What I Learned This Week - 9/16/16

1. 454 days until Star Wars - Episode VIII is in theaters 
2. I have no response to my child that asks, “If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all the Acme gadgets, why didn’t he just buy dinner?”
3. Before I die, I want to see a dog run out of a butcher’s shop with a string of sausages hanging from its mouth.
4. Nothing is better than coming home unusually early from work to surprise my wife and have her utter those three special words, “Did you quit?”
5. When a potential employer asks for the CV that is listed as an attachment to the resume in hand, the correct response is not to send me a selfie. 
6. The Atari 2600 video game console was released on September 11, 1977 and cost $200 (about $770 today with inflation).
7. I have made it a goal to purchase an ice cream bike cart and enter as many charity rides as I can, just to hand out ice cream bars mid ride. #MayNeedAPenguinSuit #DraftLegal
8. If a guy rides up next you in traffic on a motorcycle and offers you a double stuff Oreo…..you take it.
9. I would have frightened a tremendous amount of people if “Augmented Reality Art” was around when I was in college. #PhallicSymbolsIn3D
10. According to my youngest, Oregon is polygon shape.
11. Google is kinda funny when you search for “recursion”.
12. According to several friends, I am not the only one that internally refers the shower as the “hypothetical argument simulator”.
13. Rewarding yourself before you finish something to motivate yourself to complete a task - 100% of the time does not work, but hey ….. rewards.
14. I want to 3-D print an action figure of myself solely for the ability to legally play with myself in public.
15. Autonomous-sea-ready-waste-capturing-drones are a thing.
16. If you’re feeling lonely, dim the lights and watch a horror movie – then you won’t feel so alone…….or sleepy.
17. You know college parking needs an expansion when there is a line of cars at the passenger drop off with signs on the window that read, “free ride to car in exchange for your parking spot”.