January 31, 2007
January 30, 2007
All opining welcome
I’m going to be in a show soon, at the Bryant-Lake Bowl in M’nap, as I shall start abbreviating our city. I have to pick the name for my character. Currently I’m trying to decide between Haskell Fitz-Simmons, a name recommended by a very competent friend, or Ronald Seaks, a name I keep saying when I put on my costume. Either way, both are very good names and deserve the posterity.
Plus, I’m really liking this band Suburban Kids With Biblical Names. You should check them out.
January 29, 2007
Thermoregulation, anyone?
Any idea as to how someone with a low body temperature can put out a lot of heat? I’m trying to figure out the physics of this, and I can’t get a handle on it.
January 28, 2007
January 27, 2007
January 26, 2007
The spleen
The spleen is weird. There is this organ inside me that I know nothing more about than what I have already stated: it is called the spleen, and it is inside me. For minutes yesterday I pondered this. I tried to explain why I was so stuck on it to other people, but they didn’t quite seem to get it. It’s not that I don’t know what it does that I find so curious; that’s more like a bad stand-up comedy bit. “Man. The spleen, yeah? What’s it do? Hell if I know. You could tell me it makes krugerrands and I’d believe it. And ask for a knife, towel, and three aspirin.” No. It’s that I don’t know where it is. I know where my nose is because I can see it. I know where my bones are because I can feel them. But my spleen? No idea. Even if my spleen were to start hurting I don’t think I’d know it. I’d assume it was my liver. Because if it’s not heart and lungs, and it’s not the digestive tract, it’s the liver. So I have this thing inside me that I pay absolutely no attention to. It’s like that quiet old man neighbor you don’t even bother to nod at when he teeters past you on the stairs. Shouldn’t I know everything about my spleen? It’s part of me. I feel like there’s something unfair at work when I don’t get full working knowledge of all my parts at birth. It’s like the world is trying to force me to be oblivious.
In any case, a quick dose of wikipedia taught me that the spleen is immediately below your left lung and its main functions are to clean, store, and create (during gestation) red blood cells. It also helps fight infection.
