Found outside Todd White's office at Arbor Lakes [5] August 19, 2003
Photo credit to Salvadore Hernandez, with the Shop's digital camera
Wild Animal capture by Richard Conto, a measuring cup, and a brown glass jar
Arachnidarium[1] courtesy of Sue Joiner and Utz's Country Store Pretzel Stix
Reference Measurement Device (the dime) courtesy of Steve Weiland
The following names have come up so far:
This is Animal #0001 of the MichEng Menagerie. Our best guess was that it was a Funnel Weaver spider, but we were never entirely sure. Yes, it had only 7 legs. Google will search for Funnel Weaver Spiders.
There's no such word[2] (but there should be.)
A pedant would call it a terrarium for a spider (I think), but I haven't consulted my former list of pedants[3].
Failing that, consult a dictionary[4].
Way back when, Merit Network [8] had a User Services Staff that included a number of persons who styled themselves pedants. They were very precise in their writing and often took what seemed an enormous amount of time revising and rewriting documentation that they squeezed out of the technical staff (who took a long time to make whatever cryptic notes they made.)
None of these people work for Merit [8] anymore, and some have even retired. In fact, given Merit's [8] relationship with the University of Michigan [6] and the old Computing Center (later ITD) now ITCS, none of them (or me) was actually employed by Merit [8]. We were just University of Michigan [6] staff assigned to work with Merit [8]
Here's a list of online dictionaries. None of them recognize arachnidarium [1]. Even Google didn't when I wrote this..
Arbor Lakes is a complex of buildings owned by The University of Michigan [6], just outside of Ann Arbor, MI[7] at Earhart and Plymouth Roads.
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan [7].
Ann Arbor, Michigan, home of The University of Michigan [6], Dominoes Pizza, and other people, places, and things.
Merit Network, Inc, my employer from August 1985 to July 2007.