FUNNY
I talked to my father today to report that I am again employed (yea!), and he asked about the character Mark's chosen as his blog emblem. I told him it was a cuttlefish to which he replied that he'd "never seen one with its clothes on before". Apparently, those white things they put in bird cages are cuttlefish bones which the birds use to sharpen their beaks. I'd never made that association before. Anyway for anyone interested you can find out more about cuttlefish here http://www.windspeed.net.au/~jenny/cuttlefish/
This is the image Mark (Red Panda) had chosen as his emblem before the cuttlefish- Mark's not quite this cute in real life, close though.