I find it amusing that I recently looked up ambergris (flammable substance found inside sperm whales, perfume makers like it because it makes scent last longer, sometimes used in cooking from memory of the quick read of the Wikipedia article I did because I happened to see your reply to riverflows) to find out what it was because it was in Moby Dick which I finally got around to reading and then I see this XD
I hadn't even thought to look up the term. That adds another layer to the story. Thanks for that.
Have you ever looked up the one of the real stories that inspired Moby Dick? Whalers out to sea from Chile were rammed by a huge sperm whale. The tale that follows is one of cannibalism.
Then there was a legendary whale that regularly sunk Byzantine ships around Constantinople.
I only just looked that one up last night trying to see why (other than a convenient plot device) the whale might have been so aggressive.
then realised how long I've left this tab to answer you open for ^_^;
Can see why there were so many stories of sea monsters/leviathans.
Sounds like you have as many browser tabs open as I do... hundreds. No joke.
I don't know if it's a hundred, pretty sure it's not multiple hundreds, but I am making a point of not counting just in case I'm wrong x_x
We're not alone with our browser tab addiction. It's such a common problem that there are several browser extensions to deal with it.
I even run multiple browser windows to deal with it as well. So at some point, I just close my eyes and close the lot of them. It's rather freeing.
LoL XD
I only have one other browser window open but all that has on it is the local version of my website when I'm working on it and the openstreetmap id editor. My "main" browser window has the hundred million tabs which I kind of loosely group together just by dragging and otherwise generally fail at trying to keep under control by occasionally pruning out things I definitely don't need (I fail because I don't always close them "in case I need it later" x_x).
Same here, I keep the tabs because I intend to come back to the m later. These days, if I have no idea what the tab is, I close it. If I haven't taken action on it within a week, it is not important.