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Want to time travel? Use water!

Hey, you! Yes, you!

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Gee, I’d sure like to be able to time travel, like the Doctor or something!” but were unable to do so because of the technological impossibilities of such a concept at this point in time?

Well, wish no more, for now there exists a revolutionary new concept for those of you who’d like to transcend the boundaries of your temporal realm!

It’s called...

Think about it! The water we currently have here on planet Earth has been around for around 4.6 billion years. That means that the rain you’re standing in right now is your link to the past!

Better yet, water gives time travel the element of surprise! With a machine, you can punch in wherever you want to go, but with water, you’ll never know where your water might have gone or what it might have been used for in another era!

That water bottle you’ve got? The water in there could have been the same water on which George Washington crossed the Delaware!

You patriot, you.

How about those “just add water” mac and cheese bowls? You could be cooking your mean using the water in which 280 of the concubines/mistresses of the Ottoman Empire’s Sultan Ibrahim the First drowned in! 

Isn’t that just stupefying?

Going poolside to have some “fun in the sun?” Little did you know that the pool water isn’t just made up of toddler piss, but the piss of dodo birds from the 16th century, Nero, and former Brazilian president Ernesto Geisel!

Isn’t time traveling fun?

Even better, the water that you’re currently using to make a snowball will be around for thousands of years to come. So why not leave your own little “time capsule”?

In just a few short centuries, when civilization begins to systematically rebuild Earth as a result of a series of nuclear wars, you can rest easy in your grave knowing that somewhere...

somehow...

some future person’s taking a shower in your centuries-old backwash.

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On the bright side...

I have now figured out that the best place to find new blogs is not on a Tumblr blog aggregator, or the hashtag #new blogs , but rather on the hashtag #trash.

Wow.

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The Real World vs. The Internet.

The Real World.

Person: I'm such trash.

Friends and family: Noooooo don't say that honey you're AMAZING who says you're trash whoever they are they're wrong how about we get you a puppy to cheer you up

Now, the Internet.

Person: #imsuchtrash

Internet: #same #sametbh #alsotrash #twinning #tags #suchrubbish #me #sad #officialtrash #notevenracoonswoulddigthroughme #ibelonginthetrash #sorry #notsorry #traaaaaaash

*Hashtags lovingly provided by #trash on Tumblr, with the exception of the raccoon thing.

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On the Internet, there’s no such thing as “neutral art.”

Have you guys ever noticed something?

The Internet is chock-full of stuff - videos, pictures, movies, porn, gifs, et cetera, et cetera. (And to think, you can find it all in one easy place - Tumblr!)

Along with the stuff you can find comes art, in many different forms: photographs, digital art, whatever. But as for the quality of art? There seems to only be two types.

The first is what most people refer to as “Holy shit! That looks amazing! Like it was drawn by a pro! I’d disown my child if only I could make art half that good!”

Such as:

But then there’s the other art. The art you claim that you could have drawn/painted better in your sleep. Like:

or,

(Somehow the artist responsible for the above one is far more famous than the one behind the good drawing. Way to go, Internet.)

This logic works on photographs, too. For example:

versus:

There’s barely any in-between on the Internet for art - you know, something where you could say, “It’s not the best, admittedly, but it’s not half-bad, either.” If such art exists on the ‘Net, it’s pretty obscure

Of course, that’s just my opinion.

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An Open Letter to My Anatomy Classmates about Skype.

It’s been great getting to know you all. Really. And as we go into our second semester together, I’m excited to see what it’ll bring us, in terms of increased numbers of dissections and what-have-you.

But before we start, I’d just like to suggest we do a few things differently with our Skype group chat.

The chat has aided us greatly in sharing study materials with each other, from Quizlet sets to worksheet answer keys (answer keys? What answer keys?) to whatever else. The point is, it’s helpful. Which is why it’s worrying when one of these messages gets sent:

(The worst thing about this is that you were supposed to be making a vocabulary flashcard set on Quizlet, and instead this is what you were doing.)

