I'm torn between going to anime club and watching boy angst, or going to watch Fahrenheit 9/11 at LSC. Tough call, really. Oh well. I still have a few hours in which to decide.
I've got my first round of tests starting next week. Mad studying is in order, methinks, although certainly nothing will get done tonight. I should try this 'going to sleep early' thing sometime, hm? <_<;
I have just found out how awesome the game Grim Fandango is... Too bad my computer's way too fast to run it, so it doesn't really work past a certain point. Who'd have ever thought that you could have too good of a computer? XD Shame though - the Mexican theme totally appeals to me, and it's just so... weird. The dialogue is hilarious too. :D
Work at the library today was pretty cool. I was barcoding books out of the biology/marine biology section and if you know me, then you know that I'm all about the biology. ^^ There were these books on undersea exploration, and there was this old book written back in 1934 by the first guy to go down to 800 feet in a bathysphere. It was really amusing because he was trying to be all scientific, but couldn't because the experience was so different from anything that he had ever experienced. Good for him, though. Especially since the deepest anyone had gone until then was only about 300 feet or so in an armored diving suit. Yeah, those were the days when they still had to send air down a tube for you. XD The bathysphere was pretty cool - it had an air circulation system (still, it had to get air from the surface) and a telephone for communication. I kind of wonder how that worked. The pictures in the book were amusing - there was one illustrating the danger of almost getting dragged into a standing rock wall by the towing ship. And there was an illustration of how one would only see the glowing lights of luminescent fish until they swam through the bathyscape's light beam. Ah, those were the days of high adventure.
Later, I found a more recent book that was also about undersea exploration. This one was from 1956, and it showed how echo soundings in 1951 had managed to map out the sea floor at a depth of 35,847 feet. We came quite a way in just 20 years, hm? Humans are pretty amazing sometimes.
And sometimes they're just amusing. I found a translated copy of some book of beasts, translated from Latin. All of the weird things seem to have come from India (think manticores and unicorns), but there were also plenty of real animals too, such as Castor the beaver (which, uh, castrates itself when being chased by hunters to save its own life - apparently beaver testicles were popular medicine back in the day), and the crocodile, whose picture looked a lot like a dog with claws for feet and an awfully long snout. Old-time illustrators are cool. :D I'll bet they'd never seen a crocodile so they had absolutely no idea what one looked like. Isn't that funny? We take so many things for granted these days.
Oh, haha, one last thing. I totally had a biology nerd moment the other day. It was awesome. Sarah gave me a cell phone strap for my birthday. It's from Hawaii, and has a sandal on it, and it's very cute. Anyway, I was looking at the rhinestones on the sandal and I noticed that the white ones in the middle had little blue ones inserted in the middle of them, and I was totally reminded of the cells that we had been working with in bio lab, since some turn blue in the presence of certain nutrients, and I had found a bunch that were white around the edges and blue in the middle. Of course, then I had to show all my friends and no one got it. That's what comes of being a CS major and only having CS friends. XP
- Flykyr Skysong
Current song: Kong in Concert - Chekan Winter (From the Kong in Concert project at OCR - check it out! This song is totally my favorite - I've had it on repeat for days.)
Current mood: Tired
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