So, tonight I was going through boxes, looking for some missing computer CDs and I found lots of old memories...

Memories from youth group, from my days at the seminary, from all state youth choir...

I found letters from people I've lost touch with (and from people i still talk to, like my steph sis) and I found a bunch of old tapes (including TWO copies of DC Talk's Free at Last!!)

I found my old notebook journals. Read some... rather odd stuff! I was an odd kid and I did a lot of semi-short story writing back in those days, most with a sci-fi flare to it, some with a douglas adam's flare to it....

I was a member of some star trek e-mail sims, and I wrote a lot of the stories for those in there, maybe i'll post them here one day, maybe not..

But the two most interesting by far were these:

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If a cat always lands on it's feet, and buttered toast always lands buttered side down, what happens if you glue a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and drop the cat from a high building?

Theoretically, the cat will fall, spinning, towards the ground, stopping inches from the ground and hover there, spanning at a high rate of speed forever.

Could we one day harness the anti-gravity effects of the spinning buttered-toast-cat and use it for transportation?

The answer, sadly, is no. The cats legs cause the whole thing to be terribly unstable. If you remove the legs the cat, having no feet to land on anymore, will become a small spatial anomaly (this is because of the numerous laws of physics and relativity that are broken and space/time breaks down in the area surrounding the cat.) This is actually how black holes are formed. (Yes, I know, this will change modern science in a profound way and make lab rats obsolete!)

The cat, beginning to pull everything to itself until even light can't escape it's pull. After a few thousand years the mass will have grown to an amazing number.

This is why "black cats" are considered bad luck, because early space travelers got lost in them.
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Heh... Wow, I can't believe I wrote that. Guess Brother What's his names sermons at MBC were good for SOMETHING, eh? :)

And how about this, a description of the yeryetti, one of the two creatures I made up on irc, the other was the veryet, a docile rodent-like creature that had only one predator, the yeryetti!

Yeryetti:

Stands upright, average height of about 3 meters, on two legs. Has four arms ending in large paws with large, sharp, super strong, black claws averaging 6" thick and 1" thick. Eyes are black and lifeless, like a Earth shark's. Sharp, long, white teeth in three rows, averaging 3" in length. Tough, thick, black hide that can't be penetrated by even their own claws. Black, thick fur.

They have hyper-sensitive hearing, sight, and smell senses. They can stand extreme stimulation of all senses. They can withstand temperatures of at least 400 degrees C. They can survive in a liquid or gas environment (oxygen, co2, fluorine, nitrogen, methane, and various others will support them) They can survive up to half a year without nourishment.

They are very aggressive and will kill for the act of killing alone if they are not hungry. They can be controlled by a hard to master language of clicks, whistles, and telepathy. They adapt easily to many situations and environments including the vacuum of space.

Yeryetti were genetically developed 1500 years ago on Tellis Qari, the fifth planet in the Realik system. The people of Tellis Qari, the M'trest, were a very aggressive, warlike race and developed the yeryetti as a super-soldier.

The yeryetti were only defeated once and at the loss of all hands onboard the ship that had been boarded. The commander of the vessel set course into the core of the sun of the system they were in.

After the M'Trest perished, the yeryetti lived the next 700.....
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Veryet were cat-like in aperance except for their 21 legs and the fact that they came in two toned striped colours ranging from browns and blacks to purples and yellows. A myriad of colours those veryet! Veryut was the plural. And plural of yeryetti is yeryetti.

Anyone remember me talking about these in ZJam?

How about the Mooheads? I met the queen of the mooheads finaly! She came down and visited for becca's recital with her fiance bryan. It's about freaking TIME I meet christymir!
- posted by Nick @ 3/24/2003 11:23:00 PM | 0 comments