Camo Butterflys

Well, this was actually a very fun game we played. The idea was that we demonstrate how camouflage helps a prey hide from a predator even when in plain sight. However this predator had lots of experience on the field. He knew where to look. He would look everywhere. Places where you would have to strain your eyes to see. Also, places that had butterfly just sticking out which is just blatantly obvious. Though, there were some very clever places where people had placed there butterflies but, I like mine the best. The hide it in a dark place and put a chair in front technique worked well , especially when the chair that I put in front of the butterfly was the very chair I was sitting in. My idea rules.

Oh Boy! Owl Pellets, That Sounds Fun Right?

Wrong. Today I got to do what most children would die to do... dissecting Owl Pellets. Oh wowie! Sounds fun right? Nope. However, I did find it pretty interesting. For starters, we were dissecting the dried up vomit for bones! Ahh, education at it's finest! But really though my partner and I found 2 skulls of what we believe is-scratch that, was of a mouse, several femurs, a couple of pelvises, can't forget about the tibulas and fibula's, a bunch of little vertebrae, and of course, the ribs. It's actually pretty astounding what you can find in vomit these days... stomach acid, undigested food, the remains of a nameless corpse. But one thing I didn't expect to hear was that those little Owls had quite the appetite. Some would eat 3 rodents (or Birds) a day. I guess that's the equivalent of our 3 meals a day (Four or Five for me!) I am told by our teacher that once we find enough bones we can reconstruct the skeleton of one of the poor rats. Oh well, I guess I'll have some more vomit scavenging to do.

Hybrids (yuch!)

You know, there was once a time were Hybrids were very new and innovative ideas. They could go further, get great mileage, and best of all, they were great for the environment! Yippie! One problem... THEY COST LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS!!! But seriously, with the rising gas prices then, the new cars were going off the affordable charts for most Americans. So that's great huh? All this new technology to use and nobody can afford it. For crying out loud, the gas prices are like $1.90 a gallon now and these hybrid cars still haven't dropped a cent! I guess that the hybrid cars are just going to turn into dust just like the electric motor that Honda was working on. If companies really wanted to make a better world, they would just lower the prices back to normal so that yes, they would still make a profit but no they wouldn't be unaffordable.

Tree Huggers Begone!

That's It. I've had enough of these environmental ads. Some ads in particular are especially unnecessary. Such as the ads that try to promote using less paper in their commercials like e-surance, claiming that if you use there online service, you will help the environment. I can't stand that people are looking these things so blindly. But seriously, take a look here.
1. Trees are a renewable resource
2. 6 tons of paper can be made from a single premature oak tree
3. More energy is probably lost using all the computers you would need rather than cutting a couple trees or two

If you actually look at the facts, you can see that all companies like e-surance are trying to do is make a couple more bucks, not help the environment! Face it! Cutting trees is no big deal! (hippies...)