There’s a Cephalopod Conference going on right now in Hobart, Australia. It’s the Cephalopod International Advisory Council International Symposium. (I’ll bet you didn’t even know that cephalopods had an international advisory council. Or what they need advice about.) In the coming Fridays I hope to present some of the more interesting papers from this conference.
Josh • February 10, 2006 4:54 PM
“Do they have a BOF on cooking?”
Look near the bottom of the page for a link to The Silver Squid Project. After advising them, the organization eats them. Typical.
Dave • February 10, 2006 5:45 PM
Boy, things must be pretty boring down in Hobart…
Davi Ottenheimer • February 10, 2006 7:35 PM
Bah, cephalopod conferences are always full of suckers.
Tank • February 10, 2006 7:38 PM
One motive for the Hobart conference was of to tackle the threat posed to squid populations by calamari consumption. Namely this man…
http://images.google.com.au/images?q=%22david+boon%22
Davi Ottenheimer • February 10, 2006 7:47 PM
@ Tank
Funny. Squid consumption, and poaching in particular, is a real issue:
http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=5155
Not to mention the need to reduce squid-astrophies:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2005/January/20/local/stories/08local.htm
“An 18-wheel semi-truck overturned east of Murphy Crossing Road on Riverside Drive on Wednesday morning, spilling 38,500 pounds of frozen squid and taking down a power pole, cutting electricity to about 1,100 people in the Aromas area.”
Dangerous stuff.
JP • February 11, 2006 1:34 AM
“An 18-wheel semi-truck overturned east of Murphy Crossing Road on Riverside Drive on Wednesday morning, spilling 38,500 pounds of frozen squid and taking down a power pole, cutting electricity to about 1,100 people in the Aromas area.”
Wouldn’t you know it? I lived just up the road at the time and didn’t even hear about it. I would have quickly volunteered my freezer to help clean this mess up…
Andrew • February 11, 2006 2:30 AM
Greetings from a Hobartian (who just left there a week ago). But as fascinating as cephalopodology is, I still fail to grasp the connection to security. Even the giant squid that washed up on the beach a while back wasn’t a threat to the security of anything but one’s nostrils… 🙂
Mike • February 11, 2006 6:45 AM
Here’s an image of one of the key speakers at the conference:
dave • February 11, 2006 3:24 PM
Too many fingers in the pie no doubt.
Probitas • February 13, 2006 11:05 AM
“Look near the bottom of the page for a link to The Silver Squid Project. After advising them, the organization eats them. Typical.”
Is it merely coincidence that the conference washeld in Hobart, which is also the name of a manufacturer of industrial kitchen equipment? Run, squid, run!
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Dave • February 10, 2006 4:28 PM
Do they have a BOF on cooking?