Saturday, March 26, 2022

Strange itch-HELP?!

On June 25th, 2021 was the start of an uncomfortable year. It started in the master bedroom, and then eventually, the whole house was "infected." Everyone in the family of four is losing sleep because this so-called bug is giving us itches. Someone said that it will pass, but it's not- I do not know what is going on, but every something lands lands on our skin,  we itch, and it is unbearable sometimes. 5 other people I know have the same problem and I am at wit's end because up until now, I don't know what this is. This thing is invisible, we went to see vector control agencies and they have not helped us; also went to doctors online to hopefully get answers, but no luck. I have been using Permethrin, an ultrasound contraption, and I've been showering everyday twice. It is very frustrating that sting it keeps itching despite we've been smoking the house, spraying with alcohol, using incense, and many other method, but nothing is done. Is there anyone else with this problem? I live in the Bay Area in Alameda County. We have no pets,  and we have air purifiers and scrubbers, but they don't help. Can someone identify what is going on here if you live in the Bay Area, or anywhere in California that has these weird "bugs"? 

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Scammer List- keep tuning back for more...

" If you are going on Skype, you will have to look out for a screenname that is a pretender and will try to scam you out of house and home- he once was trying to be HR of CNO Financial Groups (There is no "S") which does not exist, and I was victim to his trickery and lies. He robbed $5000 from me. Now he's an Intuit representative when I wrote this blog. Watch carefully for his screenname. He may change it, but if he has not, look for this: "live:hr.robertholmes1994" on Skype. But whatever you do, NEVER use gift cards to believe that you will work remotely. Look for suspicious checks that come from a FedEX or UPS envelope and also, I recommend to not use online billpay-go to the bank to see if the check is a valid one.

There is another scammer that you will have to look out for: ashleybeckley@mediacombb.net


Now if you are a furry/anthromorphic fan and you ever go to FurAffinity, do be careful-you will see a scammer on there whose e-mail is: Rinarin.fox@gmail.com (It is "FoxyKit") on FA.

 Scammers like these should be tracked and put to jail as soon as possible if you are able to get as much info as you can about the user!!

Saturday, January 23, 2021

We get to finally breathe better

Is in a good way, that we get to have in the US, the Paris Climate Accord and that Joe Biden at the helm of executive power, we could see then, prosperity. I know if somebody is in his or her seventies , attention span, reasoning, processing, and learning slows down greatly. But, if there is a person that has been in office and is accustomed to it, then he or she can lead and make the right decisions for a country. I may not like Biden, but we could blame some who voted for him last year in the late winter and spring. But he's the one we got - as he knows all about government better than Donald Trump who was just a businessman, who does not know the difference between a country and a company.
I can say he's a crybaby, but Trump did have to go in shame. Very soon it can be moot, but it should be known if he were to stay in office, then we would know if he deserves to be impeached and removed from office. But as there is no other choice to do this vote, it is clear that we should know if he should be banned from office. Yes, you can tell that I am to the left being Democrat, but the country needs to be fixed. January 20th was the time when we could say Merry Christmas again, as the despot has left. We will see, with the help of Democrats in the House and Senate if the country is going to move forward progressively. It was time for a change, and we needed it badly.

Thursday, January 7, 2021

An infamous Epiphany...

It makes no sense, that January 6th 2021 will be a day where we can live in infamy - if you're reading this in the future, here's what happened what would be the worst president in all of American history, did make a speech along with his followers to insight some sort of movement to protest voting. What was shocking was that his son and a former mayor of New York who is a lawyer said to put strength and force into the march to Capitol Hill. It was an extremely dangerous situation - a blockade was breached, and protesters were ransacking the House of Representatives and Senate's meeting rooms. Some were also in the offices of the congressmen and women, and there was the one I saw on TV and online where they took a podium. The police were outnumbered, and it was a shock to many of the US's allies - and to us innocent folk. Democracy was challenged today, and these tens of thousands of people were going to cause anarchy and chaos. I do not know about the 45th president actually turning against his own running mate/ vice president, but it seems so that he did by directly having his own followers go to their rooms and try to block the vote and even have the vice president be in trouble. It was horrifying, the most stable democracy with the oldest constitution was nearly under fire, and a lot of investigation and preparation for the future is needed; it's because I feel it will happen again - USA is not a banana republic third world country! I'm hoping really that when there's history to be learned, this will forever be in the books and cannot be ignored - it was very bad. It's not Pearl Harbor, or September 11th 2001, and cannot happen again inside our country. We have citizens, have to back by the Constitution and not buy a despot by the name of Donald J Trump. He'll go down in history, but you'll or he will have a lot on your or his hands to show that he would be a good president - and there is a gargantuan doubt that he will be. If he is the one that will bring fear to a country or cares about himself or lead by force or cause such arrogance, then a person who follows him doesn't deserve to be holding any office, ANYWHERE.

