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In other news, I'll be volunteering this weekend, Monday, and Tuesday for the Obama campaign. I'm a little nervous but I expect it to be a fun and worthwhile experience.

HOLY CRAAAAPPP!

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From Yes We Can (Hold Babies)

LOLOBAMA

I think I've finally figured out how to show my support.


From lolobama.

Taking the plunge

I signed up to call some people on behalf of Barack Obama. Unfortunately, I really, really hate talking to people I don't know so I'm having some reservations. Someone say they'll do it with me so I don't feel so weird. Please?

Chicken Post

Last weekend, me and Justin went to the Quad Cities for Zach's fourth birthday (photos pending). While we were there, I wandered about his mom's and took photos of the chickens. Justin's mom also gave me a little crash course in chicken breeds which I will likely spend the remainder of this post butchering. I also got pecked a lot by chickens (not that they're not nice chickens because they totally are, they just like to peck at stuff).


An Ameraucana. I believe it's name is Lauren after Justin's cousin because "it's very pretty but always looks angry."


Ameraucana. Maybe even the same one.


Blue Orpingtons.


Also, Blue Orpington. Note: I think this one pooped on me once when it was a chick.


Out of the four Blue Orpington chicks Justin's mom got, this is the only hen.


Speckled Sussex. The Speckled Sussex were really especially friendly.


Barnevelder.


Australorp.


Barred Rock. Another one of the really friendly breeds.


Salmon Faverolle. These were, aesthetically-speaking, my favorites of the bunch yet I failed to really capture their awesomeness in any of my photos. They're super poofy. Also they have feathery legs. I like to think that if they could talk, they'd sound like blustery, old, portly Englishmen (hens included).


They're kind of stately (in a mildly amusing way).


Rhode Island Red. These were the friendliest chickens of the bunch. We named the friendlier of the two Robert Goulet (RIP). Due to later confusion over which of them was in fact the friendliest, they are now both named Robert Goulet.


Justin communing with Robert Goulet.

Not pictured: Paul Newman (aka Cracker), the white Ameraucana. Also, other stuff.

The Observable Universe From Top to Bottom

Holy frak, they're selling it as a poster!

XKCD is so much more than your usual webcomics. It can be funny, educational, exceptionally romantic, and absolutely awe-inspiring.

More photos of Sihaya

Sihaya




I like this photo because she looks more like a lizard statue than a lizard. I have no idea why she was posing with her tail like that.

Quotes

"We have all the qualities necessary for being old; we just have to wait."

"The thing about nine ball is that you use balls one through nine."

- Timothy "T-Bone" Flannigan

Praying Mantis

Where is your god now? Bwa ha ha ha!









I'd hate to be on the wrong side of those.

I found this guy in the stairwell of my apartment complex. He's the biggest praying mantis I've ever seen face to face. He had to be at least 4 inches long, maybe 5. I was really taken aback by the amount of structure his body had. The little ones I used to catch outside my bedroom window when I was a kid always had green, fairly soft looking bodies but this guy looked like he had a shell like a crab. Anyway, in exchange for letting me shove a lens in his face, I took him back outside.

FIZZIKS STOODUNT CAT WUNTZ NEW MAJER PLZ

Lozhka helped me with my astrophysics homework. What a good kitty. This photo courtesy of Late Night Homework Scramble #1.

I have completely and utterly forgotten how to be a student. Hopefully I'll remember again before this gets to be a habit.