Cuz I love memes and music

1. Go to http://musicoutfitters.com.
2. Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year.
3. Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember (or don't care about).

I've done a few other years. And I've italiscised the songs I loved then but don't so much now.

( List 'em )

Cuz I love memes and music

1. Go to http://musicoutfitters.com.
2. Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year.
3. Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember (or don't care about).

I've done a few other years. And I've italiscised the songs I loved then but don't so much now.

( List 'em )

The Cuckolded Wasp

Over the last couple of weeks a drama has been unfolding right outside my bedroom. A mud dauber wasp was busily building a nest on the back of Stu’s chair. We watched her as she hovered about with fat green caterpillars and manoeuvred them into the tiny holes in the compartments she had built. She would then plug the holes. But the chair, being a chair, got moved around a bit and eventually our poor wasp gave up after preparing two compartments.

The next morning I saw what I assume was the same wasp busily building a circle of mud on a shell outside Chris’s door. By that evening I noticed to my amazement that it was a completed compartment. These compartments give any human made pottery a run for its money with craftsmanship (or should that be craftwaspship?) Each one is wide and round at the bottom and tapers to a tiny protruding hole at the top, the sides are perfectly smooth. She brought a paralysed caterpillar for each hole and shoved it inside before laying eggs upon the unfortunate grub. She got a little ambitious one day and try as she might, couldn’t get the huge caterpillar she had into the hole. She built about a 5 compartments – approximately one a day until she was done. I thought that was it.

The next day she was still flying about and I noted that she was building up an outer wall of tiny clods of mud. In the end she created a rounded dome of mud over the compartments inside. This dome is nowhere near as smooth sided as the compartments – it’s built for defence, not beauty. Inside this fortress her young can hatch and munch upon a fresh caterpillar – they are paralysed, not killed – and take the time to peacefully metamorphose into adult wasps before breaking free and continuing their own lives. For a few days the mother wasp hovers around and sees off anyone who looks too close.

That was about a week ago. Mother wasp has obviously decided her babies are safe inside her fortress and has gone off to do whatever mud-dauber wasps do after laying eggs. This morning I noticed a small hole in the top of the dome. The telltale sign of the cuckoo wasp. Later this afternoon we saw her in her metallic green-and-blue glory going about her work.

The cuckoo wasp digs a perfectly round hole in the nest of the mud-dauber, deftly removing the hardened mud. She then uses a long ovipositor to lay an egg in one of the compartments next to the egg of the mud-dauber wasp. We watched as she dug, then turned around and laid her eggs. Once her egg hatches it will eat the caterpillar stored for the use of the mud-dauber larvae. It may even eat the mud-dauber larvae itself. Either way, the mud-dauber loses.

I don’t know how long wasp larvae take to metamorphose and break out of the nests, and I don’t know the telltale signs of them having done so. But I will be watching this nest like a hawk to see if I can find out.

The Cuckolded Wasp

Over the last couple of weeks a drama has been unfolding right outside my bedroom. A mud dauber wasp was busily building a nest on the back of Stu’s chair. We watched her as she hovered about with fat green caterpillars and manoeuvred them into the tiny holes in the compartments she had built. She would then plug the holes. But the chair, being a chair, got moved around a bit and eventually our poor wasp gave up after preparing two compartments.

The next morning I saw what I assume was the same wasp busily building a circle of mud on a shell outside Chris’s door. By that evening I noticed to my amazement that it was a completed compartment. These compartments give any human made pottery a run for its money with craftsmanship (or should that be craftwaspship?) Each one is wide and round at the bottom and tapers to a tiny protruding hole at the top, the sides are perfectly smooth. She brought a paralysed caterpillar for each hole and shoved it inside before laying eggs upon the unfortunate grub. She got a little ambitious one day and try as she might, couldn’t get the huge caterpillar she had into the hole. She built about a 5 compartments – approximately one a day until she was done. I thought that was it.

The next day she was still flying about and I noted that she was building up an outer wall of tiny clods of mud. In the end she created a rounded dome of mud over the compartments inside. This dome is nowhere near as smooth sided as the compartments – it’s built for defence, not beauty. Inside this fortress her young can hatch and munch upon a fresh caterpillar – they are paralysed, not killed – and take the time to peacefully metamorphose into adult wasps before breaking free and continuing their own lives. For a few days the mother wasp hovers around and sees off anyone who looks too close.

That was about a week ago. Mother wasp has obviously decided her babies are safe inside her fortress and has gone off to do whatever mud-dauber wasps do after laying eggs. This morning I noticed a small hole in the top of the dome. The telltale sign of the cuckoo wasp. Later this afternoon we saw her in her metallic green-and-blue glory going about her work.

The cuckoo wasp digs a perfectly round hole in the nest of the mud-dauber, deftly removing the hardened mud. She then uses a long ovipositor to lay an egg in one of the compartments next to the egg of the mud-dauber wasp. We watched as she dug, then turned around and laid her eggs. Once her egg hatches it will eat the caterpillar stored for the use of the mud-dauber larvae. It may even eat the mud-dauber larvae itself. Either way, the mud-dauber loses.

I don’t know how long wasp larvae take to metamorphose and break out of the nests, and I don’t know the telltale signs of them having done so. But I will be watching this nest like a hawk to see if I can find out.

Chronic Geekery

That Science at the Movies thing I went to last night was okay.

They had loads of trouble with it, first the laptop wouldn't talk to the projector, and lots of other things went wrong. Lucky the presenters were also kinda stand-up comedians so they saved it a bit.
I won 2 Starburst lollipops for knowing Stegosaurus was spelled wrong in a scene from Jurassic Park. They paused it there and everything, too easy. It's spelled "Stegasaurus" in the scene.
Too many kids. "Lollipop if you can tell us which movie this is!" etc. Lots of yelling over bits, pretty annoying.

