A new string of islands was discovered, and each one had its own new species of animals. Mom got super excited and decided to make it her new career to study them. While helping her I discovered traces of a human civilization, but couldn't get anyone to give a damn. There was a gravestone for a baby, and even using that as evidence and an emotional ( Read more... )

the part that bothers me most is that i dont have control. despite the hours of logic and reasoning, i act irrationally. i suppose we can only control our emotions to some extent - we can only tighten or loosen the flow. we don't get to decide what they are or who they're pointed at ( Read more... )

when did i get so stupid?

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"Up to one-tenth of the population is left-handed. Yet for centuries, even as late as the 1950s, there were social stigmas against left-handers -- similar in some ways to the perverse prejudice that has been directed toward homosexuals. So strong was the taboo that many parents tried to convert their naturally left-handed children into righties. ( Read more... )

"They say that the human smile is in fact one of those primordial things - that in fact it's a showing of teeth, that it's a warning.
That when we smile, in a primeval way it has to do with fear.
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting.
There is a connection between funny and scary."
-Christopher Walken

( And here I was thinking about spring. )

My dreams rarely seem to follow any sort of theme, but today was quite different.

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Tesla coils playing various songs. It might just be the fact that I'm a huge nerd, but happy juice is flowing through my veins!! THIS IS RAD.

mario
tetris
zelda
sugar plum fairy

"The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved. The Tesla ( Read more... )

I found a huge box of books in my old room. There were all sorts of things I forgot I ever had. And a little glass rose that I don't remember anyone giving me. This makes me feel pretty guilty, as I am always afraid of neglecting things, I feel bad for things that get forgotten. I would hate to be forgotten, left in a box somewhere. Some say, they ( Read more... )