The Life Experience ~ Summer '12

[bloodyrosemccoy]

What I Learned Since The Summer Solstice

• Neil Armstrong was, in fact, mortal.
• Whorf was half-right on his hypothesis that language affects perception. It seems that once you have a word for a color, you can recognize it faster because the left hemisphere of your brain takes over the perception duties.
• Leafminers are gross little bugs whose larvae like to live in bubbles on spinach, chard, and beet leaves. Bastards.
• Nail polish is good if you want to make your arts'n'crafts project look shiny and enameled. And if you can stand the smell.
• Malaria is believed to be responsible for the death of HALF OF ALL HUMANS since the Stone Age. NOT ME, THOUGH, SUCKA!
• The name "Starbuck," which I have always liked for the sound, is an English surname most likely deriving from a Norse phrase for "from the great river."
• Sometimes the supposed Great Unwashed Masses can be persuaded with actual facts and math!
• Those swinging orange things on Yoshi's sprite in Super Mario World, which I always thought were stirrups or decorations for his saddle, are his ARMS. I can't unsee them now.
• Those SOS buttons for old or at-risk people living alone are only useful if they actually HAVE them when they fall and can't get up.
• Tress MacNeille did the voice of Chip in Chip an' Dale: Rescue Rangers. I always thought he was done by Russi Taylor.
• Radish seeds come in nifty little pods!
• According to a statement released by the Mormon Church, Mormons are TOTALLY allowed to drink caffeinated products like Coke and Mountain Dew. The real ban is against "hot drinks" like tea and coffee, but not hot cocoa, which is totally cool for some reason. Thanks for clearing that up, church!
• Tiny laptops are extraordinarily useful to be able to carry around.
• Ron Perlman continues to forge new frontiers in awesome.
• The best way to fix Doctors! is to pretty much rewrite it.
• Jeans shopping is still my enemy.
• Statistics show that group projects lower productivity pretty much across the board, even with those extroverts who seem to like them so much.
• Jumpsuits are not that difficult to sew, though practice is called for to get particularly good.
• When hooking up a new plastic toilet pump, it is perfectly okay to use one of the previous metal nuts to secure it, as long as you make sure there is no leakage.
• Apparently I've been growing feverfew in my garden and had no idea.
• Honor Harrington is THE SHIT.
• I still have a chestburster. Bring me more purple stuff!

Comments

[van.livejournal.com]

So, with regards to Mormonism, what about iced coffee? What about if, for some reason, someone heated up a Coke? Stupid stupid stupid, ugh.


I am afraid to Google Yoshi for fear of having my mine blown, too. HE HAS NO ARMS WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

DAMMIT, after nearly two centuries of arguing, LET US UTAHNS HAVE A MOMENT OF CLARITY.

I have no idea with iced coffee. Although The Church was careful to point out that it does not actually ENDORSE caffeine anyway. It's something that every Mormon must decide for themselves. Very serious business.

You can even see nubby little fingers on Yoshi's orange arms if you're paying attention. IT IS SO WRONG.

[shadesofmauve]

Yes, this stuff is important!

I mean, after reading that I'm even more baffled than before at the mormon church, and that takes some doing!