Yummy Wakame Weblog

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?
Wow I got 10/10! Usually Im useless at these quiz things.

(Thanks for the link Hamlet!)

Alphabeticalobsession and yummywakame shared the same frame of reference today:

“this is what happens when things are disordered:

maybe I should begin with the interview the psychiatrist. the room is small and I feel afraid. I can see him a long way off as if im looking the wrong way down a telescope.
‘would you like to tell me what happened?’
(don’t answer it’s a trick question)
‘quid? what is going on?’
I want to know the correct response, the words which will get me out of here but I don’t know the script. The telescope is getting longer, I can hardly see his face.
I say: ‘I want to know if you and I are in the same world, how I can connect with you. maybe I made you up, maybe you inhabit one world and I another, how can I know the truth?’”

Kenya: 84-year-old schoolboy (photo) faces expulsion for being “too disruptive”.

Parents say that Mr. Maruge – who was top of his class last year – has become a teacher’s pet and have questioned his grades.

“If I am expelled I will surely die,” said Mr Maruge who is planning to sue the British Government for alleged abuse during the 1950s Mau Mau rebellion.

I love sleep. Its utterly delicious to totally let go and completely relax for a couple of hours… and then the dreams come.

You may take it for granted, but this man hasn’t been able to sleep for 20 years!

Thai elephants toilet trained
“Some seven elephants at the privately run camp beside Chiang Mai Zoo are being trained to sit like a human on the giant white toilets, which can be flushed by pulling on a rope with a gentle tug of the trunk.”

Cute pic!

This is why my friend Kat is a double hard woman plus she has real fangs! … man what a cool story!

While men mope in bed with the sniffles feeling all sorry for themselves, women get on with it. There’s no time considering your typical woman is bred to raise 2 kids (+ 1 husband), climb the corporate ladder 6 days a week 7 – 7, use lunch to pick up the kids, pretty much do all the housework and somehow still manage to not to look like weathered-out old bag lady at the end of the day.

Not that I condone going into zombie mode and joining the giant killing machine that is the armed forces, compared to women, men just aren’t cut out to be soldiers. They’re just too soft and whiney. I’d choose a woman for the job any day. Got flu, a bit of radiation poisoning, broken neck? No problem. Women also wouldn’t go around raping women and killing children for kicks either. Physical strengh? A high-protein diet with weights and endurance training are enough prep. And don’t forget women’s intuition – invaluable in crisis mode for making quick and crucial decisions. Men aren’t bad, but women rock!

Tsunami folklore ‘saved islanders’
BBC NEWS: “Traditional knowledge handed down from generation to generation helped to save ancient tribes on India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the worst of the tsunami.

The aboriginal tribes – some of the oldest and most isolated in the world – have oral traditions apparently developed from previous earthquakes that may have allowed them to escape to higher ground before the massive tsunami struck the island chain off Indonesia.

The Onge tribe, for example, have lived on Little Andaman for between 30,000 and 50,000 years and, though they are on the verge of extinction, almost all of the 100 or so people left seem to have survived the 26 December quake and the devastating waves which followed. Their folklore talks of “huge shaking of ground followed by high wall of water”. When the earthquakes struck, the Onges moved to higher ground deep inside their forest and escaped the fury of the waves that entered the settlements.”

Another aboriginal people – the Jarawa on South and Middle Andaman – also fled to higher ground before the waves.”

Boy cuttlefish ‘dress as girls’
Diminutive Giant Australian Cuttlefish males have taken to pretending to be female to elbow out larger love rivals.

“We found that female mimickers could successfully deceive the consort male and that they were able to position themselves near the female in 30 out of 62 attempts.”
~ Dr Roger Hanlon

Man constructs 18-foot-tall mecha (pic)
It will shoot nine-inch nails from the shoulders and 20-foot flames from forearms!

“The red backlit eyes of his 18-foot hydraulic mecha – please don’t call it a robot – will glow, but they’re just for show. Five cameras will be the real eyes, allowing the operator riding inside the steel contraption to see via a laptop computer and flatscreen monitor rigged inside.”

Stopping light gives atoms a memory
“The ability to stop light using shock-waves in gas could write information onto atoms at specific locations, aiding quantum computing.

In recent years, innovative quantum tricks have slowed down light, even stopping it altogether. Now by switching the light source off at the right time it might be possible to use “slow light” as a new way to store information for use in quantum communications and computing.”