| Saturday, February 25th, 2012 |
| 5:19 pm |
Time Travel: Should We Put Right What Once Went Wrong?
If Time Travel was possible, what are the reasons for NOT changing the past to avert tragedies that "already happened"...in essence, wiping out those tragedies from the timeline? One possible reason is that some tragedies that happen in the past are "warning signs" that point out what is wrong in the present time and what needs to be changed in the future. Basically, the adage "remembering the past in order not to repeat it" couldn't apply if what happened IN the past WAS averted by time travel, temporal and causal paradoxes notwithstanding. Tragedy Example 1: Celebrity drug deaths. Michael Jackson died of an overdose of Propofol. If he didn't die that way, either we wouldn't be as aware of Propofol abuse as we are now, or some other famous person would have died in the same way. Erasing that tragedy from the timeline could have just postponed Jackson's untimely death since he already was an addict. Jackson's death also helped alert us to the tendency of some doctors to be enablers in their patients' addiction, contrary to the Hippocratic oath. Tragedy Example 2: Plane Crashes. The fatal plane crashes caused by malfunctions alert us to existing problems in plane design and help future engineers solve these problems. Current Mood:  contemplative |
| Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 |
| 6:57 pm |
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| Friday, February 10th, 2012 |
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| Sunday, January 29th, 2012 |
| 4:13 pm |
Time Travel
I really want a time machine. There are so many mysteries in the past that need to be solved. Who or what killed King Tut? Who was Kaspar Hauser? What happened to Jimmy Hoffa? Who was Saint Germain? And so much more. There are so many bad things in the past that needed to be averted. Current Mood:  discontent |
| Monday, August 1st, 2011 |
| 1:04 pm |
Weather
I wish this damn heatwave would end. it hasn't rained in days and my garden outside is practically begging for water. Current Mood:  annoyed |
| Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 |
| 11:49 am |
The sad state of Network television
I think it's time for fans of scripted shows like Chuck to say goodbye to network television and to boycott all network television. The ratings of scripted shows are low, the networks rely on reality television like Dancing with the Stars and formulaic scripted procedural shows like Law and Order or House to generate interest for Nielsen ratings viewers, and the networks still lose money. With NBC, shows with serial story arcs like Chuck or newer shows like Harry's Law are suffering in the ratings. I think it's time for NBC to give up on airing any scripted shows on Monday nights and to fill up their Monday night schedule with news programs or game shows. And EVERYONE should boycott the Nielsen ratings company. Current Mood: sad |
| Sunday, April 10th, 2011 |
| 6:12 pm |
Cats and new cat breeds: my opinion
I love cats. I would love to own several cats of different cat breeds. I wonder if Kansas City Kansas laws would let me own a Chausie or a Savannah cat. If the local laws don't permit people to own cat breeds like the Savannah (which is a hybrid between a wild cat species called the Serval and the domestic house cat Felis Catus), then the laws should be changed. As for the creation of new cat breeds from new mutations: In my opinion, these breeds should be allowed to thrive only if the mutant genes that create a breed's defining characteristics prove to be harmless to the animal and it's offspring. Curly coats, long hair, and variations in coat color and eye color are all harmless, in my layman's opinion. Rex breeds seem to be healthy, Longhaired breeds are healthy and any variation in coat or eye color do not generally seem to harm cats, apart from the deafness of blue-eyed white cats... which is undesirable but not lethal. On the other hand, the blue eye color of the new Ojos Azules breed DOES seem to be caused by a mutant gene that is directly responsible for inevitably and immediately fatal birth defects in cat fetuses that carry two copies of the gene, yet it seems harmless to cats that possess only one copy. A cat with only one copy seems healthy and has beautiful blue eyes, but the feline offspring that carry TWO copies of this mutated gene have such severe skull defects that they are born dead. This is tragic, because the gene causes a nonwhite cat of any color to have beautiful cornflower blue eyes comparable to the Siamese eye color. Clearly this Ojos Azules mutation may be a distorted variant of a gene vital