Ideas are born in the clouds

Bioshock Infinite will not be set under water because of this doodle from a developer at 2K Irrational game studios.

Libya has no bearing on filling up this tank

New coral up in the left quadrant.
Also get a closeup of the pulsating xenia coral.
It might look like it's just going with the flow of the water, but each polyp actually pulses in a pumping kind of motion, similar to your hand if you were to hold your palm face up and touch your thumb to your fingers (assuming all you monkeys have opposable thumbs - I don't think my readership has expanded to the non-evolved, yet).

Remember to select 720p


As is often the case, some hitch hikers (as they're called in the hobby) were living on the rock that came attached to my new coral. Not sure of the exact species, but at least two small bristle starfish (I think that's what they are, someone else got a picture) came along with the coral.
Bonus!

Reading
How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
The Master and Margarita

Hearing
Glassjaw - Coloring Book EP
The xx - xx
Dropkick Murphys - Going Out in Style

Viewing
Dexter
The Office (BBC version)

Warming the cold

Sometimes, life is good.



That is all.

Sometimes I do what I wanna

What could be a better follow up to the Monterey Bay Aquarium (courtesy of the princess) than a glass of Bushmills and some guitar?

Warning: Volume increases near the end of Jam 2 as I switch from the BOSS DS-1 to the EH Big Muff Pi.


Boring videos, I know, but placement decisions had more to do with audio than video action.
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the mic on the iPod touch.

Friday Tank Update

The Yellow Watchman Goby generally perches smugly on rocks or sand, balancing on its ventral fin, perpetually frowning, until some food floats or crawls on by.
Lately, as it has become more acclimated to my tank (and much healthier than it was at the fish store, I might add*), it will venture out into the Fire Goby's domain.
The Fire Goby flicks its dorsal fin to show local dominance, but since I've found both fish in the filter chambers**, it's unclear who is dominating whom...
Remember to select 720p, I don't know why YouTube changed it up so HD isn't retained.


You can see that just swimming in place is much more of an effort for the Watchman Goby.
They are really built for perching.

*Why is that said? "I might add" always follows something that was, in fact, added.
You're in the conversation, you're not conversing about how you might converse if you weren't presently conversing.
English is fucking weird, I might add.

**These are chambers behind the wall of the tank, housing active carbon, sponges, the pump, and the water heater. If a fish is back here, it was usually chased to the surface and jumped out. It is a bitch to get them back into the main tank.

Vocoder Win

You've Seen the Butcher is probably my favorite track from Diamond Eyes.
Sol Invicto (members of Cypress Hill and Deftones) remix it below.
Purchasing the remix benefits Deftones bassist Chi Cheng who is in recovery from a car crash in 2008.


Not sure about the 80's drum down, but I love the vocoder on the chorus.

Uh oh...

I like dogs...but on live TV, you have to be careful.
You think they filmed Air Bud in one take?


That's...that's not exactly what we would have expected...
Me neither, Art...me neither, but maybe because we haven't spent enough time abused and in a cage...