Debating, on the road
Feb 21st, 2007 by Oana
What do these tasks all have in common?
- picking up milk
- checking our mail and messages
- updating our gas and electricity meters
- googling and looking things up on Wikipedia
If you guessed these are all things we do the moment we get home from our trips, you’d be right! (I wonder why doing laundry and having a hot shower are things we do a little later! Perhaps we’ve become stinky backpackers … )
Many of our disagreements/debates on the road cannot be easily solved through logic and rational discussion, and since we don’t travel with the higher power of the Internet at our fingertips, resolution must wait until we get home. Some of the random things we’ve looked up after getting back from various trips include:
- lifespans of animals we saw on safari
- the difference between a spire and an obelisk
- who built the Dublin Spire, and whether this same architect was responsible for the Lincoln Memorial
- the origins of the metric system
- whether egg yolks can be “cooked” by adding lemon juice
- whether wild boars carry trichinosis
- the names of all the Roman emperors
- percentage of salt contained in brine
- whether GRID was ever the name for AIDS
- Dorothy’s last name in the Wizard of Oz, and whether the author of that book wrote any others
- the prevalence of mad cow disease in Portugal
- what a cuttlefish is
- whether Earth’s atmosphere has ever had higher concentrations of carbon dioxide than it currently does
Random, huh? We’re dorks.