What I Learned This Week - 5/20/16

1.  573 days until Star Wars - Episode VIII is in theaters. 
2. If your family pet is a boxer and do not have at least one photo of that dog wearing headgear and boxing gloves, you’re just wasting everyone’s time. 
3. ASCII Art is my go to trick for getting people with visual jokes who are wary of photos I send. #GoingOldSchool
4. Pigeons were once a bird of the aristocracy. #Eww
5. Several people believe my pen name is Nathaniel Johnson and that I wrote the book “Unseen City”. Apparently, I have to read it now. #SoundsLikeSomethingIdDo
6. The hashtag or pound sign (IE: “#”) is actually called the “octothorpe”. 
7. I have to Google the usage of IE or EG before I use them. Every. Time. #IEisNotInternetExplorer
8. MIT researchers have developed a tiny origami robot that is easy to swallow and has been used to patch stomach lining and/or removing odd objects (like buttons and batteries) in laboratory animals. #UlcerBeGone
9. Tchotchke stores that advertise grossly ornate wind chimes as, “the metallic bones of robots that tried to overthrow us. Hang them outside your house as a warning!” will have me purchasing several wind chimes I hate.
10. I had no idea how to spell “tchotchke” until today. #<3Google
11. Marvel's Darth Vader comic will be ending at issue #25, resulting in gloriously-hilarious-nerd-rage in various forums. #Noooooo #DontCare #SpoilerAlertHeDies
12. Smart designers at Carnegie Mellon’s Human Computer Interaction Group found a way of making your arm part of a phone/computer user interface, making it cool to write on your arm. #TouchScreenDoubleEntendre
13. Burger King franchises in Finland now have saunas available for rent. #SmellsLikeBacon #HomeOfTheWhopperLOL
14. Germany made so much renewable energy on May 8th that it paid people to use electricity.
15. Samsung created a concept surfboard that displays messages, notifications and weather reports from a smartphone #AllMessagesStartWithDUDE
16. “Liquid metal bullets” are a thing. #GoesBoom
17. By watching Netflix only for a little under two hours a day, you would have missed about six days of commercials.
18. “Transhumanism” is an actual modern movement to basically voluntarily turn oneself into a cyborg. #ManyDoingThisAtHome #NotMe
19. Transhumanists have their own symbol: H+ or h+ and logo.
20. Once you start noticing how bad actors/actresses are at drinking/carrying fake coffee in movies/TV, you can’t unsee it.  #YoureWelcome #EmptyCupAwards
21. A broken iPhone can be used as an effective saltwater fishing lure. #YouTubeIt
22. I am very entertained by the fact that an internet conspiracy states that NASA named the Jupiter orbiter JUNO – The Roman goddess and wife of the Roman god - Jupiter. It launched JUNO to check up on Jupiter since all of the moons are named after Jupiter’s “former” girlfriends. #TheyAreJustFriends #InstagramComing
23.  A group of wombats is called "wisdom".