Speaking of which...

I... haven't a clue what to write about.
Tonight being Tuesday night, and tomorrow being Wednesday, and Wednesday being a good day, and a good day being one where I have only one proper lesson, I don't have any homework that needs doing for tomorrow. So when I got this sudden urge to write, I grabbed the opportunity with both hands.
Aaaaaaand... that's the story leading up to this post. Now I'm here, I don't actually know what to write about, and I don't want to do what I sometimes do, and waffle about my inability to write anything (creating a good paragraph or two of crap-filled padding).

...Oh, balls. I just did, didn't I?
Ah, well. It's kick-started me somewhat. I've been typing for long enough now; an idea has popped into my noggin.
I am currently reading a wonderful book called 'Joined-Up Thinking' by Stevyn Colgan. It's a book full of interesting facts, split into thirty short chapters, or 'rounds'. Within each round, the facts are linked to each other, so instead of having sub-headings and little boxes of info, it's all in one big, fasciniating piece of text. But the best bit is that at the end of each round, the facts manage to link themselves back round to the first fact, creating a literal 'round' circuit of trivia. Most of the rounds are linked to each other by a certain name, place, fact, etcetera.
Most amusing. I liked 'QI: The Book of General Ignorance', and this book is in a similar vein, right down to the quirky style of the cover. It even has a glowing review from Stephen Fry and John Mitchinson on the front (respective QIMaster and Co-Creator of QI).

Anyhoo, I have decided to have a go at this myself. I will create a trivia chain. Tight here, right now. I won't go into as much detail as Stevyn, but I'll provide you with enough.

-Ahem-

Cats can only see blue and green.
Blue and green are the background colours of the national flag of Easter Island.
The natives of Easter Island worshipped a god called Makemake.
Makemake is also the name of a dwarf planet, the third largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It is three-quarters the size of Pluto.
Pluto, Mickey Mouse's pet dog, first appears in the 1930 Disney cartoon 'The Chain Gang' as a watchdog.
The world's largest prison is the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, California.
In 2001, two hours after being convicted of attempted murder, Twin Towers inmate Kevin Pullem walked out of the prison through an employee exit, using a cut out newspaper photograph of Eddie Murphy to alter an identification badge he used to escape.
Eddie Murphy got into comedy because of his father, an amateur comedian, and through being influenced by stand-ups Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby.
Bill Cosby spent four years as a Hospital Corpsman in the United States Navy.
In the years following the Cold War, the United States Navy's F-4 Phantom II and the F-14 Tomcat became military icons.
Tom or tomcat is the name given to an un-neutered male cat.
Cats can only see blue and green.

...and so on.

Well, that took far longer than I wanted it to. I'm going to end this blog entry now. Hope you enjoyed that little educational journey. I most certainly did. I may do it more often.