Random Thursday (ˈrandəm ˈTHərzdā): the day on which Sarah plunks down all the odd bits and pieces she’s been sent by friends or has otherwise stumbled upon this week in an effort to avoid writing a real post, the assembly of which usually ends up taking twice as much time as sitting down and creating actual content.
Still waiting for that click.
But meanwhile . . .
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Searching for an Honest Octopoda
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I give you the Walktopus.
Eureka!
Scott Musgrove’s artwork is truly amazing.
Go look at his online portfolio.
Right now.
You’re welcome!
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“Mom! Mom! Mom! Do the Voice!”
“What voice?”
“The hamster voice.”
“Again?”
“Pleeeeeeeease?”
“Hey, this new wheel is pretty cool . . .Oh, hey, Gerald, how’s it goin—no, we both need to run in the same direction, right okay, watch my foot, there we go . . Wait, no, slow down a minute, dude, we gotta match speed, or okay, that—no, wait, dude, no, wait—WAIT . . . AAAAUUUUGGGHHH! Stop, no, stop running, Gerald, it’s NOT HELPING! AAAAUUUUGGGHHHStop! FOR THE LOVE OF ALFALFA PELLETS, GERALD, STOOOOOOOOOOP!!! AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH! Okay, whew, no, wait, stop—I have to—I’m gonna—not AGAIN!!! Gerald, STOOOOOOOOP,!! I’m gonna hurl, dude. What is the MATTER WITH YOU?! AAAUUUGHH! No, NO! No, seriously, I need a minute. Here, I’ll just—nope, not going near the food bowl . . . Oh, god, no . . . “
“You mean that one?”
“Yeah. Now do Gerald.”
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Our new Cephalopod Master
accepts your uncontrollable squees
as his rightful tribute.
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Octopus UnChained
Jordan Anderson does amazing chainsaw wood carvings.
His artwork has won several awards.
Show of tentacles:
who’s surprised?
(click the image to see a brief, righteously awesome Making of video)
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Monty Octopus’s Walking Marginatus
I wonder what the top waterspeed velocity of an unladen veined octopus might be?
Earful of Cider 
I adore octopuses. I could watch them forever. In fact, when my wife, son and I go to an aquarium, they usually have to pry me away from the octo-tank — even if it’s resident isn’t doing much of anything. In my worldview, an octo doing nothing is still a lot cooler than any other sea creature doing anything else.
I agree completely–with jellyfish being a very close runner-up in the Visual Interest category.
In the Newport, Kentucky Aquarium, the jellyfish are (or were, it’s been a while) displayed in a room with Victorian decor, and you look at them through ornate picture frames. Gorgeous—but no brains at all, of course. 🙂
Can’t get into the jellies. Cuttlefish are my close runners-up.
Cuttlefish are simultanously the strangest and most adorable things ever spawned.
But next to jellies, cuttles look a lot like bundles of day-glo foam fingers. 🙂
But cuttles have personality! Jellies are just mindless killing machines.
I absolutely agree, Mike.
Personality wise, cuttlefish would win, even if the jellies weren’t disqualified for not having any. But for completely shallow reasons, based only on appearance, jellies win.
Give them that, Mike. It’s all they have.
I give them NOTHING!
Ok. Fine. I’ll give them that.
You’re a man among cuttlefish, Mike. 🙂
It would almost be worth having hamsters just to get that bowl/wheel. The entertainment value alone is astounding.
Loved the thought narrative on the octopus video.
Hamsters can also do that with regular wire wheels, but not as long. 🙂
The only thing that could have improved the octopus video would have been John Cleese himself!
Damn, that Alaska boy knows how to work a chain saw!
He does, indeed. Good taste in music, too. 🙂