Stallionaire, a beta that Melissa and her co-workers from work had bought to have around the office, was brought to the house today and has become a permenant roommate. Not to be identified as another child or anything, but now Peanut and Cassie have a new roommate to have fun with.

In an effort to keep better care of him, Melissa “kidnapped” the office mascot (which she purchased herself) and brought it home. I don’t mind it at all. It nice having a beta in the house again, I really miss seeing John in the bowl, so now having Stallionaire in it and swimming around makes me feel like John is still around.

Here is Peanut meeting his new bunk mate:

I’m trying it again, this time with a different url, its really meant for both me and the blog, so it’ll be at Cos Blog. I finally got access to my e-mail address on twitter and I figured I might as well change the page from that other one to this one. I was very hesitant at first to use the old Socram name, so I’m happy that I was able to change my url to something that I feel is more like me now. So, please check me out.

I’m going to try and see if Mike can help me put my blog on there so that when I update the blog a link and/or the subject line of my blog entries get posted there.

Crossing my fingers that it works this time.

–Cos

This is probably my favorite commercial in recent memory, pay attention to the rabbit:

OK. So, I’m at my parent’s house hanging out with my Father and Melissa and my Mom are out doing something, shopping or something, who knows. Anyway, my Father and I are on the computer and I was looking up my name and not only did I find some pages with my full name that I had never seen before, but I found some information on Tropical Storm Cosme, which if you are scratching your head about, go back two years to this Cos Blog entry (which was probably a Socram’s Blog then…) anyway, I found an article about its impact and a link to the “Final Report” of Tropical Storm Cosme. So, I know, its about two years too late, but what the hell right?

Unless there were two Cosme storms a year apart from each other, this article was posted May 19th of 2008 from Inquirer.net:

(UPDATE 2) ‘Cosme’ death toll up, 35,000 displaced–NDCC

 By Joel Guinto
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 11:18:00 05/19/2008

Filed Under: Weather, Disasters & Accidents, Disasters (general), Relief & Aid Organisations, Government Aid

 

MANILA, Philippines — Tropical storm “Cosme” (international codename: Halong) wrought P15.08 million in damage to infrastructure in northern Luzon, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) said Monday evening.

The storm also left 12 people killed and 11 others injured. Most of the fatalities were hit by flying debris, the NDCC said.

The number of families affected by floods, landslides and storm surge in the Ilocos Region, the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Central Luzon, and Southern Luzon was placed at 34,810, of which, 1,555 were in evacuation centers, the NDCC said.

Zambales province, one of the worst hit by the storm, which made landfall in the northwest on Saturday evening, was placed under a state of calamity.

The storm damaged 10 elementary and high school buildings in the towns of Bani, Binmaley, and Lingayen City in Calasiao Pangasinan province, estimated at P11.9 million.

In Benguet province, the damage on Marcos Highway, Kennon Road, Baguio-Bauang-Road, Baguio-Bua-Itogon Road, Itogon-Dlipihip Road, Baguio-Sto. Tomas Road, Pico-Lamtang Road, Baguio-Bontoc Road, Bokod-Kabayan-Buguuias, and General Luna in Baguio City, was estimated at P3.18 million, the NDCC said.

The NDCC has no immediate estimate on the cost of damage to private property. It reported that 3,038 houses were totally destroyed while 5,604 were partially damaged.

Power was restored in Baguio City, while repair works in 24 cities and municipalities in Pangasinan province, and Candelaria town in Zambales province were underway.

At 2 p.m., “Cosme,” which packs maximum sustained winds of 100 kilometers per hour with gusts of up to 130 kilometers per hour, was located 660 kilometers east northeast of Basco town, Batanes province, on its way to Okinawa, Japan, the state weather bureau said.

The Final Report is simply a link to a PDF file, enjoy: Final Report

So, I hope that clears everything up…

–Cos

Its getting late, but I’m just about done waiting for stupid twitter support to respond back to me again, I need my sleep, I’m exhausted, but I just read this article below from an e-mail sent to me by Variety.com. Yes, I get at least five or six e-mails throughout the day but I don’t always see something as interesting as this:

Seems there has been a problem with my twitter account. I think it was hacked into. When I first got home, I couldn’t access it, then I thought about checking out the page and I found that there was a name on it: Lacyhepp. I don’t know what it means, but it bothered me. So, I paint (the new bathroom–pics to come when its all said and done) and I’m finally on here now, and I try to get on, same deal. I send the techs at twitter an e-mail and they send one back and I go to check on the page and its gone! So I try to go back and re join, but first the user name works but the e-mail doesn’t work, then the user name is suddenly already taken and I go back to the link and there is a new name attached to my page, a paintinlady…

…needless to say I’m pretty pissed. I’ve been e-mail twitter support. I want to resolve this issue. Even if I delete the profile, I want to have the option of doing it.

I’ll sum this blog entry up just like my first post on Twitter:

“just getting on twitter, had been considering it, Melissa beat me to it, so then I had to do it too…”

Updated at 9:26 pm, the e-mail upload didn’t work, but enjoy:

In an effort to actually get something on the blog I’ve decided to try and e-mail one in again. I know it didn’t work properly the last time, but I’m attempting to busy myself and at least try and put something on here.

I have a list of things that I want to post about, I’ve been relatively busy, to say the least.

