Anatomical anomaly

So here's something that I've been wondering about...
the human body is symmetrical along the median plane (for the most part) and there are many parts that there are two of, one on each half of the body. Many of them make sense:

ears- so you can hear on either side of you, and you can easily turn your head to position yourself to tell where a specific sound is coming from, without even thinking about it.

eyes- near the front of the head, just enough to the side to have a wide range of vision to the sides of your head, but facing the same direction enough to have an overlap to get good depth perception.

hands/feet, fingers/toes, etc- two hands help you grasp things on either side of your body, two feet to help you balance.

all this is basic anatomy, and not just with humans, but most animals. you can split an animal straight down the middle and take a look at the basic structure of the two halves and they are equal. I'm not talking internal organs here, though some of those are mirrored too (lungs, ovaries/testicles, kidneys). nobody disputes or questions any of this.

my problem is......nostrils!

why do we have two nostrils? I can understand eyes, ears, etc because there are practical purposes as noted above. but two nostrils? I don't see the evolutionary benefit of having two smaller nose holes instead of one bigger one:

-wouldn't air flow to an animal's lungs be more efficient with one giant nostril than two smaller ones?
-I would think it would be more difficult to clog one giant nostril than two smaller ones (how many times have you blown your nose in the last week?)
-there's more skin/surface area with two smaller nostrils, isn't it bad enough that we lose a good portion of body heat through our head, we have to have more surface area to do so?

I think we should be a race of nasa-clopses with one giant nostril who could breathe faster and not have to spend as much on kleenex. AAAAAACHOOOOOO!


edit: hahaha now all the random ads are about medical books and anatomy :)

Fear and loathing (and girls, girls, girls!) in Las Vegas

As you probably know, I recently went to Vegas for a week. While I was there, I did some gambling (lost a total of about $30), saw some shows, and generally had a good time. Also while I was there, I saw a lot of T & A. There were girls there who may not have been prostitutes, but who were dressed like them. There were also girls who definitely WERE prostitutes. Since it's legal there, they have no reason to hide, and in fact, it is openly flaunted. There are people on the streetcorners handing out "business cards" with phone numbers on them. there were girls who wore clothes that barely covered anything, I've seen bathing suits that covered more. there were groups of girls hanging out together who were all dressed up (or down?) and showing a lot of skin, etc. and now, this is what started me thinking.

The groups of girls I saw seemed to have one thing in common- in groups of 3 or more, there was always one fat and/or ugly girl. There would be two hot girls and next to them, or in between them, was a girl who weighed as much as the other two combined. Either that, or the girls were all skinny, but one was really ugly. I know it sounds mean, but you all know it's true!

So I decided, this needs to be defined as a rule. The Fat Friend Rule: Whenever there is a group of 3 or more girls, there will be a fat one.

After seeing numerous examples in Vegas, where there were lots of groups of girls walking around, I would say about 80% of the time, the rule applied. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, sometimes, there are just a bunch of really hot girls who hang out together. However, there was a significant portion where the standard Fat Friend rule didn't apply, all the girls were skinny, but this led me to come up with an addendum to the Fat Friend rule, the Ugly Friend corollary: If there is no fat one, there is usually an ugly one.  This covered about 95% of the groups that I saw.

Now, a rule generally is 100% applicable, so we're not there yet. But think about it, when there is a group of girls, and none of them are fat or ugly, they are probably all shallow and vain. So they are ugly ON THE INSIDE! So the rule does apply after all, it's just much more difficult to see.


Now, I'm not purposefully trying to be sexist here (although I can definitely see it being taken that way), and I'm not saying that this same rule (or a similar one) doesn't apply to guys, I'm sure there is probably an equivalent rule for guys as well, I just don't pay attention to groups of men and evaluate them in a looks/attractiveness kind of way.  Ladies- opinions? Is there a fat/ugly guy rule? Let me know your thoughts!

Spamalot

just got the following email in the spam folder of my gmail... If gmail has "temporarily prevented access" to my account, how was I able to log in to the account to read the message? come on spammers, you can do better than that! also, you spelled believe wrong.

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Dear Customer,

This e-mail was send by gmail.com to notify you that we have temporanly prevented access to your account.

We have reasons to beleive that your account may have been accessed by someone else. Please run attached file and Follow instructions.
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This one is definitely gonna go in the book of spam emails that I will write someday, chronicling the ridiculousness of spam emails.

Social networking experiment and possible cash cow?

So I want to try something here....
tell me in person, via a comment at the bottom, or on facebook/AIM, etc if you actually read this blog. I just want to know how many people actually read on a regular basis.
if you find my humor worth at least a dollar, please let me know and send paypal payments by clicking on the fancy new paypal Donate button over there somewhere ---------------->
 I would like to see how much further I need to go and how much funnier I need to be so that I can quit my job and do this full time :)  j/k! I couldn't do that to my friends at work who would have a collective nervous breakdown when I quit :)

and you don't really have to donate, but if you feel a dollar burning a hole in your pocket, I would always be glad to take it off your hands. i really just want to know how many people read this, cause the web counter that i put at the bottom kinda sucks. Maybe I'll change it to register only unique hits? any suggestions?

Thumper update: Last night, I don't know what the hell she was doing, but it sounded like she was moving furniture at midnight, then again at 4:50am. No, I didn't pull out the airhorn, I was tempted to, but I want to save that only for the two-person co-thumping that is more fun to interrupt :)  On a related note, if anyone knows of a cheap house nearby, let me know, I'll be glad to take that off your hands as well!

FYI- I'm working on a big posting, that may grow into something larger, depending on the number of ideas and whether people actually care. Update coming soon!!

off to take some IBUP200T and probably chill with the tv and sleep early.