Ninety four, Ninety five

I am going to put this up even though I feel like there might be errors...I just read something that gave a 1 in 3 statistic, but this says 1 in 27. Anyway, I heard somewhere once that all orange cats are male, but then recently I saw one or two female orange cats up for adoption at the CAHS. The answer is that MOST orange cats are male, but not all.
http://www.scienceiq.com/ShowFact.cfm?ID=207
The "Cat Scratchins" site that seems to best answer the question is not working, so I'll have to go with that one.

Today I learned about black squirrels. They are not native to the Kent State area, but a groundskeeper once brought in 10 of them and now they're all over the place. Once at my temp job I told this guy I was going to go to Kent State, and he said "ah, home of the black squirrels." I did not know what the hell he was talking about, and I just stared at him and then went back to reading my book. No wonder everybody thought I was a weirdo.

Ninety three

Today I learned about something called "quiverfull" which basically refers to people who don't believe in any kind of birth control and feel it's their duty to have as many kids as god wants them to have. You know, like the Duggars? Stars of all those shows on TLC like 15 Children and Moving In? It is too late for me to really get into my thoughts on this kind of thing, but I guess basically it comes down to: we already have enough people on this planet. We're full.

Ninety, Ninety one, Ninety two

Aight, three things for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday:

1.) A "biome" is "a major portion of the living environment of a particular region (such as a fir forest or grassland), characterized by its distinctive vegetation and maintained by local climatic conditions."

2.) Rainbows! Rainbows are caused when light is refracted upon entering a rain drop, reflects off the back, and then is refracted again on the way out the front. "The amount by which light is refracted depends upon its wavelength, and hence its colour. Blue light (shorter wavelength) is refracted at a greater angle than red light, but because the area of the back of the droplet has a focal point inside the droplet, the spectrum crosses itself, and therefore the red light appears higher in the sky, and forms the outer colour of the rainbow" (Wikipedia). Got it? Good.


3.) I had a third thing I was supposed to look up, but, unsurprisingly, I can't remember what it was. Hmm...hey, remember these?! That has nothing to do with learning but I just came across it. I had so many of those. Jeez, how many Happy Meals did my mom let me eat? Oh wait, no, I did learn something. They had names: Robocakes, Gallacta Burger, Fry Force, Krypto Cup, Macro Mac, Turbo Cone, C2 Cheeseburger, and FryBot. Heh, that's funny.

Eighty eight, Eighty nine

Wednesday I learned that they have four (?) new sauces for the wings at Hoggy's: bourbon barbecue, cajun rub, garlic ranch, and...um...maybe it's just three. They also have flatbread pizzas and some other new stuff. I really liked the cajun rub wings, but I still can't eat more than, like, eight, so...that sucks.

And today I learned that Nickel Creek is coming to Columbus in August, so I don't have to go to Cleveland to see them after all...and fortunately, I hadn't bought those tickets yet. Yay! Finally procrastinating pays off.

Eighty seven

Etymology of "new fangled":

c.1470, "addicted to novelty," lit. "ready to grasp at all new things," from adj. newefangel "inclined to take" (c.1386), from new + -fangel, from root of O.E. fon "to capture" (see fang). Sense of "lately come into fashion" first recorded 1533.

FOURTEEN SEVENTY, you guys. That is an old-ass word. (Old-fangled, if you will.) Seriously though, had humans as a species even evolved the ability to speak in 1470? Jeez.

Eighty four, Eighty five, Eighty six

Saturday I learned that, um, you do have to fill out a security report if you happen to see someone's boob at the library.

Sunday I learned about the word "picnic." There was an urban legend going around that "picnic" was a horrible word because it originated in the practice of people sitting outside and eating lunch while watching a random black person be lynched (you can use your imagination to make the connection between that activity and the word). Of course, this is completely untrue. It actually comes from the French "piquenique," "pique" meaning to pick or peck and "nique" probably just added because it rhymed.

Today I learned about the website Goodreads, because Mary added me as a friend. I haven't totally looked around the site yet, but it seems cool. I actually was wondering a while ago if something like this existed, and then thinking that I would become a multi-billionaire by creating it myself. Frick! Beaten to the punch.

Eighty two, Eighty three

I've learned a bunch of things already today. Woe is me, having to post about only two.

One thing I learned is what "helioplex" is. It's a stabilizing substance that helps your sunscreen stay on longer and work longer. Just what I need. I am actually in the market for a new sunscreen. Apparently Neutrogena uses this stuff, and I'm reading good reviews of the spray-on sunscreen even though I always thought that kind wouldn't really work.

Thing two is that I learned about the "language of flowers." Obviously I knew that yellow roses mean friendship, red mean love, etc. But there's this whole big thing where like every flower has a meaning. It was developed in the Victorian era so people could send each other coded messages through flowers. That's awesome! I wonder what flower says "bring me some donuts."