The Cult of the Coelacanth

Epic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

It's really impressive to see displays like this in the wild. The people that filmed this are incredebly lucky folks.

Apparently National Geographic will air it some time this year!

To quote a housemate "Wow...I wish I had been a bio student back then!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9dhO0iCLww

Alright, with this last drawing, I finish the first round of line-art pieces.

This little guy right here doesn´t belong to me, he belongs to my friend goldfeather
Fae the shroom, in his "Under the couch" lair:

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Oy...So, the days before the trip where so hectic, that I couldn't even find the time to get online for farewells, sorry 'bout that! I basically finished classes, got home, packed, slept, and left at 4am.

So...where did I go?
To south-east asia!



Blurry but...That's me in Singapore, you can see the Merlion right behind me!

Hand a great time, but now it's back to deal with the university and life. I'll hopefully update more pictures later, once I pick the best ones out of the batch.

So! If anyone out there is into astronomy, there's going to be a planetary alignment! Mercury, Jupiter and Mars! It's gonna happen on...Oh look! December 10th... My 21st birthday!

http://skynews.ca/PDF/2006preview.pdf

It's an OMEN, I know it! An OMEEEEEEN! Apparently it's the last planet grouping of the year, wooh!

Ah well..The big 2-1. I'll finally be considered an "adult", although the only thing this means is that I'll finally be able to have a drink in the states with out it being illegal. Pretty much everything reserved for 21, I've been able to do here since I was 18.

I won't be doing much celebrating on the exact birthday date, since my professors gave me a birthday suprise of final exams on the 11th. Only one week left of this semester, and I reallyneed more time! GIS (Geographical Information System) class has taken too much time, the worst part is that there's no way to actually do work at home, work is done in class only, guuurgh. I'll have to lock myself in the classroom, now that most of my classes are done and finished with.
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Well, that's it for now. Time to get back to work. I'll just dump this little quiz here, since I haven't done anykind of quiz-thingy in a while:

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Wooh. It's been a while! Still alive of finals don't kill me.
Im not gonna write any "tired" or "school" rants. I'd rather place this helpful survival guide here!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCwKbUVyHLY

New journal layout, and this one's a keeper!
forestkitsune for helped me with the color scheme, and the nice coelacanth background!
Why the coelacanth? Well, there's story to that but... >_> I need to leave for school in 3 minutes.

Nothing much planned for the week other than research, examns and work. >_o Gonna try to get some tickets to a concert for cinetica and myself, but there's nothing final yet.

On the art area...I honestly feel like I lost something...And I need to get it back. Nothing I've done after Melquiades, Pito, Bucayo and Yagrumo has felt satisfying. The most recent thing that I haven't totally hated has been this quick pen doodle of a dead "unidentified" lizard that I drew while in the zoology museum.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/Quetzy/lizardsml.jpg

Not that bad looking for the short amount of time spent on it. I'll probably spend more time drawing the specimens there. I got approval from the director to go in and mess with the animals, take them out of their jars, and draw them. I figure it'll be good practice. And scientific illustration is something that I can use to combine my art and science degrees.

That's it for now! Time to head off to school!

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"Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year."

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December 10th:

Events:

-1898 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.

-1941 - World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers.

-2005 - Xbox 360 console released in Japan.

Births:

-1886 - Marco Minghetti, Italian statesman. ( AND Emily Dickinson, American poet.)

-1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front.

Deaths:

-1911 - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist.

Because I haven't done one of these in ages.

I'm a Mazda Miata!

You like to soak up the sun, but your tastes are down to earth. Everyone thinks you're cute. Life is a winding road, and you like to take the curves in stride. Let other people compete in the rat race - you're just here to enjoy the ride.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

Damn, that's a nice car!

Thursday’s field study went alright, even if I did take a bad step and fall flat on my butt down a muddy slope. Not to mention the fact that some flying cockroach-looking bug took an interest in my flash light and kept harassing my hand. While in the previous trip our goal had been the coqui martillito, this time we were capturing coqui caobas, which are my favorite species. They have beautiful markings. Not as pretty as aposematic frogs, but hey.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/Quetzy/2884.jpg

This species emits a very different call from the classic “Coki-coki!” mating call. They emit a seres of loud clicks, so it’s easier to pin point them out by following the calls. Another quirk that differences them from the other species, is the size difference. While most species are the same size, in coqui caobas, the female is HUGE, and males are tiny.
We captured around 13 individuals, among them two pregnant females, making it a very good night for us. Better than last time, where we only caught around 4 martillitos.

It had been raining quite heavily so, the mountains were coated with a thick layer of mist, making it quite hard to see the road. While driving down to civilization we almost ran over/or hit:
-A huge crab (What the hell was a crab doing in the road!?)
-A tree rat
-A stray dog
–A fruit bat
So that’s like a new record for us.
I got home at 1am, so that only gave me four hours of sleep before I had to wake up and force myself to go to class. >_o Bleech!

It’s been raining so much in the last few days, that it’s starting to look like monsoon season. Yesterday was particularly nasty. I spent the day mostly indoors, but I really didn’t want to spend the evening at home. So when my buds called and invited me out I was more than happy.
Traffic was slow, the roads were wet, and we had a major scare while on the highway.

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A friend sent me this over AIM:

http://www.starterupsteve.com/flash/html/love.shtml

Xp The things people do...I think the Earthbound one is my favorite of the bunch.

Woah, that brought me back to when I used to watch Saturday Night Live on NBC. I remember these characters from the “What is Love” skits, that was years ago. (Before they did that “A Night at the Roxbury” movie. >_o )

After a bit of rummaging, I found the one where Jim Carrey appears in:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1353/jim_carrey_on_saturday_night_live/

Too bad the video has low resolution. ;/ Ah well.

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GrooOOooOovy!

Aaaaaaauuggh!
Barracuda jumped out of his bowl! I head a small thud as I was leaving my room, and when I turned back, there he was, on the ground. He left behind a tiny blood stain on the floor. I picked him up, and placed him back in his fishbowl now, but maybe he has internal bleeding or he ruptured something.

-_- Ugh....I've had him for half a year now, and he's never been a "bowl jumper." I don't know what to do. He's swimming around, and appears to be fine for now but... Eh, I don't want him do die because of this. ._.

Well, here's to a new year. Yes, almost a week later. Sue me.
2005 was a great year for me... Let's see how 2006 goes.

And just in case anyone celebrates it other than me:

FELIZ DIA DE REYES!!! XD

Wooooh!

For the next time you go on a quest:

http://www.galbadiax.com/article/2005-12-01/ff-potion

http://www.babyanimalz.com/