What's Your Goal? Really Clean Hands? Accurate Measurements? Popcorn You Don't Have to Reach For?

Do you remember a song that goes, "Clean up. Clean up. Everybody everywhere. Clean up. Clean up. Everybody do your share"? Even if you do not, I found a new way to clean your hands that is supposed to be more effective than whatever you do now. Probably, you follow this sequence, "apply sanitizer, rub palms together, and rub until dry." Oh, you sad, pathetic excuse for a person. That is so much less effective than this method as proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO). One more thing. When researchers observed a group of doctors and nurses at a UK hospital attempting to implement the WHO method, the results were not so good. Only 65% of the participants even completed the process, despite being instructed and observed by the researchers.

Check out this cool measuring spoon on Kickstarter. Would you buy one?

Check this upcoming Kickstarter offering for a game from one of my favorite game designers, Dr. Finn's Games. This is for a game, C.O.G., that is part word game and part board game. I did watch a couple of the embedded videos about the game and how people rated it. I will keep it in mind.

Check out this reimagined movie poster.

OK, take a look at this shot from just outside of Telluride earlier this month.

And now, compare it to this one from 20 ft to the left. In both, the mountains and colors dominate the scene. The first has a fence leading your eye to the mountains, and in the second, I used the road. The first one has the sun shining on the mountains, and the second one has more vivid colors. Which one do you prefer? I think I would select the first.

One of the things that we (never) talked about on vacation was wondering about the origin of the pencil. You've probably also (never) wondered about it, right? Luckily for both of us, I found an article that shares the salient details so that, now, we both know more. I learned why the pencils we used in school were called #2.

It's all about perspective, at least according to pop singer Jessie J. Here's a calendar entry from the 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said file:
It’s put everything into perspective. I have a different respect now for people who don’t have legs.
pop singer Jessie J after breaking her foot

Need a more realistic life goal?

This dude is living the dream, my friends.

Are you excited for the final presidential debate tonight? I will probably not watch it. It only impacts me in that Survivor will be on one hour later than normal.

This was fun, wasn't it? However, all good things must come to an end, and that includes today's blog post. There will be more soon, though.