Mega Squids

There was a squid discovery in New Zealand today that broke the records, wicked cool!

http://www.topix.net/content/ap/0759068941284529328508078016111732706341?threadid=CNFIFCQ2IBDB75NS

I LOVE squids....they are ginormous and alien and have HUGE eye balls. I wish they didn't have to be dead for people to find the really big ones....but the ocean works that way, it washes up what it is done with and moves on. And seeing that I currently don't have the power to form gills out of my lungs, I doubt I'll ever get to see one in this life time in it's natural habitat. So I guess I have to settle for the dead ones. But maybe we can grow gills, if you try real hard and they just pop out? I always thought something like that MUST be possible if you put enough energy into it? Like in those cartoons when they think real hard and their heads pop off? :) I don't want to pop my head off though, or anyone else's really....

GramE sent me this book a while back, "The Highest Tide" I LOVED it. I plan to give it to Max to read, but he's reading a Clive Cussler book at the moment about the military. He's pretty interested in war and blowing stuff up. Apparently the total mass of testosterone is directly proportionate to the quantity of desired explosives?

Anyhow...in that book, a young lad discovers a giant squid and describes his discovery in detail.

I wonder if that's how these guys felt, finding this enormous creature....funny how our planet seems so destined to die, doom and gloom seems eminent and then....new things are found, from a deep and dark place we cannot know yet. I'd like to think something like global warming is not the reason we are finding this sort of thing, I guess that's possible...but I try to be positive, otherwise I cry about it.

Sorry, it's my mood today. I'm sort of in and out of it, ah well...what do you do?

I should go, time to shove off....