tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post1954852250239760232..comments2024-02-15T04:42:41.606+00:00Comments on James' Empty Blog: [jules' pics] 12/29/2009 10:40:00 PMJames Annanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-52125500833132346502010-01-02T12:41:51.415+00:002010-01-02T12:41:51.415+00:00I ate one of those things for my birthday.
Hard g...I ate one of those things for my birthday.<br /><br />Hard going, that. The meat was good, but getting AT it damn near defeated me.<br /><br />And, truly, they are just as freaky up close as you'd think. And painful. To handle. ...I wish I'd taken pictures...Lynnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12638650470480325065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-74408646965687754992009-12-30T19:56:40.217+00:002009-12-30T19:56:40.217+00:00Oishi sou!Oishi sou!David B. Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02917182411282836875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-75171374461977018552009-12-30T16:15:50.471+00:002009-12-30T16:15:50.471+00:00A good macro lens is another cure for nervousness ...A good macro lens is another cure for nervousness around spiders; once you look into their eyes and see them looking back at you, anyhow. This itsybitsy is one of my longterm housemates, never more than a quickly moving leggy black spot on the wall, a quarter inch or so across, til I had my camera handy. <br /><br />Carrying capacity in our house seems to be about one spider per room, except during mosquito season when we hope for more spiders.<br />http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4217073395_fbce7aae3c_o.pngHank Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07521410755553979665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-88224719813016139762009-12-30T06:57:19.640+00:002009-12-30T06:57:19.640+00:00It's hard to tell the scale from that picture,...It's hard to tell the scale from that picture, but this really was huge - it must have had a leg-span of getting on for 2 metres, and they <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_spider_crab" rel="nofollow">can grow to 4m</a>. And this was the first place we saw little kiddies running up to the glass squeaking "oishisou".<br /><br />Of course in the middle of Yokohama there is a crab restaurant with an even-larger-than-life moving model crab outside - something like <a href="http://kisrael.com/m/2008.03.20.23_crab.jpg" rel="nofollow">this</a>, with waving legs.James Annanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.com