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Cynthetiq · 03-02-2005, 08:56 AM

Today I learned something that I took for granted. I ask that if you respond to this thread you add what you learned and how you came to learn it.

I was surfing about the news items and I came across a piece on a 22 lb lobster...

(link)

and in that bit it said...

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Based on how long it typically takes a lobster to reach eating size about five to seven years to grow to a pound Bubba may be 100 years old.

That would make the crustacean older than Warner Bros. (1907), the Boy Scouts (1910) and the states of Arizona and New Mexico (1912), not to mention the first commercial radio station (1920), television (1927) and computers (1943).

I didn't realize that NM and AZ were admitted into the union as late as 1912, so I looked up when Hawaii was admitted to the US, which it became a state in 1959.

What I learned today:

Hawaii was NOT a state when Pearl Harbor was bombed Dec 7, 1941.

Karby · 03-02-2005, 09:23 AM

What I learned today:

a stack is a LIFO data structure.

omega2K4 · 03-02-2005, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq

Hawaii was NOT a state when Pearl Harbor was bombed Dec 7, 1941.

I guess that's what I learned today also. I always thought it was a state back then.

Pip · 03-02-2005, 11:34 AM

I learned a new crime classification today: gross unlawful power conduction. (Approximate translation from swedish.) Basically, there was this guy who didn't pay his power bill so he drilled a hole to the next apartment and jacked into their power. Classic stuff. I knew it was illegal of course, but I didn't know it had a name of its own!
I didn't know about Hawaii either, so that's another thing I learned today.

snowy · 03-02-2005, 11:35 AM

I learned people don't pay attention in US history class.

Fremen · 03-02-2005, 12:00 PM

I learned I could salivate over something with the name of Bubba.

ARTelevision · 03-02-2005, 12:14 PM

I learned some new things about "M Theory" - cosmological extension of String Theory - that give us some possible views of the pre-big-bang universe (ours at least - it's a multiverse theory). I learned this new stuff by watching "Parallel Universes" on the Science Channel.

MiSo · 03-02-2005, 12:27 PM

i learned that even though you want to wash your car, if its too cold outside just say F*ck it.
i also learned its better to change your oil inside the garage instead of outside when its cold outside...

superiorrain · 03-02-2005, 12:59 PM

I learned what the phrase 'once in a blue moon' actually means, i don't know why it's a blue moon. But it comes from if two full moons happen within one calender month. Which only ever happens once in a blue moon or rarely anyway.

Hope some of that made sense. More learning to follow, hopefully.

03-02-2005, 01:39 PM

I learned that I won't need an F-1 student visa to attend school in the US because I am a Canadian citizen, now just to raise the 38K for the first year.

iccky · 03-02-2005, 03:03 PM

I learned that Fox Network won the February sweeps and the Fox news was the only news netowrk to see a ratings increase.

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news...&w=RTR&coview=

http://www.variety.com/VR1117918742.html

Coppertop · 03-02-2005, 03:19 PM

I learned that it's hard to get out of bed in the morning after playing 3 late (10:00+ PM) hockey games in 4 nights. Ugh...

ShaniFaye · 03-02-2005, 03:25 PM

I learned that the people on this board are the best....wait no....I already knew that, it was just reinforced

I learned that the computer I got from a guy work will not accomodate an ethernet card

homerhop · 03-03-2005, 01:10 PM

I learned that Tegral metal have a C33 single skin sheet with a 1m cover, also comes in metallic silver.
Also when a building is tophated it is better to make the drip flash to fix to the rails, instead of the tophats

la petite moi · 03-03-2005, 03:49 PM

I learned that even if I guess on a math test, I can still be one of two people in the class to get a 100%.

World's King · 03-03-2005, 04:05 PM

The sun is the best alarm clock.

As much as I hate feeling it on my face when I wake up in the morning there is something very romantic about it the first time you let it happen in a long time. I used to have thick black plastic covering the window in my room. No natural light what so ever. Yesterday the window was replaced and minyn insisted that I don't replace the black plasitc and let the sun wake me up. I did. I've been awake too long.

yellowchef · 03-03-2005, 05:24 PM

I learned that no matter how much I take care of my car... it will find little ways to screw with me.. and they might be little but theyre damn expensive.

