Small things 24 September

• As long as you're learning, you're not failing.
• At this point, do we really need the word 'stop' on the stop sign? Would anyone not recognize the colour and shape?
• Hotel California: A negative Yelp review with a 2 minute guitar solo.
• I saw a hornet drowning in my bird bath and I used a feather to push it out and to the side so it could recover. I am friend to the buzzing things.
• I'm disappointed that Americans haven't just given in and now spell it Wensday.
• Science has been the slow process of showing that the exciting magical world we believed in doesn't exist, and there is nothing but boring reality. Except for quantum mechanics, which showed boring reality doesn't exist, and everything is basically magic.
• Telling someone they can't be sad because others have it worse is like telling someone they can't be happy because others have it better.
• Everyone has heard of the historical figure, Karl Marx. But no one remembers his sister, Onya, who invented the starting pistol. [snort]
• Is it possible to pick up a pair of tongs and not click them together?
• Water is heavier than butane because butane is a lighter fluid.
• So remember that Klingon ship they used in Star Trek IV as a time machine? Did anyone notice it was stolen from the Klingon actor who played Doc Brown from Back to the Future?
• I had a high school teacher who could launch a chalkboard eraser with his suspenders at a clock on the back wall of the classroom. This was his warning to anyone who fell asleep in class.
• David had his ID stolen. Now he's just Dav.
• I, for one, like Roman numerals.