User blog comment:Sunshineandravioli/An Unfortunate Announcement/@comment-1874924-20100404173454

Of course, the problem with not learning stuff in the first place is that we don't know until later--sometimes much later--which particular stuff will be important to our situations.

Oh, and some of the people in the geography survey called the Pacific Ocean "Ocean Pacific", which, if memory serves, is the brand name for a line of clothing.

@ Shane: Yes, it is funny in a pathetic kind of way.