Have I mentioned lately that Simon is rocking my tiny world? Today, which could have spelled disaster in any number of dialects he comes along innocently requesting that I download some tv show Meerkat Manor because he's almost out of bandwidth.

Look at those little fuckers. Adorable, violent, kinda scruffy. Bum-humping each other into submission.

Kind of reminds me of well, me, when I was younger and didn't on average spend 40% of every day knee-deep in boring or depressed.

A Nudibranch

Obviously..

flickr photo-collage of nudibranches

Nudibranch on Wikipedia

Nudi-pixel: an online resource for nudibranch and sea slug identification using photographs

The word "nudibranch" comes from Latin nudus meaning "naked", and Greek brankhia meaning "gills". The name is appropriate since the dorids (infraclass Anthobranchia) breathe through a branchial plume of bushy extremities on their back, rather than using gills. By contrast, on the back of the aeolids in infraclass Cladobranchia there are brightly colored sets of tentacles called cerata.

Nudibranchs have cephalic (head) tentacles, which are sensitive to touch, taste, and smell. Club-shaped rhinophores detect the odors.

They are hermaphroditic, but can rarely fertilize themselves.

From: Wikipedia

I love Nudibranches!!

Okay so I gotta make this quick because #1 I am tired #2/ I owe some phone calls and #3/ I need to find my 2005 tax assessment asap.

But I wanted to report that today I had two extremely bizarre interactions, both to do with rodents.

How uncanny is that?

Okay the first interaction was kinda my fault. It involved this women, whom I like to refer to as vermin-lady. Vermin lady has been swinging by my park driving her Honda Accord and wearing some pricey granola-wear for a few weeks now. What does she do at my park, why, she rips open a big bag of peanuts and fattens up the neighbourhood squirrels, pigeons and other scavenging "urban wildlife". Those little bastards are getting fat and crazy as well foxes I guess. They no longer have any sense of their place on the food chain and will soon be flinging themselves down off tree branches to snatch food out of the mouths of toddlers. NO I am not exaggerating for effect.

Mk just sent me this wonderful heartwarming news article about my favorite secretive forest-dwelling animal;

AP
Brookfield Zoo announces birth of okapi

Photo credit: (AP Photo) "This photo released by the Brookfield Zoo shows a baby female okapi, an endangered African animal, with it's mother, Semliki, on Oct. 19, 2006, at the zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Brookfield announced this week the Sept. 27 birth of Sauda, which means 'dark beauty' in Swahili. She has since birth tripled in size, now about 157 pounds and 3 feet tall, and could grow to 500 pounds and 5 feet tall. (AP Photo/Brookfield Zoo, Jim Schulz)"