Tired of flat-earthers running the dialogue in America? Me too.

Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) responded to Senator Thune (R-edneck, err, South Dakota) on the Senate floor this week after Thune made a presentation about health care (I believe the summary of which was "I hate my broke-ass constituents"):

"We are entitled to our own opinions; we're not entitled to our own facts."

See the discussion of Franken's shushing fun and then let's discuss, eh?

If you're not into politics, look! Polar bear!


Did you know polar bears are absolute carnivores and can walk a turf of 100,000 sq.km. during their lifetimes in search of meat? Did you also know they will unfortunately be extinct in fifty years, because their main meal (ring seals) have no ice to lounge on?

Did you know the North Pole had been an iceberg on top of the Arctic Ocean until a decade ago, when the ice was gone and now it's just open ocean during the summer... and fall... and a lot of the time now?

Today I learned $thing. What about you?

Today I learned how to get Excel to sort a sheet based on two columns in certain order (right-click -> Sort -> Custom Sort...) and how to pass a specific sort order to one of those fields ("Custom List..." at the bottom of the drop-menu in the Order section of the Sort Window).

Boring? kinda. Except now I have a fast way to see which of my work tickets I need to work on and which are due next. Eventually I'll figure out how to get my company's ticket software to the double-sort for me but this is a start.

What did you learn this week that kicked ass? Lemme know!