Sunday Night Cephalopods
Feb. 12th, 2012 09:22 pmThe scene: in the lounge, watching a documentary on mathematics with ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fire_wuff. (Yes, we're just that geeky.) The presenter starts talking about the Fibonacci sequence, and presents a nautilus shell for demonstration. Just for fun, he wanders off to an aquarium to see a live one, where the scientist tells us that they're actually cephalopods.
Wuff: They were the warriors, you know.
Me: What?
Wuff: Oh, yeah. Before they embraced peace and decided to return to the sea. They roamed the land keeping the Cephalod races safe.
Me: Really. Nope, I'm not going anywhere near this.
Wuff: Of course, the octopuses were the engineers.
Me: No, they weren't. The octopuses were the scientists.
Wuff: That makes sense. The squids were the engineers, then.
Me: Yeah, the octopuses figured out how things were done, and ... dammit.
Wuff: (grinning like a maniac) My work here is done.
fire_wuff. (Yes, we're just that geeky.) The presenter starts talking about the Fibonacci sequence, and presents a nautilus shell for demonstration. Just for fun, he wanders off to an aquarium to see a live one, where the scientist tells us that they're actually cephalopods.Wuff: They were the warriors, you know.
Me: What?
Wuff: Oh, yeah. Before they embraced peace and decided to return to the sea. They roamed the land keeping the Cephalod races safe.
Me: Really. Nope, I'm not going anywhere near this.
Wuff: Of course, the octopuses were the engineers.
Me: No, they weren't. The octopuses were the scientists.
Wuff: That makes sense. The squids were the engineers, then.
Me: Yeah, the octopuses figured out how things were done, and ... dammit.
Wuff: (grinning like a maniac) My work here is done.
