The latest fashion news is that cat beards are already passé. The new craze, as described in Metro.co.uk, is CAT FROS. Here are some:
No, I’m not going to have a new contest. Cat beards are far better (contest closes June 10, 5 pm Chicago time). But if you want to put your moggie atop your head, go ahead and send me the photo.
Protip: Persians are better than Siamese.
Finally, reader Loren Russell from Corvallis, Oregon sent a photo of hix Manx cat Sierra. The reader’s spouse teaches a college course in free will, and I’ve been trying to figure out all day what this picture means. If you have a good caption, post it below:
A bit more information and another shot of Sierra:
I’m a relapsed entomologist — I was out of it for 30 years but I’m back working on my thesis bug in retirement. My wife, Flo Leibowitz, is a philosopher at Oregon State University. I enjoy your “website” and happily pass many of your rants and links about determinism to Flo for her classes.
As for the cat: Sierra is her “shelter name” — she’s a Manx so I also call her “Hox” or “Hoxie” for her genetically curtailed vertebral column. Sierra led a transient early life — from breeder to pet shop to student apartment, and then to the local shelter when her owner had issues with landlord/roomies or simply left town. She is bold and bossy — a terror to any animal that trespasses and the only cat we’ve ever had who comes flying in for human ruckuses — but in her down time she has the habit of nesting on open books, piles of papers, and computer keyboards. Here are a few examples, including her perusal of one of the books that Flo uses in her undergraduate seminar on free will and determinism.
We are running out of hairy places – I see where this is going.
Cattion:
“After an observation of its own “free will”, Scrödinger’s cat is left half dead.”
+1
I could read this book if I really wanted to.
“They asked me to write a Foreword, and I said I’d sleep on it.”
“As you can see, I already have the ‘basics’ down cat…er-ah… pat.”
Sierra
The persian in the photo is the legendary Colonel Meow (http://www.colonel-meow.com and https://www.facebook.com/colonelmeowinthecity)
himalayan-persian even.
You need an instagram account if you don’t have one already. Soooo many great cat accounts to follow.
I am free, and basically, I will sleep on these books.
My name might be Will…but I ain’t free!
I’d like to have a beard or ‘fro, but my cat doesn’t like being picked up.
Stoopid book. No whaylz!
I can haz free will?
I don’t have to take a nap. I have free will. I don’t have to…ZZZZZZ
+1
You cannot free Will. He is inside me.
+1
“If I only had a choice of where to drop and flop!”
“I currently have no free will because
my cat has fallen asleep on the manual.”
Clever cat. Why pay somebody to make a will when you can get the basics in this book.
I leave my litter box and food bowl to the two-legged dude that I let stay in my house…
“Free will? U haz no free will! You will pet da kitty! Pet da kitty! Yesssss….yesss….”
I can only imagine that it’s an entreaty to free someone named Will, with some basic instructions on how to do so.