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scottobearIt surprises me that I've never heard play on words regarding elocution / electrocution regarding Prez GWB.
Swollen uvula this morning... I suspect I'm going to have to use the CPAP again. I was really hoping that I moved past the need to use it.
And now, the negative side of that adjective meme.
The Nohari Window is a challenging inversion of the Johari Window, using antonyms of the original words. By describing your failings from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of perceived and unrecognized weaknesses can be explored.
There's a lot of opportunity for hurt feeling here, I suspect.
Missed the much preferred, original, positive one? For my positive one - Click here.
Current Music is compliments of Planet Xtabay and saved in a file called Bongomania 2 zip file, good until about March 12, 2006
I found it searching for Xavier Cugat - Cuba Libre - Also has Peter Gunn played on bongos by the legendary Jack Costanzo. I think Call of the Jungle - Preston Epps is the best track on the album.
Cute girl and her son are moving to another condo... I finally got to see what she looks like when not doing laundry. She's plenty pretty already in just sweats, a t-shirt and hair in a ponytail, sans makeup. It's very odd to see her withher hair done, in an outfit for going outon the town... still nice looking but it's a different vibe. I may be lazy, but I think Ilike the sweats and t-shirt cutie more than the "little black dress" hottie look. Either way, she's out of this building by mid march, moving to a place nearby, so I won't be chit-chatting with her at the laundry area while one of us waits for the other to unload and fold.
I haven't seen a hint or a whisper of girl scout cookies yet this year. Where have all the thin mints gone?
T-shirt followup - Benefit of being the jolly green giant - a girlfriend can wear one of my shirts as a long nightgown. (or a 1980's dress, if they have a wide belt.)
Just for laughs, I tried merging the two pictures I used in yesterday's entry with autostitch. It did a pretty great job without any fiddling at all.
I can't see where anything had to be fudged, even though the images were of two different scales. Golly! That Crazy Gizmo really works!
Super squid surfaces in Antarctic
A colossal squid has been caught in Antarctic waters, the first example of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni retrieved virtually intact from the surface of the ocean.
"All we knew prior to this specimen coming through was that this animal lived in the abyssal environment down in Antarctica," New Zealand squid expert and senior research fellow at Auckland University of Technology, Dr Steve O'Shea, told BBC News Online.
"Now we know that it is moving right through the water column, right up to the very surface and it grows to a spectacular size."
Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni was first identified in 1925 after two arms were recovered from a sperm whale's stomach.
There have only ever been six specimens of this squid recovered: five have come from the stomachs of sperm whales and the sixth was caught in a trawl net at a depth of 2,000 to 2,200 metres.
"It's been known since 1925, but no one really paid any attention to it," Dr O'Shea said.
"Now we can say that it attains a size larger than the giant squid. Giant squid is no longer the largest squid that's out there. We've got something that's even larger, and not just larger but an order of magnitude meaner."
This squid has one of the largest beaks known of any squid and also has unique swivelling hooks on the clubs at the ends of its tentacles.
This combination allows it to attack fish as large as the Patagonian toothfish and probably to also attempt to maul sperm whales.
"When this animal was alive, it really has to be one of the most frightening predators out there. It's without parallel in the oceans," said Dr O'Shea, whose work is sponsored by Discovery Channel.
The specimen, which was caught in the past few weeks in the Ross Sea, has a mantle length of 2.5 metres. That is a larger mantle than any giant squid that Dr O'Shea has seen and this specimen is still immature, the NZ scientist believes.
"It's only half to two-thirds grown, so it grows up to four metres in mantle length." By comparison, the mantle of the giant squid, Architeuthis dux, is not known to attain more than 2.25 metres.
Common name
The squid researchers are calling Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni the "colossal squid".
"We'd like to give this animal the name colossal squid in order to have a common name for it as opposed to just the scientific name," said Kat Bolstad, research associate at Auckland University of Technology.
"We feel that colossal conveys both the size and the aggressiveness of the animal.
"This animal, armed as it is with the hooks and the beak that it has, not only is colossal in size but is going to be a phenomenal predator and something you are not going to want to meet in the water."
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