Aug 23
From the, it’s on the Internet, so it must be true:
Redheads set for extinction
But the future doesn’t look bright for people with ginger hair.
According to genetic scientists redheads are becoming rarer and could be extinct in 100 years.
The current National Geographic magazine reports that less than 2 per cent of the world’s population has natural red hair - created by a mutation in northern Europe thousand of years ago.
Global intermingling, which broadens the availability of possible partners, has reduced the chances of redheads meeting and so producing little redheads of their own.
Although it takes only one red-haired parent to produce ginger babies, two redheads obviously creates a much stronger possibility.
Some experts warn redheads could be gone as early 2060, but others say the gene can be dormant in the reproductive system for generations before returning.
National Geographic says the gene at first had the beneficial effect of increasing the body’s ability to make vitamin D from sunlight. However, today’s carriers are more prone to skin cancer and have a higher sensitivity to heat and cold-related pain.
Woo hoo! I’m represent’n “2 per cent of the world’s population”.
Aug 22
With all of the hype and hoopla over the iPhone, I wanted to give a short review of the phone that I recently switched to: Blackberry Curve.
I think the iPhone is a lovely, if flawed device, and I needed something that would hookup to my corporate email, be an excellent phone and had a full keyboard for my sms/emailing needs.
The Blackberry Curve solves all of this and has a pretty good media player to boot. While it doesn’t have the convince of playing iTunes store content, i.e. music, movies and TV shows, it does play a wide range of audio/video formats.
It has a decent camera as well which includes a rudimentary flash. So, while not a replacement for your digicam, it’s still good enough for those quick pictures, like when you are intoxicated and out with your friends.
I’m really impressed with this phone, it’s not as sexy as the iPhone but does a great job of coming close to it. The one thing missing from this phone is Wifi and Itunes support.
Aug 22
Talk about being busy. This summer has been nuts for the last month, I haven’t spent a single weekend at home and have been working my ass off. The company move to a beautiful new campus, it’s one of the nicest buildings I’ve ever worked in. I’m pretty sure that the designers of our campus were looking at Google for the bench mark as our food is now gourmet, it’s amazing.
Anyway, now that the move is over, I should have more time to start updating this blog and more importantly, getting some more scuba diving into my schedule.
I’ll start to post dive reports and pictures soon.
Aug 09
An unidentified diver’s remains were located near Tacoma, WA.
An off-duty firefighter on a dive Monday afternoon noticed the mostly skeletal remains, still clad in diving gear, in about 200 feet of water, Pierce County sheriff’s Detective Ed Troyer said.
The identity of the body remained unclear pending an effort to recover the remains with specialized gear, including an underwater camera and remote equipment.
A diver vanished in the same area in November, but “we have people missing from all over Puget Sound,” Troyer said. “There’s more than one person it could be.”
How many divers have “gone missing” over the years? Is there a list?
Link [Via SeattleTimes]