software iteration meeting notes.  2.5 hours long.

Lethologica is the word at the top.

jsj:

Haiku - Abel Kohen

Based on the Haiku:
The bank employees
Shimmer in the morning
Like squids

nice.

McSweeney's Garage Sale

nerdgasms:

nerdshares:rancordtype:

McSweeney’s is selling a bunch of books for only $3, $5 and $10. I don’t know how long this will last, but check it out before the books — and their prices — are gone!

I just bought the heck out of the McSweeney’s store: Curious Men, Icelander, Maps and Legends, Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country (for my mom’s class), & The Children’s Hospital. Very exciting.

Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid. you KNOW i bought that.  (and several others.  shhh!)  :)

squid update…

this one’s a mystery (so far)…but fits nicely into my worldview of squid.  :)

“San Diego Menaced by Jumbo Squid”

MENACED!  one of them did, in fact, attack a diver and rip off her scuba gear.  so that’s pretty menacing…

you know i’m gonna love something like this…

Batman meets Squid!

(via) theduty

this prettymuch sums up what i imagine my first encounter will be like with a giant squid.  i have to admit i’ve never even THOUGHT about space squids…  oh the possibilities!

Giant/Colossal Squid Update!

btw…that’s what they want you to think…

Squid Injects Woman’s Tongue With Sperm Bag As She Eats In Korea

The squid was partially cooked — of course it was hot and bothered.

A woman in Seoul, Korea was eating semi-boiled squid when the cephalopod injected its sperm bag into her tongue, according to research published in February.

(Tyson note - Holy shit! See below…)

The unidentified woman reportedly experienced a “pricking and foreign-body sensation” while she chewed and spat the squid out. She had to go to the hospital when she felt severe pain and several “small, squirming” creepy crawlies in her mouth.

Doctors found that the squid had left “twelve small, white spindle-shaped, bug-like organisms” in the mucous membranes of her tongue and cheek.

Indeed, the woman’s mouth had been essentially inseminated.

Researchers think that the squid’s sperm bags came out while the woman chewed her food. Squids have “sperm bags,” which are ejaculatory apparatuses that attach themselves to a female’s body before slowly secreting sperm, according to Fairfax New Zealand News.

It’s not the first time a squid has tried to fertilize a human mouth. There have been several incidents in Japan where people have complained of oral stings by their food, the news site reported.

When consuming raw squid, diners should remove their internal organs, or boil the tasty treat long enough to kill its sperm bags, researchers warned.

The research was published by the American Society of Parasitologists in the Journal of Parasitology.