
This post is mainly about jellyfish. I want one, I want to catch one, I want to pet one.
The sea nettle, the one that I will make my own, is a lovely bell shaped invertebrate and has a moderately discomforting sting. They are radially symmetrical, marine, and awesome. They feed on zooplankton, ctenophores (combjellies!!), other jellies, and sometimes crustaceans that they capture the poor souls with their tentacles and then transfer them to their gastrovascular cavity. The stinging story: each tentacle has thousands of stinging nematocysts. Now, every nematocyst has a trigger, a cnidocil, that initiates a process which releases the venom coated filament from its capsule onto its target. So in conclusion, theres nothing not to love about jellyfish.
Ah, before I continue, I promised a Cathy Besmar some photos of her. So here's to you, Crazy Cathy.
What else? Oh yes, another installment of things to do before you die. These are things that I really really really really want to do. Or things that everyone should do. Since I did 10 last time I'll start at 11.
11. Climb one of the world's Seven Summits. Everyone should feel the awesomeness of standing on top of a mountain at least once in their life.
12. Participate in Burning Man. Oh yeah, BURNING MAN! As they say, "Trying to explain Burning Man to someone who has never been is like trying to explain a particular color to a blind man"
13. SPEND 24 HOURS ALONE IN THE JUNGLE.
14. Set foot on all seven continents. Antartica might be tough, but still, call yourself a world traveler only after you've conquered all 7.
15. See India using the train system. It's super easy and cheap to see the most colorful and diverse country in the world while crossing it in a train with the locals.
16. Scuba Dive the Great Barrier Reef. Enough said. You can see it from space, you've gotta dive it.
17. Somehow finagle (is that a word?) yourself onto Shark Week. The taping, the research, the anything, its the coolest week in the world.
"Live every week like it's shark week"
18. Man, now I'm really excited about sharks. Swim with them or go see them in their natural habitat, whether youre a pansy and just wanna see the docile leopard sharks off of San Diego, or your cajones are ready for the leaping great whites of South Africa, go see them! DUDE, there's even been reports of Bull Sharks as far up the Mississippi River as Illinois, damn!
19. Shake hands with someone that has changed the world.
20. Randomly run into someone halfway across the world that you haven't seen in years. (Well, you can't really plan this, but wouldn't it be AWESOME?)
Also, I wanna try COUCHSURFING so bad.
I apologize if this is kinda boring, I'm in a really somber mood today.
This article is really interesting. http://matadortrips.com/dots-on-the-map-tiny-nations-and-micronations about tiny nations.
Summer is approaching fast, and our lives are about to change forever, make each day an adventure. Bear Grylls has a new show, check it out. Worst Case Scenario!
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS LINEUP IS THE BEST THING EVER HOLY COW.
http://www.aclfestival.com/favorite-videos/2010-lineup-video/
holycrap holycrap holycrap i need tickets.
Sayonara.
Its great weather for Ducks.