So it seems like Youtube seems to be the hot topic for blogging lately, and I unfortunately will attempt to contribute to this flavor of the month.

I was lying in bed talking to my girlfriend about her work, she mentioned that she had to grow some bacteria for a microbiology class that she TAs. Well this got me started on recalling my sixth grade biology class. Our semester long project was to raise and observe seamonkeys. Now if you've never heard of these fascinating little creatures before, they're pretty much brill shrimp. Creatures that seem to only exist in large quantities to feed the giant whales who roam the vast oceans. Back to what I was saying, I had a sudden urge to read/look up seamonkies. As my girlfriend pointed out, I was extremely excited about these little things. The first thing I did, somewhat similar to what I would do with a research paper, I wiki'd seamonkies. I read a little background on the creatures and even got a little insight on how they actually manage to spring to life after you open a packet of powder which contains their eggs and food. So from there I decided to see what Youtube had to offer on the subject. It seems like there's actually a commercial specifically designed for Youtube viewing published by the company that sells and manufactures seamonkies. This wasn't a TV ad ported over to an internet video, this was actually an ad specifically made for youtube.

That really blew me away, and in retrospect it really hit hard on how much the internet affects our lives. While it makes everything so much easier, I begin to feel that I'm almost on life support. Without the internet I would quite possibly go mad of boredom. Fascinating!