Monday, November 27, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Santa woke me up early.
Yes, its that time of year again...When santa clause shows up in my courtyard bright and early.
Friday, November 17, 2006
A pool filled with non-newtonian fluid
They filled a pool with a mix of cornstarch and water made on a concrete mixer truck. It becomes a non-newtonian fluid. When stress is applied to the liquid it exhibits properties of a solid.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Saturday out and about
Today we took back some shelf things to Home Depot...grabbed some other ones...went in to the new huge walmart store..to use the bathroom...and went out for dinner at the B&T....had our avacado shkes, springs rolls....
Drove home...just looking at the pics we took, updating our blog and scrap book...
Gonna watch a movie later....mehbee,.
nice relaxing saturday.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Reason number 133700555 why I love my wife.
One day at work..
Red showed up for lunch....
She looked upset and shaken.
I asked her
"are you okay baby? whats wrong>? you look upset."
Red looked at me with those eyes..
"We need to get into the car " she said.
I was a lil scared.....
cuz I saw how upset she was...
I held her hand as we walked out to the car ,
got in
and started it up.
" Honey, are you okay?" I asked.
" I hit a butterfly .....on the way to get you, I hit a butterfly.
We should go back and see if its okay." she said.
Red looked as if she was about to cry.
She might as well have hit a child at a cross walk on the first day of school in her mind.
It was the first thing she had killed with our car.
Our car had killed before.
with an absence of malice.
I didnt wake up one morning intent on killing a gopher.
and yet...
I killed a gopher one morning on the way to work.
"ok baby" I said, as I started the car.
"lets go find it"
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Cool NEWS:: Elephants self-aware!!
Elephants' jumbo mirror ability
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Elephant mirror tests US researchers made the discovery by studying the behaviour of Asian elephants in front of a tall mirror.
One of the animals repeatedly touched a white cross painted on her forehead - a classic test used to assess mirror self-recognition in children and apes.
The study is reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"We see highly complex behaviours such as self awareness and self-other distinction in intelligent animals with well-established social systems," said Joshua Plotnik, from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
"The social complexity of the elephant, its well-known altruistic behaviour and, of course, its huge brain, made the elephant a logical candidate species for testing in front of a mirror."
'X' marks the spot
Many animals will respond to a mirror but very few show any evidence that they recognise themselves in the reflection.
Canines, for example, will react to the "other dog" and will even look behind the mirror to try to find it.
'Happy' passed the 'X' test
The Asian elephants in this study also displayed this type of behaviour when standing in front of a 2.5m-by-2.5m mirror - they inspected the rear and brought food close to the mirror for consumption.
But one of the elephants, called "Happy", went to the next level: she began repeatedly touching a painted "X" on her head with her trunk.
The mark could only be seen in the mirror, and the elephant ignored another mark made with colourless paint that was also on her forehead to ensure she was not merely reacting to a smell or feeling.
While only one elephant passed the mark-touching test, the researchers note that fewer than half of chimpanzees tested typically pass this test.
A clever club
"Elephants have been tested in front of mirrors before but previous studies used relatively small mirrors kept out of the elephants' reach," said Plotnik.
"This study is the first to test the animals in front of a huge mirror they could touch, rub against and try to look behind."
Few animals show self-awareness
Co-researcher Frans de Waal said: "As a result of this study, the elephant now joins a cognitive elite among animals commensurate with its well-known complex social life and high level of intelligence.
"Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities, making complex social systems and intelligence part of this picture.
"These parallels between humans and elephants suggest a convergent cognitive evolution possibly related to complex sociality and cooperation."
The study, conducted with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), used elephants housed at the Bronx Zoo in New York.
Saturday, November 04, 2006
The Friendly Giant set.,deconstructionists at work,all day breakfast, pack up, hand in the key, drive Red Home, saw a car accident. Fun day!
Thursday, November 02, 2006
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