” is always worth it.
16. All chocolate labs should be required to dress as a Hershey’s Kiss for Halloween.
17. You probably shouldn’t buy that organic salmon that stamped with sticker “100% grass fed”.
18. Never google, “what are chitlins?”
19. A “level two lookalike firearm” is your run of the mill finger gun made of only your forefinger and thumb in an oh-so-threatening manner.
20. The best decorative element to a Bonsai tree is a toy Star Wars Scout Trooper.
21. A tape measure that hits you, after achieving terminal velocity, will kill you.
22. Your Facebook feed may have had more birthday notifications this week than any previous week – remember that Valentine’s Day was about nine months ago.
23. You can modify a car turbo-charger to create a jet engine powerful enough to move a go-cart 45 mph.
24. There is a special level of fear and panic when you come to the realization that the work that took you until midnight to complete – is on your work laptop – at home.
25. No-shave November (aka Movember,) has an official song, “Let it Grow” - sung to the tune of that catchy song form the Disney movie, “Frozen”.
26. I can spend hours on Twitter reading "#RejectedStarWarsTitles" and giggling to myself.