http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/secrets-of-asexuality?npu=1&mbid=yhp
That's pretty nifty. :0
I wrote a story when I was 10-ish with a species in it that was all female, but they didn't have any manner of reproducing, definitely not that one (I don't think I knew asexual reproduction existed then, lol). They just didn't die. I think this idea is far better. xD
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
This is what I love about Broadway
Well, it's a good example of it, anyways.
Show tunes are the one place where I enjoy music sung by large groups (in general, I can't stand more than 3 or 4 people, which is why I never listen to MoTab... xP). The harmonies they manage are amazing, and there's always so much going on in every song... just awesome. <3
Often they use voices that you wouldn't think could possibly sound good together too (or alone, occasionally x3), and yet they do. It's the magic of Broadway. :D
The lyrics are always great too. That's what's really got me loving Groovelily: their lyrics nearly always tell a story or have a joke to them, plus the way the lyrics are written is just... well, it's good writing. Full of puns, references to other things, etc. Show tunes are really good at that, and I just love listening to it. Count how many fish/sea references are in the song. xD Some are totally obvious, but others you'll have to listen for. ;)
The best line in my opinion is (and this gives you a number for the fish count, lol): "Don't you wonder who's the lucky seafood dish?" XD Pure win.
It's a good thing I play Harvest Moon too, or I wouldn't have any idea what Sashimi is (which is another fish reference >.>).
Show tunes are the one place where I enjoy music sung by large groups (in general, I can't stand more than 3 or 4 people, which is why I never listen to MoTab... xP). The harmonies they manage are amazing, and there's always so much going on in every song... just awesome. <3
Often they use voices that you wouldn't think could possibly sound good together too (or alone, occasionally x3), and yet they do. It's the magic of Broadway. :D
The lyrics are always great too. That's what's really got me loving Groovelily: their lyrics nearly always tell a story or have a joke to them, plus the way the lyrics are written is just... well, it's good writing. Full of puns, references to other things, etc. Show tunes are really good at that, and I just love listening to it. Count how many fish/sea references are in the song. xD Some are totally obvious, but others you'll have to listen for. ;)
The best line in my opinion is (and this gives you a number for the fish count, lol): "Don't you wonder who's the lucky seafood dish?" XD Pure win.
It's a good thing I play Harvest Moon too, or I wouldn't have any idea what Sashimi is (which is another fish reference >.>).
Monday, February 15, 2010
This
This is satire, in case you're interested. In song form.
I figure while we're doing a satire unit in English I ought to go around and find all the examples I can. ;D
Diva Girl
I'm sorry Madison, it's not the best singer. This one is performed by the third person in the Groovelily trio, Gene Lewin (although there is a version by Milburn too, the singer of No Room in Your Bag). He does his best at singing, he just doesn't have much to work with. xP *brick'd* Lately I've been enjoying his voice more and more though.
I think my favorite lines are these:
"I'll sneak in your dressing room, baby/It won't be so hard/I may not get to meet you, baby/But at least I'll meet your bodygaurd"
The one about the song that only has one chord is pretty good to though. xD
And this:
"I'm loyal through and through/Until you're twenty-two"
This song is full of golden lines. *listens again*
I figure while we're doing a satire unit in English I ought to go around and find all the examples I can. ;D
Diva Girl
I'm sorry Madison, it's not the best singer. This one is performed by the third person in the Groovelily trio, Gene Lewin (although there is a version by Milburn too, the singer of No Room in Your Bag). He does his best at singing, he just doesn't have much to work with. xP *brick'd* Lately I've been enjoying his voice more and more though.
I think my favorite lines are these:
"I'll sneak in your dressing room, baby/It won't be so hard/I may not get to meet you, baby/But at least I'll meet your bodygaurd"
The one about the song that only has one chord is pretty good to though. xD
And this:
"I'm loyal through and through/Until you're twenty-two"
This song is full of golden lines. *listens again*
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Uh... yeah. xD
Me and my uber-long blogs need to be stopped, I'm sorry. xD
But if you enjoy crazy small-children stories, I think my last blog is worth taking the time to read.
But if you enjoy crazy small-children stories, I think my last blog is worth taking the time to read.
On Valentines and children...
