OMG OMG OMG

More coherency than I had last night about either Heroes or Dexter is now rendered impossible by this news:

She's back!

::more blithering idiocy::

Oh, and by the end of this week, I shall own the Futurama movie, Snakes on a Plane and movie bucks for The Golden Compass. I know, I know--I shouldn't be buying myself stuff so close to Christmas. But I NEEDS Futurama. And of the movies that I could buy to get myself a nearly-free ticket to The Golden Compass, I choose Snakes on a Plane. I like snakeys.

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Just to prove that I did actually watch and understand the whole episode of Heroes last night, here's the Pink Raygun review.

See? I did notice things other than Zachary Quinto had his shirt off. However, while I'm on the subject again, I'd like to say that he has got the perfect amount of chest hair. I think I've scandalized my entire family by telling them as much, too (somehow, in an unrelated conversation, chest hair preferences came up over Thanksgiving dinner). Just FYI.

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During last night's episode, when I could be bothered to pay attention to anything that wasn't a freshly showered Sylar, I was on the phone with Best Buy to get money back. Something I bought for Christmas on sale was totally cheaper like a day later, so their policy said they would comp me the difference in taxes and what not as well as the difference in price. It only took an hour and a half of waiting on the phone to get there!

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Good article for those not up on their taxonomy.

I love disabusing human prejudice in the sciences. We're prone to giving so much attention to animals, and, within all of Animalia, mammals. The truth is that animals are so ridiculously outnumbered, species-wise, compared to bacteria. Hell, they can hardly compete in numbers with archaeobacteria.

I once saw this truly awesome graphic in a class where the phylums under the sub-domain Animalia were represented in size. There was a tiny kangaroo for the mammals and a beetle about thirty times the size of all the rest combined. One in five species of animal is a beetle, folks--not in terms of numbers of animals, but in terms of numbers of species. For every five animal species, one is a beetle. It just lets you know, then, how many out of five are insects. Now imagine how many orders of magnitude more bacteria species there are. Aiyah. Awesome.