When you give a Mouse a Cat Hair

I really must stop beating up my poor mouse. It just had some cat hair on its little sensors.

h/t: The Most Powerful Movements in Biology/ American Scientist

Fun was had participating in the Great Ape Dictionary experiment.

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Pitch and Feather

‘Love these Will McPhail pigeons. (That’s the given link.)

H/T: Tar and feather, and Singularity black, which is the pitcherest black of all. Still working on the pitcheon.

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Glory Days

H/T: Ultimate Glory (via Narratively): “When a ball dreams, it dreams it’s a Frisbee.”

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Gripping Memories

I have my photos on iPhotos, on Flickr, on Google photos. Flickr (used to?) give you one TB free storage, for iPhoto you need to pay for iCloud space, Google’s storage is limitless for reduced resolution. I like Google’s option because you can search your photos by keyword, and it makes nice collections of events. It’s also great for sharing albums. Every photo has its own (shortened) https link, but I think they decay? Flickr’s https-links are/were great. Frustratingly, I now have to delete duplicates endlessly, having triggered the automated upload on more than one front…this I need to sort out. Now I see iMazing, which is something like Time Machine for your iPhone and iPad…At some point all this memory curating may drive me crazy. Speaking of natural memory ability, today is my totem animal’s day. Me, my imagination and reality: a three-body problem. (I have finished The Heartland Trilogy– great fun, and have just started reading The Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu) So far it’s fascinating. I must try to go through The Feynman Lectures on Physics (link not verified, free to read online)

H/T: Stop hoarding ancient bones, plead archaeologists: Nature News; 

For Competitive Grippers, the Grip is the Goal: MEL Magazine

Try Muscle Memory, Gatti!

H/T: MAMILS!

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Friday Face-off: Supereg(g)os

H/T to Supereggs and apologies to Piet Hein; in particular, this gruk.

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Déjà Vu

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Jellyfeet

Talk about ‘foot-in-mouth‘! Dilly insists they were jellyfish larvae. It IS rather like something out of A Series of Unfortunate Events, yes. Mm: feet and ceilings…

Speaking of feeding frenzies: I have finished the Atlanta Burns books and am on the second book of The Heartland Trilogy (by Chuck Wendig) Om-nom-nom-nom! (They are all extra-cheap on Amazon at the moment.)

H/T: Mystery sea creatures leave Australian teen bloodied after feasting on boy’s legs/ National/ Global News;
So, about this Googler’s manifesto/Yonatan Zunger

Real toe-biter (giant water bug):

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Auspicious Avocado

The eighth of the eighth: an auspicious date for a 2+6.

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Civic Chilling

Today is a civic holiday. What is meaningful work, and do cats worry about that?

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Gifappeltjie

 There were gifappeltjies in one of my childhood stories; so it was interesting to see some in the game reserve. They are poisonous, though of the same genus as potatoes, tomatoes and brinjals. I believe they are Solanum tomentosums.

 Phew: At 37deg C, it’s too hot to go to the gym. No not-pink medicine wall balls today!

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