Life day by day / Viata, zi de zi

Everyone is reading the net today to find out where the 2016 Summer Olympic games are going to be. (Just for the record this is year 2009). But I bet not even half of those people know when or where the next Winter Olympic Games are going to be.

Congrats Rio de Janeiro! Chris, can we stay at you parents house for the games?

For the record: 2010 Vancouver Canada

Yesterday George picked me up at school and we walked home. At one of the crosswalks, while waiting for the green light we kissed, a couple of times. Then we heard a honk. Then I kissed George again on the cheek, honk again. Another kiss, another honk. The forth time I did not even get close enough to kiss him when we heard the honk. I started laughing so hard that I was not able to kiss him anymore.

I though it was hilarious!

I wonder if I would mind seeing people kissing on the street?!? But I do not know cause that does not happen in Oklahoma.

(Actually there are no people on the street to begin with, but that is another story.)

I guess there is a reason why they call Oklahoma the buckle, the buckle of the Christian belt.

last song is coyotes.

Was Werner Hertzog trying to tell us something?

Husband and wife at a restaurant, where you give your order and later have to go pick it up when they call you. They are sitting at the table when they hear their names called. Wife gets up to go get her food but husband doesn’t. Looking angrily at him she says: Are you going to let me go by myself? He gets up and starts going towards the food. Then wife says: I guess if you are going I do not need to!

Q: Why are remixes made?

A: To be used as background music in aerobics classes (hence the rhythm).

Some americans are so patriotic that they would:

- paint their toe nails as the american flag

What do you call a blind dinosaur?
Doyouthinkhesaurus 

What do you call a blind dinosaur’s dog?
Doyouthinkhesaurus Rex

Latelly I keep hearing these jokes, first on the trip I took with my parents, then I saw the movie. And I really like them, so I though I would share them.

If you like them too there are more: http://www.kidsdomain.com/brain/dino/riddles.html 

I did lately.

In sociobiology and behavioral ecology, a mating system is any of the ways in which animal societies are structured in relation to sexual behavior. The mating system specifies which males mate with which females under which circumstances. For organisms such as plants, that do not necessarily have males and females, mating system is used to refer to the degree to which individuals are self fertilizing or outcrossing. See plant sexuality. The following are some of the mating systems generally recognized in animals: * Sexual Monogamy: One male and one female have an exclusive mating relationship. The term "pair bonding" often implies this. * Sexual Polygamy: One or more males have an exclusive relationship with one or more females. Three types are recognised: o Polygyny (the most common polygamous mating system in vertebrates so far studied): One male has an exclusive relationship with two or more females o Polyandry: One female has an exclusive relationship with two or more males o Polygynandry: Two or more males have an exclusive relationship with two or more females; the numbers of males and females need not be equal, and in vertebrate species studied so far, the number of males is usually less. * Promiscuity: Any male within the social group mates with any female. These mating relationships may or may not be associated with social relationships, in which the sexual partners stay together to become parenting partners. As the alternative term "pair bonding" implies, this is usual in monogamy. In many polyandrous systems, the males and the female stay together to rear the young. In polygynous systems where the number of females paired with each male is low, the male will often stay with one female to help rear the young, while the other females rear their young on their own. In polygynandry, each of the males may assist one female; if all adults help rear all the young, the system is more usually called "communal breeding". In highly polygynous systems, and in promiscuous systems, paternal care of young is rare, or there may be no parental care at all. It is important to realize that these descriptions are idealized, and that the social partnerships are often easier to observe than the mating relationships. In particular: * the relationships are rarely exclusive for all individuals in a species. DNA fingerprinting studies have shown that even in pair-bonding, matings outside the pair (extra-pair copulations) occur with fair frequency, and a significant minority of offspring result from them. * some species show different mating systems in different circumstances, for example in different parts of their geographical range, or under different conditions of food availability * mixtures of the simple systems described above may occur. Virtually all the terms used to describe animal mating systems were taken over from social anthropology, where they had been devised to describe systems of marriage. This shows that human sexual behaviour is unusually flexible, since in most animal species, one mating system dominates. While there are close analogies between animal mating systems and human marriage institutions, these should not be pressed too far, because in human societies, marriages typically have to be recognised by the entire social group in some way, and there is no equivalent process in animal societies. The temptation to draw conclusions about what is "natural" for human sexual behaviour from observations of animal mating systems should be resisted: a socio-biologist observing the kinds of behaviour shown by humans in any other species would conclude that all known mating systems were natural for that species, depending on the circumstances or on individual differences.

Human Physiology and Mating Systems

As culture increasingly affects human mating choices, it becomes correspondingly difficult to ascertain what is the ‘natural’ mating system of the human animal from a zoological perspective. But we can take some clues from our own anatomy, which is essentially unchanged from our prehistoric past:

• humans have a very large relative size of testes to body mass versus most primates
• humans have a comparatively large ejaculate and sperm count versus other primates
• as compared to most primates, humans spend more time in copulation
• as compared to most primates, humans copulate with greater frequency
• the human female’s estrous is hidden, compared to most mammals that have outward signs of ovulation
• for most mammals, the estrous cycle and its outward signs bring on mating activity, but due to the hidden estrous, humans copulate throughout the reproductive cycle
• the glans penis on human males is shaped like a plunger, whose function seemingly is to remove semen from the vagina (presumably not one’s own).
• after ejaculation in males and orgasm in females, human males release a hormone that has a sedative effect, while human females remain sexually receptive

These anatomical factors combine to suggest that from a zoological standpoint the human animal has a reproductive strategy based at least to some degree on sperm competition and that females enhance their genetic reproductive success by making every egg a contest, and males by participating in as many contests as possible. While such a strategy was conducive to the cooperative competition and solidary bonds of tribal existence, in the face of carnal knowledge and the rise of culture, new more complex behavioral choices are seemingly superseding our physiology.

From Wikipedia 

happened to “they lived happily ever after!” ? All the love stories I have seen/read lately end when he leaves. Then she finds some one else and is happy. Sometimes she even meets the “old” love, and they are pals, no hard feelings or anything. Has everyone accepted this new order of things? Is it only me that has a hard time accepting it?

There were two couples, and it was Valentine’s day. One couple bought gifts for each other, little trinkets/teddy bear like stuff to show their love for each other. They were called romantic. The other couple just spend the time together doing things they liked, but nothing “special”, no presents or expensive dinner. They were called pragmatic. If pragmatic means doing things you like and spending time with the person you care about, but not wasting money on useless presents, what does romantic mean?

It is funny how people view things. A friend was reading a book about vampires. And she was really disappointed sort of because these were not authentic vampires. Some of their traits were as we know them: strong, beautiful, immortal, bloodsucking animals. BUT: they did not sleep during the day, the sun did not kill them, only showed their true color, and you could not kill them by piercing their hart. She could not understand why this book was receiving so much attention because it brought nothing new, actually it was probably worse then other vampire books. Her conclusion was that nowadays kids did not read the older books so they think this is new and cool. Anyway, she got me interested and I read the book. My conclusion: it is just another “forbidden love” story. (because we do not have race, ethnicity, name boundaries to keep us from being with some one the author made them two different “species” so there would be something to separate them) Romeo and Juliet all over again, except that this one has a sequel where he leaves and she finds another guy. I have not finished the sequel. HE MIGHT COME BACK!