It's lovely. However, those arm gestures could be a form of semaphore communication, spell-casting or expansive gesticulation to accompany some rhetoric. It does seem pretty intense about it. :-D
SEF - If YOU were plankton and realised that your chances of reaching adulthood withoug getting filtered and digested by one of several thousand different species was about 1 in a gazillion, you'd be pretty intense as well..
This one looks like one I saw at the tattoo parlor the other day that basically screamed "PZ". Imagine the same arm gestures in a rather ferocious-looking octopus with a banner that said "Death from Below". I've even tried looking online for it, but it was an original from that parlor :(
Now that perfectly matches the exterior paint of my car! I would love to have that little guy hanging from my rearview, possibly waving his arms to match my direction. He beats my boyfriend's Velocity Jesus, but not by much.
SEF, Currently I have one team working on creating a giant Macrotritopus larva large enough to wear as a hat and another team working on a way to shink me small enough to wear one as a hat. The second team is of course a ruse. Once they perfect the shrinking technology I shall use it on them and feed the entire team to my new headgear.
That would make an excellent badge or sticker. Does PZ consider getting shirts for his blog or want to have a nifty little logo? Because it's both fearsome and cute, as others have said! :)
It's lovely. However, those arm gestures could be a form of semaphore communication, spell-casting or expansive gesticulation to accompany some rhetoric. It does seem pretty intense about it. :-D
Well, evil-overlordish if "Evil Overlord" includes squeee-inducingly cute.
Semaphore, my ass. Clearly, this little one is doing the robot.
Testing, testing, sciblogs is eating my posts in moderation again....
That is SO Cthulhu - love it.
Gotta say - I love all the friday cephalopods. Keep it up, PZ, and thanks.
SEF - If YOU were plankton and realised that your chances of reaching adulthood withoug getting filtered and digested by one of several thousand different species was about 1 in a gazillion, you'd be pretty intense as well..
This one looks like one I saw at the tattoo parlor the other day that basically screamed "PZ". Imagine the same arm gestures in a rather ferocious-looking octopus with a banner that said "Death from Below". I've even tried looking online for it, but it was an original from that parlor :(
Sorry everyone, but I just had to caption this one. LOLctopus!
I note this morning that the new Lio comic Anthology will have a great title:
"Happiness is a Squishy Cephalopod"
http://astore.amazon.com/ucomicscom/detail/0740768492/104-8619763-49159…
I know its first on my Christmas list.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
"LOLctopus" is rather cthuloidly unpronounceable. It could be a lolopod instead.
All hail His High Holiness of Octopi, Pope Defilippi.
Prepare to get really blessed.
I want one as a hat.
I, for one, welcome our new widdle cefwopod overlords. Yes I do yes I do!
Scientists Engineer 12-Headed Jellyfish. Article explains HOW they did it, but not WHY...
Now that perfectly matches the exterior paint of my car! I would love to have that little guy hanging from my rearview, possibly waving his arms to match my direction. He beats my boyfriend's Velocity Jesus, but not by much.
*Sigh* A girl can dream though.
Are you sure about that?
Ia! Ia! Macrotritopus larva Fhtagn!
Oh no, its SQUIDKING!
Damn, you'd need a whole lot of those to make a good salad...i would think you could substitute them for jellyfish in a Vietnamese jellyfish salad.
SEF, Currently I have one team working on creating a giant Macrotritopus larva large enough to wear as a hat and another team working on a way to shink me small enough to wear one as a hat. The second team is of course a ruse. Once they perfect the shrinking technology I shall use it on them and feed the entire team to my new headgear.
"FEAW ME!!"
SEF wrote:
It worked out for Harry Potter, didn't it?
"Who's the little fear demon?"
But it's just a wee baby. awwwwww
Hmmmm....next-generation human/Dalek hybrid...now with TWO eyes!
Ex-TERMINATE!
That would make an excellent badge or sticker. Does PZ consider getting shirts for his blog or want to have a nifty little logo? Because it's both fearsome and cute, as others have said! :)
The body sac, or gut sac, or whatever, above the head and tentacles, reminds me disturbingly of Sauron's Eye from the LOTR films.
There's a place for cephalopod macros to rival cat macros, I'm sure. CephLOLopods.
http://www.craphound.com/images/hilliersquid.jpg