no colbert for me (for now)

so, after standing for forever in what might be tantamount to a make shift shelter from the rain, my group was the first to be given the option of standing room only tickets for tonight's show or VIP tickets in the future. (or, the people ahead of us were the last to get actual seats.)

we took the VIP tickets which means positively reserved, self-selection of show date, supposedly best seats in the house, and not having to stand in line next time.

then wandered to whole foods's bathroom.

than wandered down to chinatown for eating.



fun times

( may be TMI??? )

to catch a human- hire a dinosaur

T. rex could catch a human, simulations show
16:33 22 August 2007
Mason Inman

Humans are fortunate not to have lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex. The most sophisticated computer analysis of the gait of several two-legged dinosaurs suggests that even the lumbering T. rex could have kept up with an athlete. Smaller dinosaurs, like the Velociraptor, could have outpaced the fastest humans with considerable ease.

Working out exactly how bipedal dinosaurs walked and ran is a vexing problem, since there are no living species with the exactly the same sort of build.

The closest living relatives of such dinosaurs are emus, ostriches, and chickens, which researchers study in an effort to draw comparisons. However, previous estimates of dinosaurs' running speeds, based on such comparisons, have tended to vary wildly.

A well-regarded study published in 2002, which compared the T. rex to a chicken, suggested that this dinosaur had just enough leg muscle to lumber along at about half the running speed of a person (see T. rex caught by speed limit).
( keep on reading. text for your educational enjoyment )

ok, did they pick the headline just to give me angst?