New on the buffet, pictures from the capitol building in Lincoln.

We also have a preview of an upcoming episode of "Blue's Clues" (entitled "Blue finds the third clue and discovers the Necronomicon buried in the backyard . . ."). "Blue's Clues" is Kyle's new favorite show (she'll look longingly at the tv and say "Coos coos?"), so I bought the twins some plushies from the show. Lisa vetoed giving them a plush Cthulhu or Nyarlathotep. (The shoggoths are kind of cute, though. Maybe I can sneak one of those in.)

This is one of the chairs that has been sitting outside my office for the last week (a candidate for replacement chairs for the secretaries, I think). I've never seen a chair that reminds me of lingerie before.

And finally, courtesy of Lane, proof that America is destined to fall from its superpower status. In the words of Lane, Oh. My. God.

Labels: cthulhu, funny, miscellany, photography, twins

I chanced across an article on Wikipedia about a strange acoustical phenomenon recorded by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the summer of 1997 and never identified. It matches the sound patterns of an organic source (rather than mechanical or tectonic) and is vaguely similar to a blue whale, but given the tonal range and the distance it traveled would have to be produced by an animal much larger than any known species. The NOAA put sound files of it up on their Web site and chalked it up to an unsolved mystery since the sounds never repeated after that summer. The Wikipedia page, however, notes that the origin of the sound is uncannily and eerily close to the coordinates that H.P. Lovecraft set as the location of the fictional city of R'lyeh, the underwater resting place of Cthulhu.

The real-time clip of it on this site is very creepy.

Labels: cthulhu