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November 17, 2025 · 1 min read

Octopede and friends join my imaginary menagerie

Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager

Octopede and friends.

An image of my imaginary menagerie of absurd surreal anthropomorphic characters, with a new octopus addition.

Now with additional alliterations of ideas.

(So many readers prolly never realize that my random meanderings here tend to have subliminal alliterations and sometimes hidden iambic pentameter.)

/ Side note, a fairly obscure plural version of octopus is “octopedes”, from the Greek and Latin origins of the word:

“Octo-” comes from the Greek word “οκτώ” (októ), meaning “eight.”
“-pede” derives from the Latin word “pedis,” meaning “foot.”

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Tom's notes 8

  1. Tom Kirkman

    For reference, post from Joel Kahn yesterday:

    I believe that Tom Kirkman should expand his research in zoology. Schrodinger's cat, the time traveling duck, the quantum rabbit, the solar powered cow, and the rest of the gang should meet the octopus.

    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joel-kahn-9458b4120_i-believe-that-tom-kirkman-should-expand-activity-7395638828671094786-gDNU

  2. Tom Kirkman

    Jan van Triest there are 19 chickens here, and around a dozen semi-feral cats. And lately a red tailed hawk, who apparently knows not to pick off the cats and chickens.

    In previous years, the bald eagle couple who mostly stay a mile away back by the river, picked off the wild rabbits and many of the chickens and most of the stray cats.

    This year though, the cats and chickens are left alone by the red tailed hawk and the aging bald eagle couple.
    Must be good pickings of fish back at the river.

    And some of the chickens like to be petted.

  3. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Horia S. ITS

    the absurd surreal anthropomorphic little universe which I have slowly and randomly constructed on LinkedIn over the last couple of years, makes sense in context.

    Unfortunately, I'm probably the the only person with the whole context.

    So I do attempt to meld together for newer readers, some of the previous context, as well as making the images standalone.

    Gary Larson (The Far Side) was a huuuuuuge
    influence on my thinking, in my earlier years.

  4. Tom Kirkman

    A formal business group photo, without the new octopus interloper.

  5. Tom Kirkman

    now with more tentacles.

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