As if my life really needed the excitement...

Why did I do it? I haven't quite analyzed my psyche long enough to actually divine the answer. I bought two Emu chicks. Is it a leftover of some childhood sadness over not getting a Easter chick? No...I don't think so...because Emu's are like Chickens on steroids in Texas. That can't be the reason. I believe I would classify it as more of one of those oddities that approach us in life. I chose to embrace the idea. No I am the proud surrogate parent of two Emu chicks. They are very cute...and they already can out run me in only 3 weeks. I named them Aussie and Sydney. Real original...My concern is not over them now...but what I am I going to do when they are 6 feet tall...and literally almost bullet proof. I have enough room...I know how to take care of them...but if I move...what will I do...I don't believe they allow Emu's as apartment pets. What a web we spin for ourselves? Most people when they fill the need for a little difference in their life...get their hair cut...dyed or go on vacation...I bought an two Emu chick...what does that say about me?

Don't answer that!
Goodnight Cyberspace...May life leave you well, happy and with out too much trouble.

Ever Wonder Why...

Ever wonder why you can never get something back into the package it came out of ? I can never get all of Christmas lights back in the box. No matter how hard I try. Well, guess what it's science, well...physics that is(sort of). If you carefully stack equal-sized marbles in a box, they will fill about 74% of its volume. Yet, if you dump them willy nilly into the box, they won't fill up more than about 64%. Honestly, no joke, no matter how much you shake the box or pound on it. Researchers have studied and measured this "random close packing" limit. No one for years could explain the phenomenon. Recently, a Russian team of researchers reports in the June Physical Review Letters that the "random close packing" limit is met each time all the marbles form tiny pyramid shapes. These pyramid shapes take up more space than the stacking does. The Russian study, many scientist postulate is a good starting point for describing the random, close-packed state mathematically, and may even help to explain why disordered solids called glasses freeze in a liquid-like state instead of forming a crystal. Modern researchers are not the first to explore this reasoning in 1611, Johannes Kepler estimated that crystalline objects couldn't be packed more densely than 74%. It took the next hundred years or so for scientists to discover and understand why. (http://focus.aps.org/story/v19/st18)

Diversity, True Beauty

Without the differences inherent in religion and culture, we would be a much more empty people. Here are a few interesting examples of interesting news stories that highlight cultural diversity, I found interesting.

New Japanese parents receiving a gift traditionally give a lesser one in return. Similar to the American custom of handing out cigars in the U.S...except they are not trying to give family members lung cancer. The Yoshimiya rice shop in Fukuoka recently created an traditional return gift: small bags of rice in the weight of the newborn, printed with a picture of its face and name, so that original gift-givers (relatives, friends) can experience cuddling, holding and loving on the newborn. This gift is quite practical because after cuddling the baby rice bag, the relatives can then set down to a nice meal of baby rice. The Yoshimiya's owner admitts some people might have a problem with that. [Reuters, 1-8-07]

"We sleep with the snakes (i.e. cobras), we eat with the snakes, we live with the snakes (but) we are not scared," said a 14-year-old girl in a rural village outside Calcutta, India. The village leader insists, "Whenever I lie down in my bed, a cobra will just slide on top of me, without hurting me." Its estimated more than 3,000 cobras live in these small villages, largely in peace. Very few bite victims (though a cobra bite is often fatal because villagers initially trust the gods and spirit doctors to treat them)are reported. Many villages so revere Cobras that they view bites as attacks by bad vipers or "nonresident" cobras [Wall Street Journal, 11-26-07]

I Tried it!

Diet Cherry Chocolate Dr. Pepper tastes like a cherry tootsie roll pop...mmm....I don't think it should be a soda...but it is truly interesting. On the Crosby show...Dr. Crosby...loved chocolate soda...now...I know what a hybrid of chocolate soda tastes like. I question the whole reasoning behind creating a soda that is suppose to taste like a chocolate covered cherry...Why? It must be part of the Valentine Conspiracy....

Have you Seen this?......I Have To Try It!

Have you seen this anywhere? WANTED: At least a bottle...to try. I am a die hard Diet Dr. Pepper fan. I tease that when they embalm me for the coffin...they will drain pure Diet Dr. Pepper from my veins. I loved Diet Cherry Vanilla and Berry Cream....but this I have to try. I am willing to pay someone to send me a bottle...Ha Ha...A friend said they were selling it on ebay...will it really come to that...will I have to purchase a bottle from ebay...I am not sure that is safe...buying soda from a person of ebay. That would definitely be a low. I can't find it anywhere in my area...how sad the day...when American capitalism fails to bring a fashionable soda to a willing customer...

Childhood Fears...Adult Nonesense!

There is a new show on the History channel called UFO hunters. I am watching it while I post. I can't believe the seriousness people show towards UFOs. Personally, I am not a believer in little green men or white beings with bulbous heads and huge black pearly eyes. But that wasn't always the case.

As a small child I was terribly afraid of them. I had nightmares of aliens that would rival the horrer movies on television. I had a very vivid imagination. I blame it all on my parents for watching X files and other alien movies. Can you believe my Dad told me about his own UFO experience....of seeing a fireball in the sky? Not to mention my Uncle who like all crazy Uncle's that are cross-country truck drivers had a few stories.

It got so bad....that when my My cousin bought me a little glow in the dark alien with blue sparkly eyes .... I kept it locked securely in a box in my dressor, because it frightened me. Oh how the tables have turned! Now I am a critical skeptic...that would find it hard to believe even if I saw one myself. Yet...am I truly honest with my self...to date the only three alien movies I have seen are Tommyknockers...Signs...and The War of the Worlds....

Do you think visiting a new blog every....

I mean the saying goes an apple a day keeps the docter away. Do you think visiting a new blog everyday and leaving a comment will increase traffic to my blog? Or maybe its a doomed operation? It could be subject matter. I do write about or post my own interests and ideas. It could be that others don't find it interesting...Oh well...this is mainly for my own enjoyment.