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♥ Today's insanely cool animal: the Star-nosed mole! It has 22 tentacles on its specialised nose. It's funcitonally blind and uses its nose to identify prey. It has the fastest prey identification of any mammal. It is a good swimmer and it can smell underwater, by blowing air bubbles onto things or scent trails, and then re-inhaling the bubbles to smell. Fuck yeah! Each tentacle can move independently, like little fingers. These moles are possibly the only good thing about Manitoba. Just kidding, the Weakerthans are from MB and the province also has Churchill, where you go to see polar bears!



♥ I keep buying little pooch sweaters for my mom's tiny dog Penique, and I can't resist putting them on Pepin for a moment because they're the same size.

Pepin is insanely energetic. He opens the cupboards, pulls out the garbage, steals books from the bookshelf and a few nights ago I decided to see if he'd hidden my stolen plugs under the couch.

This is what I found:

If you prefer a numbered list (I forgot to put a couple things in the photo)

So, I am pretty excited to have that stuff back, for the most part--I can do without the light-up spoon end (it's Uproot's) but I was missing my plug!

♥ Also, what the fuck is up with that watermark? I need to find my Photochop CS3 disc because I have months of photos to retouch, not to mention my camera has dust on the lens or sensor so EVERY photo needs to be fixed at least a tiny bit.
ARGHHHH, I guess I will pray to the gods of Finding Lost Stuff.

♥ I found this amazing site Galaxy Zoo. I have been categorizing galaxies and it is fucking rad.

♥ I love things with tentacles! I am reading a book about giant squid in between my school reading. I love Linnean naming and I keep saying the giant squid's name over in my head: architeuthis, architeuthis, architeuthis! Giant squid are so cool and specimens so rare, no one even knows how many genera are out there. Siiiiiigh, this is dreamboat stuff.
♥ Ladyexxa is the best. She sent me a link to this!