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Fat yellow spider

The other day, a friend was commenting on how the weather was starting to warm up.  She said that the spiders were aplenty and the birds were starting to sing…and some other stuff.  Obviously, I fixated on the spider portion of her comment.  So I asked her what kind of spiders were becoming so plentiful.  She said “the yellow, fat spiders that are quick and smart.”  And…the doodle I presented above is what immediately came to mind.

I don’t know if that spider is quick or smart, but it is yellow and fat.  Relatively fat.  I mean, he has a gut.  He’s not obese or anything.  I suppose if he keeps eating like he has been, he’ll become so.  I guess that means he has to be smart too, then.  I’m assuming that he’s using his ingenuity to catch bugs and such.  And his ingenuity will probably help him more than being quick, because I doubt that he’ll remain quick much longer if he keeps eating at the same rate.

You’ll notice that I didn’t bother with a jump this time and that the spider is featured prominently at the top of the post.  It’s because I think this spider is so un-spiderlike that arachnophobes shouldn’t have a huge problem with it.  I could be wrong, though.  In which case, oh well…

I’ve been going through the archives of old Radiolab podcasts.  Radiolab is one of my favorite NPR-distributed shows.  I like it possibly more than This American Life or The Story.  Um…I really like stories, ok?

Anyway, I’ve been listening to all these old Radiolab podcasts while I work and one of them really caught my attention in how ridiculous the story was.  Here, I’ll link you to it.  It’s a story about a botfly.  I was going to embed a player directly into my post, but it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to do that until I’m completely self-hosted.  Um…I don’t know when that’ll be because I’m exceptionally lazy when I have time and exceptionally busy when I don’t have time.  Anyway, give it a listen.  The story that really amuses me is only the first 11 minutes or so of the segment.

Listening to the podcast, or at least this segment of the podcast, caused me to see all manner of ridiculous mental images.  Here are some poor renditions of what I saw:

WP_20130106_006They were just some quick doodles.  Also yes, I have a scanner and I could have scanned it, but my phone was closer and it takes less steps to snap a photo than scan something.