Rubber-Necking

Stumbled across this little educational video...

Yep.  That's pretty much the look on my face after a few seconds of narration. 

Want more?

Cool.  Gross.  Hysterical.

If those didn't get at least one full-fledged belly laugh out of you, you're not my kind of people.

Accident Report

Have you seen the story about the idiot poor sap young fool who didn't measure his rope before swinging down off Corona Arch in Utah?

I know it's sad.  I feel terrible for his family.  And at the same time, I can't stop myself from comparing him to...



I just know I'm going to burn in hell for this.
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Update:  And if I do go straight to hell, I'll be in good company.  Heh.

Rubber-Necking

The grossest thing I've read about in a very long time?

A 63-year-old woman became 'pregnant' with 12 baby squid after eating calamari, according to a claim in a bio-tech report. 

The real-life 'octo-mum', from South Korea, was eating a portion of cooked whole squid when she felt a sharp pain in her mouth.

The bizarre claim has been made in a scientific paper from the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland. 

The lady told doctors that she could feel something in her mouth which they described as 'bug-like organisms'. 

When examined, the doctors found 'baby cephalopods' attached to her mouth. These are small pods, covered in a cement-like material to make them stick. 

Inside the pods is an 'ejaculatory apparatus' and sperm - with the apparatus expelling the sperm quite forcefully. 

After the victim of the 'attack' was hospitalised, doctors removed the baby cephalopods from her gums, tongue and cheek. It was only then that the pods were formally identified as 'squid spermatophores.'

Eeew! (I'll be having nightmares about this for days.)

Bus Fumes

Curtis Moore has lost three cats, including his cat, Walter, who’s hind leg was found by his next door neighbor.

“I don’t live in the mountains, I live in the city. I’m ok with wildlife, but I don’t like them eating my pets,” Moore said.

How many different kinds of stupid do you have to be to not get the message after the first cat didn't come home?

Keep. Your. Freaking Cats. Indoors.

Asshole.

Drive-Bys

Recycling -- it is good for the earth!
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For my friends who never leave home without their camera -- be a bee spotter.
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This flight attendant carries more clothes than I would for 10 days... but her packing techniques rock!
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Ear Worm of the Day (er... Week?):



This has been floating through my brain for days. Lovely, isn't it?

Another Sign...

... of Spring!



The nest is on this piling...

... which is in an ideal spot...

... to scout for preditors...

... which can be clearly spotted from any direction.


That's why Mama can rest easy.

I don't know why more people haven't noticed this pair, but they're my favorite sign of Spring each year.

Once the babies hatch, Mama will shove them out of the nest and into the water, and that's the last I'll see of any of them until next year. A pair of Mallards usually show up about that time, and use the same location for their annual clutch.