Amnesia620 · 03-03-2005, 05:39 PM

I learned today that sometimes you don't know yourself as well as you think you do. I spent 1 1/2 years as a single woman so that I could learn who I am and what I like/dislike about myself, etc. It was life-changing.

My original intentions were to be able to have a better, deeper, more rewarding relationship with my next boyfriend. You know, good intentions pave the road to Hell. Everytime.

The relationship I got in after my 1 1/2 year "sabbatical" was one I wouldn't normally bother with - he's lazy, doesn't have a sex drive - with me or anyone else, irresponsible and disrespectful. He doesn't know how to, nor does he like to, communicate. It's just over 18 months in length and it continually fails to improve.

Today I learned that I need to get away and become stronger with and without a significant other. I must learn to remain individual within relationships...I don't want to "inherit" any bad habits.

IC3 · 03-03-2005, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Amnesia620

I learned today that sometimes you don't know yourself as well as you think you do. I spent 1 1/2 years as a single woman so that I could learn who I am and what I like/dislike about myself, etc. It was life-changing.

My original intentions were to be able to have a better, deeper, more rewarding relationship with my next boyfriend. You know, good intentions pave the road to Hell. Everytime.

The relationship I got in after my 1 1/2 year "sabbatical" was one I wouldn't normally bother with - he's lazy, doesn't have a sex drive - with me or anyone else, irresponsible and disrespectful. He doesn't know how to, nor does he like to, communicate. It's just over 18 months in length and it continually fails to improve.

Today I learned that I need to get away and become stronger with and without a significant other. I must learn to remain individual within relationships...I don't want to "inherit" any bad habits.

If you can be independant and not need to have a SO, It makes you that much stronger as an individual.

---

I use to always think that i needed a girlfriend, Then i said to myself if i need a girlfriend to feel complete, Then i couldn't be happy in or out of a relationship. I wanna be 100% independant and only rely on myself. I don't want to ever have to rely on anybody for anything..It makes life alittle bit harder in general, And i'm still working on it. Once i accomplish that, Then having a relationship will be something i will do when it interests me.

That's not something i learned today, But it is something that i have learned about myself.

CrAzEd · 03-03-2005, 06:11 PM

I learned not to take sleeping pills and laxatives in the same night.

IC3 · 03-03-2005, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by CrAzEd

I learned not to take sleeping pills and laxatives in the same night.

That's not a good mix.

Grasshopper Green · 03-03-2005, 06:24 PM

I learned that I work with some really incompetent people.

ngdawg · 03-03-2005, 07:17 PM

I learned that I am not as unknowledgeable about things as I thought I was and that even the most hardened and stoic of people can and do give encouragement and compliments. Things aren't always as they seem.
I also learned that I can use Photoshop to upload my photos in the format I desire instead of allowing the computer to do it and totally fuck up my work.

( And a big YAY to Minyn!

)

squirrelyburt · 03-04-2005, 05:36 AM

Yesterday I learned that old people are still very, very racist and not afraid to show it.

scott_p_1 · 03-04-2005, 07:38 AM

Today, I learned that I had my alarm clock set for 10:30pm instead of 10:30am. That's about all I'm gonna learn today since I'm not going to be going to class now.

Stug · 03-04-2005, 07:48 AM

I learnt (again), that I should think before I speak and that I'm useless with secrets...

Amnesia620 · 03-04-2005, 08:36 AM

I learned today that I impress people without even being aware of it.

hambone · 03-04-2005, 08:40 AM

I learned that .NET WebServices tend to use the doc/literal format for their WSDLs.

Yeah, nerds

Amnesia620 · 03-04-2005, 09:49 AM

I learned today that when someone has such joy in their life, they also have sorrow. I think I didn't learn this just now but was reminded of it. Perhaps this is the muse I've been looking for (no inspiration for the past week)...*wanders to TiltedLiterature*

KMA-628 · 03-04-2005, 11:19 AM

After years and years of doing my own taxes, I learned:

Pay a real professional to do it. I got back over three times what I had figured I was going to get, and it was all legit and above board.

