Cow’s Life - Thinking Outside Of The Barn

On this very special day, I have the worst job on the planet!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Have you seen a golden retriever giving birth to a green puppy whose name is Wasabi? Well..now you have..:-)

A dog gave birth to a green puppy. The little pup has been named Wasabi, the spicy green mustard put on sushi.

The green Golden Retriever was one of four puppies born to a dog in California last week.

His color definitely sets him apart. Veterinarians said that it is possible for a newborn pup’s fur to be green because the placenta, which is green, sometimes rubs off at birth.

See original story on Milwaukee channel.

As stated in a recent study conducted by a British geneticist,

… an unusually high prevalence of a particular set of genes in China has suggested that 1.5 million Chinese men are direct descendants of Giocangga, the grandfather of the founder of the Qing dynasty.

I am well aware of that part of the history so I wasn’t really shocked when I saw that number. Based on my knowledge acquired by watching TV shows with my parents in the earlier years, I know each emperor in the Qing dynasty was entitled to 72 official wives classified by different titles. You’d think.. “Gee, weren’t they gonna kill each other? How was the King ever going to remember every wife’s name?”

Well, he couldn’t. Again, based on my TV knowledge and a couple of trips to the Forbidden City in BeiJing, China, the Emperor never knew all of his wives. Some wives never even met their husband until the day they die. Except a handful of Queens, these wives were restricted in a section of the Palace. The higher the wife’s title was, the larger the living quarter she got. Every night, the Emperor was presented with a book of the drawings of all the wives (photos hadn’t been invented yet) so the Emperor could pick one or more wives for the bedroom fun. Every day, these wives would wait for their names to be called. The lucky ones would take bath. The servants then wrapped the naked wives in the blankets and carried them to the Emperor’s bedroom. Of course, if the Emperor was craving for some women outside of the Palace, there was never any problem to make that happen. Being said, with all of these women bearing his children, having 1.5 million descendants after hundreds of years is quite possible.

In today’s society, a guy probably gets headache when dealing with just one woman, let along trying to have 72 wives. So, if any guy wants to spread the seeds and have more than 50 people carrying his Y chromosome in 500 years, dream on!

Here is the full text of the study.

The best part of Halloween is to dress up in anything you want. The even better part is to watch other people dressing up like freaks.

Picking out a costume could be pain in the ass sometimes. Last year, I was quite into the Geisha idea so I worn a Yukata (a Japanese bathrobe I bought from Japan), tied a Chinese red pillow case on my back, and I did my own makeup with a $1.00 paint. Well, it turned out to be quite a disaster. This year, I spent about 15 mins picking out a wizard lady dress in the store and headed over to a private Halloween costume party a few hours later.

Very interestingly, I only saw 2 people out of 1000 wearing scary masks to cover their faces. There were quite a lot nurses, French maids, police officers in mini shorts and butterflies with their G strings exposed. A few guys even made their own “one night stand” costumes with paper made boxes wrapped around them and lamps on their heads. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw one guy carrying a backpack with a battery in it to supply the watts for his lamp hat. If I were not running around so much, I could have taken a few more photos. But hey!! With all the free beer, free wine, great music and an interesting crowd to amuse my eyes, trying to concentrate on snapping photos was a real challenge.

Check out the Halloween party photo album.

I know ins and outs about the computing industry, and I can tell you exactly how much you need for retirement down to the penny. But when it comes to poems or any forms of structured expressions, I can be as dumb as a sheep with a pea sized brain.

I go to Liz’s site to read her beautiful writings that sound like flowing water. I envy my old neighbor’s daughter who can perform Shakespeare plays. I learned my A,B,C and that was all the literature education I had.

The first poem I wrote was to answer Mike’s question when I was ready to be his June author, “In Haiku form, ” he asked, “Please tell us your impression of Denver…”

“Haiku? What the heck are you talking about?!!” I had to google the word, read Haiku 101 and put down these 3 lines:

Snow falls in May
Beggars from 16th St Mall don’t want my apples
Mike runs HeavyWinter

Ok, that doesn’t exactly qualify as haiku, but 3-sentences-with-different-lengths-on-3-lines is as good as it gets.

Now, the haiku lover Mike put out a haiku contest. The best snowboarding related haiku writer wins a ticket to see Warren Miller’s film. There are a few entries submitted already, including mine. Check it out. If you have a few ideas, help me out here and put yours in. I can have a use of your ticket if you win the contest.

It’s Friday! So… no serious talking…
I have loaded a couple of albums in Photoblog :

Once in a life time pictures of the lovely animals that live on the same planet with us
How many dogs does it take to change a light bulb?

Ya’ll have a great weekend and thanks to Kimmi for the photos.

Duncan from Blog Herald got an email from someone who is trying to sell a few blog site domains (“website address” in a more common term) from $5000 to $25,000:
BloggingTools.com - $ 25000
CorporateBlogs.com - $ 20000
EroticWeblogs.com - $ 5000

Duncan laughed at it and you can take a look at the readers’ comments here.

But what I am shocked to see is that the dude who wants $25000 for his “BloggingTools.com” is by far not the only one who is miscalculating the zeros.

Check this guy out on eBay (or you can search “bloggt” on eBay)

Initial bid is $3,500 and you can have it for $50000.

Ok, I can understand if someone wants to cash in a good number of zeros from a website address like www.cnn.com. But bloggt.com?! What the heck is that?! I checked the site, it has absoooolutely nothing. According to Alexa, there is no traffic to that site at all (how could it be?). AND I can’t google any well established sites that share similar names with this one.

That dude got a little more than 3 days left, currently 0 bidder.

Ok, I know the title defeats the purpose of my last post, which is trying to get men to help with homemaking and parenting. But, these photos are hilarious and worth taking a look at.

Check out today’s photo blog – Why daddies shouldn’t baby sit.

The photos are another reader’s submission by Kimmi from Australia. Kimmi has been feeding me contents since the construction period of Yuna’s Village. I want to take a moment to thank Kimmi for her support and readership. Thanks girl!

This is the sequel of the earlier photoblog “Feeling Tired…”. Now the babies, dogs and cats are all awaken and feeling angry …

Next, let’s have a look at your level of anger by going through this little exercise published on CNN.

Featured guest submission from Beth:
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It’s Monday! I am sure you are all refreshed and ready to put your brains to work.

Play this “Mystic Ball” game. The crystal ball can read you mind!

It’s very easy to play. Just follow the instructions. The hard part is figuring out why the crystal ball works. After all, there is no magic as far as we know.

Check the comment section for solution.