Last night I babysat for the Hansens, with their cousins over again, so there were seven kids there rather than the usual four. Vicki decided to try and make it as easy as she could for me because of that; they had already eaten when I got there (6 pm), were in pjs, and ready for bed, it just wasn't bedtime. In fact, they planned to be back by bedtime so I wouldn't even have to put them to bed. My job was just to make sure no one died in the two hours they would be gone, I guess.
Well, Dean's started walking. It seems like he only just started crawling, but he has always preferred standing over that (it used to be that when he was crying, if you stood him up he would immediately stop because he was so happy to be standing), so I guess it figures he'd learn to walk quickly. He's been supporting himself on things (couches mostly) and walking for far longer than he's been crawling too... I'd been half expecting him to start walking before he ever learned to crawl. xD Didn't happen though.
But he can't, obviously, walk down stairs. He only dares walk a few steps without something to hold on to, as far as I can tell. But, you know, the stairs have a wall next to them and a railing he can hold on to/lean against. So it's about all he wants to do. About as soon as he learned to crawl he was crawling down the stairs (it scared me to death the first time; it was the first day I had been around to see him crawling, and he was quite prompt about heading down the stairs after dinner), so I guess he wants to keep up the habit? But walking down them is totally different. He has no belly support.
Moving on to one of the cousins. The older two (which isn't saying much, really), mostly play with the other girls. Austin switches between Faye and Lillian, it just depends on whether Lil's playing with Eva and the oldest cousin-girl (who's name I still haven't learned... but it starts with M and isn't Mary, Molly, or Madison). But the youngest one, Hannah, mostly expects me to care for her, and she is a handful, especially when I have a one-year-old to entertain too.
Basically, whenever I'm out of her sight, she starts screaming, "Babysitter, babysitter!" She expects me to carry her down the stairs, even though she's perfectly capable of walking down herself. If she doesn't like something, it must be changed. If she doesn't like what someone else is doing, she screams at them until I stop her or they stop. When she needs to go to the bathroom, I basically have to do everything for her but sit on the toilet and pee. If she's feeling the slightest bit sad or nostalgic, I have to hold her.
That wasn't a good thing, when you take into consideration Dean's walking down the stairs efforts. He caught on to that I wasn't going to let him, because this time I was right in believing that he wasn't capable. So if we were upstairs, he would go sit at the very top of the stairs and throw checkers (his new favorite game, apparently :P) until I finally took my eye of him and focused on the grumpy Hannah that expected me to let her sit in my lap until I had to leave.
As soon as I wasn't looking, he was up and headed down the steps. He could make it down the first couple, when the first floor was still there to hold on to, but once that got higher than he could see, things got tougher and he would usually give up. Then Dean would just stand and wait for me to come get him and take him off the stairs. Except once. Hannah was sitting on my lap, whimpering about something or other, wanting her mom, wanting a different CD going downstairs, and whatever else she could come up with to dislike about her current situation. Dean headed down the stairs.
Right before all the clunking and banging of his fall started I swear I felt the hair rise on the back of my neck and I was like, "Oh crap!" I practically dumped Hannah off my lap and ran for the stairs, but... well, by the time I reached him, he was at the bottom.
Amazingly, he came out with no injury, just a red mark on his forehead. Not even a bump. o.O It was amazing. But, as one could imagine, he was crying. So was Hannah, since she wasn't being held by me. She got a lesson in sharing that night; I would hold Dean until he calmed down, then set him aside and hold her until Dean started feeling bad again and I had to pick him up. Hannah waited quite patiently during Dean's turns, it was pretty impressive.
At any rate, eventually I got Dean playing 'throw Checkers' again and then Hannah got distracted having to beat him at racing to get them after they were thrown (which, of course, she won at since she could run and Dean couldn't) and my arms got a break. xD
As a second 'Dean Walks' story, he has this Pooh Bear toy lawnmower/vacuum/push toy type thing, although I think it's secretly just a walker designed for babies. He loves to walk around with that since he's got something that, not only can he lean on it, but he can walk as long as he likes to with it. Well, he can walk until he hits something. Dean hasn't learned how to turn yet either, and so he'll get his Pooh walker, barrel into a wall, and then wait for me to come turn him around so he can walk until he hits something else.
When I have kids, I want them to all be like Dean. He's such a sweetheart. xD
As for the mention of valentines in my title, my Valentines day was pretty good, but the best part of its weekend-long celebration was, again, babysitting. Eva and Lillian made me valentines, it was really cute. <3 Basically it went like this:
Eva: Mary, I made you a valentine! *hands me a big tin foil valentine with paper hearts on it*
Me: Oh really? Thanks! It's wonderful!
