O Death
Whoa. That meme thing apparently really exhausted me because I haven't posted since then. I feel like I have, but it's been mostly commenting. Also I ate so much food this weekend I sort of needed to curl up and digest it like a python. It was good food.
I went to a cool exhibit recently about Japanese mandalas and avatars. Also an exhibit on EXTREEEEME mammals. Biggest mammal ever, smallest ever (that we know of) and randomly crazy things. I actually did not know just how amazing bats are. I knew that they were very old, evolutionarily speaking, but they make up a huge percentage of total mammal species. (And some are dying out in the current possibly sixth great extinction).
There are no flying marsupials, btw. They think maybe because they all have to have powerful arms at birth to crawl to their milk source. Bats are the only flying mammal.
So there's my fun fact for the day.
In something more fandom-related, I've been thinking today about one of my favorite things about the modern age. I watched a preview for Supernatural's new season and naturally my first thought was--who is that who's singing that cool version of O Death in that preview? Since I live in 2009, my question was asked right there in the comments. The first answer was false, sending people to iTunes to try out a version of the song that was not right. A second google search found somebody who had uploaded the audio of the preview. And now, days after it went up, the CW has apparently put up a download link to the song they used with the currect singer. It's Jen Titius, btw.
I can remember so many times when I was a kid going crazy wishing I could have things like that. I've always been a big movie soundtrack person, but I've really liked the way in recent years TV shows have started coming out with soundtracks--HBO's particularly good at this. But this is like the Internet at its best. There's a commercial, CW realizes people are clamoring for the song, and they can give it to them so they do. I feel like if I went back in time that would be one of the things it would be hard to get used to again--that and not being able to look up information from where I'm sitting.
Sometimes it's good to appreciate the technology you have now.
I went to a cool exhibit recently about Japanese mandalas and avatars. Also an exhibit on EXTREEEEME mammals. Biggest mammal ever, smallest ever (that we know of) and randomly crazy things. I actually did not know just how amazing bats are. I knew that they were very old, evolutionarily speaking, but they make up a huge percentage of total mammal species. (And some are dying out in the current possibly sixth great extinction).
There are no flying marsupials, btw. They think maybe because they all have to have powerful arms at birth to crawl to their milk source. Bats are the only flying mammal.
So there's my fun fact for the day.
In something more fandom-related, I've been thinking today about one of my favorite things about the modern age. I watched a preview for Supernatural's new season and naturally my first thought was--who is that who's singing that cool version of O Death in that preview? Since I live in 2009, my question was asked right there in the comments. The first answer was false, sending people to iTunes to try out a version of the song that was not right. A second google search found somebody who had uploaded the audio of the preview. And now, days after it went up, the CW has apparently put up a download link to the song they used with the currect singer. It's Jen Titius, btw.
I can remember so many times when I was a kid going crazy wishing I could have things like that. I've always been a big movie soundtrack person, but I've really liked the way in recent years TV shows have started coming out with soundtracks--HBO's particularly good at this. But this is like the Internet at its best. There's a commercial, CW realizes people are clamoring for the song, and they can give it to them so they do. I feel like if I went back in time that would be one of the things it would be hard to get used to again--that and not being able to look up information from where I'm sitting.
Sometimes it's good to appreciate the technology you have now.