Notice how much more effective his camouflage is than the flounder’s.
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The Digital Cuttlefish
Since the music plays so briefly... Can you blame me if I dance?
Notice how much more effective his camouflage is than the flounder’s.
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Robot Octopus. Two words that are awesome together.
I want a robot octopus
To play with in the pool
To go for walks on rainy days
And follow me to school
To count upon its tentacles
And help me out with math
To find my rubber ducky
When I lose it in the bath
I want a robot octopus
I’ll take one, any size!
With sensors in its tentacles,
And artificial eyes
I’ll run it by remote control
It’s gonna be such fun…
I want a robot octopus
Could someone make me one?
Excellent coffee deserves an excellent mug, don’t you think?
All I know is, I have one, and it makes my rooibos tea (coffee only at home–at work, rooibos tea; I am a creature of habit) taste wonderful.
This page, that is–the long list of dozens and dozens of car emblems at EvolveFish! Or, for those of you who prefer direct links, right here is where you can get your very own cuttlefish car emblem!
So new that as of this writing, they are not yet listed on the EvolveFish site, but I assure you, they exist and they are beautiful! And the service is uncannily good–my order, for instance, was shipped and received before I even ordered it (indeed, before I knew it could be ordered!
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Here they are, swimming with my original Lassiter cuttlefish. They can even pretend to change color like a real cuttlefish–all you have to do is give them a different color to reflect. Cheating, I know, but what ya gonna do?
As soon as they are on the website, I’ll link to it–for now, I suspect that if you order by phone or email, they will know exactly what you are talking about; the EvolveFish people have been utterly delightful and tremendously helpful in all my interactions with them.
Next step… lapel pins. Then, world domination!
That is, this one was spotted in Colorado. Many thanks to commenter Machineintelligence! More and more cuttlefish are being released into the wild!
Now I want pics of these in the wild!
Which just reminds us that everything is better with cuttlefish. Not just cars.
Hat tip to Mark, via twitter!
Yeah, eventually I’ll get sick of posting pics of cuttlefish car stickers in the wild, but it won’t be for some time. This time, it’s Ctenotrish who has sent me the pic. (I expect mine in the mail soon, perhaps even today.) Pic after yon jumpage: [Read more…]
The EvolveFISH version of my sigil.
Nice. Better than nice–that’s beautiful–gorgeous. I love it. (Yes, as of this writing, the attribution is still wrong–the original is by Mike McRae, modified by me–Kris Ryan had nothing to do with it.) Now, as the cephalopod who holds the copyright, all I want to know is… Do I get a discount?
Hey! When you get yours and put it on your car/bike/computer/office door/refrigerator/pet/congressperson/olympic gold medal/Tour de France Yellow Jersey/post-it-note, send it here, and I’ll (unless you don’t want me to–please let me know) broadcast it to the world!
Update: Here’s the link to the product page. (currently they have the image mis-attributed; Mike McRae is, of course, the designer of the Cuttlefish With Quill, and I modified it for the emblem myself.)
Ok, so yesterday’s “Prototype” post included the facetious note to the EvolveFish people that this is what they were missing.
The one thing I was not expecting was that they would read it and comment:
I think we can have a vinyl cutout version of this on EvolveFISH.com by Wednesday noon. If there is strong demand, we can have an injection molded version in 5 weeks.
Shit just got real.
I know *I* want this to happen. If it does, of course, I expect my original (the Lassiter version) to be added to the Smithsonian collections… or something.
