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.

Scrappy, I'm sorry for your loss. Peace and strength to you and your family.

And on other news: it's morning. I don't wanna work. I just want to sit here, and watch a lot of Gutter Twins youtube videos.

Why isn't there a split computer screen, so I'll be able do both?

{{{Scrappy and family}}}

it's morning. I don't wanna work.

I know the feeling, Shir. I know it all too well.

Update: it's noon, and I still don't wanna work.