Hmm, let’s see. I’m short, curious, look perpetually young, am fearless, completely wanderlust, and have a strange talent for being able to get so far under someone’s skin that they become completely enraged and irrational.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kender#Taunting
I’m not sure I’ll live to see 100 years old, but the DnD peeps who conjured up this character must have had friends like me. bahaha
Maybe I should create “The Kender Test”.
gonzobrains
imagine one day someone says to you, “hey, the experts changed their minds, you are no longer homo sapien.”
pluto got this slap in the face as noted here:
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/04/10/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/
category reorganizations upon discovery of new information isn’t anything new. Just ask Isaac Newton and Einstein.
but it makes you wonder about everything else we believe in. what people consider sacrosanct today often ends up being tomorrow’s hogwash. so many silly beliefs in evil spirits and boogeymen making us ill have only been replaced with notions of germs, virii, and other microscopic baddies. okay, so they’re not completely invisible like demons and vapors, but they are still invisible to the naked eye. and nobody but today’s so-called experts still understand the true meaning of these concepts.
just ask anyone, what’s the difference between a germ and a virus? the average moron on the street probably can’t tell you. what’s the difference between cancerous agents and free radicals? what’s an electrolyte? what’s the difference between a vitamin and a mineral? what’s a vitamin for that matter? we all depend on these concepts yet nobody really knows what they are.
so, the international union of guys that stare into space through looking glasses have officially ripped pluto of its planetary status. as if pluto ever cared. it just keeps movin’ along like it always has. but it’s really important to these guys to make sure everything is properly boxed and labeled. although arguing over pluto isn’t a big deal to most, it’s scary to think how many critical decisions are made worldwide on a daily basis due to other items the so-called “experts” have mis-categorized. lawyers have field days over these sorts of matter (or anti-matter?).
maybe one day we’ll be able to step back far enough and look at the milky way and realize, hey, earth isn’t a planet either (after all, it was once thought not too long ago that everything in the universe revolved around earth). as bill in “bill and ted’s excellent adventure” once said, “we’re all dust in the wind, dude.”
well, i’m off to go get some “carbs and lean protein”.
gonzobrains
You know, I don’t personally need this, but I helped my lady friend go to sleep by making a rice sock. She absolutely refuses to take medicine of any kind, so I had to find a “homeopathic” way to solve the problem.
Fortunately I found this site:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Rice-Sock
So I grabbed an old athletic sock, poured some jasmine rice into it, tied a knot, heated it up in the microwave, and instantly became the hero witch doctor! bahaha.
Make sure if you try this at home you adhere to all the warnings that website mentions (like how to not catch your house on fire and how to not burn a sleeping patient with this cure).
Comments, anyone?
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