starlings

When I am at work I spend much of my day on digg.com (multitasking while troubleshooting), and I found this article that I thought was pretty cool. There is this Scottish border town to which thousands of starlings are flocking to.. Starlings are pretty amazing, a few days ago I read that Starlings flock successfully by tracking 7 other birds near them resulting in their successfully not ruining formation by knocking into everyone else. I wish I lived closer to Scotland so that I could experience this, it looks pretty amazing and beautiful, however I am a country and an ocean away where the only birds we see flock are Canadian Geese.

And an update since my last posts to which I was having a difficult time with angry customers clashing with my anxiety/bi-polar-ness.. I just had a lovely and very fulfilling call. I didn't fix the issue because it turned out to be a computer issue, however the customer told me that it was a lovely experience working with me and seemed very happy. I am so thankful for customers like this as they are a dime a dozen.

recent developements

I really don't like people.

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=283931&p=1

I'd write more of my thoughts however I am at work and feel that pro-choice blogging would be inappropriate inthis environment. Maybe when I am at home.

canned cheeseburger

Did you know they made cheese burgers in a can? Well they do.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&postid=339037869#post339037869

http://gizmodo.com/350091/cheeseburger-in-a-can-is-both-the-best-and-worst-thing-ive-ever-seen

sterile produce sterile offspring

"Fourthly, how can we account for species, when crossed, being sterile and producing sterile offspring, whereas, when varieties are crossed, their fertility is unimpaired?"
-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, Chapter VI Page 213

Maybe it is just 6 in the morning after an evening of no sleep but on one hand this sentence seems to make no sense to me however at the same time I understand what is being said perfectly. It's the "being sterile and producing sterile offspring" bit that really throws me off because, in literal terms, how can one be sterile and yet produce offspring? However at the same time I understand that what this most probably means is that after cross breeding the first generation may not be effected however it may be the second or third generations that show the negative effects of cross breeding. I can see how this sentence could be confusing however to someone whom possesses a limited knowledge of the effects of cross breeding.. Wouldn't it be important in writing a nearly 700 page book based upon one's life work to produce very concise literature be the utmost of importance?

Don't get me wrong, I love Charles Darwin. I have a Darwin fish on the back of my car. It's just something I caught, and I wanted to write my thoughts about the subject out.