Thursday, November 20, 2008

headdesk

I hate america. "Ooooh, the economy's getting worse! Pull our stocks out of the market! AAHHHH!" fucking idiots. raarararararraraarraararar.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Take THAT creationists!

One premise of creationism is that life is simply too complex to have just happened- there must be some intelligent designer behind it all. However, the miracle of evolution is known to produce vestigial limbs- body parts that are now useless but still hang around. Meet flightless birds, wales with hind legs, and humans- with our tailbones, appendices, and useless body hair.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

*cough*Itoldyouso

A select few people know, since freshman year, that I do not believe in DNA. That is, I didn't believe the current theory on genes was correct, primarily because of "junk DNA." This was not a christian thing. Evolution would not allow for "junk DNA." This is merely me deciding, that given science's record for being wrong at first, that we were missing something.

AND SO. Now. They are rethinking the way genes work.

And honestly, genetics reinforce the idea that everything came from the same place, and is essentially the same thing. All life on this planet have DNA that tells their cells how to grow. The same string of DNA makes all the different type of cells. Is DNA just some kind of programming language, as binary is?

Friday, November 14, 2008

oh snap

on wikipedia today, i read that jsut recently we discovered that a star in Pegasus has at least 3 planets orbiting it!

Monday, November 10, 2008

As below, so above...

I think we can learn alot about the universe by studying our own solar system. Everything came from the same clump of junk in the very beginning, right? So everything is esentially made of the same stuff, at the very least at the atomic level. We're a somewhat average sized planet orbiting an average sized sun. We possibly have a sister star, which we have seen examples of through our telescopes. We have comets and meteors in our solar system that sometimes collide with the planets. At least one of our 8.5 planets currently harbors life. We think it could be possible for a moon to harbor life as well. In addition to the main planets, we have at least 3 "dwarf planets."

We can see other stars with planets around them, (relatively) not too far from our own solar system. But really, we can only see the large gaseous planets, because those reflect more light, and are generally easier to detect.

Pluto, formerly the smallest planet in our solar system, now merely a Dwarf planet, has a moon larger than itself. Some scientists want to call it a binary planet, since neither object lies in the center of its orbital trajectory.

So what we have is a young to middle aged yellow star with a multitude of planets and rocks and dust orbiting it, including possibly a sister star. and this faintly glowing clump of dust has one tiiiiiny barely visible planet harboring life. And we dare think we're alone?

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Paying a ticket

I got a ticket a few weeks ago, and i got the cash to pay it.  then i realise the envelope says not to pay cash, but with a cashiers check or money order.  I dont wanna mess with it, and i see that you can pay it online, so i try to do that.  It doesn't pull up ANYTHING for my DL# nor my name, or the ticket number.  So I call the number on the envelope.  It rings, and rings, and rings. then finally a recording comes on, saying that agents are available 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (its 11 am right now.. where are the agents???) but it gives me a prompt to check traffic ticket info.  So I do that, enter my drivers lic # and the ticket #, and it gives me an option to use the automated payment system.  and it goes dead.
So i call back again. rings and rings and rings. no answer after like 5 min.  try again two more times and i finally get the recording again.  enter the info again, hit 3 for the automated payment, and... dead again.

SO. i must not have a ticket on file.  which is all fine and dandy, except they have my license as bond and um, I'd kinda like that back.

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so i tried one more time (well twice, at first it rang and rang and rang... and then stopped ringing...),  and pressed 0 for an agent (oh, i get it now) and asked him why the info wasnt coming up, he said i should be able to pay by the end of next week, because no, it isn't in the system yet.  SRRSLY, F BEUROCRACY. 

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

SoundCloud

Found this site called soundcloud for sharing music. Send me a track! sign up and i might send you one!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Next: We Mine Mars

Apparently there's opals on mars. and no life. or at least not anymore (not on the surface)


anyway, mars used to be warmer and wetter. now its cold and dry. WTFmate? My theory is that the planets were not always at the distance from the sun that they are now. maybe they were a lot closer. Earth was once really hot and wet. Then we had an ice age. Then suddenly it got warmer again. (and warmer, and warmer...) (vote green!)
so our future will either be like mars- cold, dry no atmosphere.. or like venus- hot, molten crust, thick atmosphere.

Monday, November 3, 2008

random

fuck. i should be writing that essay. uhhuh. not what i wanna do. i should go do some sit ups. Ive been trying to do excersise, but i cant do ONE frucking push up. not a real one anyway.

smoked friday with josh.

gotta figure out a way to make more money. spend less? chjyeah.

tomorrows election day. its intense in a way. cant wait for nov 5.

HALOWEEN IS OVERRRRR. thank god. its like a bomb hit party tree. ill need a new job by Jan. I think I'm gonna do a payment plan for school next semester. because i dont wanna be hit by tuition AND books/supplies all at once.

got "a little history of the world" yesterday, gonna start reading it. whee for edjumuhcashun.

speaking of history, John McCane is wrong in his assertion that Obama is like Hoover. One of Hoover's biggest reconstruction failures was that he gave large sums of money to banks and big companies, expecting a trickle down effect. i totally raged. FDR fixed shit by creating jobs for middle and lower classmen. Jeez, youd think McCain would remember his childhood better.