What I Learned This Week - 4/24/15

1.  237 days until "Star Wars - the Force Awakens" (aka: Episode VII) is in theaters.
2. Exactly one person voiced daily displeasure with the absence of this list – you’re welcome Nick.
3. “Peanut butter powder” is a thing.
4. The new Star Wars trailer makes me feel like I’m 8 years old again.
5. Obsessing about how good Star Wars the Force Awakens will be is known as, “Drinking the Vader-ade”.
6. If you name an operating system after my favorite 6 year old spelling of my favorite word (OSM), I will use it forever.
7. Randomly “friending” a phone number then texting them daily photos of various famous people eating pancakes is a thing.
8. Pantone introduced its first new color in three years, “Minion Yellow”.
9. Colorado switched the interstate mile marker “420” to “419.99” to prevent people from stealing it.
10. I will totally play with Legos made for girls…..for hours on end…….without my daughter.
11. When combining Star Wars Lego sets and little girl Lego sets, my youngest will name all At-Ats, “Fred”.
12. Only my geek friends understand that when I brag about how OSM my raspberry pi is, I’m not talking about a dessert.
13. I forget I have few geek friends and get a lot of blank stares.
14. “Grilled-cheese-sandwich-necklaces” are a thing – and my middle daughter want one.
15. An old school scythe will knock down a field of weeds in half the time it takes a weed whacker – and you’ll look medieval doing it.
16. According to my friend’s daughter, Rory, the definition of “disappointment” is the desire to ride a unicorn but not being able to.
17. A brown hair scrunchie makes a reasonable facsimile of dog poop. #FoolMeOnce.
18. More than half the foods advertised to kids on TV do not meet U.S. recommended government nutrition guidelines. 
19. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton claims that Netflix series 'House of Cards' is 99 percent real. (insert definition of "is" joke here)
20. Neptune has the strongest winds in the Solar System—they can get up to 1,304 mph (2,100 kph).
21. The definition of a "Decade", is the measurement of time from the moment I text my family. "I'm here" to the time they enter the car.
22. Katy Perry's claim to trademark of Left Shark was rejected by the U.S. Trademark Office.
23. The new female Thor comic is outselling the male Thor by 30%. Duh. #NerdsLikeBoobs
24. You use a #2 pencil when taking a test because graphite is electrically conductive—a machine uses electrical currents to grade your answers. For all these years I thought it was solely due to the shade of grey.