Monthly Archives: September 2007

Dueling giraffes are kind of cool, but I’d like to see you top this (the Morning Musume clip where they have steaks attached to their heads almost compares to this):

Congratulations to my favorite older sister (not to be confused with my favorite younger sister or favorite older brother) on achieving your goal. I expect you to know everything about otters by the end of this year, and yes, there … Continue reading →

This Coryphaena “showing a helmet” hippurus “horse tail” shows us that dorado means “gilded” in Spanish. According to one source, the mahi converts about 90% of its food into body weight, and can reach a length of 6.75 feet (and … Continue reading →

I haven’t reviewed food in a while, but one visit to the Grand Buffet in Seaside, California, gave my gastronomic system such problems that I must issue a word of warning. It all started after a game of disc golf … Continue reading →

Your Matisyahu video was really damned good, so good in fact that I have converted it into an MP3 so that I can load it on my IPod.

Now here’s a funky introduction with some Ghostface, Roots, Gnarls, and more…

This is a polychaete worm that I found on a piece of drift kelp magnified at x50. Little beasties look a lot meaner under the microscope. It’s nice to have a mini-lab on board when you’re looking at marine organisms.