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Hokay. So I have a feeling the remainder of my winter break is going to be very unsatisfactory. There is no where to go and no way of getting there. I get that "Oh we should really hang out before we go back to school." but I am not satisfied at the mere notion of doing something. I tell people to call but my orders go unlistened to.
I'm reading two books and they are extremely good. My favorite of the two is "Prey" by Micheal Crichton. It's about an experiment in the desert that has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles (micro-robots, or microbots) has escaped from the laboratory. The cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator to keep it goal oriented and it is evolving at a rapid pace, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed and we are the prey.
The other book I am reading is for chemistry. It's called the Cobra Event. It focuses on biological weapons and is also a very good book. A terrorist has released a biological agent and it is killing people. The virus is as contagious as the common cold and is gotten either from another person or inhaled directly. It causes a painful death including blood blisters in all external openings (and I do mean ALL) and arc de circle seizures. An arc de circle seizure is different from a regular one. In a regular seizure your body remains straight and rigid but in an arc de circle seizure the body forms a "C." The abdomen is thrust into the air arching the spine until the heels and head touch supporting all body weight until the spine snaps. The cause of death is a swelling in the brain which is so intense it pushes against the inside of the victims skull crushing the middle brain, causeing the victim to return to a primitive, violent state during this ordeal. Often times they will just eat parts of themself including their fingers, lips tounges and the insides of their mouth. I almost threw up on more than one occation because of the graphic nature and descriptiveness of the book and I am only about halfway through. Ick. I like it because it has that sense of impending doom but is at the same time plausable.
This one dimension of myself
has hurt the ones I love
and I've come to shut you out
and the God I fear above
And I will make my way,
through the lines drawn on the floor
It goes away so quickly now but I've been gone before
And everything I do,
and everything I say,
They come in conflict
even as I sing this song today
And I know I've let you down,
please know it's not your fault
because knowing you has made me halfway decent by default
So let me go and fall asleep
When I wake up it wont be me
So let me go and fall asleep
When I wake up it wont be
No it won't be me
And everything I do,
and everything I say,
They come in conflict
even as I sing this song today
And I know I've let you down,
please know it's not your fault
because loving me has made me halfway decent by default
I'm reading two books and they are extremely good. My favorite of the two is "Prey" by Micheal Crichton. It's about an experiment in the desert that has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles (micro-robots, or microbots) has escaped from the laboratory. The cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator to keep it goal oriented and it is evolving at a rapid pace, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed and we are the prey.
The other book I am reading is for chemistry. It's called the Cobra Event. It focuses on biological weapons and is also a very good book. A terrorist has released a biological agent and it is killing people. The virus is as contagious as the common cold and is gotten either from another person or inhaled directly. It causes a painful death including blood blisters in all external openings (and I do mean ALL) and arc de circle seizures. An arc de circle seizure is different from a regular one. In a regular seizure your body remains straight and rigid but in an arc de circle seizure the body forms a "C." The abdomen is thrust into the air arching the spine until the heels and head touch supporting all body weight until the spine snaps. The cause of death is a swelling in the brain which is so intense it pushes against the inside of the victims skull crushing the middle brain, causeing the victim to return to a primitive, violent state during this ordeal. Often times they will just eat parts of themself including their fingers, lips tounges and the insides of their mouth. I almost threw up on more than one occation because of the graphic nature and descriptiveness of the book and I am only about halfway through. Ick. I like it because it has that sense of impending doom but is at the same time plausable.
This one dimension of myself
has hurt the ones I love
and I've come to shut you out
and the God I fear above
And I will make my way,
through the lines drawn on the floor
It goes away so quickly now but I've been gone before
And everything I do,
and everything I say,
They come in conflict
even as I sing this song today
And I know I've let you down,
please know it's not your fault
because knowing you has made me halfway decent by default
So let me go and fall asleep
When I wake up it wont be me
So let me go and fall asleep
When I wake up it wont be
No it won't be me
And everything I do,
and everything I say,
They come in conflict
even as I sing this song today
And I know I've let you down,
please know it's not your fault
because loving me has made me halfway decent by default