people are strange

People are strange.That's all there is to it. Need I say more?

No. I need not say more. But I still will. Of course the following saying that I will be doing may be totally unrelated to people and the fact that they are strange. (Don't get me wrong, I could on and on about how strange people are. But I believe it is good for you to experience these people for yourself.)

Now that I've squandered an entire paragraph telling you what I'm not going to say and why, I am going to write this paragraph. This paragraph is telling you all about how I wasted the previous paragraph on nothing. I will also tell you what I am going to talk about. I will be talking about what I'm going to talk about. Got it? Ok. The next paragraph has some good stuff in it, so keep reading.

This is the paragraph where is starts to get interesting. Notice that in the last paragraph, I told you that this paragraph would have good stuff in it, so here's the good stuff. The last paragraph also talked about the paragraph before, and now this paragraph is talking about what the previous paragraph said about the paragraph before that. Now this paragraph is talking about itself, because it's very self-centered. I'm sure you don't like self-centered paragraphs, so we'll be moving on.

This paragraph exists only so that you could get away from the self'centered paragraph, and to tell you the cause for this paragraph's existence. Now this sentence is talking about how the paragraph is talking about talking about why it is here, which is of course because no one likes a self-centered paragraph. Sadly, though, this paragraph has begun talking about itself too much as well. So here it must end.

This is the beginning of a new paragraph. If you have made it through all the previous paragraphs successfully, you should be pretty relieved to be reading this, because this is the last paragraph. This paragraph will summarize everything that has been mentioned so far, then conclude the post. People are strange. And now here's the conclusion. Are you ready for this? This paragraph is grateful that you finished it. Not many people have the patience for it, and it feels very left out most of the time. That is all.

I did not do any of this. http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/12/30/tens-tips-for-writing-a-blog-post/

Live long and prosper.

purple velociraptors

Velociraptors are pretty damn cool. As demonstrated in Jurassic Park, they are also feakishly smart. However, I think that the creators of Jurassic Park, as well as most palaeontologists got their colour wrong.

I would like to believe that Velociraptors were purple. Not like Barney (he was a fat, non-dinosaur thing). They were a really deep purple with some black scales round their joints. They probably varied in shades, some coming closer to a deep red, while others were a little more blue-ish, or indigo-y.

Most theories would say this is impossible, because they need to blend in with their surroundings. But who's to say that plants weren't purple a billion years ago?? Screw chloroplasts.

Honestly, how could something green be intelligent? I mean, look at Pokémon (Gotta catch 'em all!). Most green Pokémon are plant-like, and pretty slow in the brain. You know what else is green? Zombies! They are so desperate for brains that they eat them. Finally, Oscar the grouch. He lived in a garbage can. Clearly he was not bright enough to have a job and get his own place.

Here's something to think about, maybe other dinosaurs would be in so much awe at the purple velociraptors that they wouldn't even know that they were being eaten. If you fear you will ever be distracted from saving yourself from a velociraptor, do what this guy does: http://xkcd.com/87/.

It is my sincere hope that the next dinosaur movie that is made will take these thoughts into account, and not disappoint the drifting spirits of billion year-old purple velociraptors.