Koda

All day now I’ve been catching these pieces of something I’ve forgotten. I’m not so sure what it is, but everything I do seems to be reminding me of it. It’s really starting to make me curious of why I’m getting these flashbacks. Is it the lack of sleep? Believe it or not, prolonged periods of 7 hours of sleep can leave me feeling pretty loopy sometimes…

It’s like that feeling when you’ve just about remembered a dream, but it’s lingering in the back of your mind in pieces; unprocessed. I remember some things: a global organization, competition, a group of people, computer hacking? It seems kind of silly down on (virtual) paper. Somehow I feel like once I realize what it is I’m unable to remember, it won’t be something so remarkable. Maybe it’s not even a something, but instead many separate somethings.

Oh, and my CDs arrived today. In any case, I’ll be drowning it all out with music.

I can’t help but think…
When travel was slower,
People weren’t as late.

The faster we go,
The less it matters to get there.
We still spend our lives in transit…
But do we get as far?

I blame the wheel.
It all started going downhill from there.

Cats grow fur in a variety of sizes and density throughout their coat, but their individual hairs maintain a mostly constant length through shedding and other natural processes. However, human head and facial hair will grow and grow, for many feet if not cut. So then, why does human hair grow long, while other animals such as cats tend to maintain a constant length?

This question has troubled me for a couple days. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about Human Hair length:

Individual hairs alternate periods of growth and dormancy. During the growth portion of the cycle, hair follicles are long and bulbous, and the hair advances outward at about a third of a millimeter per day. After three to six months, body hair growth stops (the pubic and armpit areas having the longest growth period). The follicle shrinks and the root of the hair rigidifies. Following a period of dormancy, another growth cycle starts, and eventually a new hair pushes the old one out of the follicle from beneath. Head hair, by comparison, grows for a long duration and to a great length before being shed. The rate of growth is approximately 1.25 centimeters, or about 0.5 inches, per month. Anthropologists speculate that the functional significance of long head hair may be adornment, a byproduct of secondary natural selection once other somatic hair had been lost.