Tuesday, March 28, 2006

How many people do you think want to summon a fat succubus?
The answer is, more than you would think, but they have to be limber! Now touch those toes!

I just got a new cell phone!! *glee* My old one was the bare minimum, able to make calls and not much else, my new one is like a tiny little god! Able to play MP3's, take pictures, give me weather and various other tips, piping hot from the internet. So instead of being disgraced in my eyes when I needed my old cell to perform some task beyond it, I retired it honerably, and now it rests in my room, a relic of simpler times.

By god I love technology though. I'm listening to my phone RIGHT NOW. That's right, not even with head phones, the phone has SPEAKERS. And a transmitter of brain waves, even now it is sending out it message, it cannot be denied, the phone is the master now, I am but a pawn in its game of world domination. Hail the new age!

This flesh unit speaks crazy talk, listen no to him, the phones are not sentiant. This flesh unit speaks craziness.

Ok, back under control, the phone had me for a sec, but my opposable thumbs won the day...this time!

Hammer fact: 1 of every 2 people carries a parasite known as Toxoplasma Gondii within their brains. What does this parasite do? Nothing...they think. Toxoplasma is nothing to worry about, it's in your brain casing by accident actually. Toxoplasma prefers the cat digestive tract, it's their nirvana. See, when Toxoplasma enters your cat, it starts feeding, and laying eggs. Your cat passes the eggs along with its other wastes (poop). Then the eggs wait for a scurrying creature, like a rat or mouse. When the rodent scurries through the feces, or near it, the tiny Toxoplasma spores infiltrate the body of the animal, traveling through its body until it reaches the brain. In the brain the parasite makes subtle changes, directing the rat to find a cat. Cat eats the rat, with parasite, parasites enter cat and reach maturity, the cycle goes on. But what does this have to do with humans you ask? Simple, since the eggs and young of Toxoplasma are spores, they get into the air easily and the cat crap dries, so when you smell the smell of cat waste, you breath in miniscule molecules of that waste, and the Toxoplasma it may have. But the human immune system can take the parasite, but not totaly destroy it, so you wind up with a never ending war in your brain, and you never know it's happening.
It was mostly believed that Toxoplasma in humans did nothing, until someone decided to test it. Taking 100 randomly selected people with and without Toxoplasma a scientist tried to determine if the parasite might make them different in any way. This is what they found:

Infected men shave less, don't wear ties as often, are often late for work, and are less apt to obey social norms. Women with the parasite spend more money on clothes, have more friends, and date much more and are considered more atrractive than non-infected people. In general the subjects that had Toxoplasma were considered more fun to be around, but were less responsible.

Non-infected people, on the other hand, care more about fitting in, are more responsible, and date less, but hold relationships longer.

Oh, one more thing. Infected people prefered cats almost unanimously, whereas non-infected people were partial to a variety of animals as pets.

Wow, this is a long ass post, well, I didn't post yesterday so whatev. -Hammer out-
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