25k (finally) & demographics
Nov. 19th, 2010 05:57 pmIn the beginning, there was a great pangaea-like continent (only rather less divided by estuary/seas than our pangaea was) largely covered by the ancient wildwood. ( dividing up the world over unbreachable lines )
This month has been brought to you by the following global modern conveniences:
*tea
*microwave (surely made in some bit of the world where they're chopping their jungles down) for the heating thereof
*natural gas heat, coal&things powered electricity (bah)
*the internet
*automobile (canada) fueled by gasoline (presumed Arabia or related)
*Aquarium wing stocked with plants & birds (mainly Australia, with local exhibit outdoors)
*the US postal service, and navy base at Dam Neck, VA
*me (N America, genetics presumed to originate in E Africa, via a rather long stopover in northern europe & british isles),
grauwulf (ditto, plus small percentage via Asia & N Am landbridge)
*a domestic cat of uncertain parentage (genetics orig. western Asia, I think?? I've got a vague recollection that egypt wasn't actually the first place to have them, but I may be delusional)
*an apparent reluctance to capitalize proper nouns that don't begin with the letter A (narcissism? laziness?)
*ridiculous amounts of DC area traffic
*ice cream shoppe vanilla milkshake pop tarts (I think these came out of someone's improbability drive, rather like the lightly fried eggs)
This month has been brought to you by the following global modern conveniences:
*tea
*microwave (surely made in some bit of the world where they're chopping their jungles down) for the heating thereof
*natural gas heat, coal&things powered electricity (bah)
*the internet
*automobile (canada) fueled by gasoline (presumed Arabia or related)
*Aquarium wing stocked with plants & birds (mainly Australia, with local exhibit outdoors)
*the US postal service, and navy base at Dam Neck, VA
*me (N America, genetics presumed to originate in E Africa, via a rather long stopover in northern europe & british isles),
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*a domestic cat of uncertain parentage (genetics orig. western Asia, I think?? I've got a vague recollection that egypt wasn't actually the first place to have them, but I may be delusional)
*an apparent reluctance to capitalize proper nouns that don't begin with the letter A (narcissism? laziness?)
*ridiculous amounts of DC area traffic
*ice cream shoppe vanilla milkshake pop tarts (I think these came out of someone's improbability drive, rather like the lightly fried eggs)