Cat Barking

Even cats are embarrassed when people sneak up behind them . . .

Andriod Opera

This is ultra cool! Please watch.

http://www.turretopera.com/

Blood Types

In Japanese and other Asian cultures, a person's blood type is predictive of their personality.  Here is the breakdown.

Type O

You want to be a leader, and when you see something you want, you keep striving until you achieve your goal. You are a trend-setter, loyal, passionate, and self-confident. Your weaknesses include vanity and jealously and a tendency to be too competitive.

Best Traits: Agreeable, sociable, optimistic.

Worst Traits: Vain, rude, jealous, arrogant.

Type A

You like harmony, peace and organization. You work well with others, and are sensitive, patient and affectionate. Among your weaknesses are stubbornness and an inability to relax.

Best Traits: Earnest, creative, sensible, reserved, patient, responsible.

Worst Traits: Fastidious, overearnest, stubborn, tense.

Type B

You're a rugged individualist, who's straight forward and like to do things your own way. Creative and flexible, you adapt easily to any situation. But your insistence on being independent can sometimes go too far and become a weakness.

Best Traits: Wild, active, doer, creative, passionate, strong.

Worst Traits: Selfish, irresponsible, unforgiving, unpredictable.

Type AB

Cool and controlled, you're generally well liked and always put people at ease. You're a natural entertainer who's tactful and fair. But you're standoffish, blunt, and have difficulty making decisions.

Best Traits: Cool, controlled, rational, sociable, adaptable.

Worst Traits: Critical, indecisive, forgetful, irresponsible, "split personality."

Additional Facts on Blood:

Jehovah's Witnesses do not allow themselves to have blood transfusions based on readings from the Bible. One example is: "You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood" (Lev. 17:14).

Jewish dietary laws do not allow blood to be consumed in any way.  Traditionally, salting and pickling purges blood from meat.

According to Chinese folklore, nosebleeds are a sign of sexual arousal in men.

Zoroastrianiam

Though many would say that Judaism was the first monotheistic religion, there is a religion that dates older than Judaism.  It is called Zoroastrianism, named after its founder Zoroaster, a man from Persia.  Zoroaster was a priest in the local polytheist religion when he had a revelation that there was only one god, named Ahura Mazda.  After his revelation, Zoroaster began teaching his ideology and wrote the Avesta, consisting of five Gathas, songs and poems now used as Zoroastrian scriptures.  For the first ten years after his revelation,  no one followed Zoroaster until it attracted a small following later on.  Zoroastrianism was also the first religion to believe in a heaven, hell, and final judgement.

What Zoroastrians Believe
Ahura Mazda is responsible for all the good and evil in the world and is believed to be nine times the size of a man.  He enlisted both angels and humans in his attempt to create the perfect world.

Ahura Mazda emphasizes the importance of keeping the natural world - it's air, water, and land - pure.
Zoroastrianism stresses tolerance toward other faiths and emphasizes learning and understanding other religions.

Zoroastrians worship in fire temples.  They don't worship the fire itself, but what it represents: purity.

Zoroaster's hell is a pit with a dark, narrow crevice where a soul eternally travels with a horrible smell and a loneliness making three days feel like nine thousand years.

Cool Facts
Zoroastrianism is also referred to as Mazdaism, after its deity.

The largest population of Zoroastrians (Parsees) today live in India and Pakistan with 60,000 practioners.  There is another 28,000 in Iran and 37,500 in Europe and North America.

Rainbow Hunting

“It’s a double rainbow.” That’s right, were talking about rainbows and there is such thing as a double rainbow.

Rainbows always come out after it rains or its still dewy out.  That is why they are so commonly associated with the Irish and leprechauns.  Think of the weather in Ireland, its wet.  When sunlight passes through the water in the air it starts to bend.  When the light is being bent, the white light is being divided into its component colors making it convey all the “colors of the rainbow”

You guys may be saying, “I conquered third grade, I know how a rainbow works.” But do you know how a double rainbow works?

Secondary rainbows, as they are formally titled, happens when the light is reflected twice inside a rainbow, making a rainbow from a rainbow.  The daughter rainbow is fainter than the mother rainbow and the colors are displayed in reverse order because of the double reflection (kind of like a mirror’s image in a mirror).  Secondary rainbows appear ten degrees higher than primary rainbows, which appear between forty and forty-two degrees above the horizon.  Third and fourth rainbows have been observed, and thirteenth rainbows exist in theory.

Tips For Rainbow Hunters:

Rainbows exist because of sunlight, raindrops, and geometry, so your placement is important.  Draw on a piece of paper an angle of about forty degrees, with the initial ray representing the horizon and the terminal ray representing the rainbow.  That’s the same position you want to see a rainbow.  The arc of the rainbow is always opposite of the sun.  Obviously, there will be no rainbows when the sun is at ninety degrees because the position opposite of the sun at that point would either be underground or the other side of the globe.  Basically, make sure the sun is always behind you and don’t go rainbow hunting at high noon.

Since rainbows exist only to their observers, you cannot walk under a rainbow.  I repeat, it is impossible to walk under a rainbow.

Any pilots out there?  You have the possibility of experiencing a full circled rainbow.  Unlike us stuck on the ground viewing only an arc, or slice, of the rainbow, if you pilots position yourselves just right you get to see a rainbow in a complete circle, because the horizon is not creating angles with the sun for you.

Who says rainbow hunting is a day job? Moonlight is sometimes bright enough to create the image of a rainbow. Lunar rainbows, as they are called, appear as faint white arcs.

Separation of Church and Language

We all know about Henry VIII separating from the Catholic Church because he wanted to divorce and kill wives.   Well, philosophers have found a different theory for the birth of the Church of England, based on language.

The German and English languages come from the same language source.  There were at one point two parts of the greater group of Germanic languages.  The English language was practiced in the British Isles playing with the Gaelic language, while the German language was doing its own thing in Germany.  In the fifth century, the Jutes, the Angles, and the Saxons migrated to Britain and the Germanic language was then interlaced with the Celtic-English, making English a predominately German language. 

In 1066, the Norman invasion took place in England and William the Conqueror became the first French ruler of the land.  The Saxons were pissed and refused to use the French language in Britain, though it was the law.  After a while though, the Germanic English of Britain began to blend with the French language creating Middle English.  If you notice, our English spelling is very similar to German but our pronunciations are closer to French.  This, you can see, makes the English language stuck between German and French. 

What does this have to do with the Anglicans you ask?  Well, philosophers believe that the separation from the Catholic Church was inevitable for the English because of their language.  The language of a people represents their thinking.  With their language’s grammar being between French and German, the English needed a religion that was just as balanced.  Creating the Church of England moved their position of thought closer to a halfway between the (French) Catholic theology and the (German) Protestant ideologies.