Japanese researchers, having spent three years trying to catch a giant squid on video, apparently succeeded (that’s not the story I watched; the one I watched is a vid feed and I can’t figure out the link to it), but having succeeded, the “specimen unfortunately did not survive the experiment.” Real well done, guys. :P
blast from the past :)
One of my high school friends got back in touch with me about a month ago after a decade-long absence (I swear, I don’t know how people lose me: if you type “catie murphy” into Google, you get me). A few days ago she emailed me a photo of us from eaaarllly in college, probably 1990 or maybe 1991 (I don’t think my hair’s long enough for it to be 91, really), so I went and got my buttons of that photo, plus the other one I had, and scanned…
I can live with that. :)
via I am: Isaac Asimov One of the most prolific writers in history, on any imaginable subject. Cared little for art but created lasting and memorable tales. Which science fiction writer are you? That’s, er, okay. o.o
Human hibernation!
Japanese man in virtual ‘hibernation’ survives 3 weeks without food or water I’ve noticed a bunch of other tiny bubbles things in the last week or two, but they’re practically all from , so you could just go look at his LJ and see the nifty things he’s linked to. :)
:p
Well, that was vexing. I thought, “I know, I’ll roast up a lot of potatoes and carrots with the chicken, and then tomorrow I can just make pot pie with the leftovers!” So I peeled a bunch of carrots and potatoes and threw them all into my big glass pan with the chicken. And the big glass pan doesn’t fit in the wretched tiny Irish oven. *grrr* So I had to take the remainder of the cake out of the 9×13 pan and wash it and put the chicken et…