Yesterday's coconut crab picture got quite a response. So I thought I'd toss in a few more tidbits, and another picture. The original picture came from a link posted by burger_eater to an article at cracked.com called "15 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped" . Love that digging matchine (#15). Anyway, on to the coconut crab. (All quotes from the Wikipedia article ) "The...

(from cracked.com, via burger_eater ). It's called a coconut crab . It cracks open and eats coconuts. Don't get in the way. Yikes.

From OffBeat Earth , via burger_eater : Homemade Roller Coaster . Excellent.

burger_eater You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have: 1. one weapon. 2. one song blasting on the speakers. 3. one famous person to fight alongside you. * Weapon can be real or fictional; you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional. All right, here goes . . . 1. pump shotgun with drum magazine and preferably loaded with double-ought buckshot...

Came home from a morning out to discover a gecko had made its way through the pet veranda and was running around the office trying to escape the claws of Princess Leia, who can be quite lethal when she wants to be. I put her out of the office, beseeched the gecko to make its escape while it could, and sat down with Leia to reiterate the Buddhist tenets of the household, basically, that every little...

I want to say "Of course it was Texas, but that's not fair."  So I'll just say "well, of course there was cannabis," in this news story here. (via burger_eater )

It's goin' around - I was tagged by megancrewe  . Grab the nearest book, open to page 123, find the fifth sentence. Then post the next three sentences. Tag five people and post a comment to megancrewe   ( your taggees will post to mine). The closest book I had was someone else's ARC that I'm not sure I can share words from yet, so I went for the ones on my shelf (which aren't...

I snagged this from burger_eater for fatfred http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26/

burger_eater and I were chatting* the other day about books and their endings and we made an amazing discovery.  Neither of us has an easy time remembering the endings to books we've read.   Could this be a result of tainted drinking water ?  Or do others suffer from it as well?  Post your confessions in the comments.  No one will see them. * by "chatting" I mean trading insults...

Lately, some folks on my f-list have been looking at Lord King Bad profic. brown_betty gave us LEOPARD LORD , and cereta reviewed THE SHEIK , and burger_eater pointed me to Smart Bitches, Trashy Books's take on Shayla Black's DECADENT . These books, it should be admitted, are deeply awful, and as portrayals of their authors' ids, they're more than a little alarming. You...