Ginger, thanks for that beautiful quote. I have marked it and will send it to the brother.

Amy, yes, please ask her, if it's not too much of a bother. Normally this is the kind of thing I love to do and I want to do it for Amy and everyone, but I am coming up blank.

Ha! Next thing you know, clubbing seals.

I don't think I like animals anymore. They're starting to creep me out. I swear something I watched the other night made it sound like elephants around the world were conniving to take us all out.

I don't think I like animals anymore. They're starting to creep me out.

Ok, what did I ever do to you?

They're starting to creep me out. I swear something I watched the other night made it sound like elephants around the world were conniving to take us all out.

I read through The Devil's Teeth yesterday, which is about the Farallones Islands and the Great White Sharks that congregate there. It was both horrifying and less creepy to have inside information on them.

Two interesting facts gleaned from the book:

1. The Farallones are techincally within San Francisco's city limits. So San Francisco is teaming with Great White Sharks.

2. Great White Sharks are wider than you think. Their girth gets up to 8 feet wide - which is wider than a Subaru.

It's not you. It's the company you keep.

And now this Outer Limits has a woman in cahoots with her fetus (unborn kid's telling her where the bullets are hidden so she can protect herself against her husband). Despite today's increase in morphine dosage I may yet have difficulty sleeping.

Ah, billytea! I thought of you when I read about the standard kill manuever of the Great White on Elephant Seals.

They rush upwards from the darky deep at very high speed and decapitate them entirely.

Also, I found out why so many people survive shark attacks. Basically when sharks grab a surfer and take a nibble out of them, they are are like idle shoppers in the produce aisle testing the fruit. They're using their mouths to see if you're a seal. It's just that with their jaw strength and teeth you're likely to lose your leg from their investigation.

It's not you. It's the company you keep.

Excellent. I now exist on a par with Melanie C.

Ah, billytea! I thought of you when I read about the standard kill manuever of the Great White on Elephant Seals. They rush upwards from the darky deep at very high speed and decapitate them entirely.

This leads to especially cool footage when they use lightweight seal decoys. The shark, encountering less resistance from its intended prey than expected, launches fully clear of the water.

Also, I found out why so many people survive shark attacks. Basically when sharks grab a surfer and take a nibble out of them, they are are like idle shoppers in the produce aisle testing the fruit. They're using their mouths to see if you're a seal. It's just that with their jaw strength and teeth you're likely to lose your leg from their investigation.

They don't even need to be wondering if you're a seal, they simply lack any other means of satisfying their curiosity. It's also worth noting that sharks have been known to kill their prey by ambush-biting them and then waiting for them to stop moving from the blood loss. that would also fit the profile. (Less so with the big great whites, of course, who would have little need to wait till you're less struggly.)

Also note that it's more dangerous to be a surfer, as the board gives you a profile that fits their expectation of prey (a streamlined fishy shape).

Also note that it's more dangerous to be a surfer, as the board gives you a profile that fits their expectation of prey (a streamlined fishy shape).

The shark researchers at the Farallones use surf boards as decoys to try to draw an attack and find out if there are sharks in the area. Local surfers give them their dinged up boards and ask for them to be returned after they have a picturesque shark bite taken out of them. Check out Image020.

From an interview with the author, Susan Casey:

Perhaps the Shark Project's most startling discovery is that individual sharks have individual personalities. There are aggressive sharks and mellow sharks and feisty sharks and sharks who are brilliant strategists and sharks who are kind of dumb. None of this is scientifically quantifiable, of course, but at the Farallones the white shark can be observed as the complex and interesting animal it is, far removed from its image of being a mindless eating machine.

Local surfers give them their dinged up boards and ask for them to be returned after they have a picturesque shark bite taken out of them

Cheaters!

But I'd totally hang one on my wall.

Last ep of Jericho tonight. Sadness. Goodbye nice characters I just met. It was nice, while it lasted.

Just sorted through my cupboards, assessing and starting the planning. I have a lot of rice noodles. Not sure what that was all about. And I had canned food to throw out. Majorly sloppy. I should focus more on cooking what I have. But if this dietary stuff pops up anything useful I should be eating less prepackaged food anyway.