Distracted by Air

wikipedia spiral of the deep

March 24, 2008 6:58 pm

By spiral, xkcd explains what I mean perfectly:

I fell into one of these traps the other day. We’ll started where I ended. The not-so-ubiquitous blobfish.

Say hello to my squishy friend.

bloblfish

Speaking of squishy, a friend of mine mentioned that the blobfish looked a lot like a squashed Ziggy. ziggy blob comparison So, I decided to compare. Lo and behold, it seems we’ve found Ziggy’s malformed and sickly-looking brother. No wonder the Ziggy family kept that blobfish brother in the deepest part of the ocean. My friend was so awfully right.

Back to the spiral. It started when I visited ICHC and saw some sea creatures that look suspiciously like the now-extinct trilobite. trilobite snack So after a what the hell? moment, I started off on a search to find out what those trilobite-looking things were. After a few google searches (yes, I have the google-fu) later, and I found out the mysterious creatures were actually Bathynomus giganteusbathynormous and it lives way the hell down in the deep, scary places of the ocean.

Naturally, I got curious about the other creatures of the deep. I went looking, whereupon I stumbled across the Blue-Ringed Octopus, the Colossal Squid, the King of Herrings, and Pfeffer’s Flamboyant Cuttlefish. I then found a site with pictures of 24 different kinds of those fucked-up sea creatures. Oh, and as a note, it’s got not so nice porn ads on the sides. Ignore those. The creepy sea creatures are less disturbing.

Don’t let the wikipedia spiral happen to you.

3 Responses to “wikipedia spiral of the deep”

proginoskes wrote a comment on March 24, 2008

Happens to me at least once a week. That is a freaky fish.

dancingdoc2 wrote a comment on March 25, 2008

Yep … and the depth of the spiral is directly proportional to how mind-numbingly boring whatever you’re supposed to be doing at work is.

Jamie wrote a comment on March 25, 2008

Or proportional to how easily distracted a person is, as in my case. My work is pretty cool. My brain, however, tends to be uncooperative in that ‘paying attention’ department.

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