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This just goes to show that you never really can tell what your computer is doing when you are not fully utilizing its available RAM. For more on secret computer love, I refer you to Questionable Content: http://www.questionablecontent.net/.


HumanGumbo: You're making my computer make noise, stop it.
lauras372: ?
lauras372: Why?
lauras372: Your computer is just happy to see me, that is all.
HumanGumbo: hmm... that's an odd way for a computer to feel about someone it's never met before..
HumanGumbo: this operating system is brand new even, like 2 hours old
lauras372: Your computer and my computer have always been connected on a higher level, Dustin. There is just no fighting their bond.
lauras372: Just let them be friends.
HumanGumbo: I forbid my computer to like your computer... my computer is mine! Yours can't have it!
lauras372: She doesn't want to steal him from you, just share a little excess ram from time to time.
HumanGumbo: TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!
HumanGumbo: My poor poor psyche! I don't want to think about what computers do behind my back.
lauras372: Ahahahaha
HumanGumbo: It can never work out... my computer is a linux, yours is a windows. It's not meant to be
lauras372: Alas, two OS crossed lovers. Their downfall was written in the stars.
HumanGumbo: I hope they don't die like romeo and juliet... I kinda like this system
lauras372: Yeah...we should keep an eye on them, mine has been acting suicidal as of late.
HumanGumbo: Yours is suicidal... mine's practically an infant... not a likely pair
lauras372: But isn't that the archetype of the American romance? Two--in this case computers--joined together under the most unlikely of circumstances. Together they must face the resistance of society and the challenges of life to be together.
lauras372: The more we keep them apart, the harder they will fight to be together.
lauras372: Have you never seen a romantic drama?
HumanGumbo: and paid attention? no

And to think, people told me that there was no reason to buy the books for a Lowe class. Had I listened to them, I would have totally missed out on this little gem of song. Let's hear it for Troubadoring it up!

A Song of Nothing
~William, Count of Poitou (1071-1127 AD)

Farai un vers de dreyt nien:
Non er de me ni d'autra gen,
Non er d'amor ni de joven,
Ni de ren au,
Qu'emans fo trobatz en durmen
Sobre chevau.

I'll make some verses just for fun
Not about me nor any one,
Nor deeds that noble knights have done
Nor love's ado: -
I made them riding in the sun
(My horse helped, too.)

When I was born I cannot say:
I am not sad, I am not gay,
I am not stiff nor degage;
What can I do?
Long since enchanted by a fay
Star-touched I grew.

Dreaming for living I mistake
Unless I'm told when I'm awake.
My heart is sad and night to break
With bitter rue-
And I don't care three crumbs of cake
Or even two.
I have a lady, who or where
I cannot tell you, but I swear
She treats me neither ill nor fair
But I'm not blue
Just so the Normans stay up there
Out of Poitou.

I have not seen yet I adore
The distant love, she sets no store
By what I think and furthermore
('Tis sad but true)
Others there are, some three or four,
I'm faithful to.

So ill I am that death I fear;
I nothing know but what I hear;
I hope there is a doctor here,
No matter who.
If he can cure me I'll pay dear,
If not, he’s through.

I've made the verse; if you'll allow
I think I'll send it off right now
To one who'll pass it on somehow
Up in Anjou;
He'd tell me what it means, I vow,
If he but knew.


I think that the Grimey Soules might have missed their musical era. We totally could have made it on the Singers and Song Writers of the Late Middle Ages compilation album. On that note, be on the look out for a GS cover of this song that might or might not be in the works--time and motivation pending.

So, this is what I got out of my Primatology class. It is a good thing that the prof had a sense of humor.

Fun Fact:
The Maylays of Borneo call the proboscis monkey Monyet Belanda, which means Dutchman monkey, as a joke on European traders and colonials because of the uncanny resemblance between the two--Both were hairy, had big red noses, and pot bellies.

Another fun fact:
Among the top google image search results for proboscis monkey is this image:


Among the top image search results for Dutchman is this 18th century dutch painting:


The resemblance is uncanny...