Because see, when one of you sends one of these, this usually happens:

And work does not continue for about a good 30 minutes.

We must remedy this problem this semester. We can’t keep having hour long conversations about DJ Khaled when we have to take an exam the next day. (This happened, as you might remember.)

Now, Anatomy and Physiology is, admittedly, a difficult course to take. So, we all seem to have taken on this general attitude of darkness and despair concerning any coursework for this class, In itself, this is not problematic. It becomes problematic, though, when someone says this in the same deity-forsaken chat:

We say this so often it’s become our class slogan: “Ready to kill self.” Case in point? This conversation that once took place before a test:

Teacher: (looking around room) Everybody take everything off of your desks, and… [Classmate]! What are you writing on your arm?

Classmate: (looks at Teacher frantically) Oh, uh, nothing, [Teacher].

Teacher: Don’t give me that. Tell the class what you’ve written.

Now, at the time, we all assumed he was attempting to cheat - you know, write some answers on his arm before the test began. You all remember what he was writing instead?

Classmate: (shows everyone his arm with the words “Killing Self” scrawled on with Sharpie)

Just another harmless Skype joke gone IRL.

Our teacher, you’ll recall, was very concerned for his well-being for the next week, until she figured out that it was just a common saying in our chat. Since that day, you’ll notice that she’s not real keen about letting us use our computers in class.

We need a new slogan. I suggest something along the lines of: 

“Anatomy is fun!”

or, if you want to stick to the theme,

“Ready to learn the information provided by this course so that in the future, I can assist in saving the life of a person who might attempt to indeed kill self!”

Finally, please remember that the Skype group chat is for one thing and one thing only: sharing study materials among members of the Anatomy class and asking Anatomy classmates for assistance with homework or exam studying.

That means no going and adding random people to the group chat.

Actually, that one’s on me. Heh.

Live and learn, right?

In conclusion: let’s stop doing everything mentioned above. Else, we may soon see the destruction of our group chat, and with it, the loss of all the materials which we’ve worked so hard to make and have shared with each other over the past few months. We cannot let this chat go to shit.

Or, as one of you put it, it cannot become a conversation about:

See you all soon!

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Here’s my problem:

Whenever I’m intently working on anything, be it a homework assignment or a blog post, I always somehow end up at this site:

Which leads to me browsing this:

Which then leads to me finding this:

Which leads to comments:

Which finally ends with me giving in and watching an entire season of this:

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Drawing.

This is not something that I am especially skilled at.

This ought not to be a problem, and it’s really not. But when you decide you want to create a Tumblr blog with posts complemented with drawings, not being able to draw can be a bit of an issue.

So how do you remedy this?

Tried the first one.

Asking someone to draw on my behalf? A solid idea, indeed, and one that has worked for many children's book authors and the like.

So, I have this friend who knows how to create good visual art. She’s on Tumblr, too, but I don’t know her username. Shame.

Anyway, I asked her once if she’d do some artwork for a different project of mine which I ended up not pursuing. Here, I learned something important.

Let’s say you’ve got a dog, and you know your dog better than anyone else in the world - mostly because you need to, since you’re the only one capable of controlling your dog.

Now, let’s say, that for some reason, you go on vacation and you have to leave your dog behind, so you get your friend to pet-sit. Bad idea, and here’s why:

No matter how much you try to tell your friend how to take care of your dog, the only person who knows your dog like you do is you.

So, you leave on vacation, and by the time you come back, your dog has wreaked havoc on every moving and dormant thing in your living space, and your friend just want to get paid and get out.

Similarly with my friend. When she agreed to draw (for free!), I already had a set of ideas in mind as to how the drawing should look. But, the much I attempted to convey these ideas to her, this is what she came up with:

Ah, internet. You place of wonderful people and douchebags.

There are things that you’re good for: streaming music, streaming TV shows, playing games, torrenting all three of those things (not that I do that, of course), et cetera, et cetera.

Alas, you are NOT good at helping those without the skill of drawing.

*sigh*

Well, that’s it. Guess I can’t start a blog. Bye, everyone.