But nevermind. I didn't know that "nevermind" wasn't a word. Apparently you're supposed to say "never mind".
It's a long weekend ahead of us, and most of us really can't enjoy ourselves to the fullest, thanks to that infernal invention: Examinations. Even worse for all the 16 year olds. Prelims are just way too close right now.
But I'm not going to use this post to whine and bitch, I mean, complain, about that. Instead, I'm going to try to be philosophical and look at things from a different perspective.
Take for example, something as ordinary as a bottle. No one really knows when or where the bottle was created. Who thought up the concept of using a hollow, cylindrical device to store and carry water? Perhaps it was the desert-dwellers, who had a great need to store their water. The skinflasks that we so often see in documentaries and TV shows certainly seem reminiscent of modern bottles. But where did the idea itself originate?
Well, there's a theory. And it dates back to the time when Man was still living amongst giant sloths and carnivorous 6-foot-tall birds. Or not. I can't remember. Apparently, as the Earth became drier(this is referring to that specific part), animals had a hard time locating fresh water, similar to the situation in today's African dry seasons. So, what to do? Archaeologists have found ostrich eggshells buried in the ground, with a tiny hole drilled carefully in the top. Snugly stoppered by a bundle of dry grass. And within this egg... Was air! Aha. You wouldn't expect water to last 300 years in a bloody eggshell, would you? But still, that gave rise to the theory that man first thought of using a container to hold that ever-so-precious commodity.
And so, we're still alive today. Because we didn't dehydrate and become that guy from The Mummy. And that was actually a decent movie.
And even though I'm not exactly a Death Note fan, here's a little comic that may amuse those who follow the comics.
Still weirded out,
Joe