a little late yes, but...

so, my last post said i would post some pictures i took on my new camera. this didn't work out very well, i didn't have much time. they are not very good, but, i said i would, so i am going to.
i mean, what would be the point of saying i was going to do it, if i wasn't going to do it, or even decided against it later? thats like breaking a promise! not that anyone has even read my last post yet...

so, this is just near buderim, up on the hill. the view from there is pretty spectacular, especially when you consider how easy it is to get there:

there were more, but, um, i think the files are too big. i'll need to find a program to make them smaller. i'm going to spain soon, and i'll try to use this blog to post my pictures each day/few days.. obviously, that depends on my ability to find and use a computer while there.

wa hey! long time no post!

mhhrrm. or something like that. i'm trying to convert a cough noise into a word, its not exactly brain surgery, but its not easy as  pie, either. the scale of ease seems to exist in two dimensions, not one.

so, its been a good while since i made a post. well, for this blog at least. i follow a few other blogs that do like, two a month, and saya in underworld hasn't updated since the japanese tsunami. i can only pray to god that shes alright.

i don't really know what  to write. hmmm, you know what? i just got a new camera; 14 megapixels, 18x optical zoom. i have to go to uni in the afternoon tomorrow, but in the morning, i'm going to wake up early, and take some pictures. i've wanted to do that for a long time.
oh, of course, i'm going to post them on here.
heres a pic, a gif (i hope it works). i would like to point out the kids mouth looks freaky.

the evolution of cetaceans (or whales and dolphins)

i hope i spelt cetaceans right. that would not be a good start.

you know something? the world we live in is ridiculous. sure, look around you, it doesn't look ridiculous at the moment, does it? (if something ridiculous is happening around you, please don't read the previous sentence. thank you.)
well, you wanna know something? whales and dolphins evolved from a deer the size of a housecat, that lived in northwestern india. it likely ran and dove into the water as an escape mechanism from predators, and i guess it met one hell of a predator.
scientists used to think it evolved from a kind of wolf with hooves (yes, a wolf, that had hooves. what about it?) that lived in asia and north america. they thought this because they both had similar looking teeth shapes, but it was realised that they had different leg shapes, and molecular analysis proved it wrong.

the herbivorous indian cat-deer thing evolved into a carnivorous hyena thing that acted like a crocodile. it lived in arid, desert type places, mostly swam in water, but could move around on land if necessary.

the hyenacrocodile adapted a more crocodile appearance. this animal was more or less the same as before, only it was much more reliant on water. it was most likely very slow both on land and water.

that evolved into a thing that looked like an otter mixed with a crocodile. it was likely a very effective swimmer, and was totally dependent on saltwater. the nostrils are beginning to move towards where it will become the blowhole, currently towards the top of the snout.

this evolved into a dolphin thing, with an extra set of fins where the legs would be. in modern dolphins, a birth defect can cause these fins to reappear. in whales, however, it causes a very small set of legs to grow.

and i think we know what happened next. these dolphin thingys eventually splintered off into various shapes and forms, some big, some small, some gigantic.

also, here is a picture of vestigial leg and pelvic bones in a baleen whale skeleton. whales and dolphins have a number of vestigial organs, such as ear pinnae, which serve no function, and slow the creature down significantly. they are important, in land based animal ear function.

so, yeah, the world is ridiculous. and you know what? thank god for that, otherwise it'd be boring.







note: i looked at the wikipedia page for this, its where i got the picture. the dates for the animals are a bit strange, the first animal apparently lived after the second and third. in another website, an article on squidoo,  dates that make more sense are seen. the first was 49MYA (million years ago), the third is 48MYA ( in 1MY, the species turned carnivorous, and lost most of its hair, spending much more time in the water. its not such a big change) the 4th was about 43MYA, and a little bit before, and the 5th was about 35MYA, again, a little before.

in tonights post: cgi brand placement and a weird essay thing i found at work

here is what was written on a piece of paper i found at work the other day. it was in a pile of stuff in our lunch room. i asked around, nobody has any idea where it came from. i don't really know why i'm so interested in it, to be honest.

in the 21st century, it seems mcdonaldization comes into the world via the fast food system.
it could be said that this system can affect a variety of fields including technologies and education.
as a result of this, these domains could be explained in terms of two of the elements of mcdonaldization: efficiency and calculabilty.
these factors will be able to offer positive and negative impacts in technoloy and education.
this essay will explain will explain advantages and disadvantages of efficiency and calculability using the examples of technology and education.

firstly the positive influence of efficiency of mcdonaldization is related to the internet technology in lives of people.
therefore, mcdonaldizaion and the internet technology can provide people with accessibility of information.

secondly, the negative impact of the calculability of mcdonaldization is associated with higher education.
based on this information, it is said that higher education affected by calculability of mcdonldization can provide people with low quality education.

in conclusion, mcdonaldization has affected the fields of technology and higher educaion.
it seems that technology and higher education affected by two aspects of mcdonaldization, which are efficiency and calculability, are explained in terms of positive and negaive impacts.
therefore although mcdonaldization can lead a positive impact like accesibility of information, it can offer negative influence like low quality education.

there is no doubt that this system of mcdonaldization can happen to negative impacts like low quality education rather than positive impacts.
besides, it can be seen that the current negative impact of mcdonaldization is only the beginning stage.
it could be said that more various fields can be governed under the negative impacts of mcdonaldization in the near future.
eventually, it seems that the lives of people will receive negative influence of mcdonaldization.
as a result of this, the quality of lives of people will get lower.

and thats it. i think ther must be more to it, maybe this is only a part of the essay. also, it seems the writer may not have english as their first language. i asked the korean workers (they're over here to perfect their grasp of english); they don't know anything about it.
still, i think its an interesting read.

also, here is a clip from how i met your mother. i am showing it to you because it shows a new advertising thing, where a brand is dgitally placed in a scene. they've done it to many reruns of how i met your mother, as well as other shows.
also, listen to what barney says. that stuff is gold.