Greatest show ever.

I've been watching Babylon 5 over the last few weeks. This is perhaps one of the best shows I've ever seen. From the first season it is one of the best writing I've seen. Unlike some other shows, who are really mediocore in their first seasons, and leave alot of things left open. We watched it when I was living with one of my friends, the same friend that I'm borrowing the DVDs from. We watched every episode, though I don't really remember the series that well. The computer graphics on the show are outstanding, specially since they show dates from the early 90s. I would have to say it's probably the greatest sci-fi I've ever seen. Though I've been told DS9 is supposed to be one of the better ST shows.

I hate UPS.

So I'm waiting for my laptop, it was supposed to delievered on Tuesday, it was. Sort of. I wasn't home so they said it'd be delievered the next day. The know damn well that if a tenat is not home the front office can sign for it. Well the damn driver didn't do that. So I called and said that I'd come pick it up. So I was going to do it after lab but unfortunately I didn't leave in time. So I get home and there is a note on my door saying the office signed for it. So I'm like what the fuck they were supposed to leave it at the distro center. But no they delievered it. So tomorrow morning I get to go pick up my laptop and start installing YDL on it. Man I can't wait!

Well I tried to set up the page a bit differently, since I really hated that orange color. I mean dear lord it was ugly. It's ok now but if I ever feel ambitious I'll probably make some more changes to it.

So it's Mardi Gras time in the south, and damn do I hate it. I don't think anyone down here really knows why they are celebrating it. I mean it's just like St. Patrick's Day, just an excuse to get drunk and throw beads at people. So of course I had to go collect algae exactly where they were going to do one of the larger parades in the area. Holy fuck were there alot of people. I mean we drove the entire length of the beach and about a block from a state park is where the end of the rows of cars for parking were. It was hellaous driving, I don't know how many people I almost hit because 1) they were stupid enough to walk in the MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING STREET or 2) they would just decide hey there is a car coming let me step out NOW to cross the street. Insane. So collecting was nice, it was a nice warm day the water was warmer than it was last time we went collecting. One of the people I invited along studied algae at the University of Kiev which was really cool. She went out into the water and knew what she was doing, damn was it a turn on. Unfortunately she has a boyfriend who is russian. But he is out of the state so maybe she might be lonely. Actually I wouldn't do anything, I really don't have the time for a relationship, though it was a turn on collecting algae with her.

We went to the local fort, which is an old spanish fort that protected the bay from invaders. It was the first time I had been out since I had dated Blythe, we went there for my birthday. And it was the first time I had ventured to the far side of the park and actually seen the fort. It was quite interesting. So we went collecting and the water was a bit colder here than it was at the place we were at earlier in the day. There was a little boy playing in the water, and he was soaked to the bone in this cold water. He was playing on the rocks that we were collecting from. He asked me what I was collecting and I said I was collecting algae. And he goes I can find you some and started pointing at random stuff, well his sister, who was just a bit older, maybe 5, asks me why I would be collecting algae. It was the funniest thing because she thought it was disgusting.

The end of the botanical Sciences

Today the University of West Florida held the regional Science Fair. Since Dr. Winter is asked every year to judge the Botany section of it, she asked that I would also help judge. So I spent my night looking at the projects from middle school and high school students.

So I get to the Science Fair and receive my packet of information. I see about 16 projects dealing with Botany, the funny thing is there are about 5 different projects, since this is regionals most of the students do not know each other. It turns out to be really repetitive since they are all the same. Of course there are a few that were just horrible and then a few that were decent. Out of the 16 I would really say that only one student was truly enjoying doing Botany as a project. I mean how hard is it to do a light experiment with plants?? Looking at the other sections of the fair, Botany was dwarfed. Which is unfortunate because all the people in my classes the only reason they are taking the botany courses are because they are required by the school. Which is a shame, out of the entire biology department there are about 4 Botany Grad students, of which 2 are about to graduate, leaving myself and another person. Not looking good for the future of botany. After talking with Dr. Winter and Dr. Fox, I have learned that many of the botany programs around the country are being incorporated into other programs. Hell UWF doesn't even have a botany program anymore, they decided not enough people were taking it. See people care more about animals then they do plants, shit look at what you eat and you'll notice the majority of it is plant products. You have organizations like those terrorist fucks PETA, don't harm the animals but let's cut down acres of trees, we don't need to fucking breath. Granted 80% of the worlds oxygen comes from the cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae. You can cut down the rainforest, you will lose probably hundreds of species of plants and animals that may have some kind of medicinal benefit.

Well enough of that rant there.

"Friends"

So you wonder who your friends are. You have really good friends from high school, you hung out all the time together, spent a ton of hours playing RPGs. And yet you leave to go to school, which you're the only person to do so out of your group of friends. Yeah some went off to school but none of the left the state for 4 years. You would think that when you came back for winter breaks and what not they would want to see you, but alas that is not the case. So you think to yourself excuse me for leaving to learn and damn I'm sorry I left the state to pursue knowledge. You shrug it off and then graduate. So you think to yourself once again hell I think I'll come home and work and it will be like old times. Wrong again, hell they don't even recognize you when you walk by them. So you work alot to make up for it and then find other friends. And then decide fuck this I'm wasting my time working, I really want to pursue my education further. So you decide to leave and then all of a sudden they are like man it going to suck not having you around. And you think to yourself what the fuck, if that is the case then you could have called, not hard to pick up the damn phone now is it, of course you forget to mention that you tried several fucking times but they just ignore you. Shit one friend leaves the country and they talk to him more than they do you.

Then one friend decides to get married, and they have your address, or so you would think. And you think to yourself will you get an invitation? Probably not. Will you really care? Not really. Would you go if you got one? No. Why?? Because you get tired of being treated like shit, even when you tried, so you think to yourself fuck it.

Enter the Dragon

So I've watched my first Bruce Lee movie ever. Well unless you want to count the Bruce Lee Movie as one of them. I must say I've never seen one man move so fast. Jesus, he could move. And the one scene in which he is training, I've never seen such a honed body. I'd be more scared of him in a dark alley than a hulking monster of a body builder.

I'll post more once I finish the movie.

Why oh why must it suck??

So I've watched the first two Star Wars movies. That is Episode IV and V, since I consider those that were produced first as the first ones. Just watching them I find them so clearly superior over the last two, i.e. Episode I and II. The movies overall just flow better than the newer ones. Their stories and dialog are ten times better, and even though Mark Hammil isn't the greatest actor, his perfomace was much better than the wooden acting that Hayden Christenian. I mean you could build a house with his acting, perhaps it wasn't his acting but the crappy dialog of the most recent movie. So my question is what possessed Lucas to totally fuck up his most recent two movies?? Why can't there be any consistency?? I know this is years to late but damn, Episode III better make my happy and actually be decent.

The Water is Damn Cold

So I went to collect some algae today with two co-TAs. We were collecting some seaweed from a few local points. Of course it had to be the drearest crappiest day of the week. It was about 52 out, which is damn cold for Florida, well actually it's about average for this time of year. The water temp was about 56 degrees, which is damn cold considering it'll get about 75-80 during the summer. In order to collect the seaweed I needed to be in knee deep water. Let me say I lost feeling in my legs pretty damn quickly, along with being breezy out it didn't make for a great day. But we did get alot of samples, so hopefully they will turn out somewhat decent. I did get to drive a Surburban that the school has for such purposes. It was quite interesting, for the most part we got a decent gas mileage. Other than that it wasn't to bad of a day.