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Octopi are really smart, aren't they? Turns out that some octopi have figured out how to use coconut shells as shelter from predators ( Read more... )

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Well, I had my first Chem 261 lab yesterday, and boy did I screw up. I kept messing up the instructions, that in retrospect, seem glaringly obvious. After a sleepless night of going over and over what I did wrong that lab, I feel like twice the idiot. Hindsight is 20/20, I guess. Darn it! Brooding isn't helping at all, but I'm having trouble not ( Read more... )

Some days I wonder why I even exist. It's not like I serve any purpose, for my country or for society in general. I often wonder why I was born as myself, not someone else. Half the time, I'm wondering if I'm really somebody's really morose virtual projection in an alternate dimension or something; do I even really exist at all? I have no ( Read more... )

Frozen rain in winter in Canada is Not A Good Thing. It was horrendous yesterday; everything was covered in a slick membrane of ice. Luckily, I only fell once (while trying to get on a bus) and it wasn't a bad fall. Rock salt and gravel are my friends... *.* Today was much better. It's still a tad slippery in places, but for the most part, the ( Read more... )

I really should not have made fun of Ontario for getting buried under tons of snow, because now we're getting that snow. About 2 feet of snow since we got back from Hong Kong, not to mention the 2 feet or so we found when we first arrived. Hoo boy, it's been a fun few days, with the traffic going down the drain and snow blocking everything. At ( Read more... )