I enjoy many, many reasons to feel thankful. Today I chalked up a couple more when my daughter and I saw two octopodes (a.k.a. octopuses or octopi) during a visit to our favorite tide pool. She loves marine biology and regards the octopus as her favorite animal. Yet although we've heard that the local Pacific waters harbor octopi, we've never before seen any. Merely to see one would have thrilled us. But two?! Wow.
Thursday, November 25, 2004
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Octopuses are amazingly intelligent cephalopods with good eyesight and quite friendly to humans. So, it's amazing that people, myself included, love animals like octopuses and then eat them on a sushi roll! When I was young like your daughter, my dad promised that he'd get my siblings and me an octopus for Christmas. When he instead brought home a black & white kitten, we were dismayed. When we complained that the cat didn't have eight legs, my dad explained that Herbie was unique, he was an octopussy cat. We didn't seek out a lawyer for redress but accepted the switch-and-bait innocently. But, I did learn a lesson about not making promises that you can't or don't intend to keep.
Octopuses are amazingly intelligent cephalopods with good eyesight and quite friendly to humans. So, it's amazing that people, myself included, love animals like octopuses and then eat them on a sushi roll! When I was young like your daughter, my dad promised that he'd get my siblings and me an octopus for Christmas. When he instead brought home a black & white kitten, we were dismayed. When we complained that the cat didn't have eight legs, my dad explained that Herbie was unique, he was an octopussy cat. We kids didn't seek out a lawyer for redress but accepted the switch-and-bait innocently. But, I did learn a lesson about not making promises that you can't or don't intend to keep.
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Thanks for the funny story, Anon. It just goes to show, as I've often said, "Kids are stupid." I mean no offense; I mean only to say that while kids may be very intelligent, they lack the information that adults have, by dint of experience, accumulated. Or, to put it in computational terms, kids lack data even though their CPUs may run faster than ours.
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