for normal development, if it causes such drastic and fatal changes in a cat fetus. If the tendency towards birth defects cannot be bred out of the Ojos Azules breed, and the Ojos Azules mutation itself was investigated and categorized as a genetic disorder like sickle cell anemia/sickle cell trait, then the Ojos Azules breed cannot be categorized as a breed on it's own, but as simply another rare genetic syndrome. It would be interesting to see what the function of the normal version of this gene is, and how it plays a role in fetal development. I certainly regret that the Ojos Azules mutation could not become a new breed because of it's unfortunate tendency to cause birth defects. Perhaps if the mutant gene wasn't lethal in it's homozygous state (homozygous means possessing two identical copies of the same gene) it could be bred true and the Ojos Azules breed would be accepted. The beautiful eye color of the Ojos Azules cats that only have one Ojos Azules gene would be most desirable. Pity that the mutant gene itself doesn't come without risk. If there is an absolutely harmless gene that could create beautiful cornflower or sapphire blue eyes in a non-white, non-Siamese cat independent of it's coat color and WITHOUT the inherent dangers that the Ojos Azules syndrome causes, I wish that it would be found and bred true among the cat population. That hypothetical ideal blue-eyes gene that I wish would exist would be far superior to the Ojos Azules mutation and it also might not carry the risk of deafness that the dominant white gene has. Cat breeds |
| Saturday, April 9th, 2011 |
| 6:30 pm |
Calling ALL Nielsen viewers and Chuck fans!
Please watch Chuck LIVE on NBC Mondays at 8pm for the west Coast, 7pm for the Midwest to help Chuck's ratings. And DON'T change the channel to ABC, Fox, or CW midway through Chuck when it airs. It hurts Chuck's ratings when you change the channel to DTWS to see the results. Besides, Dancing with the Stars is stupid, and House is already going to be renewed anyway. Current Mood:  anxious |
| Saturday, November 27th, 2010 |
| 6:43 pm |
Tangled movie
Going to see Disney's Tangled on Sunday. Hope it's a really cool movie. Current Mood:  excited |
| Saturday, October 30th, 2010 |
| 4:52 pm |
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| Thursday, October 7th, 2010 |
| 6:54 pm |
question about RP account making
Can anyone tell me how to make a roleplaying account for communities like Milliways? I have some ideas about some characters I want to roleplay. Characters I want to roleplay are from the books of Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ursula K LeGuin and Frederick Pohl. I also might want to roleplay some characters from Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger trilogy. Current Mood:  curious |
| Thursday, April 30th, 2009 |
| 5:19 pm |
Swallows have arrived
Yesterday, I was out birdwatching. The barn swallows have arrived in Kans I have taken up birdwatching as a hobby. Not much else to say otherwise. Current Mood: calm |
| Friday, March 13th, 2009 |
| 6:48 pm |
bennu heron: Show me the evidence
I have heard that the prehistoric extinct Bennu Heron,(scientific name: Ardea bennuides) could be the basis for the Egyptian mythical Bennu phoenix. But I have not found any evidence on the Internet that this extinct species of bird ever existed beyond a footnote in the Wikipedia article of the Egyptian mythical bird. Someone should have fossil bones and eggs of this bird. And there should be reputable scientific articles and research about how this extinct species of heron (related to the purple heron and great blue heron) lived. Where is the evidence? Current Mood: curious |
| Friday, January 30th, 2009 |
| 7:15 pm |
Coraline
I hear the movie Coraline is coming soon. I want a Coraline doll. |
| Sunday, November 30th, 2008 |
| 2:49 pm |
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| Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 |
| 11:13 pm |
What do you think?
I want Steve Valentine (from Crossing Jordan and Estate of Panic) as the new Doctor Who! Steve Valentine as A goth Doctor would be AWESOME!! And David Tennant shouldn't have made the decision to leave before season 5, in my honest opinion. I feel that he betrayed the people who were trusting him to stay on for season 5. David, if you see this, you are making a serious mistake to not stay on for one more season. Shame on you, David! |
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| Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 |
| 12:17 am |
Mad.
Sorry for the rant, guys. |
| Saturday, November 8th, 2008 |
| 11:43 pm |
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