The Life Experience ~ Fall '11

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What I Learned Since The Autumn Equinox

• Putting together a bookshelf is surprisingly satisfying.
• The term for a second, non-gendered pronoun is obviative. (One thing I missed in linguistics class!)
• My subconscious is a pretty good cook, it turns out.
• DVD dispenser machines are way more fun than they have any right to be.
• Disneyland haunts Space Mountain for Halloween, so that you spend the ride getting chased around by a giant orange nebula ghoul. It’s awesome.
• Epic Mickey is rather scarily true to the layout of Disneyland, except for the magic projector screens that get you from one area to another.
• Disney sells tea.  And it's really good.  Damn.
• The Sorcerer’s Apprentice marks the first time Mickey Mouse was drawn with pupils.
• Newborn babies’ vocal cords are quite a bit higher up in the throat than older infants’, which accounts for their distinctive cries.
• George Takei has an excellent Facebook page.
• People had to be taught how to dial telephones back in the day.
• There is a big damn raincloud IN SPACE. Soaking a huge quasar. Holy shit.
• Conlang lexical creation is a lot of fun with polyhedral dice.
• Flat tires make it feel like you’re driving through mush.
• Synesthetes can apparently "see" their own movements in pitch black better than anyone else.
• There are some kids who have grown up without knowing about the Muppets. Imagine.
• I have learned how to correspond actual sheet music to my ocarina fingering, so I no longer need my fingering notation!
• The Zelda Oracle games can link up even if you don’t have two old Gameboy Colors, with the use of passwords.
• Garlic should be planted in the fall. D’oh!
• The cursive handwriting I studied in second grade is the Palmerian script, made by A.N Palmer at the end of the 19th Century.
• Paranormal procedural shows may have the possibility of being boring as hell, but they can also turn out to be awesome. Fringe!
• The crazy side effects of sleeping pills are not overstated.
• Jupiter’s atmosphere is awfully darn reflective!
• Brinicles.