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Today I learned that there is a Just Pies store located like 3 minutes from my house. I thought the only one was in Worthington. Yeah. That noise you hear is my head exploding from joy. Also possibly my footsteps after I eat nothing but pie for a month and gain 500 pounds.

Totally worth it.

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Today I learned about those CAPTCHA code things. The funniest thing I learned is that "CAPTCHA" is a pathetic, half-assed stretch of an acronym: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Come ON.

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Saturday I learned about the size of a keg. From Wikipedia:

A keg is also a standard unit of measure, named for the container described above. A full keg is a 15.5 US gallon barrel, routinely called a half-barrel; a half keg or pony keg is called a quarter-barrel and has a volume of 7.75 US gallons.

A keg is also equal to:

• 12.5 Imperial gallons (UK)
• 58.67 litres
• 100 Imperial pints (UK)
• 120 US pints
• 165 12 oz drinks
• About 6.83 cases (1 case = 24 units) of 12oz cans of beer

Today I learned some things to say, do, and wear on a job interview. I knew most of them already, but it doesn't hurt to look, right?

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This is a good one! On Wenesday Bill and I went for a walk, and I noticed this bright, bright red bug crawling along the path. We bent down and looked at it for a while; neither one of us had ever seen one before. Turns out it is a red velvet mite. I guess you can kind of tell from the pictures, but they are seriously SO red. I mean, it's smaller than a lady bug, and I noticed it on the ground just walking by.

Actually the funniest thing happened...while we were crouched down looking at it, this lady walked by and was just like "Do you see anything?" and bent down and started looking too, and then we talked about the bug. It just struck me as random that she saw me looking at something and just thought she'd have a look too. I mean, she wasn't crazy or anything, she was just curious. And then she put up a little stick barricade so the bug wouldn't walk out onto the path and get squooshed. Haha.

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Today I learned about Georges Melies. He was a French filmmaker back in the early days of movies. He was a magician before that; when he started making movies, he used a lot of trick photography and special effects, and he was one of the first to make these fantastical type films instead of just showing bits of reality. Probably his most famous movie was A Trip To The Moon. Does this look familiar? How about this? Yep, the video for Tonight Tonight is pretty much based on the Melies film. Cool.

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Today I learned about handcuffs. There are two main types of handcuffs; the kind with a chain connecting the cuffs, and a kind that uses a hinge instead. There are also those "plasticuffs" things which are basically plastic cable ties. Airplanes have these on board--for terrorists one would assume, though they probably get used a lot more on drunken assholes.

To escape from handcuffs you have to either squeeze your hands out somehow or pick the lock. Police handcuffs shouldn't be used for, erm, recreational purposes, because they can cause nerve or tissue damage. In...case you were wondering.

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So sleepy....must blog...

I learned about Prednisone today. It is a synthetic corticosteroid drug that can used to be treat autoimmune disorders, inflammatory diseases, and organ rejection. Side effects can include hyperactivity, upset stomach, and infections. Also it tastes really bad.