Talk about getting good news, I'm never doing my own taxes again. Half the stuff she did I had never even heard of.

tres · 03-04-2005, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KMA-628

After years and years of doing my own taxes, I learned:

Pay a real professional to do it. I got back over three times what I had figured I was going to get, and it was all legit and above board.

Talk about getting good news, I'm never doing my own taxes again. Half the stuff she did I had never even heard of.

I went the same route this year.. it cost me alot... but.. what he got me in return completly made it worth it..

KMA-628 · 03-04-2005, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tres

I went the same route this year.. it cost me alot... but.. what he got me in return completly made it worth it..

I got lucky, it didn't cost me a cent.

My wife went to work for a tax firm.

tres · 03-04-2005, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KMA-628

I got lucky, it didn't cost me a cent.

My wife went to work for a tax firm.

I learned that my wife should go work at a tax firm!

0energy0 · 03-06-2005, 07:02 PM

that i keep drooling when i sleep and wake up to the puddles or drops

0energy0 · 03-06-2005, 07:05 PM

and fat substances clog the main pipeline

Caranthir · 03-06-2005, 07:10 PM

I learned that the Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters.

Hampshire · 03-06-2005, 08:27 PM

i learned that reading what other people have learned make you learn to

aberkok · 03-06-2005, 08:36 PM

I learned that you can grow out of bands that you thought you wouldn't able to keep up with when you joined. Today I had a rehearsal which just ended up frustrating me. Everyone was slowing down in the band and just wouldn't listen to the leader or my banging away at the piano, slightly ahead of the beat

A year ago I never thought I'd be up to their level.

ryfo · 03-06-2005, 09:17 PM

i learned that although mice are tiny, they can shit heaps and in every single cupboard of the kitchen before the mousetrap stops them!!

Amnesia620 · 03-08-2005, 02:26 AM

Today I learned a new word...one I found quite interesting and

Frottage - 1. The act of rubbing against the body of another person, as in a crowd, to attain sexual gratification.
OR
2. A method of making a design by placing a piece of paper on top of an object and then rubbing over it, as with a pencil or charcoal.
3. A design so made.

03-02-2005, 09:23 AM	#2 (permalink)
Karby Psycho Location: somewhere	What I learned today: a stack is a LIFO data structure. __________________ ~my karma ran over my dogma.~

03-02-2005, 11:35 AM	#5 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	I learned people don't pay attention in US history class. __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

03-02-2005, 12:00 PM	#6 (permalink)
Fremen With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much Location: left side of my couch, East Texas	I learned I could salivate over something with the name of Bubba. __________________ Google

03-02-2005, 12:14 PM	#7 (permalink)
ARTelevision I change Location: USA	I learned some new things about "M Theory" - cosmological extension of String Theory - that give us some possible views of the pre-big-bang universe (ours at least - it's a multiverse theory). I learned this new stuff by watching "Parallel Universes" on the Science Channel. __________________ create evolution

03-02-2005, 12:59 PM	#9 (permalink)
superiorrain Psycho Location: London	I learned what the phrase 'once in a blue moon' actually means, i don't know why it's a blue moon. But it comes from if two full moons happen within one calender month. Which only ever happens once in a blue moon or rarely anyway. Hope some of that made sense. More learning to follow, hopefully. __________________ "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke

03-02-2005, 11:34 AM	#4 (permalink)
Pip Likes Hats Location: Stockholm, Sweden	I learned a new crime classification today: gross unlawful power conduction. (Approximate translation from swedish.) Basically, there was this guy who didn't pay his power bill so he drilled a hole to the next apartment and jacked into their power. Classic stuff. I knew it was illegal of course, but I didn't know it had a name of its own! I didn't know about Hawaii either, so that's another thing I learned today.

03-02-2005, 12:27 PM	#8 (permalink)
MiSo Psycho	i learned that even though you want to wash your car, if its too cold outside just say F*ck it. i also learned its better to change your oil inside the garage instead of outside when its cold outside...

03-02-2005, 01:39 PM	#10 (permalink)
NotMVH Guest	I learned that I won't need an F-1 student visa to attend school in the US because I am a Canadian citizen, now just to raise the 38K for the first year.

