Today I learned about the weather in Fort Myers, Florida. The average high temperature is 80 in March and 85 in April. That is even warmer than Ft Lauderdale. Hmmm...I may has spring break after all! I also learned that Fort Myers is near Sanibel, where my parents went on vacation recently. Maybe I can ask them for tips.
I am so obsessed with vacation lately, that's probably not a good thing.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
210, 211, 212
Saturday I learned that one explanation for why "the clap" is called "the clap" is that guys would clap their wang in between their hands in order to expel pus out of the urethra when they were all grody and infected. Yikes. Grossest thing ever. (Other less terrifying explanations include a shortening of the old French word "clapier" which meant brothel. Yeah. Let's go with that one.)
Sunday I learned why DVDs and CDs always come out on Tuesdays; or, I sort of did. There are a lot of explanations (see here and here): the timing of sales figure releases, slow business on Tuesdays, not having to stock the shelves on a busy weekend night, etc. I think, in the end, that it's all of these reasons combined with the fact that Tuesday has been the release date for many years now and it's just when people know to look for new stuff.
Today I learned that Skybus may start selling tickets to Cancun and Nassau beginning in October. Hmmm. I can has spring break?
Sunday I learned why DVDs and CDs always come out on Tuesdays; or, I sort of did. There are a lot of explanations (see here and here): the timing of sales figure releases, slow business on Tuesdays, not having to stock the shelves on a busy weekend night, etc. I think, in the end, that it's all of these reasons combined with the fact that Tuesday has been the release date for many years now and it's just when people know to look for new stuff.
Today I learned that Skybus may start selling tickets to Cancun and Nassau beginning in October. Hmmm. I can has spring break?
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Eighteen, Nineteen
I just blatantly did not learn anything yesterday. I was really sick. So here's a thing for Wednesday and a thing for Thursday:
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is the most extensive cave system known in the world. THE WHOLE WORLD. I went there when I was probably 9 or so, but I would like to go again. The Mammoth Cave National Park is almost 53,000 acres; there are at least 367 miles of passageways in the cave. Apparently the cave is also home to an endangered, sightless, albino shrimp species. Hee! That's funny. There is one part of the cave known as Fat Man's Misery which is really narrow and hard to get through. I remember going through there and thinking the name was funny when I was a kid. Wouldn't it be cool to like live down there, in the cave, for as long as you could until you got caught? No, I bet there's horrible bugs down there.
On a similar note, I also learned about the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia; another touristy place in redneck country that I have been to. It is a 3,030 foot long steel arch bridge that goes over the New River. You have probably seen a picture of it. I remember being told that it was the longest bridge of that type in the world, but as of 2003 it no longer is; one in Shanghai is 105 feet longer. There's a big festival on the third Saturday of every October called Bridge Day when the bridge is open to pedestrians and there's all kinds of festivities. They have BASE jumping off the bridge even though apparently somebody died doing that in '06. Maybe they'll change it...it looks like bungee jumping isn't allowed at all because of some accidents. I have been rafting in this area twice and seen the bridge twice. That is also something I might like to do again, although I think at this point that I would be too out of shape to paddle my own boat down the river. Sad. I also got the worst sunburn of my life while rafting in WV, which, if you've seen me, is saying a lot. I mean, it doesn't take much.
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is the most extensive cave system known in the world. THE WHOLE WORLD. I went there when I was probably 9 or so, but I would like to go again. The Mammoth Cave National Park is almost 53,000 acres; there are at least 367 miles of passageways in the cave. Apparently the cave is also home to an endangered, sightless, albino shrimp species. Hee! That's funny. There is one part of the cave known as Fat Man's Misery which is really narrow and hard to get through. I remember going through there and thinking the name was funny when I was a kid. Wouldn't it be cool to like live down there, in the cave, for as long as you could until you got caught? No, I bet there's horrible bugs down there.
On a similar note, I also learned about the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia; another touristy place in redneck country that I have been to. It is a 3,030 foot long steel arch bridge that goes over the New River. You have probably seen a picture of it. I remember being told that it was the longest bridge of that type in the world, but as of 2003 it no longer is; one in Shanghai is 105 feet longer. There's a big festival on the third Saturday of every October called Bridge Day when the bridge is open to pedestrians and there's all kinds of festivities. They have BASE jumping off the bridge even though apparently somebody died doing that in '06. Maybe they'll change it...it looks like bungee jumping isn't allowed at all because of some accidents. I have been rafting in this area twice and seen the bridge twice. That is also something I might like to do again, although I think at this point that I would be too out of shape to paddle my own boat down the river. Sad. I also got the worst sunburn of my life while rafting in WV, which, if you've seen me, is saying a lot. I mean, it doesn't take much.
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