| february
12th, 2005 |
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the gallery of regrettable food!!
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html
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TRIPE!!!!
again btripp shows me the tripe factory!
a company dedicated only to "tripe"
and why do they call cow stomaches "tripe"?
where did that word come from?
from their site:
"Tripe, a general term for beef stomach, consists of four parts. Owing
to the demand of the products, The Tripe Factory Corp. processes and packages
three of the four parts, namely the
Rumen Tripe, Honeycomb Tripe and Omasum Tripe. The fourth part, the Abomasum
Tripe will only be prepared on request."
what is the 4th only made on request?
weird!!!!!!!!!!
the earth is WEIRD!!! humans are
WEIRD!!!
i am weirded out immensely!!! this is bizarre!
i feel like an endorian meeting a klingon for the 1st time!
11:58pm
wow! thank to btripp
for the facinating link. i want to see this in person very much!!
http://www.msichicago.org/bodyworlds/index.html
an incredible....well...i can't explain it just go to that link! wow!
body facts:
More than half the bones in your body are located in your hands and feet.
There is enough iron in the human body to make one small nail.
Women blink almost twice as much as men.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
Beards are the fastest growing hair. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it could grow to 30 feet over the course of his lifetime.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails and your middle fingernail is the quickest one to grow. It takes about 150 days to grow out a full length fingernail.
Your brain continues to send out electrical wave signals approximately 37 hours after death.
The nervous system transmits messages to the brain at speeds of 180 miles per hour.
The human nose can remember 50,000 different smells.
The human eye can detect more than 10,000,000 different colors!
Your jawbone is the hardest bone in your body.
When you were born, you had 350 bones in your body, and after childhood 144 of these bones fused together.
Your brain stops growing when you are about 15 years old.
Laughing and coughing put more pressure on the spine than walking or standing.
Your stomach produces a new lining every 3 days in order to avoid digesting itself in its own production of acid.
About every seven years, your body replaces the equivalent of an entirely new skeleton.
The spinal cord is less then two feet in length and is the same diameter as your index finger, yet it contains over 10 billion nerve cells.
Blood type A can receive blood types A & O safely. Blood type B can receive types B & O. Blood type O can receive only O blood but are "universal donors" because O is acceptable to all other blood types. Blood type O is the most common blood type worldwide.
The eye muscle is the fastest reacting muscle of the whole body. It contracts in less than 1/100th of a second.
It takes approximately 200,000 frowns to create one permanent brow line.
Your eyesight is the sharpest in the middle of the day.
6:30pm
6:03pm
went food shopping a bit. started
making a soup and something was on the burner and caused my smoke alarm to
go off. hella loud! it was good for me to get out of the house because i was
feeling depressed with my headache, neck ache, back ache, and period. so moving
about outsode for a bit helped, ay least psychologically.
it was really warm out. 49 degrees. i saw people sitting outside at the picnic
table at dairy queen. a very off sight for a minnesota february!
yay global warming!
i also got a switcher thing so can just switch cameras with a button when
i am in the thing room.
no sense really having the thing room cam on in there when nothing is happening
in there anyway.
but now i can just click it on. so, i will set that all up later.
my dad sent me a sweet valentine's card and a little teddy bear and a $50
bill, which went staright to jason because i owed him 50 bucks *sigh*
i saw some weird meat things at the food store, like beef TRIPE! never saw
that before. it looked like some sort
crystalline structure fungi thing. but i asked a woman next to me who looked
like she might know what it is and she said it is intestines! it sure did
not look like intestines. it looked like a pretty honeycomb crsytalline white
rock or mushroom fungus thing. it was so pretty and delicate. i wanted to
buy it but didn't.
it's so cool how the things inside bodies mirror things that are outside of
bodies. like when you look down at the ground when you are high up in a plane
and the formations of rivers and deserts and lakes and hills and mountains
and this looks so much like a slice of meat sometimes, the veins and the stripes
of fat and the sinew and bone.
as above, so below.
everytime i walk past the meat section
i am thoroughly morbidly fascinated with it all. it's so completely gross
and violent but at the same time so amazingly beautiful.
it's just always surreal to me to see what looks like could be MY body, all
sliced and diced and weighed. so deeply red.
and all the patterns in the meat. it's beautiful and so obscene.
all of what was hidden lay bare and categorized.
so utterly vulnerable and helpless and dead, but yet still so full of SOME
sort of life, somehow. all the DNA still intact, containing in it all the
codes to life. maybe even all the memories of each animal.
http://webusers.xula.edu/bpeverso/days/011027/hi/tripe.jpg
12:34pm
my neck still hurts :(
today i'm going to go to radioshack with jason to get a little switcher box
so i can switch between cams.
then i can just click a button for it to switch to the cam in the the thing
room instead of having to deal with this koolkam programme scewing up my chillcam
programme.
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Horoscope for Aries (February 12 2005)
Everything is looking good, so don't take chances. If you gauge your moves carefully and don't overstep your limits, you will be able to manipulate whatever situation you find yourself in. Today is about timing.
and
The first few steps that you take are more important than all your prior planning. Be careful about which way you are facing, for that is the direction your new journey will take. Even if you feel that you are in control, don't bite off more than you can chew. Keep it simple and you will have the best chance for success.
and
Buried tensions **
Be extremely careful of your tendency toward moody irritability at this time.
You are very subject to outbreaks of irrational and compulsive behavior that
will not serve your best interests. You may find yourself snapping at someone
for almost no reason. Close domestic relationships are the most likely theater
for your fireworks. It will be harder to deal with your loved ones because
of the ferment in your own mind at this time. On the other hand, long-buried
tensions may surface now and demand to be handled. The problem is that they
may surface in such a way that you cannot readily figure out where they have
come from. Frustrated energies in disguised form mean that you should not
take emotional upheaval at face value during this time. The tensions are significant,
but not what they seem.