What it really says

So yesterday morn, I was thinking about our little circuit of blogs. My mind started wandering to what people's first impression of ourselves are (based on our profile pics). So this morning, I started looking at the weblogs as though I were a noob. These are the impressions I got.

Dangeresque Dan- Someone who actually likes Nixon. . . Wow!

Brooke Devine- She really hates that burrito.

Colonel Havoc- Looks like he's got a plan to rob a bank.

Reinman- Who's that picture of?

Graceland King- Great! Another Elvis impersonator.

JC- Lucy? Lucy? Seriously. . . . Lucy??

Well, that's all I picked. If you have any other impressions of other people's rofile pictures; leave a comment. I do welcome them. And I don't mean to be rude to anyone I picked. That was my first impression at the blog. Keep it rockin' y'all.
Sorry, no animal post this week. The Discovery Channel went out last night.

How I relax

Every morning for the last week or so, I've gone to an addicting site and played a great game. It's here. It's relaxing to put together a new puzzle every morning before school. They have a new one every morning and it's always of something comfort to look at. Ducks, flowers, and a desert were some of last weeks puzzles. Try it out, it's great fun.

Quite possilby the coolest

Well last night was "Killer Thursday" on the Discovery Channel. And if you've paid any sort of attention to the last 3 weeks that means a post on the night. It was really interesting stuff last . . . seriously interesting.

The first program was about with a deadly squid. No, not the one from 20, 000 leagues under the sea. But I think it is the same species. The Humboldt Squid is its name. Well here is a picture of it. Now this squid is unique because it "glows". When it wants to attract food it shines white. It is by far cooler to watch it attack/die. It shines red and white. Well, on to why it's called the "killer squid". It has appx. 30 teeth on each sucker, 150 suckers per tentacles, 8 tentacles: comes to 36,000 teeth. If it doesn't shred the fish it catches, it has a beak that comes from inside its mouth and that tears huge "V"-shaped bits out of it. What's interesting though about the squid are they live only a year long, yet they grow as big as (and in some cases larger than) humans. If you go swimming with them, you need to wear armor. A male photographer was swimming with them once, and was carried down from 40 -70 feet so fast he ruptured his eardrum. These things are cool to watch. I hope I am not the only one who finds this stuff fascinating. I'm a nerd.

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I've Returned

So you probably didn't notice my absence in posting. I've been busy what with school starting and my computer being in the shop (the power button broke). This semester will be interesting. I am sure to have homework and fun. But I will try and make this a real post. . .

Last night I was watching a program on the Discovery Channel on the Anaconda. It was very interesting. I don't remember all of the particulars of it, but from what I do remember I will share with you my readers.
A female anaconda can give birth to between 10 & 40 babies. Of those new snakes a small percentage will make it to adulthood. From older anacondas, cayman, vultures, piranha, and big cats, the weak are weeded out. It is kind of cool to think about. Many tribes in the Amazon river basin believe the anaconda to be a "queen". The queen of the Amazon in reality. They (the villagers) worry about the anaconda stealing chickens and pigs. So they call in some dude and he takes it out. . . . What a way to treat a queen. But the one fact I didn't know is that. Anaconda don't kill something by cutting off the oxygen intake. They crush the body around the heart and prevent the heart from sending newly oxygenized blood to the brain which renders the victim unconscious. It was VERY cool to watch. And I already knew this but it makes a good statement to end a post with: a pod of piranha can strip flesh to bone in less than a minute. I don't intend to go swimming with them. . . I may send this fellow though. . .

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Where did I stray?

So last night I was sitting down stairs in my room watching a very interesting program on the 12 days of terror in 1916. What caused the terror? Well, have you seen the "scariest movie ever"? I even hear people nowadays say it's the scariest ever. Well that movie is loosely based on the events those fateful days from July 1-July 12 (in much the same way the movie Cujo is based off a dog with rabies).

Beach-goers had to get out of the house since it was one of the hottest summers on record and A/C wasn't invented yet. . . well I suppose you figured out by now where they went. Well, anyway, A fellow was swimming in the ocean and started his trek back to shore. Suddenly, in 3 feet of water, a shark grabbed his legs. He died from massive blood loss.

The second death was on July 6. Another fellow was out swimming appx. 1/4 mile away from shore. When something came up from below him. The life-guards quickly rowed out to get him. He ended up losing both legs: 1 above the knee and 1 below. He died on the way back to shore.

There were other deaths/attacks but the most striking ones was in a creek called Matawan. A child is swimming with his brothers and friends. A fisherman is near-by.The kids see a fin and start swimming to shore. Little Lester got to the dock but something has his leg. He fights it, his brother jumps in the water to fight the "demon" and the fisherman comes to the rescue. Lester and the fisherman die. There was another attack but the kid lived.

On the 12th, 2 fellows are fishing with a net behind them. Suddenly, the boat starts in the opposite direction. When the "sea turtle" (as one official said the beast was) surfaces, they "Whap" it to death with an oar. They empty the stomach of the beast and find human bones. A professor (the same one who said the attacks were perpetuated by an sea turtle )says it's not the shark of the killings. Then says it is . . . It was a great white shark. . . . That is a scary story. Why did I tell/write this story? Well, because it's history and I think it is a tale scarier than most. And as the saying goes: those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I won't be going swimming in the ocean this week . . . will you?

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