Lillian: I made you a valentine too Mary! But... I don't know where it is.
Me: Aw, thanks. I hope you find it.
Lillian: Yeah. I think I just need scissors.
Sadly, I don't know where they keep the scissors (I used to, but they've moved some things around :P) so I couldn't help with that. But Lil did find the valentine before I left, so all was well. ;)
Well, Dean's started walking. It seems like he only just started crawling, but he has always preferred standing over that (it used to be that when he was crying, if you stood him up he would immediately stop because he was so happy to be standing), so I guess it figures he'd learn to walk quickly. He's been supporting himself on things (couches mostly) and walking for far longer than he's been crawling too... I'd been half expecting him to start walking before he ever learned to crawl. xD Didn't happen though.
But he can't, obviously, walk down stairs. He only dares walk a few steps without something to hold on to, as far as I can tell. But, you know, the stairs have a wall next to them and a railing he can hold on to/lean against. So it's about all he wants to do. About as soon as he learned to crawl he was crawling down the stairs (it scared me to death the first time; it was the first day I had been around to see him crawling, and he was quite prompt about heading down the stairs after dinner), so I guess he wants to keep up the habit? But walking down them is totally different. He has no belly support.
Moving on to one of the cousins. The older two (which isn't saying much, really), mostly play with the other girls. Austin switches between Faye and Lillian, it just depends on whether Lil's playing with Eva and the oldest cousin-girl (who's name I still haven't learned... but it starts with M and isn't Mary, Molly, or Madison). But the youngest one, Hannah, mostly expects me to care for her, and she is a handful, especially when I have a one-year-old to entertain too.
Basically, whenever I'm out of her sight, she starts screaming, "Babysitter, babysitter!" She expects me to carry her down the stairs, even though she's perfectly capable of walking down herself. If she doesn't like something, it must be changed. If she doesn't like what someone else is doing, she screams at them until I stop her or they stop. When she needs to go to the bathroom, I basically have to do everything for her but sit on the toilet and pee. If she's feeling the slightest bit sad or nostalgic, I have to hold her.
That wasn't a good thing, when you take into consideration Dean's walking down the stairs efforts. He caught on to that I wasn't going to let him, because this time I was right in believing that he wasn't capable. So if we were upstairs, he would go sit at the very top of the stairs and throw checkers (his new favorite game, apparently :P) until I finally took my eye of him and focused on the grumpy Hannah that expected me to let her sit in my lap until I had to leave.
As soon as I wasn't looking, he was up and headed down the steps. He could make it down the first couple, when the first floor was still there to hold on to, but once that got higher than he could see, things got tougher and he would usually give up. Then Dean would just stand and wait for me to come get him and take him off the stairs. Except once. Hannah was sitting on my lap, whimpering about something or other, wanting her mom, wanting a different CD going downstairs, and whatever else she could come up with to dislike about her current situation. Dean headed down the stairs.
Right before all the clunking and banging of his fall started I swear I felt the hair rise on the back of my neck and I was like, "Oh crap!" I practically dumped Hannah off my lap and ran for the stairs, but... well, by the time I reached him, he was at the bottom.
Amazingly, he came out with no injury, just a red mark on his forehead. Not even a bump. o.O It was amazing. But, as one could imagine, he was crying. So was Hannah, since she wasn't being held by me. She got a lesson in sharing that night; I would hold Dean until he calmed down, then set him aside and hold her until Dean started feeling bad again and I had to pick him up. Hannah waited quite patiently during Dean's turns, it was pretty impressive.
At any rate, eventually I got Dean playing 'throw Checkers' again and then Hannah got distracted having to beat him at racing to get them after they were thrown (which, of course, she won at since she could run and Dean couldn't) and my arms got a break. xD
As a second 'Dean Walks' story, he has this Pooh Bear toy lawnmower/vacuum/push toy type thing, although I think it's secretly just a walker designed for babies. He loves to walk around with that since he's got something that, not only can he lean on it, but he can walk as long as he likes to with it. Well, he can walk until he hits something. Dean hasn't learned how to turn yet either, and so he'll get his Pooh walker, barrel into a wall, and then wait for me to come turn him around so he can walk until he hits something else.
