OK, we have to go to Blackpool. Apparently the Blackpool Sea Life Centre has a new exhibition called Suckers. And it features a hexapus! Photo here. I am dead of cute.

I've been wanting to go to Blackpool Pleasure Beach & ride the Pepsi Max Big One for ages, anyway. So this can be an official excuse. Anyone else want to come?

HEXAPUS!!

I am oddly cuted by the Flickr: Octopus on yo head photo pool which mactavish found by accident.

I am unsurprisingly cuted by the knitted octopus which nitoda found in the knitting community.

But nothing, nay, nothing comes close to the sheer awesomeness of the crocheted squid scarf found by j00j, which is unbelievably cool. I WANT ONE! In h-l-safe plant or synthetic ( Read more... )

irc transcript from #soc.bi, a few minutes ago:
IA! IA! CTHULHU CITRUS FHTAGN!
?!
* Beetlebau found out about Buddha's Hand.
A type of citrus fruit that looks like a cross between a lemon and Cthulhu.
does this exist in reality?
Well, yeah!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ( Read more... )

Hmm, I just managed to make maniackatie laugh on irc. I said that tomorrow I'm going to the protest outside the Burmese Embassy and then to Whole Foods while I'm in London - which she said was "Heheh, a very baratron thing to say ;)". Am I really that predictable? ;)

Some links that have nothing to do with the current situation:
Article about the FTM ( Read more... )

I currently have 36 tabs open in Opera, which is Too Many, so have a link dump to let me clear them up :)

Web comics:
xkcd cartoon: My Profanity Usage by Cause, link from DoctorOak Alex (I think). Replace "Mario Kart" with "Zelda" and you have me ;)

Left-Handed Toons (by right-handed people): An Open Letter to Subway, linked by booklectic. I also want to ( Read more... )

I have been busy uploading & tagging photos from various trips - some almost a year old.

dino Trip 7 - Modern Art in Manchester, 2006-09-22. If any Mancunians could tell me what the saxophones, Moon, bat wings & bees statue is called, or who it's by, or even what street it's on, I'd be most grateful.

Me, alexa_robinson, rowan_leigh, fluffymormegil (friends-only), at BiFest, 2006-09-23 ( Read more... )

Also, just for your information, it is the early morning of 20th July (as my friend stellarwind says, "latearly"), and I am reading livejournal entries from 9th July and congratulating myself on how caught-up I am. If anything time-critical is happening (e.g. if any London-based or visiting London friends want to get together in the next couple of weeks), ( Read more... )

Your Squid Quotient = 170.75

Interpreting your results: An average Squid Quotient is around 100. A SQ of 100 means you have a normal affinity for squid. A SQ above 100 means you have an attraction or fondness for squid. Below 100 means that you should probably stay away from the deep ocean.

find out your squid quotient