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Category: x-personal
Random and intermittent postings about life, the universe, etc..
Protected: The Krannert Way
I supposrt this mesage
As a firm believer that the idea of the giant squid is one of the coolest things ever created by nature, I really like the thought there there is now more squid mass on this planet than human mass.
The end
It’s over. And I can’t sleep. Though that would be because of my shoulder.
I’ve been reading Roomies / It’s Walky for almost five years now. It was probably the second or third web-comic I ever started reading, and now it’s over. And I’m kind of sad now. It was a long tale, and I got to really care about the characters. And the cartoonist would know just how to rip his audience’s hearts out at just the right moment. But I’m glad that the main characters finally got their happy ending. After all they went through, they deserved it.
If you’ve never seen or read It’s walky before, you should start. There’s over seven years of archived material there though, so take your time. And enjoy it. Because now you know. Now there really is an end.
Huge fish. Mega fish. Monster.
Monster fish washes ashore in New Zealand
If a fish like that ever washed up on the beach near my house, I’d run right home and grab my brother’s rifle, just in case.
Maybe get the cannon as well.
Protected: Goodbye Superman
Gah! Ants! Ants like I’ve never seen before
After riding home from the dock party at Krannert this afternoon, I chain my bike to the tree outside the apartment as usual, and I start to walk around the building to get to the front door. Two doors down from my back porch, I look down, and see the most incredible mass of insects I’ve ever seen. Looking closer, I see they’re ants. Small ants, big ants, big ants with wings. I’ve never seen this many ants before, not even in nature films. It is absolutely disgusting.
Since they show no signs of letting up, and are starting to try and get inside (which is weird, I thought when the males developed wings it was time to mate), I am boiling a kettle of salt water to try and disperse the nest. I hope this will do the trick.
Update: So, according to this site, wings really are for males and mating season. Which would also explain the pleasant pine scent I noticed when I went to dump the first pot of water on them.
Now, I admit that I hate bugs and insects of all kinds. They just make my skin crawl. But this was too much.
And you think that the guy in the apartment whose porch it is would care in the slightest. But he just stared at me blankly when I told him about the ants and my eradication techniques. Dumbass.
Protected: Fire, Take Two!!!
Neat! (Geeky)
So I submitted a link to BoingBoing, and Cory posted it. You can read it here http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/09/free_cerebus_for_let.html
I’ll post more later about my upcoming trip to the Thousand Islands and the Corning Museum of Glass.