Ruby red grapefruit juice tastes horrid when it's made with Splenda.

Ha! I have something really relevant to add to this thread. Today, while at work, as I contemplate while working, I came to the epiphany/revelation that it is all-wise to go about life without any certain standard or expectation for it, and consider no situation to be extra-traumatic.

In other words, as the morbid things happen, you will just face them as simply a situation you haven't yet encountered in life, instead of looking at it like, "Wow, this absolutely shouldn't be happening. It's ridiculous..." because life has no standard or honor, nor has it signed any treaty with any member of humanity.

No situation or unforeseen occurence in life is something you should think could never happen. With that, you will face a situation, a new one and possibly a terrifying one, with more focus. Get it out of the way first, then look back on it with disbelief.

I don't know if anyone will read this whole thing but if you do, you will gain what took me 26 years to realize, in a few minutes.

I have learned that breeding is a mistake, and that a second child does not lead to any sort of economy of scale.

Ellipticals aren't just for women.

when, at the start of a long dirt road in a country notorious for poor roads, there is a pool of water, diameter about 4m, depth about 50cm, it´s probably an indicator as to what you´re going to face further down so don´t just drive around it and hope for the best...

When you have an excel workbook with detailed records on one spreadsheet and a summary on the second spreadsheet, it is important to make sure that the summary subtotals equal the detail subtotals.

Similarly, it is important if you have a target total and a bunch of items that are supposed to add up to something near that total, make sure you sum the items and compare the total with the target.

I learnt my meaning of life is currently inaccessible.

Y nada mas.

This is ridiculously true. Back when I was actually fit I used to love ellipticals on rainy days when my knees were too sore to run. Fuck what other people think, you're not at the gym for them anyway.

Unless you're trying to pick up. But there are easier places for that. Places where you don't have to sweat.

I learned that even though I've been playing guitar for years I've been doing it wrong. I learned that classical is fucking hard. And I learned that I love it.

That the junker wheels I picked up to throw my spare tires on weigh a TON.

I also learned that a diotomaceous earth filter for an inground pool is absolutely worthless if it doesn't have a backwash feature built in.

I CAN overcook chicken. Oh boy can I. So much so I had to go back and braise it.

I should have purchased an acoustic guitar 15 years ago.

Working on cars with a PCM/ECM & sensors is extremely difficult even when you have a digital multimeter, code reader, & many years of experience working with all of the above.

Forget about trying to get much real work done the first day back from vacation. Just do small, mundane tasks that you've been putting off for a while to get back into the proper mindset.

Apparently in order to get rid of your Mormon girlfriend's crazy ex, she simply has to talk to him to keep him away. No need to cut his balls off and shove them down his throat.

Who knew?

That I really don't know all that much.

when starting a bbq, down stand over it, especially if you´re having trouble lighting it as your beard will disappear and your eyelashes will look straight ou of a clockwork orange.

Running in 30 degree Celsius heat with a humity index of 36 degrees is a bad idea.

Ran 8k this morning and just about died - it was hot!

i learnt how to spell "learned" today...

I learned never to crawl across the bed on sunburned knees.



Yesterday and into this morning, I learned that Rock Star for PS3 is awesome. And that my SO can actually sing. And that boys will play something like that, given enough alcohol, until four in the morning.

Ignorance is a ripe piece of fruit waiting to be picked. And how sweet it is.

Giant Pandas are indeed bears and the smaller Red Panda is related to the raccoon. I was taught in high school that the giant panda was related to raccoons, not bears.

neat.

I'll be damned. I thought for sure they were still procyonids, but following from Wikipedia to the O'Brien, Nash, Wildt, Bush & Benveniste article in Nature (September '85) and reading the abstract, yup, that's a bear alright.

Who'd'a thunk it.

That's my new larnin' for today.

I can paint 2.5 rooms and it looks good.

Never say 'hi' to a sniffer dog.

Yes, Hamm's will give you a hangover.

Shaking Hideo Kojima's hand and getting his autograph on my MGS3 game disc was totally worth 2 and a half hours waiting in the sun in downtown manhattan.

If you are trying to cut a straight line with a circular saw, do not stand on the cord.

The blade will pull toward the motor housing and your cut will wander to the right. It does not matter if you have a guid fence clamped in place; that will only cause the blade to jam quicker. If this ever happens to you, you may think that you have a warped blade. If you remove the blade (after giving it time to cool) and find that it is not warped, and you can put the cut back on track with a hand saw, pay careful attention to where your cord is - it's likely if the blade is straight and the cord is not underfoot, you'll have no trouble cutting a straight line against a guide fence.