Hair

Okay, so I’m going to try a more serious post than the last few jovial ones. 

I’m led to believe that gingers, or the Red Headed Gene, are dying out. Within possibly 100 years scientist believe that ginger will in fact no longer be a hair colour. Which got me thinking, could this have possibly happened before?

                What’s to say year’s, perhaps more realistically, millenniums ago, that other types of hair colours existed, such as blue or green. Yes, a slightly extreme theory, but none the less a realistic possibility. To me, there seems a trend towards brighter coloured hairs having the recessive gene. Ginger, possibly the brightest currently surviving, is simply a toned down version of red. So why can’t a dull green or blue have existed? They were perhaps just a terribly recessive gene and didn’t last very long, but there is a chance this could’ve been true, why shouldn’t there have been?

I figure this would have existed long before historians or anybody could record. Or simply that at the time it seemed normal and nobody took much notice or felt the need to record? An argument against could be that we all descended from apes, as evolution tells, so why isn’t there blue coloured apes? Well it would appear there are. The Diademed Monkey, a species found in central and east Africa, disproves this argument, and indeed highlights the possibility that there may have been Blue haired people.
                Just simply because it seems so bizarre to someone today, doesn’t mean it’s incorrect. A whole spectrum of colours exist, why is, or more accurately, why did hair colour get restricted to black, brown, blonde and ginger?

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Snow

I was unable to post Blogs recently. The recent weather made my Blog inaccessible.

Too Slow.

So I just realised I had to go out in 5 minutes, but had decided previously I was going to write a blog before I left, but had left it too late. Which I when I decided to give my the challenge to write a blog in this allocated time slot. I had to chose a topic, and talk about all within 5 minutes. Which got me thinking, can a blog be done in 5 minutes? I suppose it depends on different peoples interpretations of a blog, whether it is to them a quick exercise to get some thoughts down, or whether in fact it’s a much more time consuming task, carefully constructing arguments or points with a degree of evidence or background knowledge. So with two minutes to go, I figured I was slightly behind with the word count. Even in the time it took me to write that, I had 1 minute left. This is when I decided a blog can’t be written in 5 minutes. It takes to long. Times up.

If there is a God what does he or she look like?

I saw this question today and it interested me. Not because I’m religious, which I’m not, but mainly because of my disbelief of god. I realise this is a sensitive topic and I don’t disapprove people for believing in God in the slightest. But it’s a simple question such as this that for me disproves the theory entirely. Every image of god depicts a man, which is horrifically sexist to start. If there is a god, a superior being, why does he appear in a human form? Or to put it another way, why can’t he be a feline, a bird or a reptile? What makes him fall in our species, when he created all living things. All are supposed to be equal as the bible goes. 

                I suppose an answer to this could be we are the superior species, but how do we know this for sure. Say, for example, a species as unnoticeable as the fly, are much more intelligent, allowing us mere humans go about our lives, believing we are superior, whilst they have an unquestionable ability to create and transmit killer disease throughout humans instantly to reduce our numbers. Granted, a slightly farfetched theory (worth noting it’s perhaps as bizarre as parting water and turning water to wine) but just saying there’s a possibility.

                Back to my main argument, what does make him appear in the human form? Slightly extreme example again, but it’s the same stereotypical view people have with aliens, their ideas of them tending to be largely similar to the human form with a few peculiar amendments such as large, disproportioned, pulsating heads, or slimy tentacles. And that they would arrive in a spaceship, just an adapted, advanced form of the airplane. I think this is completely naïve, as to survive on different planets and completely different climates, technologies etc, etc… they would appear in a way none of us could ever imagine. 

                In the same way, why should god, appear as a human, with exactly the same appearance? Should he not be superior to us, in a completely advanced, perfect living entity? Yes. He should, but no one knows what this ‘form’ is and therefore can't yet exist.

Late Night Quiz Shows

These shows are a pet hate. In fact, that’s an understatement. Everything from the hoping-for-a-big-break, overly enthusiastic presenters, to the underlying fact it’s a complete and utter con, aimed at the fact anybody watching at these times are either inebriated, an insomniac or one of a security staff personnel, bin or milk man, who don’t possess enough brain power to realise this (apologies for that incredibly judgemental comment, but I’m sterotypicalising for effect). 

                The questions asked are a complete fix, consisting of mainly simple crosswords or fill in the missing gap ‘____work’, such questions with literally thousands of possible outcomes, any of which could be true.  These programmes take a call on show perhaps every 3 minutes, leaving hopeless viewers at home, stuck on hold for easily 20 minutes, while they leech the callers money with extremely high rate phone calls, only for them to be told their answer is incorrect. Granted, a correct answer pops up every now and then, somewhat conveniently, no doubt when an analogists notes a dip in their programmes souring nightly profits and responds with a correct answer to maintain interest and optimism to these deluded peasant watching. 

                Pet hate an understatement? 

3 words

So if you were asked the question, ‘in 3 words, describe yourself?’ what would you say?

This is a question I’ve heard at an interview before and it stumped me. I mean how can someone sum themselves up in three words? Now of course, with this question relevant to the interview, they were just looking for three key attributes of mine that would sell myself to this job, which I realised after a few seconds. But I’ve got a blog to write so I shall conveniently ignore this and make my point.
               

How can a person seriously, round themselves up in three words? How can a person ask that of someone? And is the question referring to my opinion of myself generally or simply today’s mood? It’s so vague. As for the words, it would take years to find the precise, individual words that could describe someone’s character, traits or personality but moreover years for someone to simply identify themselves as a person. For me this question beggars belief, there’s too much individuality in every single one of us, that there’s not even enough words to describe.
                 

Can a person describe themselves in three words?
               

No they can’t.

Mark Zuckerberg; social networking's Pied Piper.

Facebook. We all use it. In fact if most people are like me, the first thing I do when on my computer is look at Facebook. It amazes me. But why? All I do is snoop through the news feed, looking at my friend’s conversations and pictures. So unnecessary and insignificant, simply too curious for my own good.  But it’s an addiction. I can’t help myself but go on.

Think back? Where was Facebook, say 5 years ago? Nobody new it. Bebo was all the rage. Myspace was cool. Flixter was fun. Social Networking was divided between these websites. But from nowhere, Facebook came steamrolling through and changed this system. These minor websites are unheard of now, Facebook has demolished their popularity. Domination on social networking fronts, Facebook is a phenomenon. As if not content with this newfound success, they figured why not branch out over other areas, such as live chat on the internet. And as was imminent, Msn messenger, Skype, you are no more. Facebook chat has arrived.

So what’s next? I fear for Google. Could Facebook’s own search engine be on its way? Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and the rest, be very afraid. Perhaps Facemail or Fmail, could be on its way. (I’ll have my CV in for Facebook tomorrow, this is too easy). What if they challenged on an internet sales level? Becoming a serious threat to Amazon. Or dare I say it; could Facebook actually become the internet?