A room full of cats

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Dec 022019
 

Visited an animal shelter today that had a cat room and and a bunch of dog kennels. Here’s why I prefer cats: the cats who didn’t like me? They avoided me, or simply ignored me. The dogs who didn’t like me? They would have *killed* me had they been able to do so. I don’t speak dog, but I’m pretty sure a lot of that barking would translate into something akin to “me eat your throat out” or “doghu ackbar” or something.

A room full of cats and kittens, though? A small slice of rightness in the world.

 Posted by at 5:54 pm

Buttons in close-up

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Dec 012019
 

On top of everything else, a couple weeks ago my phone started acting up in a “well, it’s about time to die” sort of way. I guess I should not have been too surprised… it was five years old, which is probably about four years past the expected replacement date. So, I had to plunk down yet more money to procure a replacement (a “mid-grade” version… I sure as hell wasn’t going to blow $900 on a phone). At least the new phone’s camera seems to work pretty well.

Examples: a few photos of Buttons taken at fairly extremely close range.

 

Bonus photo: Banshee saw a stargate and figured that that was her chance to return to her homeworld. Alas, it was merely Hollywood trickery.

 Posted by at 10:02 pm

When swords are banned…

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Dec 012019
 

Real Men will wield narwhal tusks:

When Usman Khan decided to help enrich the culture of London by using Knives Of Peace, a Polish chef named Łukasz pulled  a tusk off the wall of “Fishmongers Hall” and decided to enstabulate Khn with it. Another Londoner hosed Khan down with a fire extinguisher.

Khan, as it turns out, was an interesting fellow. Here’s a photo of him (far left) and his fellow Bo-lu from 2012 when he was jailed for a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange:

A few questions immediately spring to mind:

1: If he was convicted of an an attempted terrorist bombing less than a decade ago, what the frak was he doing out and about? Answer: there was a maximum sentence permitted under British law, and he was set free.

2: Why the frak was he still in Britain, rather than deported back to Caprona? Answer: he was apparently a British citizen, born and bred there. As English as the Queen, eh wot.

Might be a few lessons there.

 Posted by at 4:27 pm
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