Thursday, Mar. 03, 2005 6:55 A.M.
RIP, BUBBA Copied from last nights post: Ok, new contest. You don't win anything but my undying gratitude. When I first started this diary, I didn't really know how important picking a username would be. I really didn't put any thought into it. I just came up with cosmicrayola on a whim. It has no rhyme nor reason. I want to change it. (Maybe). It'a just too long and hard to remember for some people. So I'm up for suggestions. I will leave this up for 24 hours and see if anyone can come up with something original. Something that's me. Some of you have known me for a short time, some of you have been reading almost from my 4/22/2001 start. Yes, my word, next month marks my 4th anniversary. Anyway, have at it. RENAME COSMICRAYOLA!!Thank you for your interest (or lack of) in this endeavor. Stay tuned to the official tally tomorrow night. Same bat time. Same bat channel.
This morning: I am so sad. I woke to this, Bubba 18?? or 19?? - 03/02/2005Bubba the Leviathon Lobster Dies at Zoo PITTSBURGH - He dodged lobster pots for decades, endured a trip from the coast of Massachusetts to Pittsburgh and survived about a week in a fish market. But a trip to the zoo proved to be too much for a 22-pound lobster named Bubba.  The leviathan of a lobster died Wednesday afternoon at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium about a day after he was moved from Wholey's Market, said zoo spokeswoman Rachel Capp and Bob Wholey, owner of the fish market. "They're very finicky. It could have been a change in the water. You have no idea," said Wholey. Bubba died in a quarantine area of the zoo's aquarium, where he was being checked out to see if he was healthy enough to make a trip to an aquarium at a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum, Capp said.
Bubba will be examined to try to figure out why he died, although Capp and Wholey guessed it may have been the stress of being moved. Based on how long it typically takes a lobster to reach eating size � about five to seven years to grow to a pound � some estimated Bubba was about 100 years old. But marine biologists said 30 to 50 years was more likely. Other large lobsters didn't fare well after they were caught, too. In 1985, a 25-pound lobster that the New England Aquarium planned to give to a Tokyo museum died when the water temperature rose and the salt dropped in its aquarium. In 1990, a 17 1/2-pound lobster named Mimi died just days after being flown to a restaurant in Detroit. Last year, a 14-pound lobster named Hercules that was rescued by a Washington state middle school class died before it could be released off the coast of Maine. Gee, do you think going from total freedom for over half a century in the ocean to
a 4� X 4� square tank, gawked at my hundreds of people, shipped no less than three times with his environment totally changed, might just MIGHT be the cause of death??? Do ya think??? "finicky" my ass!IMHO everyone involved in this should face charges on cruelty to animals and be fined up the gazoo! Why didn�t they leave him the hell alone?
Later,
Cosmic
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