Flaster, and other topics
May. 19th, 2004 06:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rain_gryphonWhen I go to the bathroom, Flaster will follow me and use his litter box.
When I take a shower, Flaster sits on the toilet, and swats at the shower curtain, unless I don't bother turning on the bathroom light. If the light's not on, he doesn't swat the curtain.
When I go to sleep, Flaster usually comes into the bedroom with me, and lies down with me. Sometimes he changes his mind and goes away before I'm asleep. If that's the case, he makes a sort of 'prrt' sound as he stalks away, just to announce that he's leaving. If I 'prrt' back, he raises his tail over his back like a kitten - otherwise he keeps his tail low, in the 'adult' way.
Flaster has a habit of sitting in my swivelly computer chair if I get up for a few minutes. Actually, he'll wait until I've returned and am ready to sit again before jumping up at the last second to sit there himself. I think it's a sort of cat humour. It usually results in a wrestling match.
Anyway, the other day he did this, and on a whim I spun the chair around. He seemed okay with that, so I spun it even faster, like some sort of cat centrifuge. After about 30 seconds or so he leapt off and rolled when he hit the floor. He then flattened out and dug his claws in, obviously vertiginous. He'd slowly swivel his head to the right, then snap it straight, repeatedly. Now I was sorry. He recovered pretty rapidly, but it took about a week before he wanted to sit in that chair again.
*****
One of my favourite anomalous objects has been pretty solidly identified as a type of seldom-seen deepwater sponge:
http://www.larryhatch.net/ELTANIN.html
It was always pretty obvious that it couldn't be any reasonable sort of antenna (something that short isn't going to transmit through water very well) but it just looked weird and mysterious sitting there. In a way it's good to know what it is, and in a way it's disappointing.
*****
Here I sit, looking at live webcam images of traffic in Istanbul (not Constantinople). I should be more impressed with this than I am I suspect. Not too long ago, when something happened, you tuned into the news a day or two later, in expectation of seeing video. Live video was for big, pre-planned events. It took effort to get a live feed from the other side of the world. Here I sit now, looking at pictures of Turkish cars driving along the street, for no particular reason.
When I take a shower, Flaster sits on the toilet, and swats at the shower curtain, unless I don't bother turning on the bathroom light. If the light's not on, he doesn't swat the curtain.
When I go to sleep, Flaster usually comes into the bedroom with me, and lies down with me. Sometimes he changes his mind and goes away before I'm asleep. If that's the case, he makes a sort of 'prrt' sound as he stalks away, just to announce that he's leaving. If I 'prrt' back, he raises his tail over his back like a kitten - otherwise he keeps his tail low, in the 'adult' way.
Flaster has a habit of sitting in my swivelly computer chair if I get up for a few minutes. Actually, he'll wait until I've returned and am ready to sit again before jumping up at the last second to sit there himself. I think it's a sort of cat humour. It usually results in a wrestling match.
Anyway, the other day he did this, and on a whim I spun the chair around. He seemed okay with that, so I spun it even faster, like some sort of cat centrifuge. After about 30 seconds or so he leapt off and rolled when he hit the floor. He then flattened out and dug his claws in, obviously vertiginous. He'd slowly swivel his head to the right, then snap it straight, repeatedly. Now I was sorry. He recovered pretty rapidly, but it took about a week before he wanted to sit in that chair again.
*****
One of my favourite anomalous objects has been pretty solidly identified as a type of seldom-seen deepwater sponge:
http://www.larryhatch.net/ELTANIN.html
It was always pretty obvious that it couldn't be any reasonable sort of antenna (something that short isn't going to transmit through water very well) but it just looked weird and mysterious sitting there. In a way it's good to know what it is, and in a way it's disappointing.
*****
Here I sit, looking at live webcam images of traffic in Istanbul (not Constantinople). I should be more impressed with this than I am I suspect. Not too long ago, when something happened, you tuned into the news a day or two later, in expectation of seeing video. Live video was for big, pre-planned events. It took effort to get a live feed from the other side of the world. Here I sit now, looking at pictures of Turkish cars driving along the street, for no particular reason.
