shoes, ships, sealing-wax

[freckles_and_doubt]

I couldn't work out why Todal, feline of the 10-second attention span, should choose Wednesday evening to blitz me with an extended, 20-minute affection session, complete with staring, purring, climbing all over me, putting her whiskers in my ear, and that cute bit where she pats my nose with her paw. That sort of love is usually reserved for the Evil Landlord. It transpires, however, that this was post-traumatic shock of a sort: on Tuesday evening, following the mad piratical DVD-watching, she did her usual odd-kitty thing, which is to jump up into the narrow space between the TV and the cabinet and disappear behind the TV, presumably in search of all the interesting little moving people. On Tuesday I apparently closed the cabinet doors and went to bed without realising she was in there. She spent the night there, mewing and thumping, which caused the Evil Landlord to turn over in bed a couple of times and assume that a Multicoloured Gerbil of Paradise was once more buying it on the living-room carpet. He let her out when he woke up in the morning.

I feel a bit bad, but also mostly amused. Also, someone has dismembered a pigeon all over the Evil Landlord's study this morning, suggesting that some kind of generalised feline revenge has been exacted. Sigh.

Random linkery for jo, because she liked the bit that MTN rip off in their ad: the OK Go treadmill music video. Bizarrely lateral and appealing. I hope this eats less of your time than the Spikefic. *evil grin*

Random linkery because I can: various Hugo-nominated novelettes and short stories available on the web. I really enjoyed Ian Macdonald's "The Djinn's Wife", which uses Indian mythology to talk about AI. Michael F. Flynn's "Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" is one of those mild, understated, slow-build stories packed with significance. Robert Reed's "Eight Episodes" is simultaneously fun and thoughtful. Haven't found time to read the novellas yet, watch this space.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If only you'd had Google Maps to find your cat! ;P

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/01/cat_privacy_google/

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

The day Google maps has the ability to find my cat inside a cupboard inside my living room in the pitch dark, is the day I get extremely worried. Extremely worried.