kinda like batman, but with a wife and 3 kids

My darling daughter was quick to fill me in on a bit of news garnered by some educational television programming the other day: I’m apparently relocating my little brood to The Red Triangle.  Oh good.  And here I was, just saying to myself: “Boy, Self, this is REALLY cool!  You finally get a chance to move back to California beaches again and can enjoy some good surf!”  Hm.  It’s always nice to find out you’re moving to a triangle of death.

I had no idea that there was such a thing as the Red Triangle, but apparently it’s named that because it’s the highest concentration of Great White shark attacks in the world.  Oh good.

This tidbit of news prompted me to search a bit for shark-related news in the San Francisco area and I came across this really interesting page from the Monterey Bay Aquarium that describes the Great White shark research that they’re doing.  I find this little map that shows the path traveled by a tagged & released Great White fascinating and uber-geeky-cool:

In the first month after we released our first white shark in March 2005, she traveled more than 100 miles offshore and dove more than 800 feet deep.

Cool!!

And we’ll just have to see about buying a suit of armor to go surfing in…

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1. 

   Wade

   Sounds like it’s time for you to write a Great White Plasma data engine. Pipe the coordinates of sharks and your kids into a Marble KPart. If the coordinates get too close, make a DBUS call to send an email/page/IM to you and your wife, or send an MP3 call to 911.

   Only KDE can keep your children alive in the 21st century.

   Thursday October 18, 2007 at 11:58 am
2. 

   Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

   LOL! Now, seriously, I expect to see that worked into a wallpaper, post haste!!! =;) I mean, come on, freaky naked baby dolls is one thing, but land-sharks chasing a family with “Only KDE can keep your children alive in the 21st century”… hands down better…. =;)

   Thursday October 18, 2007 at 2:20 pm
3. 

   Jeanette Jones

   LOL…
   We have you covered on the Shark Armor…
   Our company founder Jeremiah Sullivan, started enjoying ‘Freindly Encounters’
   with Great White Sharks 20 years ago… Now you can too!
   http://www.neptunic.com

   Thursday October 18, 2007 at 10:29 pm
4. 

   Jeanette Jones

   LOL…
   We have you covered on the Shark Armor…
   Our company founder Jeremiah Sullivan, started enjoying ‘Freindly Encounters’
   with Great White Sharks 20 years ago… Now you can too!

   Thursday October 18, 2007 at 10:30 pm
5. 

   Jeanette Jones

   LOL…
   We have you covered on the Shark Armor…
   Neptunic founder Jeremiah Sullivan, started enjoying ‘Freindly Encounters’
   with Great White Sharks 20 years ago… Now you can too!
   http://www.neptunic.com

   Thursday October 18, 2007 at 10:31 pm

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