Protoctists, Life in the Freezer and The Story of Philosophy

As I write this the land is white, midway in winter and after New Year 2009 I am now back to work. I had a really good Christmas and got a prehistoric fossil shark tooth (Otodus obliquus). Also my course materials for 2009 arrived and so I commenced study right away and am currently studying about uniformity and diversity which is an introduction to classification systems, the kingdoms with a focus on protoctists and biological investigation and experimentation. It is very interesting.

I watched Galaxy Quest again (funny comedy), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, David Attenborough's The Trials of Life (animal behaviour), Lost worlds vanished lives (fossils) and Life in the Freezer (antarctic), The Incredible Hulk, The Mist, Rambo IV, Soylent Green, Fantastic Voyage and Iron-Man. I am also playing Little Big Planet, Assasin's Creed, Warhawk, Half-Life 1 again and Mass effect. I also got a bluetooth headset for my PS3.

I finished reading The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant and I highly recommend this book. What it does is to give you a synopsis of the defining points in the history of philosophy and how it changed how we lived. It also creates a synthesis between what our scientific discoveries mean to us being human. It is a really important fusion and can change your perspective on life.