did you know that aphids reproduce clonally? they have a mom that makes a bunch of cloned babies that all live on one leaf and then later one she starts making similar aphids but they have wings so they can fly to another leaf.

i don't know how they get pregnant. maybe if i look on the internet i can find some aphid porn and figure it out....

My eyes are getting worse! i find myself needing the light closer to the book and the font on the computer bigger or at least have the computer closer to me.

help me, i'm going blind!!

if i have time i should draw glasses on my post icon. then it would look that much more like me.

>>Nathan Miller to me ( Read more... )

BBC: >>Pro-government Janjaweed militias are accused of driving the region's black Africans from their villages, since two rebel groups began an uprising in February 2003. A UN team is in Sudan probing genocide allegations.

African Union peacekeepers at the camp said they did not have power or mandate to intervene, our correspondent adds ( Read more... )

did you know the chairman of the FCC is Colin Powell's son who was promoted to head of the FCC by Bush in 2001?

is it just a chairman or a board? i think its just him. of course there is an advising board benath i'm sure. but he gets to stay until 2007 now that bush has been re-elected. i didn't even realize the head was picked by the rpesident. ( Read more... )

The woman in charge of my time sheets for my new job had an emergency last week so she didn't come to work. so my paycheck yesteday accounted for 2 weeks at the library (12 hours)but the significant part which is the other job didn't get recorded. so now i have to make a special trip to her office and get a crapload of paperwork signed and ( Read more... )

i'm only updating because i am procrastinating and i don't know anything about amandee's life anymore since i never read this. i am curious what is up with her so i will read her lj. this update is to let you know i am about to read it. yah.

i just finished a fight with my car. I am not sure who won though. maybe me. maybe the car ( Read more... )

the grandparents are going ot Greenbay because eddy and cyndi are at the wits end about their marriage. cyndi called for help. Cyndi. she hates my grandparents. so anywho, they left this morning to drive to chicago and then greenbay ( Read more... )

-one of the snl shows from a bit earlier this year was incredibly funny. the one with Al Gore. he just made fun of himself the whole time. really personable. i watched it with a friend, and we appreciated each other's company because we both got all the political jokes. when gore started looking Tipper, i called it- "are they going to make fun of ( Read more... )