Post something you learned or learnt today
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love2travel:
Green Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom, are Female, have more seeds and are sweeter. Green Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are Male and less seeds, they are better for cooking.
Just like people.
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Vinegary rice with various meats is called sushi. Raw fish is actually called senshi.
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Yesterday I learned not to mess with power management settings on one of the network adapters.
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^ those are always tough lessons I never realized this, however animals who are predators have eyes in the front and are more intelligent than animals that have eyes on the side, who are prey Per Michio Kaku, there are reason we have sayings like Dumb Bunny and Smart as a Fox...a bunny just has to run, the fox has to deal with camouflage, stalking and forethought.
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I learned that the 0/1 mindset in computer programming also applies to the way computer scientists often see the world.
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Our department now has a twitter account. Oh joy. I prefer to separate home and work.
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Time magazine has named President Obama its Person of the Year 2015.
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SurSteven:
Vinegary rice with various meats is called sushi. Raw fish is actually called senshi.
I'm always surprised when people think fish is the main ingredient in sushi. It's not even a requirement. Maybe that's not a shocker in Duluth, but I've met people in California who thought sushi was fish.
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love2travel:
I never realized this, however animals who are predators have eyes in the front and are more intelligent than animals that have eyes on the side, who are prey Per Michio Kaku, there are reason we have sayings like Dumb Bunny and Smart as a Fox...a bunny just has to run, the fox has to deal with camouflage, stalking and forethought.
What about dolphins and elephants? Dolphins have eyes on the side and they're very much predators and very smart. Elephants have eyes up front. They're smart, but they're not predators. Pigs, also smart, have front eyes. They're predators to wild truffles, I suppose.
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Learning how to enhance photos with editing.
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Learned yesterday that grocery store no longer carries my GF frozen pizza crusts.
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The original tribe in Mesopotamia were very advanced and may have been the cross over species with Neanderthals to evolve Homo Sapiens.
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The new buses don't have any padding on the seats. Tailbone greeted with hard plastic as you bounce over speed bumps
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Mint doesn't grow well in typhoons.
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Las Vegas has a giant Ferris wheel.
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When you reach a certain age & have to get down on the floor to paint trim, it's a real bitch & a half getting up again
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Cranes used by tree companies can crack your driveway
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I learned that if you cook chicken on the barbecue it will burn lol; unless of course you put it on the upper tier.
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The market where I buy my vegetables gives away free ginger.
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HaileyMcComet:
love2travel:
I never realized this, however animals who are predators have eyes in the front and are more intelligent than animals that have eyes on the side, who are prey Per Michio Kaku, there are reason we have sayings like Dumb Bunny and Smart as a Fox...a bunny just has to run, the fox has to deal with camouflage, stalking and forethought.
What about dolphins and elephants? Dolphins have eyes on the side and they're very much predators and very smart. Elephants have eyes up front. They're smart, but they're not predators. Pigs, also smart, have front eyes. They're predators to wild truffles, I suppose.
Oh that Michio Kaku...you're right, I'll have to let Michio know he needs to do better research next time ops: