Something I’ve Always Wanted To Do

I’ve always thought it would be fucking cool to be caught in this situation:

You’re walking down the street all by yourself, and are coming toward an intersection. You look one way, you don’t see anyone coming, so you cross the street. Right then, seemingly out of nowhere, a car comes racing at you from the other direction. You can barely turn your head to see what’s happening before it’s almost at you. You have less than a second to react; what do you do?

The ultimate solution for this problem would be to hop onto the hood of the car, jump off the windshield, watch as the car passes underneath, land safely on the sidewalk behind it, and just keep walking like nothing happened.

If someone was to see this happen, they would instantly think that you are the coolest cat in town, and that you have some impressive ninja evasion skills. I wish someday that someone will try and slaughter me vehicularly so I can put my idea to motion.

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Toilet Patent

Just now, as I was researching points for a Canadian History Timeline, I found probably the funniest coincidence of all time.

In 1861, the ‘Flush Toilet’ was patented by a man named Thomas Crapper.

Ahh, I love things like this.

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KIP: T9

I’ve been wondering for a while what T9 (the thing on cellphones that predicts what you’re saying) meant, and today I finally remembered to look it up.

As it turns out, it isn’t some kind of strange cellphone magic. T9 stands for ‘Text on 9 keys’. It’s a patented predictive text technology developed by Tegic Communications. It’s used on a wide variety of phones, and allows the user to type messages significantly faster than the older multi-tap technique.

So, I finally, know what T9 stands for. I can’t wait until I flaunt my new-found knowledge amongst all my cellphone wielding friends.

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KIP: Hiccups

A hiccup is an involuntary spasm of the diaphragm, that typically repeats several times per minute. There are many home remedies for the hiccups, but it usually resolves itself without need for intervention. Sometimes however, medication is occasionally necessary.

Christian Straus and co-workers at the Respiratory Research Group, University of Calgary, Canada, propose that the hiccup is an evolutionary remnant of earlier amphibian respiration; amphibians such as frogs gulp air and water via a rather simple motor reflex akin to mammalian hiccuping.

Charles Osborne holds the Guinness World Record as the man with longest Attack of Hiccups. He suffered from this ailment for 68 years (1922 to 1990).

I can’t even imagine having hiccups for that long. You would suck so badly at hide-and-go-seek that it wouldn’t even be funny.

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Knowledge Is Power

Today is a big day. Today, I will be introducing a new dynamic addiction to my already awesome blog. Today’s addition, is the Knowledge Is Power (or KIP) section. In these posts, I will share the interesting and impressive information that I have researched, so that you too can show off your soon-to-be elite thinking skills.

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