random hats

I ordered a new hat

It looks like this:

Swift Cap - Sulphur

I am unusually excited to get this hat because it is very bright and very yellow and completely unlike the other hats that I have, all of which are drab, muted colors or not even colors at all. Perhaps this will be the start of a bold new me. At the very least it will be a bold new top of my head.

For those unfamiliar, it is an Outdoor Research Swift cap, which has been my go-to head covering for the past few years. My current collection of Swift caps features these colors:

  • Black
  • White
  • Blue
  • Tan
  • Purple
  • Green

The hats with color in them are so neutral in tone they look like they are a color/gray blend. But my yellow cap will show them all! (The yellow is referred to be OR as “sulphur”, which is kind of gross, but as long as the cap doesn’t smell like sulphur, I don’t care.)

Funny hats and cats

There are some things you can search for using Google and pretty much guarantee the results will not disappoint. One is “funny hats”. Observe:

I especially like the use of the drawstrings as legs.

The alt-text on this one would have to be “butt head”.

These are two examples. There are millions more. I am not kidding. The phrase “funny hats” yields over 450 million results. I don’t know what this means about our world but it simultaneously delights and depresses me.

And then there is perhaps the most-searched term on Google: cats (551 million results).

But cats alone, while adorable, is a bit plain for a search. “Funny cats” on the other hand yields 378 million hits, including these:

Funny cats 1

Note that nearly every image of a cat with a caption is incredibly unfunny, almost as if by design. This is about 377,999,950 of the images by my rough estimate.

Again, I’m not sure what the takeaway is here. We have a treasure trove of material on the web and the means to find virtually all of it instantly and vast amounts of this material and related searches consists of things like funny hats and cats.

In conclusion, I leave you with this, a cat wearing a funny hat:

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The hat’s not really that funny but cats apparently do not take to goofy headgear the same way people do. Probably because of all the clawing and biting.