The science wasn't as in depth as I would have liked either. I didn't really learn much new. I did however discover a few things to look up.

- A National Geographic mockumentary on what kind of aliens could theoretically be out there. Forget all this movie-driven humanoid crap. This thing takes into account conditions on the planet (or moon) and then figures how creatures may have evolved in this. Looks fascinating.
- The alligator in Lake Placid is not an alligator. A quick look at its teeth gives it away - this is a crocodile. I haven't seen Lake Placid - it looks a bit too stupid for me.
- They didn't cover Dante's Peak. *sulk*

Immediate obliteration zone of the KT meteorite was around 2000km. Okay, few questions – have these been researched?
- Did ANYTHING in that area survive? Did all families evolved in that particular area get obliterated?
- Has research been done to see if the species that occur there after the KT boundary arrived many years after that event – suggesting life slowly migrated back into that area.

Made my brain tick anyway, which is why I went. I like how they said that the only exactly true thing in one of those movies is that politicions know jack shit about science/the environment and that to me is truly terrifying. These people have the lives of millions (human and otherwise) in their hands and they're just destroying our home.

Chronic Geekery

That Science at the Movies thing I went to last night was okay.

They had loads of trouble with it, first the laptop wouldn't talk to the projector, and lots of other things went wrong. Lucky the presenters were also kinda stand-up comedians so they saved it a bit.
I won 2 Starburst lollipops for knowing Stegosaurus was spelled wrong in a scene from Jurassic Park. They paused it there and everything, too easy. It's spelled "Stegasaurus" in the scene.
Too many kids. "Lollipop if you can tell us which movie this is!" etc. Lots of yelling over bits, pretty annoying.

The science wasn't as in depth as I would have liked either. I didn't really learn much new. I did however discover a few things to look up.

- A National Geographic mockumentary on what kind of aliens could theoretically be out there. Forget all this movie-driven humanoid crap. This thing takes into account conditions on the planet (or moon) and then figures how creatures may have evolved in this. Looks fascinating.
- The alligator in Lake Placid is not an alligator. A quick look at its teeth gives it away - this is a crocodile. I haven't seen Lake Placid - it looks a bit too stupid for me.
- They didn't cover Dante's Peak. *sulk*

Immediate obliteration zone of the KT meteorite was around 2000km. Okay, few questions – have these been researched?
- Did ANYTHING in that area survive? Did all families evolved in that particular area get obliterated?
- Has research been done to see if the species that occur there after the KT boundary arrived many years after that event – suggesting life slowly migrated back into that area.

Made my brain tick anyway, which is why I went. I like how they said that the only exactly true thing in one of those movies is that politicions know jack shit about science/the environment and that to me is truly terrifying. These people have the lives of millions (human and otherwise) in their hands and they're just destroying our home.

woowoowoo

The Classic Lover 27% partner focus, 23% aggressiveness, 30% adventurousness

Based on the results of this test, it is highly likely that: You prefer your romance and love to be traditional rather than daring or out-of-the-ordinary, you would rather be pursued than do the pursuing and, when it comes to physical love, you concentrate more on enjoying the experience rather than worrying about your performance. This places you in the Lover Style of: The Classic Lover. The Classic Lover is a wonderful Lover Style, and is the closest it comes to the classic images of the princess in the tower, or the romantic and chivalrous knight, or the hero/heroine from a Disney film. The Classic Lover is a treasure to find, though it can be difficult to do so because they sometimes tend to be shy and/or difficult to successfully court. In terms of physical love, the Classic Lover again can be shy, and often needs more in terms of emotional security to feel comfortable than some of the other Types. Given the right setting, and the right lover, the Classic Lover can be a delight in bed. Best Compatibility can probably be found with: The Romantic Lover (most of all) or the Devoted Lover, or the Liberated Lover. Congratulations! If you enjoyed this test, I would love the feedback! Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in the following: Nerds, Geeks & Dorks Professional Wrestling Buffy the Vampire Slayer Thanks Again! -- THE LOVER STYLE PROFILE TEST

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 1% on partner focus You scored higher than 4% on aggressiveness You scored higher than 7% on adventurousness

Link: The Lover Style Profile Test written by donathos on Ok Cupid

woowoowoo

The Classic Lover 27% partner focus, 23% aggressiveness, 30% adventurousness

Based on the results of this test, it is highly likely that: You prefer your romance and love to be traditional rather than daring or out-of-the-ordinary, you would rather be pursued than do the pursuing and, when it comes to physical love, you concentrate more on enjoying the experience rather than worrying about your performance. This places you in the Lover Style of: The Classic Lover. The Classic Lover is a wonderful Lover Style, and is the closest it comes to the classic images of the princess in the tower, or the romantic and chivalrous knight, or the hero/heroine from a Disney film. The Classic Lover is a treasure to find, though it can be difficult to do so because they sometimes tend to be shy and/or difficult to successfully court. In terms of physical love, the Classic Lover again can be shy, and often needs more in terms of emotional security to feel comfortable than some of the other Types. Given the right setting, and the right lover, the Classic Lover can be a delight in bed. Best Compatibility can probably be found with: The Romantic Lover (most of all) or the Devoted Lover, or the Liberated Lover. Congratulations! If you enjoyed this test, I would love the feedback! Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in the following: Nerds, Geeks & Dorks Professional Wrestling Buffy the Vampire Slayer Thanks Again! -- THE LOVER STYLE PROFILE TEST

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 1% on partner focus You scored higher than 4% on aggressiveness You scored higher than 7% on adventurousness

Link: The Lover Style Profile Test written by donathos on Ok Cupid