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My phone was stolen from me and my car too…..

“I will study and get ready, and maybe the chances will come.”
- Abraham Lincoln

i’m boring.

“before Aids hit Africa, the word ‘orphan’ did not exist.”

That was just on a commercial for something, I guess Aids.

Well, I know that there have been some kind of detection of an Aids-type disease in the early 1900’s, and I don’t think that the first child with no family appeared in the last hundred years or so.

So… maybe there was another word for ‘orpahn’ that was used… and that’s what they meant?

Who knows.

Barack Obama has… A FLICKR ACCOUNT?!

If that isn’t the coolest thing, then I don’t know what is!

: )

::glow::

it took it off the list…. i dont think i should be trying to navigate hard website pages right now. i have had not enough sleep to understand why its doing this. :S

i meant to challenge myself to graduate.
i want this to be an on going thing so im gonna say i give up, but i dont really!!!!

I just remembered that about a week ago I was curious about country codes and looked up the one for USA.

It said “1” and I didn’t get it because I thought something like “why would 1 be a country code, that is long distance, they just don’t know”.

And then it kind of made sense.

They don’t teach you that kind of thing in school!

I used to use calling cards back in high school (me and my best friend then had friends in another city and didn’t have long distance) and they always talk about country codes on the back of those cards.

It was one of those things where I read about country codes, but I never got it.

It didn’t click until last week.

One thing that I’d like to know about other countries is if they have area codes.
Or know what their version of what an area code is.
And also in other countries, if they have a “long distance” and if they have to dial their country code to contact the long distance.

Some interesting country codes I bet you never knew:

Antarctica: no country code (ha! all that country and no code!)
Bahamas: 1-242
Vatican City: 39-06-698; 379
Belgium: 32
Croatia: 385
Greenland: 299
Rwandese Republic: 250
Yemen: 967

Two that I don’t get:

South Africa: 27
I thought it was one country code per… country.
Hmmm.

EMSAT (Mobile Satellite service): 88213
Satellites are in space.
How are you going to call space?
^{(oh man i just thought… how fun it would be to play a ouija board in space, talking to those in other galaxies)}

This is all kind of funny though.

I did not know that Malcolm X was assassinated!

I was just on the PostSecret website and there was a postcard on there that had x’s on four people who were assassinated (JFK, MLK, etc.) and a certain caption, and I guess that person was concerned for Obama.

I didn’t understand what the postcard was about at first but I wanted to find out, and then I read the comment underneathe it and I started thinking… and then it clicked that maybe Malcolm X was assassinated?

I Googled it and I was right!

I had no idea!

I had some quote of his that I really liked written on a yellow Post-It in green Sharpie on my wall for years at the old house, and I never thought about how he died.

I just assumed it was old age.

I do not want my aunt to ever find out that I never knew this.

She has worked with the NAACP for many, many years and she’s really into our black heritage like that.

She has a poster of Malcolm X in her living room, and pictures of MLK and other black people she likes in that living room too.

I think that she would be really dissapointed and would not hesitate to ridicule me for not knowing this!

I think that people who study dinosaurs, Paleontologists, have a pretty neat career.

I mean, just look at that picture.

The dinosaur.

How could you not want to learn about something like that?!

If they were alive today, I think that people would not know what to do.
We’d be scared.

I know how we know exactly how each dinosaur looked, but I don’t know exactly how we’ve (I mean the Paleontologists) have figured out the color?
I think that pieces of hair have cells in them, or something to know colors and other features.
But I don’t think dinosaurs had hair.

Are they even classified as reptiles?

I just Googled some questions and this website says that dinosaurs are classified as reptiles because they have no traces of hair and hatched from eggs.

The word “dinosaur” means “terrible lizard”.

lol

Fossils cannot tell us things such as color and behaviors, and the scientists make educated guesses when they compare the dinosaur they are studying to something that is living today that closely resembles it.

Dinosaurs did not fly.
These “flying animals” that people call a dinosaur, like the Taradactle, are not dinosaurs at all.
Even though they lived in the same time as dinosaurs, they are a class all of their own.
This class is called Pterosaurs.

I just realized that rhinocerous today closely resemble Triceratops.

But then, I don’t think that certain animals have evolved from dinosaurs (like a rhino and a Triceratops) because the dinosaurs were wiped out from the planet.

These paragraphs from the website remind me of the Lochness Monster (I believe in the Lochness Monster!):

“Sea Reptiles
Even though they, too, were not real dinosaurs, a lot of interesting reptiles lived in the sea during prehistoric times. There were two important groups of marine reptiles, the plesiosaurs and the ichthyosaurs. The plesiosaurs were dived into two groups, long-necked, and short-necked. The long necked kind looked like swimming Sauropods, while the short-necked kind sort of resembled whales. They all had very sharp teeth and were very scary.

The Ichthyosaurs looked like evil dolphins from hell, and like to stare at people in the museum. All these marine reptiles were very large and ate fish, ammonites, and each other. They were not fish however, so they had to come to the surface to breathe.”

You see, dinosaurs are a lot more interesting than people think.