normal schedule hopefully to resume soon(ish)

Yesterday hit 39°C1 — and today hovered around 20°C2 and bucketing down. That's … quite a range for 24 hours. Ah Melbourne, city of extreme mood swings. No wonder I loff you so.

I've been a bit silent/absent from the interwebs lately because of, well, because of all the work I'm drowning under, so forgive me if this isn't news to you but I found this so unspeakably cool I had to share: Tool-Using Octopus!

Octopuses have been discovered tip-toeing with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides, then reassembling the halves and disappearing inside for protection or deception

i can see it all unfolding...THESE GUYS ARE THE FUTURE RULERS OF EARTH

  1. At 4pm — right when the broken-down tram stranded me two and a half kilometres from where I needed to be. [↩]
  2. Technically the maximum was 26°C, but that occurred at 12:01am and was actually just yesterday's temperature still dropping [↩]

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Comments

  1. Peter [18 December 2009 @ 8:22 am]

    I love the bit where he runs off. "It's my bloody coconut – you get your own!"

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  2. damselfly [19 December 2009 @ 9:59 pm]

    he's tentacularly adorable, really! (apologies for belated response – came home yesterday to no internet and of COURSE my mobile broadband doesn't work play nice with snow leopard – grr!)

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