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Today I learned about the "missed connections" section on Craigslist. OMG, this is so sad. First of all, most of the postings are stuff like "I saw you across the room at Arby's wiping up curly fries. Did you feel it too?" Sad. Secondly, what are the chances that this random person you saw at the grocery store or library (yes, library) or whatever is freaking reading this Craigslist page and is going to recognize themselves? Jeez. And the absolute saddest thing of all is that, about halfway down the first page, I realized that I was totally addicted to reading them in the hope that one of them might be about me: "You: high school age, librarian look, buying an extra side of cole slaw at KFC. Me: intrigued. Please write back."

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Friday I learned about defacing money. Apparently it is OK to alter or deface currency as long as you then don't try to use it as currency; so, you can punch a hole in a penny and wear it as a necklace, but you can't try to use it as a spending penny after that. See here. I have been giving people wrong info on this topic for a while now, which sucks. My bad.

Saturday I learned about the Mongolian Barbecue, which is neither Mongolian nor barbecue. Apparently this type of restaurant was invented in Taiwan within the last 50 years or so, which is pretty funny. It comes from a style of Japanese cooking; that makes sense if you've ever been to one of those Japanese steakhouses, although I'm sure those aren't particularly authentic either. I went to BD's Mongolian Barbecue on Saturday. It was pretty good, I would go again. I like picking my own stuff.

Today I learned about a variety of different shock sites, after Goatse and Tubgirl both came up in conversation between Bill and I within like 2 minutes of each other (yeah, interesting conversation). I was familiar with both of those two, unfortunately, but not with any of the other ones mentioned in this article. Man, I am so tempted to go and look at each and every one of those sites but I know better. Once you see those things, you can't un-see them.

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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.

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Today I learned about the existence of this Web site: Chaser. I need to further explore the Chaser store (you can buy the Chaser?!) but it sounds promising.

Um, I did learn some actual work-related things today at work, but this is much more interesting.