The Daily Adventures of Mercat

No school today. This is... amazing. I still have a lot to work on, but I least get a tiny break. It especially helps because last night I was freaking out because I couldn't get to any computer to finish my homework; I'd spent four hours in the lab and came home for dinner. Candice's computer died too (just last night), and Sarah was sick and already asleep and Brittany was using hers. So. I kind of had a meltdown about homework last night. (Just because it was one more thing on the pile, you know?)

Yeah, so. I've been in the lab for about three hours now, but that's okay, I'm getting things done and it's quiet. It's a bit odd in the sense that I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in the building currently... But I like it that way.

It's very bright outside with all the snow, and I definitely was kind of blinded when I walked inside. BUT this is the kind of snow to have, I'm telling you. A foot or so of it, very kickable, and still pretty warm outside, enough that it would be very nice to be outside. Now if only I didn't have so much to do, correct? Yes.

BUT, a bunch of linkspam that has piled up a bit with my computer woes. (Ah, poo. I am no longer the only one in here. Someone else just walked in.)

The immortal jellyfish... Quite cool, really. I'm not very afraid of them being our next overlords because I'm pretty sure it's going to be some octopodian thing and I will ~freak the fuck out~

An adorable Barney and Robin background. I am very sad I don't have my laptop right now because it would most definitely be the desktop...

The Henchman's Helper? I'm not exactly sure what's going on here but I am intrigued.

"Milky Way over Mauna Kea" which should be more accurately titled "Milky Way over Haleakala". Haleakala is the volcano in the foreground. (Still active, though it hasn't erupted in such a long time they thought it was dead. Or is dormant the right word? I think dormant means it's active but not currently erupting...) Anyway, you can see Mauna Kea (part of the Big Island) poking through in the backgroud. It's cool to think I've been at this view, roughly... Damn I miss Hawaii. Holy crap though, look at all that light pollution... That makes me so sad, really.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I would say that this would be the only way I'd read the book, but I suspect that as much as I dislike it, it's noewhere near as bad as Wuthering Heights. So. I will only say that you just have to be aware of where zombies are coming at you from... (Now there's a lovely ending-a-sentence-with-a-preposition, as dislegal as it is.)

Green grafitti. Very cool stuff.

Business currently hiring; I would work for Google...

Well, you have to face it, regardless: the Mayans were very skilled with figuring out their calendar. And regardless of the outcome, I will be having a party. By the way, anyone know when the LHC is supposed to come back on?

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum. I want to go there. Mechanics such as these mystify me... Sorry for that unintentional alliteration. (Worse than punning, methinks...)

Ah, so, back to work for me... And back to that tiki blog I found. Good stuff, that.


By the way, is anyone else excited for the Pink Panther movie, or am I the only one? (Tee-eye-double-guh-er.)

Blaaargh. I feel like every other day there is some new big news about the way we're killing the planet. And I don't mean "the way we're all going to die" like the LHC (which did get pushed back a month) or the Mayan end of the world or asteroids or anything like that, I am talking simply about the waste of our society. We have so many people living completely insanely wasteful lives whether they realize it or not. Today it was an article about how we, becuase of our love of gadgetry, are RUNNING OUT OF CERTAIN ELEMENTS.

Guys, that is NOT COOL

I don't care if you believe in global warming, I wish more people believed in sustainability, period! I don't think people understand the rate at which we're burning through things (forgive the pun). And that just serves to make me even sadder. Some days I am online and I read some great articles and comments from people online about ideas and projects and things, and then I remember, politically, how much different the internet crowd is compared to the "real world" community. =C

*sigh*


I was going to write a lot more for this entry but guuuuuhhhh my brain is breaking. Lovely.

The LHC turns on today. If this is the end, I love you all. =P

My guess is it's already been turned on by this time, though, so, BFD, right?

[EDIT] Wait, what the hell? Even though Gizmodo says it's today, their countdown link says 31 days? I'm so fucking confused.

I kind of wanted it to go the Mayan way, you know? ;)