03-02-2005, 03:03 PM	#11 (permalink)
iccky Psycho Location: Princeton, NJ	I learned that Fox Network won the February sweeps and the Fox news was the only news netowrk to see a ratings increase. http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news...&w=RTR&coview= http://www.variety.com/VR1117918742.html

03-02-2005, 03:19 PM	#12 (permalink)
Coppertop Getting Medieval on your ass Location: 13th century Europe	I learned that it's hard to get out of bed in the morning after playing 3 late (10:00+ PM) hockey games in 4 nights. Ugh...

03-02-2005, 03:25 PM	#13 (permalink)
ShaniFaye Submit to me, you know you want to Location: Lilburn, Ga	I learned that the people on this board are the best....wait no....I already knew that, it was just reinforced I learned that the computer I got from a guy work will not accomodate an ethernet card __________________ *I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!*

03-03-2005, 01:10 PM	#14 (permalink)
homerhop Insane Location: ÉIRE	I learned that Tegral metal have a C33 single skin sheet with a 1m cover, also comes in metallic silver. Also when a building is tophated it is better to make the drip flash to fix to the rails, instead of the tophats __________________ its evolution baby

03-03-2005, 03:49 PM	#15 (permalink)
la petite moi Filling the Void. Location: California	I learned that even if I guess on a math test, I can still be one of two people in the class to get a 100%.

03-03-2005, 04:05 PM	#16 (permalink)
World's King Here Location: Denver City Denver	The sun is the best alarm clock. As much as I hate feeling it on my face when I wake up in the morning there is something very romantic about it the first time you let it happen in a long time. I used to have thick black plastic covering the window in my room. No natural light what so ever. Yesterday the window was replaced and minyn insisted that I don't replace the black plasitc and let the sun wake me up. I did. I've been awake too long. __________________ heavy is the head that wears the crown

03-03-2005, 05:24 PM	#17 (permalink)
yellowchef Addict Location: Shalimar, FL	I learned that no matter how much I take care of my car... it will find little ways to screw with me.. and they might be little but theyre damn expensive.

03-03-2005, 06:24 PM	#22 (permalink)
Grasshopper Green ...is a comical chap Location: Where morons reign supreme	I learned that I work with some really incompetent people. __________________ "They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king" Formerly Medusa

03-04-2005, 08:36 AM	#27 (permalink)
Amnesia620 Forget me not... Location: See that dot on the map? I don't live there.	I learned today that I impress people without even being aware of it. __________________ For example, I find that a lot of college girls are barbie doll carbon copies with few differences...Sadly, they're dumb, ditzy, immature, snotty, fake, or they are the gravitational center to orbiting drama. - Amnesia620

03-03-2005, 05:39 PM	#18 (permalink)
Amnesia620 Forget me not... Location: See that dot on the map? I don't live there.	I learned today that sometimes you don't know yourself as well as you think you do. I spent 1 1/2 years as a single woman so that I could learn who I am and what I like/dislike about myself, etc. It was life-changing. My original intentions were to be able to have a better, deeper, more rewarding relationship with my next boyfriend. You know, good intentions pave the road to Hell. Everytime. The relationship I got in after my 1 1/2 year "sabbatical" was one I wouldn't normally bother with - he's lazy, doesn't have a sex drive - with me or anyone else, irresponsible and disrespectful. He doesn't know how to, nor does he like to, communicate. It's just over 18 months in length and it continually fails to improve. Today I learned that I need to get away and become stronger with and without a significant other. I must learn to remain individual within relationships...I don't want to "inherit" any bad habits. __________________ For example, I find that a lot of college girls are barbie doll carbon copies with few differences...Sadly, they're dumb, ditzy, immature, snotty, fake, or they are the gravitational center to orbiting drama. - Amnesia620

03-03-2005, 06:11 PM	#20 (permalink)
CrAzEd Upright	I learned not to take sleeping pills and laxatives in the same night.

03-03-2005, 07:17 PM	#23 (permalink)
ngdawg peekaboo Location: on the back, bitch	I learned that I am not as unknowledgeable about things as I thought I was and that even the most hardened and stoic of people can and do give encouragement and compliments. Things aren't always as they seem. I also learned that I can use Photoshop to upload my photos in the format I desire instead of allowing the computer to do it and totally fuck up my work. ( And a big YAY to Minyn! )

03-04-2005, 05:36 AM	#24 (permalink)
squirrelyburt Crazy Location: Central Wisconsin	Yesterday I learned that old people are still very, very racist and not afraid to show it. __________________ If you've ever felt there was a reason to be afraid of the dark, you were right.

