Been a while

So it's been a while. What's new? Almost nothing interresting. :)

Still with Aiste, going pretty well actually. Not only did we pass the weekend mark (in my past, thats an accomplishment :) ), we've almost got the three month mark.

So Mayofest came, was good, Tiff, Anu and El moved away. :(

Ademir had a birthday last week. It was good times. Though he decree that there will be no penis pictures on his camera, which proceded to a good portion of the night being preoccupied wiht taking penis pictures. In the end, I guess it was rather awkward for that random guy to walk in on four of us with a camera, all hanging out getting ready for a picture. But what can you do.

School's super busy :( Even with only three days a week. Em's all mad at me (the only possibl reason could be through miss-interpretation.)

Oh, found out some really cool things,

• In experiments where scientists have done really messed up things like put mouse eye dna into flies, the results always come out normal, like, in that one, the fly just grew a fly eye.
• We're technically in a mild ice age now.
• In a 9.4 earthquake in Prince Edward Sound or something in Alaska, though it was powerful enough to knock water out of pools (aparently) in texas, the glaciors above it were unaffected.
• There is living bacteria in hot giesors that can live to temporatures of 120 degrees celcius. There are even bacteria i nthe ground that feed off metals and are through responsible for todays large metal deposits. Crazy

• Interestingly, the amount of genetic material and how it is organized doesn’t necessarily, or even generally, reflect the level of sophistication of the creature that contains it. We have forty-six chromosomes, but some ferns have more than six hundred. The lungfish, one of the least evolved of all complex animals, has forty times as much DNA as we have. Even the common newt is more genetically splendorous than we are, by a factor of five.

• There is more difference between a zebra and a horse, or between a dolphin and a porpoise, than there is between you and the furry creatures your distant ancestors left behind when they set out to take over .

• Over 60 percent of human genes, it turns out, are fundamentally the same as those found in fruit flies. At least 90 percent correlate at some level to those found in mice. (We even have the same genes for making a tail, if only they would switch on.) In field after field, researchers found that whatever organism they were working on—whether nematode worms or human beings—they were often studying essentially the same genes. Life, it appeared, was drawn up from a single set of blueprints.

All this was from the book A Short History Of Nearly Everything, good book

Well, if you read this, and don't think it was worth the time it took: Here's a funny picture of Dom crying.