What I Learned This Week - 8/15/25

1.  At some point in my nearer-than-I’d-like-future, I will catch my last fish and not know it. #YesItAppliesToAnythingButThisHitsMeHarder
2. I’ve reached that time in my life where I must decide whether or not I’m going to pretend not to know something just to make my life easier. #TooTiredForThisShtuff
3. Apparently if you’re in a workshop group, editing a document and someone who is tech illiterate mangles the document so badly that someone exclaims, “oh god, what have you done?”, you’re not supposed to say, “yeah you’re not a pink pony girl and you don’t dance at a club”; you’re only supposed to think it. #OrSoHRSays
4. According to ChatGPT, the word that describes subscribing to a podcast that deep-dives subreddits and then following the subreddit about the podcast to get the behind the scenes is called, “stalking”. #maybe
5. I did not know the GPS tracker I bought for my wife’s cat was bidirectional until she “accidentally” called our phones at 2am trying to get her collar off. #SleepDeprivedConfusion #ReadTheFinePrint #CatDidItOnPurpose
6. If the cat that lives in your house suddenly starts peeing on everything but in the cat box, check underneath all your cabinets for a six-foot long bull snake, just sayin’. #WeirdSoundAtDoor #OrYourCatIsJustAJerk
7. You can tell which restrooms have no or poor cell phone service without checking your phone by just observing if there is graffiti on the stall walls. #OrPeopleStoppedCarryingPens
8. It should probably concern me more than it does that ChatGPT has a retro mode that only uses pre-2021 data and algorithms. #DontTakeAIAtFaceValueAndYoullBeFine
9. AOL announced it is ending its dial-up internet package in September and I honestly had no idea they offered other services than internet. #TheyDoWut
10. After a long think, the answer to the question of “do you ever make-up items for this list just to publish the list” is no, and when I get to that point I don’t make a list - that's why sometimes it can be a long time between posts. #KeepingItReal
11. According to a bumper sticker on a car in the parking lot, which was parked between two spaces, parking spaces are like underwear and are only meant to be occupied by one. #irony
12. I'm at the age where most Kellys I meet have never heard of the Kelly song from Cheers. #sadface #KellyKellyKelly #MineMineMine
13. Most Kellys will look at you in horror when you sing the Kelly song to them. #NotEvenSorry
14. Badgers in captivity can make friends with the live rats they are fed and decide not to eat them and I’m pretty sure there’s a great name for a rock band in there somewhere. #maybe
15. Some modern day Vikings prefer campervans over Drakkars. #ConquerByConcrete
16. Apparently, “season it like salt Bae” is a now universal measurement and applies to adding nutritional elements (including animal medications) to any food. #maybe 
17. If you give your dog a giant cow bone and put an old shoe on one end and let your dog gnaw on said bone in your front yard, your neighbors will never walk on your side of the street again. #maybe
18. You know you’re too busy when running errands counts as going out. #OrImJustLazy
19. People that have an extreme avoidance to a food, like hating the smell of mayonnaise (25% of the US) , may suffer from ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) that has an underlying overstimulation to something in that food that triggers them. #Weird #OrTheyJustDontLikeIt
20. When atheists exclaim, ”Oh god!”, I remind them that it is no longer appropriate in the modern social convention to appropriate another’s culture or beliefs and wait for the bomb to go off. #IDontMakeTheRulesUntilIDo 
21. Hippopotamuses (or is it Hippopotami?) kill more people per year than lions, sharks, and bears combined. #NoLongerWantAHippopotamusForChristmas
22. According to my wife, she has to buy ice cream because of her condition, her body doesn't make enough ice cream so she has to buy it. #ThatsMyGal