03-04-2005, 07:38 AM	#25 (permalink)
scott_p_1 Crazy	Today, I learned that I had my alarm clock set for 10:30pm instead of 10:30am. That's about all I'm gonna learn today since I'm not going to be going to class now. __________________ <Insert witty and profound statements here>

03-04-2005, 07:48 AM	#26 (permalink)
Stug Crazy Location: UK	I learnt (again), that I should think before I speak and that I'm useless with secrets... __________________ and so ends the thought process for another day...

03-04-2005, 08:40 AM	#28 (permalink)
hambone Zeroed In Location: CA	I learned that .NET WebServices tend to use the doc/literal format for their WSDLs. Yeah, nerds __________________ "Like liquid white from fallen glass, Nothing to cry over"

03-04-2005, 09:49 AM	#29 (permalink)
Amnesia620 Forget me not... Location: See that dot on the map? I don't live there.	I learned today that when someone has such joy in their life, they also have sorrow. I think I didn't learn this just now but was reminded of it. Perhaps this is the muse I've been looking for (no inspiration for the past week)...wanders to TiltedLiterature __________________ For example, I find that a lot of college girls are barbie doll carbon copies with few differences...Sadly, they're dumb, ditzy, immature, snotty, fake, or they are the gravitational center to orbiting drama. - Amnesia620

03-04-2005, 11:19 AM	#30 (permalink)
KMA-628 ....is off his meds...you were warned. Location: The Wild Wild West	After years and years of doing my own taxes, I learned: Pay a real professional to do it. I got back over three times what I had figured I was going to get, and it was all legit and above board. Talk about getting good news, I'm never doing my own taxes again. Half the stuff she did I had never even heard of. __________________ Before you criticize someone, you need to walk a mile in their shoes. That way, if they get angry at you.......you're a mile away.......and they're barefoot.

03-06-2005, 07:02 PM	#34 (permalink)
0energy0 Insane Location: Title Town, USA	that i keep drooling when i sleep and wake up to the puddles or drops

03-06-2005, 07:05 PM	#35 (permalink)
0energy0 Insane Location: Title Town, USA	and fat substances clog the main pipeline

03-06-2005, 07:10 PM	#36 (permalink)
Caranthir Upright	I learned that the Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. __________________ I.

03-06-2005, 08:27 PM	#37 (permalink)
Hampshire Crazy	i learned that reading what other people have learned make you learn to

03-06-2005, 08:36 PM	#38 (permalink)
aberkok “Wrong is right.” Location: toronto	I learned that you can grow out of bands that you thought you wouldn't able to keep up with when you joined. Today I had a rehearsal which just ended up frustrating me. Everyone was slowing down in the band and just wouldn't listen to the leader or my banging away at the piano, slightly ahead of the beat A year ago I never thought I'd be up to their level. __________________ !check out my new blog! http://arkanamusic.wordpress.com Warden Gentiles: "It? Perfectly innocent. But I can see how, if our roles were reversed, I might have you beaten with a pillowcase full of batteries."

03-06-2005, 09:17 PM	#39 (permalink)
ryfo Psycho Location: melbourne australia	i learned that although mice are tiny, they can shit heaps and in every single cupboard of the kitchen before the mousetrap stops them!!

03-08-2005, 02:26 AM	#40 (permalink)
Amnesia620 Forget me not... Location: See that dot on the map? I don't live there.	Today I learned a new word...one I found quite interesting and Frottage - 1. The act of rubbing against the body of another person, as in a crowd, to attain sexual gratification. OR 2. A method of making a design by placing a piece of paper on top of an object and then rubbing over it, as with a pencil or charcoal. 3. A design so made. __________________ For example, I find that a lot of college girls are barbie doll carbon copies with few differences...Sadly, they're dumb, ditzy, immature, snotty, fake, or they are the gravitational center to orbiting drama. - Amnesia620