Monday, May 31, 2010

I can’t stop looking at this.

Creepy kitteh goodness

 
 

Sent to you by Chris via Google Reader:

 
 

via Nick Holmes... on 5/28/10



I can't stop looking at this.


 
 

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Saturday, May 29, 2010

First Gary Coleman, now Dennis Hopper.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7028268.html

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Friday, May 28, 2010

Cute kitten stretches

Ruining your next 2 minutes.

 
 

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How much does your city spend on FOOD?

http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/frugality/how-much-do-the-residents-in-your-city-spend-on-food-117815

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Full Moon in Sagittarius

[NOTE:  This heralds the opportunity for some new, more pleasant times... good stuff is in bold below :)

May 27, 2010 Full Moon in Sagittarius at 4:08 p.m. PDT: This is a powerfully important Full Moon marking a time when Uranus, the planet of revolution, radical change and innovation moves into the sign of Aries, the sign of impulsive action. Uranus hasn't been in the sign of Aries for eight-four years 1927-1935.

The vision we can hope to herald in (or illuminate) this full moon since the Sun is in Gemini and the Moon is in Sagittarius is the idea (Gemini) that we can maintain wider and inclusive (all religions, cultures and persuasions) perspective (Sagittarius) as we imagine the new world we need to create. It has become painfully and potently clear that the old structures  are not working and are gradually being dismantled (Pluto in Capricorn since January 2008.).  With Uranus now in Aries some of the dismantling or transformation will come by the way of potentially violent changes. Our hope also may be to exercise creative innovation change rather than reacting with anger and violence to what we find no longer tolerable in our old structures.

In a few days (May 30th) Saturn turns direct and moves back into the sign of Libra later this summer. Libra is the sign of relationships and harmony. With Saturn in Libra our assignment from the cosmos is to manifesting creative collaboration. Our collaboration and cooperation with each other and nature is essential in these powerful changing times.

Full moon in Sagittarius opposing the sun in Gemini is a time of celebration and ceremony.  So bang your gongs and make large noises celebrating our potential to be the inventive alchemists (Gemini) who respect and acknowledge her/his opposite Sagittarius the explorer and philosopher.  Together they dance the dance of opposites and meet in the middle in creative cooperation to create new ideas for exciting new ways of being in the world.

Happy Full Moon in Sagittarius!!!

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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Offered without comment

[Note:  Thanks Dad for this email]
 

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit.  She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar.  To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later. 

Heidi keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers' loans). Word gets around about Heidi's "drink now, pay later" marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Heidi's bar. Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar inDetroit.
 
By providing her customers freedom from immediate payment demands, Heidi gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages.  Consequently, Heidi's gross sales volume increases massively.

A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Heidi's borrowing limit.  He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral. 

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS.  These securities are then bundled and traded on international security markets.

Naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to them as AAA secured bonds are really the debts of unemployed alcoholics. Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb, and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading brokerage houses. 

One day, even though the bond prices are still climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Heidi's bar. He so informs Heidi.  Heidi then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts. Since Heidi cannot fulfill her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy.  The bar closes and the eleven employees lose their jobs.  Overnight, DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS drop in value by 90%.

The collapsed bond asset value destroys the banks liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community.  The suppliers of Heidi's bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms' pension funds in the various BOND securities.  They find they are now faced with having to write off her bad debt and with losing over 90% off the presumed value of the bonds.  Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations.  Her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers. 

Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multi-billion dollar no-strings attached cash infusion from their cronies in Government.  The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers who have never been in Heidi's bar. 

Now do you understand?


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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

How to sleep in a box ...

Thanks to my dear Lisa for this one!

 
 Use the box side as a pillow.





Start from simple sleeping on your back...





or on your side.





If you are longhair, use the benefit of your coat and tail.





Remember that you and your box must nearly amalgamate.





Use your imagination: try S-like positions..





or C-like positions...





or even L-like ones..





If you totally trust your humans, relax your back legs to the maximun.





Sometimes O-like positions do not fit the box well, but you can always make an experiment.





If the box is rather small, try sticking your paws&tail out of it...





or stretch just one paw out, like this (back paw)..





or like this (front paw)..





Invite your friend to join you...





and enjoy it.





Your humans may wonder how you can sleep like that..





ignore them and enjoy..





Perhaps they will not even notice you..





Try disguising to avoid unwanted attention..





or you can hide in an absolutely unexpected box..





This position is for experienced yoga cats..





as well as this one..





Even small boxes can do..





Be creative..





practice makes perfect. To get more experience, use as a box any structure you can find..





Bags are nice, too!
 
 
 




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