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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

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In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming.

The squid Magnapinna has been photographed and filmed by a team from working from a Shell offshore oil rig. See the video and read more at National Geographic.

posted morning of Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
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A friend of mine who used to work offshore for the oil industry as an electrical engineer passed me video fo this awhile back, asking what it was. I swore it was a squid of some kind, but the weird jellyfish characteristics had me scratching my head. I stuck with it as a cephalopod of some kind.

posted morning of November 26th, 2008 by badger

Yeah you expect a squid's tentacles to be fleshier in relation to the size of its head, right? This squid looks like something tiny that you would look at with a magnifying glass, inflated with reckless disregard for the natural order of things.

posted morning of November 26th, 2008 by Jeremy

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