Is this blogging?
Is blogging sometimes just rambling?
~Tonight, at this very moment, I will ramble on my virtual soapbox as if I’m actually on Speakers Corner in Hyde Park~
Some of the things I love about working at Quest are the very same things I dislike about it. T-I-M-E to T-H-I-N-K!!
I sometimes wonder if my trip last fall would have ever happened if I had a job the prior four years that required my mental attention at all times. I am reminded of this daily as I sit and think..and think….and think….and think.
You have no clue how many things I have discovered, invented, and accomplished in my own mind during my shifts in the cube. I have cured cancer, I have learned to speak every language on the planet, I have traveled through time, and I have even mastered Quantum Physics and had a beer with Einstein. It truly is a great adventure every single day!
In between all of the wonderful planning I do at work, I also think about daily news items. Today was no different and as a direct result, I am here to vent.
Today’s Topic: Cloning.
Ok, so we’ve all heard about cloning by this point. We saw Dolly the sheep years ago and we were amazed, terrified, and began to question “Where will cloning stop?”
I can’t answer the question “where and when will it stop,” but I can tell you that the latest cloning project seems to be a little ridiculous to me. You can breathe a sigh of relief because it is an animal project and not a human, but I would like to question “WHY?”
Four beagles named Ruppy…. Ruppy? Yes, Ruppy. It is not one name for one dog, it’s the creative genius of these scientific morons to name all dogs the same. Hell, I guess they are all clones so why shouldn’t their names be cloned too?
Ruppy is a beautiful and creative name which combines “ruby” and “puppy.” By day, these four cloned beagle are just normal, average puppies looking to live their lives exactly the same as every other puppy, but by night…or wait…ULTRAVIOLET “RUBY COLORED” LIGHT….these dogs GLOW IN THE DARK!! Much like a blacklight poster straight out of the 70’s, it glows under the right conditions. YES, GLOWS IN THE DARK!
Scientists at Seoul University had to “one-up” the previous morons in Japan and the U.S. who cloned glow in the dark mice and a cat by creating a glow in the dark dog. Is it coincidence that all these glow in the dark wonders are natural enemies? Is there something else going on here? Hmmm…. can you say conspiracy?
Now at first sight, this may seem like only a novelty…but I soon realized the usefulness of the new invention.
I can’t wait until I see a glowing red seeing eye dog leading someone down the street …and never again will we be startled in the middle of the night by Fido hiding around the kitchen corner waiting to scare us. With these two things being said, I do have other questions about this new genetic mutant.
Won’t this be a target for any would be robber at night? No longer would the dog have the sensory advantage since it is bright red. Also, what about the people who let their dog sleep in the same room as them? Is this going to keep people awake? I think the dim switch on the clock radio is still too bright, what I am going to do with a dog glowing at 4000 lumens? Can we even watch Tv in the same room as this creature or does it come with a shade to get rid of the glare?
If the dog is small enough, can I throw it in the back window of my car for..yet another brake light? How about Christmas? Can we throw this dog on a tree and consider it festive?
All in all, this barking ball of kryptonite is going to drive me nuts! I think the smothering personality of a dog can sometimes be annoying the way it is now, I don’t need Radioactive Rover brightening up every corner of a room as it attempts to saliva slap me or hump my leg. I DON”T WANT A GLOW IN THE DARK DOG IN MY WORLD and I DON”T WANT SCIENTIST CREATING ANY MORE GLOW IN THE DARK ANIMALS!
Hey scientists, can you spend your time curing cancer or finding a vaccine for the SWINE FLU…or better yet, figure out how to make the Swine-Flu virus glow in the dark so we can see it coming!
