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post a random interest/topic. The person who reads the previous person's chosen topic, must look it up. Then this person posts a different word.

this way we'll all learn something about each other


(this thread will probably not survive, but who knows..)


Blur (british 90's band)

you are really stuck on blur\


origami

haha




"Origami (Japanese: ??? ori, to fold, and kami, paper lit. "folding paper") is the art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a given result using geometric folds and crease patterns. Origami refers to all types of paper folding, even those of non-Japanese origin...." (I love my wikipedia widget.)



Muse (british rock band)

british rock band that started in the early 90's... hides messages for fans to find in songs?????




Anne Bonny (pirate)

"..When Anne was thirteen she had supposedly stabbed a servant girl in the belly with a table knife.."


John Nash

(from wikipedia.org)
John Nash (architect) (1752-1835), British architect
John Nash (artist) (1893–1977), British painter and engraver
John Nash (mathematician) (born 1928), recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and subject of the novel and film titled A Beautiful Mind.
John Nash (cricket administrator) (1906–1977), Secretary of Yorkshire County Cricket Club (1931-1971)
John Nash (NBA), an executive for several teams in the National Basketball Association, currently with the Portland Trail Blazers
John Henry Nash (1871-1947), American printer and bibliophile
which one


nightcrawler (comics)

"..and the ability to teleport."

wow. go nightcrawler



Steve jobs (co-founder and CEO of Apple Computer)

'He worked at Apple for several years with an annual salary of $1'...the question is why









how about the legend of zelda series

"The first game, The Legend of Zelda appears relatively crude and simple by today's standards, but it was a very advanced game for its time. Innovations included the ability to use dozens of different items, a vast world full of secrets to explore, and the cartridge's ability to save progress via "battery backup".."


I like reading about topics involving computer technology. Yay. I once wrote a paper on the history of the personal computer. Or perhaps it was more of a Microsoft vs.Apple thing.

Anyways, next person gets to read about Xerox. Up for the challenge Ralph? (well, you never know..)

"..it was originally named Haloid (changed name in 1961 and beginning as a manufacturer of photographic paper and equipment..."

"...one of the world's largest document-management companies..."

"..The success of the Xerox brand has led to "xerox" to be commonly used as a synonym for 'photocopy'...company doesn't like it bing used this way"

"...hedquaters in Stamford, Conneticut(spelling?)..."

"800 Long Ridge Road
Stamford, Conn. 06904"

"...55,200 employees worldwide...."

"....founded in 1906 on the 18th of april in rochester, new york..."



Grapefruit???(favorite breakfast food)

sources
xerox.com
wikipedia.org

"The fruit was discovered in the 1750s, probably in Barbados; currently the grapefruit is said to be one of the "Seven Wonders of Barbados".."

haha.



"Grapefruit can have a number of interactions with drugs, often increasing the effective potency of compounds. Grapefruit contains naringin and bergamottin, which inhibit the cytochrome P450 isoform CYP3A4 in the liver. It is via inhibition of this enzyme that grapefruit increases the effects of buspirone (Buspar), caffeine, simvastatin, terfenadine, felodipine, nifedipine, verapamil, estradiol, midazolam, tacrolimus, dextromethorphan (significant only at recreational doses), benzodiazepines and ciclosporin. This effect was responsible for a number of deaths due to overdosing on medication, which led to the identification of these effects."

hmm.



Schizophrenia

"Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality and by significant social or occupational dysfunction. A person experiencing untreated schizophrenia is typically characterized as demonstrating disorganized thinking, and as experiencing delusions or auditory hallucinations. "

"Accounts that may relate to symptoms of schizophrenia date back as far as 2000 BC in the Book of Hearts"

"(295.2/F20.2) catatonic type (where marked absences or peculiarities of movement are present),
(295.1/F20.1) disorganized type (where thought disorder and flat affect are present together),
(295.3/F20.0) paranoid type (where delusions and hallucinations are present but thought disorder, disorganized behavior, and affective flattening is absent),
(295.6/F20.5) residual type (where positive symptoms are present at a low intensity only) and
(295.9/F20.3) undifferentiated type (psychotic symptoms)"

"exact cause of schizophrenia remains unknown"



Rockhopper penguin

The Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) is a species of penguin closely related to the Macaroni Penguin.

This is the smallest yellow-crested, black-and-white penguin, reaching a length of 55cm. It has slate-grey upperparts and a straight, bright yellow eyebrow ending in long yellowish plumes projecting sideways behind a red eye. It breeds in colonies, from sea-level to cliff-tops, and sometimes inland. It feeds on krill, squid, octopus, fish, molluscs, plankton, cuttlefish and crustaceans.

The Rockhopper Penguin has a population of about 3.5 million pairs. The nominate race chrysocome breeds on the Falkland Islands, and on islands off Argentina and southern Chile. The subspecies moseleyi breeds on islands in Tristan da Cunha, and Amsterdam and St Paul Islands. The subspecies filholi breeds on the Prince Edward Islands, the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, Heard Island, Macquarie Island, and Campbell, New Zealand and Antipodes Islands.

The status of this species is vulnerable due to a fall of 24% in its population in the last thirty years.

As their name suggests, they spend their time hopping over rocks. When they were discovered the explorers were amused when they saw the penguins jumping all over the place.

The scientific name for the Rockhopper penguin is sometimes given as Eudyptes crestatus.

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Euroroutes

Wow. Keeno. No Ralph.

I looove penguins. Too bad someone beat me to it.

A system of numbered routes that connects all (?) European countries. Signs are green rectangles with white text. 2 digit routes (including 105 and 115) follow a simple grid with odd going north-south and even going east-west. 3 digit routes follow a slightly more complicated grid.



"E02 does not seem to exist.."

haha.


anyway, http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=898477

yes indeed. The european route system.


so..,


NeXt Computer.

was a computer company in california before Apple took over in december 1996... same founder steve jobs...there is more i just don't feel like typing it all





Norway maple (tree)