Still alive

Still alive post stabbing, really wierd seeing a big bag of blood after being drained for a few minutes.

Duck and cover, random thought time

I mean what are we anyhow? A collective jumble of organic matter, confused thoughts and suchlike. You can lop of a fair amount of bits but still "you" remain... in mind, or do you? The subconcious is (in my fairly limited understanding of the idea) linking intrinsically to the nerve system in your body, thousands upon thousands of tiny pieces of sense and reaction threaded through your body in a mass network of reaction, tactile feeling and to some degree subconcious thought. Not that this is exactly a new idea, I remember an excellent article in an old new scientist magazine that dealt with just this, the 'undermind' or whatever they called it.
Anyway, the point being that you, as you, represented at this point of my rambling by your subconcious is lost partially if we lop off bits of you, and by the nature of it all a part of you influences the whole and likely vice-versa. So any bits of you influence everything else.
Does this work with blood and other bits? Can the wee little things we produce in our blood have some kind of rudamentary communication, they're certainly "intelligent" or programmed enough to seek out viruses and invading biosystems into our body.
That said can we train our immune system, I'm not talking about making it jump through hoops, but surely the communication and development system we have inside our bloodstream could be evolved; can blood cells learn collectively? Can we train them and/or evolve the development system that produces them in order to get better blood that will follow orders inside us to better combat invaders, it's not exactly sci-fi unfeasible these days I would think, after all a lot of other stranger things have happened.

Like marketing names, I mean... what the hell is a 'snickers' is it the noise a horse makes? Is it a sneeze? Is it some obscure part of the body that can only be politely referenced through innuendo or lord knows what else? This much is for sure it is a damn dumb name as far as I'm concern, I mean who thought it up anyway? I can just see the scene...

Fade in a boardroom, waynes world style

Faceless corporate marketing manager #1 stands up
People, we need a name for our new product, our 'Mars' bar is great however we need to expand our range and increase our marketing dominance in order to ensure future profitability and greater share security for our shareholders.
Faceless corporate marketing manager #2 nods
I am empowered to authorise a solution to deliver a product to proactively enhance our market-share, the board of directors awaits a economically viable, innovative, competitive, diverse, low-risk high-yield resolution to this situation.
Faceless corporate marketing manager #3 looks around
What?
Faceless corporate marketing manager #1 sighs
Ignore him, he's new.
Right, all we need is a name
Faceless corporate marketing manager #2 ponders
Verifibly; something that speaks of a definative quality, resultant from the purchasing of the product that speaks of a bespoke satisfaction level.
Faceless corporate marketing manager #3 sneezes
Faceless corporate marketing manager #1 frowns
Bless you
Faceless corporate marketing manager #2 frowns
I am contemplating 'Progressionbar', 'Dynamibar', 'Empow-ar-bar' as definitive solutions to present for approval.
Faceless corporate marketing manager #1 ponders
Faceless corporate marketing manager #3 sneezes again
Faceless corporate marketing manager #1 frowns
Bless you again *passes him a tissue*
Faceless corporate marketing manager #3 blows his nose
*Sniiiiicker* Thank you
Faceless corporate marketing manager #1 blinks
What was that?
Faceless corporate marketing manager #3 looks puzzled
What was what?
Faceless corporate marketing manager #1 gasps
That name, yes, what an idea!
Faceless corporate marketing manager #3 blinks
Name?
Faceless corporate marketing manager #1 nods
Oh, you're too modest, this will reshape the world!

Fade out, bill and ted style

And so a monster was created.

You know...

You know you're on a documentation roll when you start sections in your document entitled "Data Management Flow Diagram"

Sugar!

I just found a pack of polos in my desk! Yay!

Hopefully they'll be the nice crumbly kind that you can crunch up easily rather than the hard pressed mint sort of normal sugary texture thing you put in your mouth and crush with your teeth going crunch-crunch-crunch as they splinter into smaller sub-polo-ettes that fill your mouth with the sweet sweet taste of minty sugary goodness, mislabelled as the logo gets cut to pieces as you chew them to bits.

Mmmm. Polos

Trivia

There are 23 polos in a standard pack of polos

Burp

Polos all gone, thought you might like to know

Thought for the day

Having been working on a database related pile of documentation most of the day I've come to the conclusion that "Databases" is a clumsy word and should be replaced with the more elegant and less harsh "Databasi"