look up groggy and unwashed in the dictionary and i'm the illustration. my last cogent memory of anything done intentionally dates from early this morning, and even then, was incomplete.
staring at the computer screen (as it sucks my brains out through my eyes), i began ogling an article about the discovery of a shark hybrid species off the coast of australia. i suppose the article might have situated the shocking news inland -- one of the more likely spots being the yeperenye shopping centre in alice springs, home of the rusty zipper (formerly bruce deans menswear), premier source of fancy dress.for the discerning shark.
right. so i pay attention to stuff like this, because i am fascinated by the idea of actually knowing when and how something may be in the midst of evolution. is that just not so totally awesomely cool, as notions go? i figure that the human evolutionary process, at least in the strict biological sense, will not be revealed to us, you know, because the intelligent designer is too intelligent for such shenanigans. it just would be teleologically uncool.
although, and bear with me here, we may have glimpses of the subtle metamorphoses -- our teeny-weensy shape shifts -- in quantifiable moments such as the iowa caucuses. i am pretty sure that years of inbreeding and one major clusterfuck of an all-nighter with an overly friendly "domesticated" species have resulted in our own little bit of hybridization. and just as the hybrid black-tip now hunts outside the limits of its previous incarnation, its realm of influence perversely expanded from tropical to more temperate waters, these freaking tea baggers are worming their way into the mainstream. did i write that out loud? anyway, theories have been proposed, under the table (under *my* table, anyway), involving survival enhancements such as the repurposing of various facial muscles involved in the complicated act of sincerely smiling -- most notably the orbicularis oris and the platysma, the one diverted from "the playing of all brass instruments and some woodwind instruments," the other from "the expression of melancholy" (grimacing). markedly republican budgets and educational policy have seen to the essential demise of most school music programs, and the grimace is antithetical to righteousness-based politicking. the main reason these intimations of evolutionary shift have only recently come to light -- beyond the paucity of opportunities for vivisection -- is that the contribution of alien dna seems to be limited to behavioral modifications.
right. so. here's the intro to AFP's amy coopes' article on the world's first hybrid shark. i'm thinking of a nap, though if i don't shower soon, fred is going to be moving out. it's just one dilemma after another around here, where there are no evolutionary improvements in sight. i wonder what's happening in iowa.*
* i managed to scope out the news with what was left of my computer-drained central vision. it's 11 pm and the folks in middle america deem santorum and romney to be about equally worthy. the word is that they are separated by some ridiculous amount -- like 75 votes. ron paul is cruising at third, a few percentage points behind, and newt is fourth, perry fifth. i think bachmann is trouncing huntsman. i'm not sure, though. those wacky iowans!
staring at the computer screen (as it sucks my brains out through my eyes), i began ogling an article about the discovery of a shark hybrid species off the coast of australia. i suppose the article might have situated the shocking news inland -- one of the more likely spots being the yeperenye shopping centre in alice springs, home of the rusty zipper (formerly bruce deans menswear), premier source of fancy dress.for the discerning shark.
right. so i pay attention to stuff like this, because i am fascinated by the idea of actually knowing when and how something may be in the midst of evolution. is that just not so totally awesomely cool, as notions go? i figure that the human evolutionary process, at least in the strict biological sense, will not be revealed to us, you know, because the intelligent designer is too intelligent for such shenanigans. it just would be teleologically uncool.
although, and bear with me here, we may have glimpses of the subtle metamorphoses -- our teeny-weensy shape shifts -- in quantifiable moments such as the iowa caucuses. i am pretty sure that years of inbreeding and one major clusterfuck of an all-nighter with an overly friendly "domesticated" species have resulted in our own little bit of hybridization. and just as the hybrid black-tip now hunts outside the limits of its previous incarnation, its realm of influence perversely expanded from tropical to more temperate waters, these freaking tea baggers are worming their way into the mainstream. did i write that out loud? anyway, theories have been proposed, under the table (under *my* table, anyway), involving survival enhancements such as the repurposing of various facial muscles involved in the complicated act of sincerely smiling -- most notably the orbicularis oris and the platysma, the one diverted from "the playing of all brass instruments and some woodwind instruments," the other from "the expression of melancholy" (grimacing). markedly republican budgets and educational policy have seen to the essential demise of most school music programs, and the grimace is antithetical to righteousness-based politicking. the main reason these intimations of evolutionary shift have only recently come to light -- beyond the paucity of opportunities for vivisection -- is that the contribution of alien dna seems to be limited to behavioral modifications.
right. so. here's the intro to AFP's amy coopes' article on the world's first hybrid shark. i'm thinking of a nap, though if i don't shower soon, fred is going to be moving out. it's just one dilemma after another around here, where there are no evolutionary improvements in sight. i wonder what's happening in iowa.*
Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world's first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change.
The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world, said lead researcher Jess Morgan.
"It's very surprising because no one's ever seen shark hybrids before, this is not a common occurrence by any stretch of the imagination," Morgan, from the University of Queensland, told AFP.
"This is evolution in action." [Read the rest of the article HERE]
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| AFP Photo/Pascal Geraghty |
* i managed to scope out the news with what was left of my computer-drained central vision. it's 11 pm and the folks in middle america deem santorum and romney to be about equally worthy. the word is that they are separated by some ridiculous amount -- like 75 votes. ron paul is cruising at third, a few percentage points behind, and newt is fourth, perry fifth. i think bachmann is trouncing huntsman. i'm not sure, though. those wacky iowans!
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