Boring

Can it really be four days since I posted? Outrageous, you must be thinking. And I concur. Never fear, though, I’m back!

This morning I got an email from someone I went to junior high school with, who I haven’t seen or heard from in 10 years. I actually didn’t know him very well, but he reminded me (well, reminded is the wrong word since I have no memory of it) of something that happened back in grade 8. That’s cool. I think everyone should email me to tell me their memories of me, since my own memory is so hit and miss. Then I could compile a biography, which I would then read front to back and wonder how much of it was true. But maybe that has to start with me emailing people I knew back in school and telling them stories. In which case I’d have to find all these people – thank gawd I get spam from Classmates every few days!!! (Bit of sarcasm there.)

But the good news is that I’ve got this blog! So that in 20 years I don’t have to depend on out-of-the-blue emails to remind me what my life was like. I’ve got my writing and your…

Is it me or do most of the bus drivers in this town answer questions like a swami or a leprechaun? There’s no such thing as a yes or no answer. My question “do you go past the aquarium?” got a vague, cryptic reply that made me feel like I was Oedipus being tested by the Sphynx. And then she asked if I would marry my mother.

Moving along…yesterday I went to the Oceanquarium with Yvonne. It was a school of fun. The last time I was there they still had the killer whale. Not to be confused with the kilowhale which is, of course, 1000 whales. Am I nuts or did they used to keep the anaconda in the same tank as the caiman? (caimans? caimen?) Yvonne asked me why I liked octopi so much. I didn’t really have a good answer for her and I still don’t. I just think they’re magnificent creatures. They’ve got so many tricks. They can change colour and skin texture, squirt ink, they regenerate, some of them are venomous; an octopus can squeeze through any opening as small as its beak. They’re very intelligent and I think they’re quite fantastically beautiful, in a gross mollusk kind of way. Maybe they’re not as cute as the otters, but still…

Here’s a picture of a mimic octopus
Here’s a picture of a mimic octopus imitating a snail (I think)
Here’s a picture of a mimic octopus imitating a flounder
Plus a quicktime video of the flounder trick and another video of it imitating a sea snake.
It also does an impersonation of a lionfish but I couldn’t find any decent pics.

This concludes the science lesson portion of the blog entry.

After yummy dinner at the Mongolian BBQ we watched Rushmore. The last several times I’ve watched Rushmore I had no idea who Brian Cox was. It’s always a cool little treasure to learn about a new actor, and then go back to rediscover him in one of your favourite movies. Brian Cox of course was Striker in X-Men 2, and in Rushmore he was Dr. Guggenheim, the dean of Rushmore (I assume). He’s been in tons of movies I haven’t seen but was also in The Ring, Adaptation and The Bourne Identity – all good and very different movies.

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