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This is just amazing. I would love to see that in person. I guess all I really learned is the picture and the caption under it but I really do want to go to bed like right now. It looks so cool though.

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Wednesday I learned about the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. It is a giant suspension bridge that connects Staten Island to Brooklyn. The towers supporting the bridge are an inch and a half farther apart at their tops than at their bottoms; the bridge is so long that the earth's curvature had to be taken into account. The bridge is referenced in the Rhett Miller song "Hover" and also in the book I'm currently reading at work. So that's why I looked it up. (Total side note, but Rhett's real name is Stewart Ransom Miller, and one of my favorite lines from any 97's song is "My name's Stewart Ransom Miller, I'm a serial lady killer." I'm sorry but that would totally work on me.)


For today, randomly (or is it??), etymology of the word "satellite."

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Today I learned that miniature golf ("putt putt") is growing in popularity as a competition sport. There are federations/associations, international tournaments, etc. http://prominigolf.com/

As I've said so many times in this blog: WTF?

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Hmmm. Nimrod.

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Last week I learned of this hilarious, rad website: http://tortillajoke.com/ . This website gives you the punchlines (for free) to the jokes featured on Last Comic Standing. On the show they give you the joke and then you have to text them (for one dollar) to get the punchline to the lame joke...they are the kinds of jokes that you find on the sticks of pudding pops, where you get the punchline after you eat the pudding pop. Except in this case instead of eating a delicious pudding pop, you have to pay one dollar. That is why I will be supporting tortillajoke.com. Bill and I both figured out the punchline to What's orange and sounds like a parrot? (Carrot.) I had heard the bucaneer joke before but couldn't remember the punchline. Tos-TADA is new to me but still totally, totally lame.

Saturday I learned that box turtles, the kind of turtles that a lot of people have for pets, can live up to 120 years in the wild. Jesus Christ! That is crazy! They can also live their whole lives in a patch of woods no larger than a football field. Bill and I saw a turtle in Hoff Woods Park, and for a while I felt bad about not picking it up and bringing it home (I thought maybe somebody had dropped their pet off after getting sick of it), but now I know better. Read more about that turtle in my other blog sometime in the near future. Turtles!

Today I learned that the movie I Am Legend (coming out this winter) is based on the 1954 science fiction novel of the same name. It's been adapted twice before, into The Last Man on Earth (1964) and The Omega Man (1971).

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Today I learned that Mushaboom is, like, an actual place. In Nova Scotia. Ooooooooh. Okay. My life makes a lot more sense now.

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Today I learned that Mr. Wizard died yesterday. Aww, sadcakes. He was 89 though, that is pretty old. I remember one episode where he made caramel corn. He must have been talking about caramelizing sugar or something. Unsurprisingly, I pretty much just remember the caramel corn.