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Sunday, 9 October 2005 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keaaluHmm. I seem to be jumping on a bandwagon, here. For I have a certain part of my anatomy that has grown hot... and hard... and swollen... and started leaking whitish fluid...
No, don't get excited. I have an infected nail bed, I think. My right index finger is KILLING me; it's got a small hard white lump on the side of it that hurts to touch, but me being me I can't leave the damn thing alone. I'm going to try lancing it with a sterilised needle, or something - but when I have some antiseptic to sebsequently soak it in. I shall NOT be DEFEATED by a few microscopic organisms, thank you!
I have joined... the Legions of the Sick! And I don't even have any goddamn TCP! *sucks finger instead*
*owies*
On a completely unrelated note, I've been watching that "The Future is Wild"; Rach mentioned it to me the last time she was deployed. All I can say is: what a load of bollocks. :P Don't get me wrong, I love speculative evolution, and sure, the creatures in the program are fascinating (the little desert-dwelling underground mole-like quails, particularly) but DAMN the rest of it is utter bollocks. Gannetwhales? Yeah, right. Birds have hardly changed since they evolved from the dinosaurs, and if you go further back the small biped dinosaurs themselves didn't change much since they got onto their hindlegs and ran, and yet in five million years they seem to think we'll re-evolve the claws on the wings, or else they'll turn into replacement whales or moles. A hopping snail? Please - the fact some underwater cephalopods can hop doesn't mean they'd be able to do it ABOVE ground with NO SKELETON. Tree-swinging octopi? Giant squid that look a bit like elephants and STILL HAVE NO SKELETON? Christ on a freaking bike, people. Some of the series is great - sabre-toothed giant weasels and giant rodents, sure, I can see that happening (although I'd argue that the blanket execution of almost ALL mammal species is fairly unlikely, especially since they recently discovered there were predatory mammals eating dinosaurs, way back in the day). Some of it just makes me want to jump up and down on the writers. Argh.
Sorry, rant over. I need to go do my recycling, now, before it gets too dark to find the bins.
No, don't get excited. I have an infected nail bed, I think. My right index finger is KILLING me; it's got a small hard white lump on the side of it that hurts to touch, but me being me I can't leave the damn thing alone. I'm going to try lancing it with a sterilised needle, or something - but when I have some antiseptic to sebsequently soak it in. I shall NOT be DEFEATED by a few microscopic organisms, thank you!
I have joined... the Legions of the Sick! And I don't even have any goddamn TCP! *sucks finger instead*
*owies*
On a completely unrelated note, I've been watching that "The Future is Wild"; Rach mentioned it to me the last time she was deployed. All I can say is: what a load of bollocks. :P Don't get me wrong, I love speculative evolution, and sure, the creatures in the program are fascinating (the little desert-dwelling underground mole-like quails, particularly) but DAMN the rest of it is utter bollocks. Gannetwhales? Yeah, right. Birds have hardly changed since they evolved from the dinosaurs, and if you go further back the small biped dinosaurs themselves didn't change much since they got onto their hindlegs and ran, and yet in five million years they seem to think we'll re-evolve the claws on the wings, or else they'll turn into replacement whales or moles. A hopping snail? Please - the fact some underwater cephalopods can hop doesn't mean they'd be able to do it ABOVE ground with NO SKELETON. Tree-swinging octopi? Giant squid that look a bit like elephants and STILL HAVE NO SKELETON? Christ on a freaking bike, people. Some of the series is great - sabre-toothed giant weasels and giant rodents, sure, I can see that happening (although I'd argue that the blanket execution of almost ALL mammal species is fairly unlikely, especially since they recently discovered there were predatory mammals eating dinosaurs, way back in the day). Some of it just makes me want to jump up and down on the writers. Argh.
Sorry, rant over. I need to go do my recycling, now, before it gets too dark to find the bins.
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Date: 10 Oct 2005 03:08 am (UTC)Dino eating mammals? Link please if you have it :)
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Date: 10 Oct 2005 05:20 pm (UTC)After a LOT of digging I've found it. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4165973.stm) Better be grateful ;P
No sympathy about my poor finger, I see. *snivel* *hurt* *hurt* :P
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Date: 10 Oct 2005 05:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10 Oct 2005 05:22 pm (UTC)