Hi! My name is Isaac Privett and here I am getting out into the world, exploring new things, and establishing the identity I will have for the rest of my life. I am starting this blog to inform people about the trials and tribulations of growing up in todays world and making decisions that will affect me for years to come.

:: Thursday, May 08, 2003 ::

Expectations

If you pick up your pen and drop it, what do you expect to happen? You expect it to fall down of course. What if one day it fell up? Would you then question the very nature of gravity? Would you then start to question everything that you used to believe before this marvalous event happened? That makes me wonder. Why does it take a marvalous event to start people questioning the very things we hold true? We believe what we are told and are forgetting to question the things we hold as true. Would you like to see a pen fall up? All you have to do is ask the question: How? Then you have to answer it. That seems very simple and why don't you do it?
:: American-N-Canada 11:55 PM [+] ::
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Left or Right

Ok here is an interesting observation:

You are walking down the sidewalk and you notice you are walking right at them. You continue walking straight and you notice you are on a collision course, but yet you press on. You hope that they will turn off and walk somewhere else, but they don't and now you are about ten feet from them. You essentially have three choices. One, you continue walking and hope the step aside. Two, You sidestep to the right and continue on your way. Lastly, you can sidestep to the left and continue on your way. Now, choice number one isn't chosen most often because that has good chances in leading to what you don't want, a collision and a confrontation. Choice number two most often then not leads to a peaceful passing and niether of you take notice. However, if you choose to go to the left of them, you will experience an interesting event. Most often then not, You both will end up doing a bazaar sidestep move to both sides and it looks like a little dance almost. Why does going to the left cause such a problem for most people? Why do we automaticly expect someone to go to the right of you? Is it a learned behavior or a fixed action pattern? It is little events like this that end up intriguing me the most and I find that very intriguing in itself...
:: American-N-Canada 11:47 PM [+] ::
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Pond Cows

If I said I caught a 27 pond cow this week, would you be able to guess what it is? No it isn't a whale, shark, or wooly mamoth (I knew I read you mind). When I refer to a pond cow, I am refering to the common snapping turtle. It was a tough capture and very dangerous. I snuck around the edge of the pond with my urban camo and used my night vision goggles patiently seeking my target. When I locked on, I flung off my camo revealing my kaki shorts and kaki shirt, threw down my night vision, the sun magicly came out, and I flew into Crocodile Hunter mode. I dove into the water and swam three miles to get to the massive turtle. When I got there it launched its surprise attack! I had made a drastic miscalculation and it lulled me into a false sense of security. We wrestled nine days and twenty nights. (We have alot more nights up here in the north. You should just take my word for it) When the struggle of the titans was complete, I ended up on top. There was only one problem though. I was stuck waste deep in mud. After struggling for twenty more days and nine nights, I drug this hundred pound snapping turtle (They have the secret ability to grow when you try and take them out of the water) out of the pond to inspect my catch. It was a nice size pond cow so I just marked it and threw it back in. We will meet again my arch villian.

Seriously though. I did catch a 27 pond turtle this week and it was alot of fun to catch. I am doing a study of the local turtle population and to do this, I have to catch all the turtles. I don't have a problem with this. I have been catching turtles, snakes, and salamanders for years. Now I do this and I get credit for it. Anyway, Thursday all our traps were empty so we decided to take a walk around the pond to see if we can catch some by hand. After a while we saw this rather large snapping turtle lazily floating along and munching on algae. I jumped in without a second thought. As soon as i jumped in the water, I sank knee deep in mud. The water was only like four inches deep. This wasn't going to stop me from my prize. I continued on fighting against the mud and not noticing that I was sinking deeper and deeper in the mud. By the time I got to the turtle I was waste deep. Now before I go any further I must tell you something about snapping turtles. They are very calm when in the water and they only try to escape as long as they are in the water. As soon as you take them out the water, they turn into a rampaging machine bent on biting off the fingers of the person that is grabbing them. Nevertheless, I had a fun time with this turtle when I was waste deep in the mud. Luckily my professor was right next to me and not quite as deep in the mud so I handed him the turtle and he got it out. Sadly, it took me ten minute to be able to go join my professor and I lost a pair of boots. We then weighed, measured, and marked the turtle and let it go after we showed off our catch of course. Now we know if wecatch that turtle again and we will be able to monitor its growth. I had a blast and hopefully I will have a good time tomorrow when I go to a New York state park to do some studying of reptiles and amphibians.
:: American-N-Canada 12:53 AM [+] ::
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