When I have kids, I want them to all be like Dean. He's such a sweetheart. xD
As for the mention of valentines in my title, my Valentines day was pretty good, but the best part of its weekend-long celebration was, again, babysitting. Eva and Lillian made me valentines, it was really cute. <3 Basically it went like this:
Eva: Mary, I made you a valentine! *hands me a big tin foil valentine with paper hearts on it*
Me: Oh really? Thanks! It's wonderful!
Lillian: I made you a valentine too Mary! But... I don't know where it is.
Me: Aw, thanks. I hope you find it.
Lillian: Yeah. I think I just need scissors.
Sadly, I don't know where they keep the scissors (I used to, but they've moved some things around :P) so I couldn't help with that. But Lil did find the valentine before I left, so all was well. ;)
Friday, February 5, 2010
Yes.
I just bought a two pound bag of Sour Patch Watermelons at Maceys. I've been wanting some of those for so long. o_o
It cost me $5
You could buy a one pound bag of them for $4 in the same store.
Oh man, did they rip themselves off or what! *feels triumphant* I love senseless sales.
And I'm also very happy with the kid in school who had his own two pound bag of these and was showing them to a friend and I overheard him saying where he got them and the price... which sent me over there the next day. Yay eavesdropping~
It cost me $5
You could buy a one pound bag of them for $4 in the same store.
Oh man, did they rip themselves off or what! *feels triumphant* I love senseless sales.
And I'm also very happy with the kid in school who had his own two pound bag of these and was showing them to a friend and I overheard him saying where he got them and the price... which sent me over there the next day. Yay eavesdropping~
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
For you writers out there...
If you plan to have your characters hurt in any manner, I would read this:
Writing Realistic Injuries
It's so irritating when people have hurt characters but they totally don't react to it as they ought (as is stated by the author of the article). Concussions are generally my biggest pet peeve since people seem to think they kill you if you fall asleep...? Note that in it the author says they can survive doing so, just keep track of them. Yeesh.
Thanks to Mew for finding it. ;)
Writing Realistic Injuries
It's so irritating when people have hurt characters but they totally don't react to it as they ought (as is stated by the author of the article). Concussions are generally my biggest pet peeve since people seem to think they kill you if you fall asleep...? Note that in it the author says they can survive doing so, just keep track of them. Yeesh.
Thanks to Mew for finding it. ;)
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
-Sweet-
Look what paleontologists just figured out:
Dinosaur Colors/Bird relations article
Sweet.
All those dumb people (like my dad) who don't believe birds evolved from dinosaurs can shut their mouths.
It's so great how all the discoveries they make in Paleontology are the most straightforward things. "Huh, maybe I should actually look at this feather fossil and see if it has the same form of pigmentation bird feathers do." Whoah!
It's great. A job that's just a bunch of using your common sense while dealing with amazingly epic creatures that can't hurt you... I don't know why anyone wouldn't want the job. I'm so glad I do. :>
But ever since I've started working on Boneteller, there have been tons of interesting discoveries like this (well... more like 3, but still, they're huge). I'd like the book to happen in the present, and so I keep updating it with new things... I'll definitely have this in there, but I really need to know at what time I'm stopping. xD
Let's say... August 2010. That's the latest in the year I want to have the dig starting (right now I'm imagining late June-July-ish), so... anything discovered past that will have to be something I simply can not turn down, since I'll have to skip another full year ahead for the time of the happenings happening.
This all puts me in such a tizzy, I love it. <3
Dinosaur Colors/Bird relations article
Sweet.
All those dumb people (like my dad) who don't believe birds evolved from dinosaurs can shut their mouths.
It's so great how all the discoveries they make in Paleontology are the most straightforward things. "Huh, maybe I should actually look at this feather fossil and see if it has the same form of pigmentation bird feathers do." Whoah!
It's great. A job that's just a bunch of using your common sense while dealing with amazingly epic creatures that can't hurt you... I don't know why anyone wouldn't want the job. I'm so glad I do. :>
But ever since I've started working on Boneteller, there have been tons of interesting discoveries like this (well... more like 3, but still, they're huge). I'd like the book to happen in the present, and so I keep updating it with new things... I'll definitely have this in there, but I really need to know at what time I'm stopping. xD
Let's say... August 2010. That's the latest in the year I want to have the dig starting (right now I'm imagining late June-July-ish), so... anything discovered past that will have to be something I simply can not turn down, since I'll have to skip another full year ahead for the time of the happenings happening.
This all puts me in such a tizzy, I love it. <3
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