OMG, my cat has skin after all! Every other time I've tried to part her fur look, all I've found under her fur was more fur (leading me to believe that she had no skin, but just transitioned directly at some point from fur to stomach), but this time I got to see skin with hairs growing out of it instead of Yet More Layers of undercoat.

I think ( Read more... )

Dear self,

Try to remember that there is a difference between "that's ( Read more... )

A phrase that's going to bounce merrily around in my head for awhile: "the dangers of setting up an autonomous process in one's own brain" . (What counts as 'autonomous'? The context of the phrase ( Read more... )

Conterpoint was fun but took a lot out of me. Still recovering. The muggy weather isn't helping. *shrug*

I just got spam with the subject, "Get a bigger instrument!" and the first thing I thought was, "What, the double bass isn't enough? They're going to sell me a theorbo?" (Jim's ( Read more... )

I propose an "all-purpose counter-protest" meme:

Equal Rights for Robots

Inspired by Charles Kline. (It seems to me that this could be used by folks on all sides of various issues, as easily by people I disagree with as by reasonable people ... folks who agree with me ( Read more... )

Okay, I think I can manage to not adopt this as Yet Another Project I'll Never Get Around To, since I'm not a quilter (so I'll hope that my mentioning it will incite someone more into fiber arts to take it on instead): hearing the phrase "sowing chaos" made me think that I ah, someoneshould concoct a design for a quilt that could rightly be ( Read more... )

Earlier, I was looking something up in Wikipedia, and got distracted by all the shiny tangential links, and wound up on a Month_Day page where they listed births and deaths of famous people, one of whom was described as an 'ecdysiast'.

But as a result, I've had the lines:
...and died of constriction
attempting a Moebius strip

stuck in my brain ( Read more... )

It's intermission at the concert. Who wants to play 'guess the wardrobe malfunction'?

This just arrived in my mailbox via the Clan MacAthair[*] mailing list. ("Louie, Louie" is the official MacAthair clan song, which I didn't ( Read more... )

I wish to lodge a formal complaint. I should not be dealing with "wake up feeling like I'm drowning in snot" levels of pollen at the same time as I am needing to keep track of my gloves because my fingers get cold when I go outside. This is simply wrong.

In other news, there's tonight's dinner ... The burrito, about ( Read more... )