Tropophilia

Apologies for the light posting as of late, folks.  Taylor and I have both been a bit indisposed recently with travel, wedding planning, Call of Duty 4, Davidson basketball, and other pressing matters.  We’ll be back to full blogging speed shortly.  And you can always help us fill in these sorts of gaps by considering contributing to Tropophilia yourself!

But I didn’t want to leave you empty-handed today, so watch yo’self because there’s a fresh volley of total randomness comin’ atcha.

Instead of reading either of the books in which I planned to spend my flying time gaining some ground, I instead opted for my ritual of pounding through Sky Mall so fast that my face hurts.  This time my face was also hurting from sunburn, though, so I switched to Spirit, the official magazine of Southwest Airlines.

It’s cool.  Just let me know when you’ve stopped laughing.

Spirit! (punctuation mine, and imagine a cheerleader saying it) apparently has a regular feature where they research and share some cool stats.  Two were fairly intriguing, so I reproduce them here without any permission whatsoever from Southwest:

• Women spend an average of 3 years of their lives getting ready, and men spend an average of three months of theirs waiting on their ladies.
• Drivers on cell phones add 20 hours a year to the average commute (due to slower driving and longer passing times.

Spirit also did a six question interview with Masi Oka (pictured above) who plays Hiro in Heroes.  He apparently used to be a CGI artist and worked for Industrial Light and Magic when they helped make Star Wars: Episodes I-III.  With that, an IQ of 189, and sweet ninja skills, he’s definitely awesome.  His awesomeness skyrocketed, however, with this quote:

I’m proud to be a geek.  Geeks are passionate — about sports, beer, politics, anything.  Passion makes us human, and our challenge is to find what we’re passionate about and express that.

Hope that this tides you over until the next (real) post.  Also, check out an interesting comment recently made by reader Jez concerning her experience with Spokeo.  Definitely food for thought.

Image used under a Creative Commons license courtesy of flickr user TV Squad Julia.