It’s already my birthday in India, though if I wished to stay a year younger for a few more hours, I could claim that the relevant location is not here but Chicago. Regardless, it’s my party and I’ll post what I want to. Here, courtesy of reader Michael, are some ravenous kittens let in at feeding time:
Famished kittens
December 29, 2014 • 8:21 pm
Happy Birthday Jerry!
Great kittens!
Happy birthday, Jerry!
I’m tempted to worry they might have been starved. Cute though.
Happy birthday 2 ewe.
A Content Coynemas, Jerry!
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This is my favourite birthday card ever. I got the 1975 one sometime later that decade from a friend, and I always remembered it!
Mine, too! I always annoy family and friends by singing those words;-) Sandra Boyton’s the best!
I also love her The Feline is Mutual…
This is really cute, Ben!
That is a very cute card!
Happy Birthday Jerry!
Looking forward to the pics of your celebratory noms!
Wishing you health and happiness (and more writing) in the year ahead.
Happy Birthday, Jerry!
Could those kittens be any cuter??
Bahahaha, those kittens are hilarious! Happy birthday Jerry!
Happy birthday, Jerry.
And yes, every time you write something and hit ‘post’ — this is what we all do. It’s up! …Clickclickclick, nomnomnom. Apt analogy.
Happy birthday! Safe returns!
Happy Birthday there, Dr Coyne !
Likely another here — http://www.tinyurl.com/olwq8my — with your very same year as well !
It’s all good ! Especially its special noms — shared — as with those zoom – zoom, famished Felidae !
Safe travels, too —
Blue
Happy Boid-day, PCC! Safe travels to you.
Happy Birthday, Jerry!
awwww -slurp, slurp, slurp
Anu Garg, atheist, quotes Jerry today on his birthday!
http://wordsmith.org/words/captcha.html
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg
captcha
PRONUNCIATION:
(KAP-chuh)
MEANING:
noun: A test used to make sure that a human is using a system, not a computer program. The test typically involves reading distorted text.
ETYMOLOGY:
An acronym of Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The Turing test is named after Alan Turing, a mathematician and computer scientist, who proposed that a computer could be considered intelligent if, while interacting with a human and a computer, someone could not tell which is which. A captcha is a kind of reverse Turing test. Earliest documented use: 2001.
USAGE:
“Yet here we are, watching a carrier [Ryanair] that considered charging passengers to pee, opening a Twitter account, accepting American Express credit cards, and removing its annoying Captcha.”
Pol O Conghaile; Be Travel Savvy; Irish Independent (Dublin); Oct 5, 2013.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -Jerry Coyne, biology professor (b. 1949)
Ha, ha, I just sent that to him. 😀
I would have sent it to him offlist but I’ve never figured out how to do that.
Just Google Jerry Coyne University of Chicago, and my work email address (the one I use) will magically appear.
Happy Birthday.
I have determined that in the process of feeding my cat at some point in the future either the cat or I will die as a result of that endeavor. Either I will step on the cat that insists on being right under my feet as I go about preparing his food and squish him dead or he will trip me up and I will bash my head in on the counter top or some such thing.
If nobody hears from me for more than a week please come check on me.
LOL, so true!
Happy Nom-day!
[The apposite Happy Nom- and Barf-Day didn’t get approved.]
Don’t forget to take in the Kutub Minar while you’re in Delhi. It’s an interesting example of early metallurgy. The high Pb content in the Iron has prevented oxidisation of the column. T.