Things that I’ve wanted to write up about I’ll list below, I think it dates back to early March:

The end of 92.3 K-Rock (again)

Opie & Anthony

Cassie meets her mom (with video)

Arctic Hares

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Dollhouse

The Office

Parks & Recreation

Netflix so far

How I spent my Spring Break/ The new bathroom

Peanut Chew and his obsession with his pellets (aka his food)

Among some other things…I hope this actually gets put on the blog, it’ll also be a way for me to remember what I need to write about.

–Cos

Here I go, completely going against my post from yesterday and putting things up on the blog. Shame on me for not listening to myself…haha.

My Father sent me this one, he labeled it “Dear Peanut” and it comes from NJ.com, the pic of Peanut is of course, mine:

Monmouth County man fined $2K for releasing pet rabbit into wild

by MaryAnn Spoto/The Star-Ledger

Thursday April 09, 2009, 6:01 PM

A Monmouth County man was fined $2,000 today for releasing his family’s pet rabbit into the wild, a practice animal experts fear may be repeated by others who buy bunnies, chicks or ducklings at Easter, then decide they can no longer care for the animals.

Jong Park, 51, of the Morganville section of Marlboro, was charged with the disorderly offenses of abandonment and failure to provide proper food, water and shelter, said Victor “Buddy” Amato, chief animal cruelty officer for the Monmouth County SPCA.

Amato said he filed the charges after interviewing family members, who said they released the rabbit, named Hope, after she grew too big for her cage.

Neighbors alerted authorities after they spotted the white rabbit in the woods where she was abandoned about three weeks ago, Amato said.

Suffering from severe dehydration and tick infestation, Hope was rescued three days ago, Amato said. The bunny, weighing about 10 pounds, should have been about 5 pounds heavier for her age, he said.

“This was not a gray cottontail. This was a domesticated white rabbit,” Amato said. “It is amazing it survived a couple weeks in the woods. This animal should not have survived. Any kind of predator could have gotten it.”

The family adopted the bunny last Eastertime from a friend whose pet rabbit had a litter, he said.

The family did not return a message left at the home.

Animal experts and health officials have long warned families against buying or adopting rabbits, ducklings or chicks, particularly at Easter.

“At Easter, it’s all cute and fine and good, but when they get big, what are they going to do with it?” Amato said.

“The dumping of unwanted, domesticated farm animals along our roadways or in our parks is cruel and thoughtless treatment as they cannot take care of themselves and either starve or get injured by a motor vehicle,” said Ella Boyd, public health coordinator for the Ocean County Department of Health and a licensed veterinarian. “It is sad and unnecessary.”

Hope will be offered for adoption when she reaches her appropriate weight, Amato said.

Park will have to address the charges in municipal court.

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OK…this one made me scratch my head a little…its almost like: “How didn’t they know?”

From yahoo.com:

Edge of Space Found

Andrea Thompson
Senior Writer
SPACE.com andrea Thompson
senior Writer
space.com Thu Apr 9, 4:19 pm ET

Hold on to your hats, or in this case, your helmets: Scientists have finally pinpointed the so-called edge of space – the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.

With data from a new instrument developed by scientists at the University of Calgary, scientists confirmed that space begins 73 miles (118 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.

A lot remains very fuzzy, however, as the boundary is surrounded by a host of misconceptions and confusing, conflicting definitions.

For starters, astronauts can say they’ve been to space after only passing the 50-mile (80-kilometer) mark.

Meanwhile the boundary recognized by many in the space industry is also a somewhat arbitrary 62 miles (100 kilometers). Scientist Theodore von Kármán long ago calculated that at this altitude the atmosphere is so thin that it’s negligible, and conventional aircraft can no longer function because they can’t go fast enough to get any kind of aerodynamic lift. This 62-mile boundary is accepted by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI), which sets aeronautical standards.

The United States, however, has never officially adopted a set boundary standard because it would complicate the issue of overflight rights of satellites and other orbiting bodies, according to NASA.

NASA’s mission control uses 76 miles (122 kilometers) as their re-entry altitude because that’s where the shuttle switches from steering with thrusters to maneuvering with air surfaces, NASA states. Others point out that the “Now Entering Space” sign should be posted way out at 13 million miles (21 million kilometers) because that’s the boundary where Earth’s gravity is no longer dominant.

(While astronauts experience weightlessness in space, this isn’t because there’s no gravity there, it’s due to the balance of forces acting on them as they orbit.)

In the new study, an instrument called the Supra-Thermal Ion Imager detected the boundary by tracking the relatively gentle winds of Earth’s atmosphere and the more violent flows of charged particles in space, which can reach speeds well over 600 mph (1,000 kph).

The ability to gather data in that area is significant because it’s very difficult to make measurements in this region, which is too high for balloons and too low for satellites.

“It’s only the second time that direct measurements of charged particle flows have been made in this region, and the first time all the ingredients – such as the upper atmospheric winds – have been included,” says project scientist David Knudsen of the University of Calgary.

The instrument was carried by the JOULE-II rocket on Jan. 19, 2007. It traveled to an altitude of about 124 miles (200 kilometers) above sea level and collected data for the five minutes it was moving through the “edge of space.”

The finding, detailed in the Journal of Geophysical Research on April 7, could aid the study of space weather and its impacts on Earth.

The data “allows us to calculate energy flows into the Earth’s atmosphere that ultimately may be able to help us understand the interaction between space and our environment,” Knudsen said. “That could mean a greater understanding of the link between sunspots and the warming and cooling of the Earth’s climate as well as how space weather impacts satellites, communications, navigation, and power systems.”

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