sunglasses, sneakers, and Ophiophagus hannah...
so i'm sitting here at 3am grading parasitology outlines (amazing how much i have become desensitized to the somehwhat disturbing material we cover in this class...tapeworm several meters long, blood sucking bats, malaria, Lyme disease, blood flukes, and catfish that swim up one's urethra) and listening to (believe it or not) the curious george soundtrack. now i really don't like monkeys, and i will probably never see the movie, but i got the soundtrack from a friend about a month or so ago and it's actually really good. it's taken me quite some time to come around regarding jack johnson, but i like this album...even if it does put me to sleep a lot of the time.
now for the bullets, as i have to get back to work shortly:
- it's officially a pathological problem...i am addicted to sunglasses. if it were socially acceptable (and it weren't so dangerous in really dark conditions) i would probably wear sunglasses all the time. yup, that ray-ban vampire commercial hit me and my sister pretty hard back in the day and therefore we believe we need to wear them all the time in order to avoid bursting into flames. it's either that or i really do just have a low tolerance for light. in fact, direct sunlight inevitably makes me sneeze.
so yeah, the obssession with wearing sunglasses has been seriously further complicated by the introduction to steepandcheap.com (thanks damon & james) since they have wholesale prices on all kinds of outdoors stuff (including sunlight protection gear) and i've already bought two pairs from them. tonight makes a third. hey, i needed a good pair of polarized lenses to throw away into the river this summer, so i figured, why stick with the safe $8 meijer polarized lenses when i can just throw away something more valuable for a carp or gar to pick up and more effectively hunt crap or fishes (respectively)? i haven't bought a good pair of polarized lenses since i lost my first good pair off a bridge in undergrad during a biophotography field trip. i was going to shoot (photograph, not the projectile) a bird or some other creature and set my glasses on the bridge...a gust of wind comes by and WHOOSH! the sunglasses go over and into the water...there is now a catfish somewhere down there with really good daylight vision. ever since then i have purchased the cheap pairs for field work since i tend to lose them in similar circumstances...sometimes even with the safety band in use. oh yeah, and i think it would be really cool to get those shark eye contact lenses like the former bass player from limp bizkit...that should seriously freak people out.
- "it's about the information!!!" or so ben kingsley says in the movie sneakers (which came out in the mid 90s. does anyone else remember this movie? i loved it! what a great ensemble cast with robert redford, sidney poitier, dan aykroyd, james earl jones, river phoenix, mary mcdonnell and several others. in my opinion it was ahead of its time with its plot about information being the new true wealth and commodity. it's definitely true today, and i thought of it earlier since i'm usually OCD when it comes to finding out as much info as possible on subjects/topics that i am truly interested in. and to think i don't even own this movie...i'm going to have to get it. i do know how to play the main theme (by james horner) on the piano & saxophone though.
- i was watching CNN this evening and it turns out that some guy in malaysia broke the 'cobra kissing record' today. the previous record for literally kissing a cobra was 11 times. apparently this guy was going for 15, but found himself on a roll, and after 3 minutes had kissed the cobra FIFTY-ONE TIMES!!! and this was no micro-sized venomous snake either, it was a 15-foot long King Cobra...which also happens to be my favorite snake. nerd-time: i was probably about 5 when i learned of the existence of this snake from both the books i had been reading and from my grandpa who used to tell me about all the snakes he encountered in India. the king cobra easily became my favorite, and i had the latin name forever ingrained into my brain in about two seconds, Ophiophagus hannah...the largest venomous snake in the world. this apparently goes with the trend i had established as T-rex is my favorite dinosaur and the alligator gar (one of the largest freshwater fishes in the world, and quite menacing looking) favorite fish (i guess bigger, meaner, and just plain evil-looking were always my preference...which is why i always wanted Sauron, Darth Vader, Cobra Commander, Megatron and Hamburglar to win). funny thing (as a herp-nerd) is that the king cobra is phylogenetically not even a true cobra...oh well, it EATS other cobras as part of its main diet.
anyway, let's get back to the degree of insanity this guy must have been facing to want to kiss the cobra 51 times...OR even one time for that matter. if i could pull it off once, i would be happy...why go for a second, or 49 more times? major props to Shahimi Abdul Hamid though.
ok that's all for now, i need to get back to work. i hope you are all having a good week, my quest for accomplishing work is quickly becoming red bull-dependent...someone please stop me if half that 24-pack is gone by the end of the week.
