some stuff I know, and all the stuff I don't but should

I know it's been a while since I've posted anything. It's only because, until this very moment, my mind has dwelt on a single thought...Bigbird Bozo Beans. I believe that I have discovered the intricacies of this thought completely. I venture to say that I have exhausted the potentiatlities of this thought, and though the potency inchoate in Bigbird Bozo Beans (the concecpt, not the reality) is formidable, I dare not disrobe it to you and rob you of the chance to coax forth its charms for yourself.

The preceeding was nonsense.

Doing some hard core reminiscing tonight with a longtime friend. Both of us are trying hard to remember if we actually learned anything in high school. We think not very much. We tend to believe that we could learn everything I learned in high school in about a month. At least anything related to science or social studies. I really can't tell you one concrete fact that I learned about history, economics, chemistry, or physics.

Here's what I learned in high school. 1) how to type 2) how to write 3) algebra 4) some stuff about how the government works 5) some spanish

that's it...in four years. Then again, what the hell did I learn in college? Nothing I can really remember. A few ideas from philosophy....some religous stuff that I no longer care about....and I read some books.

What the hell have I been doing for 20 years? It seems like I should have command of some facts by now, you know?

Here are some things I know, most of which I learned in some form in elementary school:
Insects have 6 legs
the universe is big
the universe is old
Mick Foley wrestled as mankind, dude love, and cactus jack. He is married to Collete and likes Christmas.
Energy makes things go (I don't, however, know what energy is)
Lightbulbs have something to do with electricity
Things are made from atoms, which have protons, neutrons, and electrons.
Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter and was from Stratford
The Bible was written by hundreds of different people over thousands of years
Headstart is good
Living things have cells and catch diseases
Living things come from DNA
Living things die
Someday the sun will explode
It is logically impossible for there to be an external world that in anyway resembles anything we can imagine.
sound is from energy that travels to my ear on waves in the air
(a lot of facts about actors and movies and tv shows)
The earth used to be a big ball of molten rock that hardened.
Things used to be fish
Sometimes doing the right thing means maximizing the good; sometimes it means sticking to principle; sometimes it means not being a douchebag.
Multiplication and addition are commutative
Before Kierkegaard died, he said "sweep me up"
The categorical imperative says that an action is right if one can will the maxim underlying one's action to become a universal law of human behavior.
Socrates liked to fuck boys
Nonprofits are regulated primarily by the tax code (the IRS) and occasionally by the FEC.
Edgar Allen Poe wrote the Raven