Monday, December 21, 2020

Belly fur, reptilian/amphibian bellies and bird bellies

It would be pointless, but there are many things going on in the anatomy and physiology of any species. I do discover something that is so hard to get that it is growing and growing in my interest. If you have seen many cartoons of some reptiles and mammals, you will see that their belly is lighter in fur coat or, the scales are more like ridges that you see on bellows. In real life, you will see the same thing on most animals. I ask, why are they this way? Well, I may have this answer after some study in university biology.

I have a few acceptable hypotheses:

From what I learned in physiology and genetics, places tend to get darker when exposed to the sun a lot more than usual. For four-legged creatures, they almost always have their backs toward the sun and whereby have defensive mechanisms to defend itself from skin damage- in the skin, there is keratin (in some species) and melanin to shield harmful UV rays away from the skin. The mammalian fur being made is done under the influence of this and is darker. The scales for the reptiles, some fish and amphibians would copy this behavior. The animal's integument (skin, nails, fur, scales) will cause its protection from the sun, wind and tempaerature- to put the body into homeostasis. Of course, the rare exception are those that want to trap hear in the belly area in such cold areas-an example 8s the cute red panda.
The belly is a different color in most cases because of the suns rays not reaching them. Terrestrial animals and birds are more prone to lie down on their bellies; in the case of birds, you will see the belly of the smaller ones profoundly because of a larger surface area by percentage since their legs are smaller and their belly is rounder than the larger ones.

Sunday, December 20, 2020

History- We're repeating it now thanks to COVID!

It can come to show that me going to 4 universities may not be a waste of time- After seeing CNN's Special Report- Pandemic: How a Virus Changed the World in 1918, I have discovered a lot of things not covered about the Spanish flu in the classes I took. I was a bio major, and I could not understand that COVID was covered very lightly. Chabot College, Universities of Wisconsin-Madison, Kentucky and San Jose State did not cover it! It has been touched very lightly in Hayward High School as Woodrow Wilson possibly caught it and was the stemming of the rise of the Nazis, but if he were healthy, then World War 2 wouldn't have came to fruition.

Ugh, what we are doing now is a repeat of what is going on back in 1918. I will bet that whoever has been protesting against the masks back then are descendants of those who are protesting them now. We can't let germs really change history nor affect the future of the world. Though it is good that pollution has dipped a good 15%  now that many places are putting in stay-at-home restrictions, the tough reality is that we can't really progress either. It is a double-edged sword though, as environmentalists can have ways to make factories, cars and even farming be less polluting. Is it that our ignorance and downplay of the Spanish flu in the past and more emphasis on winning the war and setting a treaty in ending it be at all good in some way? One can say ignorance is bliss-well, blissful for nature as there is less activity, but controversially, some deaths in the world to make nature have some chance to get better.

Teachers have some limitations to teaching, and it would be on our own after we're educated to see what is important to our lives. Humans will learn better if something drastic were to occur, and since COVID is here, I would say that we could blame some historians and publishers for not including microbiological events that would change history. It is all about human-human relations in history they stress, but they should also include something from biology as well-certainly, deaths in a war are not just from killing and injury, but also illness-even if one is whole. 

I can give blame to the places of higher education that they were not focusing on germ warfare enough-whether or not one will go to STEM or be a historian, one will have to learn a bit of biological history as well that has gone through the years-it is not just The Black Death (bubonic plague) we have to learn, it is the Spanish flu pandemic we should also see. Now, many years from now, there will be another pandemic, and it should be clear that in humankind when there are 3 instances of pandemic, scientists, medicine personnel, historians, anthropologists, psychiatrists and sociologists should look in these events deeply so that they should be ready to act and have everyone get ready to handle another pandemic and treat it seriously so that the health and the country's(ies') economies will not suffer.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

SO, OK, I have decided to revive this Blogger account now. I will soon put more on this once every 2 months. I am a bit busy with school and I may not devote too much time to the site, but I'll try my best. Anyway, if you are more interested, you would want to be a furry (anthropomorphic animal)- I post more about my thoughts and experiences on FurAffinity.net. Look me up under excelsior30- I'm a red panda. Don't start posting hate messages! Thanks for reading. :-)