oh, and a very belated shout out to sunny, sarah, seema, janine, and ricky for participating in the blog survey i posted a while back. way to go the extra mile in wasting time kids; it makes me proud. good night and good luck <:><
now for the bullets, as i have to get back to work shortly:
- it's officially a pathological problem...i am addicted to sunglasses. if it were socially acceptable (and it weren't so dangerous in really dark conditions) i would probably wear sunglasses all the time. yup, that ray-ban vampire commercial hit me and my sister pretty hard back in the day and therefore we believe we need to wear them all the time in order to avoid bursting into flames. it's either that or i really do just have a low tolerance for light. in fact, direct sunlight inevitably makes me sneeze.
so yeah, the obssession with wearing sunglasses has been seriously further complicated by the introduction to steepandcheap.com (thanks damon & james) since they have wholesale prices on all kinds of outdoors stuff (including sunlight protection gear) and i've already bought two pairs from them. tonight makes a third. hey, i needed a good pair of polarized lenses to throw away into the river this summer, so i figured, why stick with the safe $8 meijer polarized lenses when i can just throw away something more valuable for a carp or gar to pick up and more effectively hunt crap or fishes (respectively)? i haven't bought a good pair of polarized lenses since i lost my first good pair off a bridge in undergrad during a biophotography field trip. i was going to shoot (photograph, not the projectile) a bird or some other creature and set my glasses on the bridge...a gust of wind comes by and WHOOSH! the sunglasses go over and into the water...there is now a catfish somewhere down there with really good daylight vision. ever since then i have purchased the cheap pairs for field work since i tend to lose them in similar circumstances...sometimes even with the safety band in use. oh yeah, and i think it would be really cool to get those shark eye contact lenses like the former bass player from limp bizkit...that should seriously freak people out.
- "it's about the information!!!" or so ben kingsley says in the movie sneakers (which came out in the mid 90s. does anyone else remember this movie? i loved it! what a great ensemble cast with robert redford, sidney poitier, dan aykroyd, james earl jones, river phoenix, mary mcdonnell and several others. in my opinion it was ahead of its time with its plot about information being the new true wealth and commodity. it's definitely true today, and i thought of it earlier since i'm usually OCD when it comes to finding out as much info as possible on subjects/topics that i am truly interested in. and to think i don't even own this movie...i'm going to have to get it. i do know how to play the main theme (by james horner) on the piano & saxophone though.
- i was watching CNN this evening and it turns out that some guy in malaysia broke the 'cobra kissing record' today. the previous record for literally kissing a cobra was 11 times. apparently this guy was going for 15, but found himself on a roll, and after 3 minutes had kissed the cobra FIFTY-ONE TIMES!!! and this was no micro-sized venomous snake either, it was a 15-foot long King Cobra...which also happens to be my favorite snake. nerd-time: i was probably about 5 when i learned of the existence of this snake from both the books i had been reading and from my grandpa who used to tell me about all the snakes he encountered in India. the king cobra easily became my favorite, and i had the latin name forever ingrained into my brain in about two seconds, Ophiophagus hannah...the largest venomous snake in the world. this apparently goes with the trend i had established as T-rex is my favorite dinosaur and the alligator gar (one of the largest freshwater fishes in the world, and quite menacing looking) favorite fish (i guess bigger, meaner, and just plain evil-looking were always my preference...which is why i always wanted Sauron, Darth Vader, Cobra Commander, Megatron and Hamburglar to win). funny thing (as a herp-nerd) is that the king cobra is phylogenetically not even a true cobra...oh well, it EATS other cobras as part of its main diet.anyway, let's get back to the degree of insanity this guy must have been facing to want to kiss the cobra 51 times...OR even one time for that matter. if i could pull it off once, i would be happy...why go for a second, or 49 more times? major props to Shahimi Abdul Hamid though.
ok that's all for now, i need to get back to work. i hope you are all having a good week, my quest for accomplishing work is quickly becoming red bull-dependent...someone please stop me if half that 24-pack is gone by the end of the week.
oh, and a very belated shout out to sunny, sarah, seema, janine, and ricky for participating in the blog survey i posted a while back. way to go the extra mile in wasting time kids; it makes me proud. good night and good luck <:><
posted by Solomon at 3:06 AM
1 Comments:
let's face it, deep down inside you really only wanted hamburglar to win NOT because he was a villain, but because he wore a cape.
and we all know how much you love wearing your cape. in fact i think last tuesday i saw you wandering down washtenaw with it on. and yeah, come to think of it your sunglasses were on as well.
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