We here at Olivia Waite have but a few moments before we head to the Aquarium of the Bay. In lieu of a regular post, therefore, please enjoy this trailer for Octodad 2: Deadliest Catch. (Trailer is linked, since embedding does not appear happy with me today for some reason.)
Also good to know: the original Octodad is presently free to download!
{While Olivia is on vacation, please enjoy this mysterious Wikipedia list.}
A cryptid, of course, is a creature either mythical or anecdotal or created as a hoax. The study of cryptids is cryptozoology.
via The Graphics Fairy
I’ll get right to the point: these are amazing!
via Xylocopa Design on Etsy
Who would think to combine an iguana with, apparently, a steam engine? Only a mad scientist, that’s who!
Here’s the full alphabet:
A – Appendages
B – Bioengineering
C – Caffeine
D – Dirigible
E – Experiment
F – Freeze ray
G – Goggles
H – Henchmen
I – Invention
J – Jargon
K – Potassium
L – Laser
M – Maniacal
N – Nanotechnology
O – Organs
P – Peasants (with Pitchforks)
Q – Quantum physics
R – Robot
S – Self-experimentation
T – Tentacles
U – Underground Lair
V – Virus
W – Wrench
X – X-Ray
Y – You, the Mad Scientist of Tomorrow
Z – Zombies
And there’s much more awesome where that came from—I did some cyber-snooping and found that the same design team once built … they built … I am going to need both bold and italics for this …
… The Complete Ukulele Guide to the Mustaches of the World!
Behold the glory!
Behold even more glory!
The description …
The Ukulele Guide includes not only the standard moustache groups, but also exotic and endangered moustaches like the Shirley Temple and the LARP-stache. Recently cultivated strains of moustache such as the Octopus also feature prominently, and the headstock is graced with an inspiring moustache quote, sure to please any moustache fancier.
… leaves me swooning in delight.
We here at Olivia Waite have been researching the cephalopods with more intensity than usual, for reasons which will eventually be revealed. And since the demands of the Demon Puppy have so far prevented us from visiting an actual aquarium—though not for long!—much of this research has been in the form of YouTube videos.
Some of these you may have seen; others may be new; all of them are awesome.
The Octopus and the Beer Bottle:
Octopus (a really startling example of cephalopod camouflage:
Mimic Octopus:
Vampire squid from hell (embedding disabled, so here is this terrifying, terrifying link).
An octopus steals my video camera and swims off with it:
Coconut-carrying octopus:
The trailer for Octodad, a video game based on the idea that you are an octopus impersonating a dad:
And finally, the music video for the song “Octopus I Love You” by Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones, as featured in two of the above videos:
If I ever write a menage, it will be called: The Octopus Has Three Hearts.
Olivia Waite