Hot and sticky

No, I don't have any joke to go with that. It was pretty exciting, though, not knowing if the room you were walking into was 72 degrees and frigid or 91 degrees with air so thick you barely see through it. There's a kind of very large worm that lives at the bottom of the ocean, feeding off of the nutrients in the water flowing out of the vents that shoot hot water out from the center of the earth. The head of the worm lives at 160 degree water and its tail, which is a few feet away from the vents, is in 40 degree water. I'm not making this up, by the way. People (well, biologists anyway) marvel at its ability to thrive in such different physical states, and I marvel at our ability to get a day's work in together when the conditions are, let's say, not ideal.

I saw this today and wanted to share it. Stick with it for at least 2 minutes. I guess it's the same band that did "Technologic," a house favorite here.




Okay, gotta go read "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Poe so I can try to help my daughter do her English homework. I've read of few stories in this Poe unit, and I now don't hate Poe as much as I did when I read him in high school.