hepatopancreas

 arthropods and mollusks have a digestive organ called a hepatopancreas that functions as both a liver and a pancreas

hepato- comes from the ancient Greek word for liver 'hepar'

sos basically the crabs have a liver-pancreas

pancreas is a combination of the Greek words 'pan' meaning 'all' and 'kreas' meaning 'flesh' or 'meat'

if you go far back enough in the etymology of the word liver you get to the proto-germanic word for 'to be slimy or sticky'

and that's why isopods store heavy metals in their 'slimy all meat' pouch

Probably most people have a memory from childhood where an adult or someone older than you had a treat or something they were going to hand out to the group and upon learning of this event all the kids present started to clamor "Me! Me! Me! Me first! Me first!" And then, as a way of incentivizing desired behavior the adult would go, "I'm starting with So-And-So because they're waiting quietly."

And all the kids would get quiet and adopt the appearance of waiting patiently. And yeah, I think that is a good lesson. And it's true that if you make too big a show of wanting something you can end up not getting that thing. 

I think it's something that's deeply ingrained in me. At the same time. Sometimes. As an adult you think, "Well, I should just wait patiently." And then another voice says, you are going to die someday and you don't know when that day is and do you want to spend the time you have waiting patiently so you can look back and say well at least I waited patiently for a thing I really wanted and never got.

But! You could maybe argue that that makes the waiting all the bolder. Because you didn't give into that fear or that basic urge of wanting. 

I don't know. What a trip.

another amazing discovery

 I purchased a new car battery today because my car wouldn't start anymore and the sticker on the old battery said 9/18. Which I'm choosing to believe means that battery was purchased in 2018 and I haven't had to replace it until 2026.

That's right. I DOUBLED the life expectancy of a car battery. The average is 3-5 years. I made it EIGHT.

Is it because I'm a good driver? Is it because of all my good deeds? Probably.

updates on the wildlife in the apartment lawn

 we have a rabbit living under the concrete somewhere.

we have some sort of melon/gourd plant growing in the mulch by the parking lot.

this is great news.

if you don't want nature to flourish you have lost the plot.

you ever think something impossible

 Come on out back to the field with me. See the horizon? Where the land meets the sky? It's a place you can see but you can never get to it. 

A lot of things are like that.

And the things you can actually get to, well, you get to them and then you're there. So then you gotta pick something else.

Some stuff, like mountains, you can actually get to if you go far enough. 

You can't get to clouds. But if you get on a plane you can go through a cloud and even that's a little underwhelming if we're being honest. It's just fog.

No but the point is you have to set your sights on something and chances are it's not going to be real and if it is real you'll have to pick something else but that's why you just dwell baby. You realize that you're already sitting where someone else's horizon is. Bada-boom!

bumpus scraw

ringdingling merjerity

burface munion

kerlaptropy wheeznorts

stunbottom mottobnuts

purple eleven

mastle hilarious

cued hegemonicanizer

plafid blurnton

misted lane

obonotched giddididdi

you think anyone's seriously looking into inventing a shrink ray?

 And I know. You're like, "No. That's a bad idea. Why would anyone look into that?"

But, it would be pretty cool. And you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. You're telling me we don't have a single person assigned to Shrink Ray Technology? 

Oh no all the time energy and money's gotta go to surveillance camera and the robot that pretends to have a brain

Would it really hurt anyone to work on the shrink ray?