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Jul. 23rd, 2003 09:02 amI never did take myself out for a bit to eat. Maybe tomorrow after getting my brace fitted.
Brother came by at the wee hours and broke me out of a sound sleep in order to get a clean shirt for the meeting with the lawyer this morning... hopefully, he'll get the money from his settlement, and be well on his way to a more comfortable living arrangement. (And to a place that he can store all of his stuff, too. It's been underfoot for a long time now.) I'll be really happy when he's back on his feet in a place of his own with a phone, and ready to start rolling in the workforce again.
This fish just looks hostile to me. You know it's thinking bad things. He's got the evil eye. I think he's more sinister than the monkfish.
Just wait until it finishes his breathing apparatus and robo-legs. Then we'll all be sorry. Click here and see.
( Large-width image of the scarier fish mentioned below (79k) )
For me, this bizarre fish (the size of a tennis ball) is one of the most fascinating creatures in the deep sea. It has it all, it's black, has big savage teeth, little nasty pin eyes, a big flabby stomach ready to fit in anything it can catch (irrelevant of size) and a rod lure off the top of its head with a glowing tip to coax in stupid prey. It doesn’t stop there: its flesh is watery, its bones are very light (barely coated by a thin layer of calcium carbonate) and it can barely swim (there’s not much of a tail). This animal just hangs mid-water waving its little lure and waiting to chomp. And this is only what the female looks like! The male is completely different. He's very small and looks like a black jellybean with fins. He has no lure, has big eyes, huge nostrils and a fairly small mouth with curved hooked teeth. His body is made of strong red muscle for swimming long distances. Why the difference? She's looking for food, he's looking for her. She releases anglerfish-type perfumes into the water and he spends all his time swimming around looking and smelling for her. When he eventually finds her (in the dark), he latches on to her side (with his hooked teeth) and drinks her food-rich blood in return for producing the sperm she needs when it comes time to release her eggs.
The perfect couple. Man, those things are scarier to me than sharks.
Cool seimens commercial. -A futuristic society with a ban on dancing meets a dedicated rebel fighting for his rights to free expression.
( Bazillion questions meme )
A captive female crow, confronted with a task that required a curved tool, spontaneously bent a piece of straight wire into a hooked shape -- and then repeated the behavior in nine out of ten subsequent trials. Though these crows are known to employ tools in the wild using natural materials, this bird had no prior training with the use of pliant materials such as wire -- a fact that makes its apparently spontaneous, highly specific problem-solving all the more interesting, and raises intriguing questions about the evolutionary preconditions for complex cognition. Video available.
a year ago - Janet Reno, 1000 blank white cards, lost links, Dumpster Diving, singing kitty, palm sketches, snickitty-snackitty man, managing activism
two years ago - melted heart, epizootic ,hair bears, playing majestic
three years ago - bedtime thoughts
Brother came by at the wee hours and broke me out of a sound sleep in order to get a clean shirt for the meeting with the lawyer this morning... hopefully, he'll get the money from his settlement, and be well on his way to a more comfortable living arrangement. (And to a place that he can store all of his stuff, too. It's been underfoot for a long time now.) I'll be really happy when he's back on his feet in a place of his own with a phone, and ready to start rolling in the workforce again.
This fish just looks hostile to me. You know it's thinking bad things. He's got the evil eye. I think he's more sinister than the monkfish.
Just wait until it finishes his breathing apparatus and robo-legs. Then we'll all be sorry. Click here and see.
( Large-width image of the scarier fish mentioned below (79k) )
For me, this bizarre fish (the size of a tennis ball) is one of the most fascinating creatures in the deep sea. It has it all, it's black, has big savage teeth, little nasty pin eyes, a big flabby stomach ready to fit in anything it can catch (irrelevant of size) and a rod lure off the top of its head with a glowing tip to coax in stupid prey. It doesn’t stop there: its flesh is watery, its bones are very light (barely coated by a thin layer of calcium carbonate) and it can barely swim (there’s not much of a tail). This animal just hangs mid-water waving its little lure and waiting to chomp. And this is only what the female looks like! The male is completely different. He's very small and looks like a black jellybean with fins. He has no lure, has big eyes, huge nostrils and a fairly small mouth with curved hooked teeth. His body is made of strong red muscle for swimming long distances. Why the difference? She's looking for food, he's looking for her. She releases anglerfish-type perfumes into the water and he spends all his time swimming around looking and smelling for her. When he eventually finds her (in the dark), he latches on to her side (with his hooked teeth) and drinks her food-rich blood in return for producing the sperm she needs when it comes time to release her eggs.
The perfect couple. Man, those things are scarier to me than sharks.
Cool seimens commercial. -A futuristic society with a ban on dancing meets a dedicated rebel fighting for his rights to free expression.
( Bazillion questions meme )
A captive female crow, confronted with a task that required a curved tool, spontaneously bent a piece of straight wire into a hooked shape -- and then repeated the behavior in nine out of ten subsequent trials. Though these crows are known to employ tools in the wild using natural materials, this bird had no prior training with the use of pliant materials such as wire -- a fact that makes its apparently spontaneous, highly specific problem-solving all the more interesting, and raises intriguing questions about the evolutionary preconditions for complex cognition. Video available.
a year ago - Janet Reno, 1000 blank white cards, lost links, Dumpster Diving, singing kitty, palm sketches, snickitty-snackitty man, managing activism
two years ago - melted heart, epizootic ,hair bears, playing majestic
three years ago - bedtime thoughts
