Umami

Umami--have you heard of it? According to my Yahoo! newsfeed, umami--Japanese for "savory" or "meaty"--is the fifth taste. You know how you were always told that there are 4 tastes--sweet, salty, bitter, sour? Well, now there's a fifth. And by the way, if you haven't heard by now, there are 8, not 9, planets. You know how you were always told that your genes came solely from your two parents? Well, that's been debunked as well.

Just kidding. But I can just imagine the headlines, "Recent scientific studies suggest that offspring receive their genetic makeup from not two, but three, DNA contributors." I know this sounds ludicrous, but I feel like every time science teachers drilled numbers into our heads (5 kingdoms of living species, 3 states of matter, etc.) they were just begging to be disproved.

The Old Days (A Tribute to Stolen Internet)

I'm sayin' goodbye to nights of cruising my neighborhood, laptop in lap, in search of stolen internet. Sayin' goodbye to wandering around my front yard, cocking my laptop, now to the right, now to the left, hoping to catch that elusive wireless signal. Yes, that's right--Fyfer Place has officially purchased its very own internet connection.