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Old 04-22-2007, 05:17 PM
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Damn you, Zeke. Damn you.

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I passed level twelve! It took me about thirty tries, but I did it!

Speaking of thirty tries, it took me about that many to spell that sentence right. Ugh.
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Old 04-23-2007, 02:20 AM
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It took me about twelve. There's not much skill involved in that one, really. It would take a genius to get a good enough sense of how all 60 particles are moving to formulate a strategy more complicated than "let's see if this spot works."

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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/239123

This is Pretty Much Ocarina of Time, which is a Flash movie that I'm sad to say is a better parody than my fiver.
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Well they can't.
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Old 04-24-2007, 02:28 AM
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And speaking of animals, they have pillbugs on the ocean floor.

THREE-POUND PILLBUGS.
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Those things are just dog gamned creepy.
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Old 04-24-2007, 04:41 AM
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And speaking of animals, they have pillbugs on the ocean floor.

THREE-POUND PILLBUGS.
That's the biggest pillbug I've ever seen! [/maxwellsmart]
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You mean second biggest, right?
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I think now would be a good time to point out that when I first saw the title of this thread, I totally had the wrong idea.
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Me too, but I wasn't gonna say anything.
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Eww. And to think I changed my avatar right before that.
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I have no idea what any of you are talking about. You're all crazy. Get off the road.

Meanwhile, speaking of animals I found out about through that webcomic, here's the vampire squid from hell. Well, okay. To be more accurate, I should give its scientific name: "the vampire squid from hell."
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Like other deep-sea cephalopods, Vampire Squid lack ink sacs. If threatened, instead of ink, a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus containing innumerable orbs of blue light is ejected from the arm tips.
If it were green or pink or orange light, I'd just admire it for being able to do that, but dude. BLUE.

I want one for a pet.
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Pillbugs? Interesting. I know them both as woodlice and slaters, though slater seems to be purely a Scottish thing. I endured many years of being told by my peers "They aren't woodlice, they're slaters."

They taste just the same either way, of course.
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When I was a kid, we called 'em potato bugs. They have many names.

(Sigh. I still love that Pokey strip, but it was so much cooler before I knew that "master the possibilities" was an old MasterCard slogan.)
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I think we called them woodbugs. They're the little grey things the roll into an armoured ball when you poke them, right?
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You mean second biggest, right?
I did, actually.
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Meanwhile, speaking of animals I found out about through that webcomic, here's the vampire squid from hell. Well, okay. To be more accurate, I should give its scientific name: "the vampire squid from hell."
There were a couple of PBS programs (either Nature or NOVA) that gave a good look at these critters. Very cool.
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The Rules for the Annual Roadkill Cook-Off in Marlinton, WV.
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They have many names.
And they have a plan.
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Shyeeah, right. Their "plan" is completely ad hoc. They want to kill us all, except that they want to create a pillbug-human hybrid, except that they want to move to Earth. Their sleeper agents -- slater agents, if you will -- have no idea they're really bugs except when they do. And are we ever going to get an explanation for the giant pillbug in my head that no one else can see?
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