Monthly Archives: August 2006

Hokay, so I’m in the door at 6:50, all set up with equipment checks on the new camera by 6:55. 7 am sees me up on 7th floor Mott, outside the conference room for the 7:15 lecture. I know it’s the right room ‘cos there’s a little pink index card on the door saying, “Leave unlocked for EARLY lecture!”
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I met the mooch of all mooches this Saturday. My Wife and I had gone to a work-related picnic (which is sort of like a work-related injury, minus the pain, but with potato salad) and encountered a cat. This was, by far, the friendliest, most gregarious, affectionate and, above all, hungriest cat I’ve seen in a very long time.
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From Daily Kos:

They can see in the dark and hear a range of frequency fully three times broader than ours and sounds ten times as faint. Some can run at 70 miles per hour across uneven ground and turn on a dime. They possess the strength, balance, and raw power any human athlete/gymnast would kill for.
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[Their claws] are made of bony protein, superhardened with mineral matrices almost to the point of a synthetic glass, which flakes off in natural conical layers leaving the claws with a permanent, needle sharp point and a microscopically serrated cutting edge…

Sounds lovely! We’ll take two.

Actually, we’ve already got two, so never mind

Good grief… I’d forgotten how much fun multibabel is.
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