…so as I’m going through the {cough, cough} 2+ years of comments I never got around to moderating on this blog, I came across one that is freaking me out.
http://www.shawnhogan.com/2006/11/vampire-bite.html#comment-33317
Dr. Finch seems to think I have some gnarley spider bite that needs immediate doctor attention and my life is in danger.
I think he missed this […]

Digital Camera magazine has some really cool photos people took of animals for their photographer of the year contest… the top 3 were these:

You can find more over here:
http://poty2006.dcmag.co.uk/CategoryWinner.aspx?category_id=413

The world’s tallest man doesn’t play basketball, he saves dolphins…
The dolphins at an aquarium in Fushun, Liaoning Province, had fallen sick after swallowing the plastic from the edge of their pool, and attempts to use surgical instruments to remove the plastic failed because of the contraction of the dolphins’ stomachs in response to the instruments, […]

There appears to be an alien in the camera dome at the construction site. Great… now I need to go there, climb up there, clean it out and hopefully not get some alien egg implanted in my chest.

Is it me, or do you think there might be a worldwide stingray terrorist campaign going on?
A leaping stingray stabbed an 81-year-old Florida boater in the chest, authorities said Wednesday, leaving its poisonous stinger lodged close to his heart in an incident recalling the one that killed Australian TV naturalist Steve Irwin last month.
Fire […]

Did anyone besides me know that it doesn’t get light outside until about 7:15 am?
We went on a half day fishing boat today, and I had to get up at 5:00 am (yuck!!). Our boat went down to Mexican waters almost to Rosarito. Because of that, we had some Mexican beer at 8:30 […]

It would be perfect if you could somehow mount this cat on top of an ambulance and he could be its siren. Would work better than a normal siren.

One Steve (Foley) was shot by a off-duty police officer, while another Steve (Irwin) was killed by a stingray today (well yesterday now).
The San Diego Chargers’ Steve Foley was shot Sunday by an off-duty policeman who had followed him to his home after noticing Foley’s car driving erratically, a sheriff’s investigator in San Diego, California, […]

These things are kind of weird… like a cross between a raccoon and an opossum…

Can I take a nap please? Thanks…

This thing was trying to eat us while we were sleeping (they are all over the place)…

We are staying in Manuel Antonio (at the Costa Verde hotel) for 2 nights (last night was our first night), and we woke up, and check out what was outside our hotel window (this a picture from our room)… A three-toed sloth. Cool.

BTW, my head still has a knot in it.

Somewhere between David Hasslehoff’s favorite cafe and Manuel Antonio, we came across a bridge that had all sorts of crocodiles under it. Thankfully, there was a little shop that sold ice cream Trits (BTW, these things are f’ing good), so we could eat them while we stare at the crocodiles.

On the first (real) day of our Costa Rica trip, we stopped at a cafe on the way to Manuel Antonio… and guess who was here? None other than David Hasselhoff himself!

There was also some crazy spider at this cafe that Scott got an amazing picture of…

I’m going to Montana in 2 weeks for a little mini-weekend vacation, and someone mentioned to me that I should get some “bear spray” if I’m going to be hiking around. So I Google [bear spray] just to see what it is (not that I really was going to get any).
The #1 site that […]

Does this seem like a pretty big catfish to anyone besides me? Something like 650 lbs (I forget exactly now)…

One of Wiggly’s friends was over the other night, and this is what he was doing… weird.

I really don’t know why I find this 3 second video so funny, but I do, so here you go.
My cat (Wiggly) is always falling off stuff (monitors, computers, shelves, etc.) because he falls asleep and then just falls off stuff. This certainly isn’t the funniest one I’ve seen of him […]

Stupid but funny…

Supposedly this is some new Bigfoot footage that someone shot in Minnesota, but it just looks like a drunk guy in an ape suit to me…

Here’s something else I saw last summer at a friend’s house and just ran across it again on the Internet tonight… Tyson the skateboarding dog.

A $250,000 robotic robot… wouldn’t it be cheaper to just buy a real fish?

I saw this on Boing Boing this afternoon… it looks like DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is starting to research the feasibility of engineering insect cyborgs…
Quote from their website…
DARPA seeks innovative proposals to develop technology to create insect-cyborgs, possibly enabled by intimately integrating microsystems within insects, during their early stages of metamorphoses. The healing […]

Uhm… I thought maybe it was an isolated incident, but apparently more than one person thinks this is the cool thing to do.

Last time I was deep sea fishing, I swear I caught one of these, but threw it back because it seemed a little small. God dammit… if only I knew it was fully grown!
The tiny, see-through Paedocypris fish have the appearance of larvae and have a reduced head skeleton, which leaves the brain unprotected […]

Be sure to strap in your dog when doing parabolic maneuvers in a plane for weightlessness.

Not to be outdone by his brother Wiggly, Yashi decided he wanted International fame… Today Yashi is in the New York Times business section (online and print edition).
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/17/business/ecom18.php
I look kind of funny, but it’s because I was trying to keep from laughing while I’m pretending to actually do something on the […]

Black Russian squirrels are bad asses.
A “big” stray dog started barking at the squirrels so they attacked and killed the dog. Then ran off with pieces of its flesh. The lesson? Don’t mess with squirrels.
Check it out over here.

My cat is apparently living a double life… I never realized how many friends he had until I checked some logs (these pages have his picture):
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=2817854
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=10852994
Judging from those profiles, Wiggly has some weird friends.

I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sure that if my cat had two tongues, it would kind of freak me out. I think maybe this cat got some lizard DNA in him or something.
Just looking that that picture almost makes me want to cry.
Thankfully, my cats are not a […]

Not sure what to say about this, but here’s the ad:
No Eyed Red Eared Slider Hatchlings
WELL THE PARENTS OF STEVIE HAVE DONE IT AGAIN!
These little babies are true miracles of nature. They have the same parents as Stevie our no eyed mascot. They are truly unique in every way. They are smart and adapt […]

I wonder what day this guy woke up and thought that this might be a good idea?