Courtesy of Microsoft’s Bing image generation thing. I mean, it is a very large cat.
Tomorrow, my birding report from today, as it is late, and I am pooped, and a little sunburned.
cats are funny people
This is post #4,993
Yes, in just seven posts I will have hit 5,000 (over a 19-year period). The pressure is on to write something spectacular/moving/funny/insightful.
But it will probably be a picture of a cat.
But not this one:
Blog ideas: none, cats: two
I looked through my list of blog ideas tonight (in desperation) and none of them spoke to me. They didn’t even murmur.
And so I present instead an amusing cat image:
Shadow cat dancing
I have nothing else to offer tonight except this cat acting fierce toward its own shadow.
Is nostalgia good or bad?
The real answer is probably both.
I will say this, though, it seems to grow more potent as you get older. This makes sense, as you have longer to look back, and more chances to trigger that nostalgia. I find this is especially true of music, since I probably bought more music in my 20s than at any other point in my life. I was in my 20s from 1984 to 1994, so the music of that era can send me off in a reverie pretty quickly1Excluding excessively cheesy synths and that weird snap drum sound that sounds extremely 19080s now.. Also, this decade saw the rise of rap, hip hop, grunge and R.E.M. probably my favourite band.
I may have more on this later. In the meantime, have a cat:
Cats! Kittens!
One from an email newsletter, two from Mastodon.
From a Microsoft Designer newsletter. Put cats on anything:
Cat go down:
Cat go fast:
Here is something adorable I saw on the internet
Click and behold.
I love this cat
Once upon a time on a forum I used to post to regularly, someone posted something that was absurd in that way that makes you stop and stare, as if you have witnessed an accident where you can’t quite figure out what happened.
In response, I found and posted this animated GIF. It’s just about perfect, really.
Happy Halloween 2023
Good: The weather is nice, so the tots won’t get drenched getting their treats
Bad: The inevitable bursts of illegal fireworks that will probably get half the dogs in the area barking for an hour
Neutral: 50% off Halloween candy tomorrow, of which I will buy none
Happy Friday the 13th!
I’m not superstitious–at least about numbers or dates–and it’s pretty weird when you think about how people can be spooked by a certain date falling on a particular day.
But people are pretty weird as a rule.
More importantly, Friday the 13th gives me the perfect excuse to post an image of a scary black cat!
Well, scary-ish. Okay1I still can’t decide whether to type OK or okay. Maybe I should do a poll on the internet., not really scary at all, but actually cute.
October cat
Yes, when all else fails, it’s time for cats. Fortunately, the internet is filled with them.
The pleasant fall weather is looking to pause for a few days beginning tomorrow. Pausing is still better than six months of The Rains, though.
August 2023: Time for a cat
A cat animated GIF, that is. A real cat is yet to come.
