A cat can lie down and stand up at the same time.

I have a grey cat that seems to melt at about 78F. I keep my house air conditioned to 74 and she loafs. Heat it up much beyond that and she sprawls.

That is or recently was a cat.

My father took my mother with to pick out her ring. She insisted on a smaller diamond. He wanted to buy her a larger rock, could afford it, but my mama was thinking about running a household. As newlyweds, they added a room to the house, bought a brand new washer/dryer set and paid off a car.

If I got the history right, it was kind of the wacky gotcha concept of the show early on, but famously humorless Alex Trebek took over and the show got weirdly prestigious and that rule stayed in place and kind of devolved into a verbal tic. _whatis The answer?

In both cases, borrowing the words of stand-up drunkard Ron White, “It’s not that the wind is blowing; it’s what the wind is blowing.”

The house itself should be well waterproofed, the problems come from broken windows, punctured roof due to falling trees, or in a tornado, just being pushed over.

All cats, from the mightiest tiger to the tiniest kitten, all run on the same software. They conduct themselves with seriousness and poise.

While engaging in shenanigans such as these.

I’m an above average candidate for the Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court scenario. My hand isn’t a chainsaw and my boomstick is a pump action Ithaca not a double-barrel Remington, but also I could make a radio more or less from scratch. You can make a point contact diode out of rusty iron and graphite.

Humpback whales are able to navigate exceptionally well and I don’t think science knows how.

Humpback whales travel by picking a direction and traveling in that direction. They can maintain a true course to within a degree of accuracy for hundreds of miles regardless of location on the planet, ocean currents, magnetic variation, day or night, though open empty ocean.

I know how to do that, but I need stuff the whales don’t have like visual reference to a solid surface, accurate charts, radio-based navaids, winds aloft forecasts, and/or gyroscopic instruments. Most of the time, most creatures either navigate by landmarks, some are able to navigate magnetically, some can home, ie they can sense a destination and point their noses at it and go that way, as forces such as winds, ocean currents, Coriolis force etc. push them off course they steer to keep the destination dead ahead, tracing a half-teardrop course.

But humpbacks can pick a direction and go perfectly straight. Somehow.

That’s an exceptionally adorable picture. You can just hear the tiny little purr.

On the one hand, I’m convinced Marie Antoinette didn’t say or think like that.

On the other hand, I think there’s a good case to make that if her brother had come to Versailles and explained to Louis XVI how to fuck his sister four or five years before he actually did, the French Revolution wouldn’t have happened.

The short version of this story as I, an American nearing the bottom of his third Mint Julep of the evening, understands it, is the French–of all people–came up with a king that didn’t know how to use his penis. Letters from nobles at the time explain how he would stick it in, soak without moving for two minutes or so, and then “bid goodnight.” I mean, to be fair, they were like 15 on their wedding day. So Marie Antoinette’s life consisted of hanging around Versailles, a palace designed specifically to be an expensive place to hang around. She basically partied the French economy empty, like any teenage girl in her shoes would have. Eventually her brother, Joseph II, visited Versailles and apparently had to awkwardly explain to the young king what orgasms are, and eight months later Marie was pregnant with her first child. She significantly toned down the lavish lifestyle by then, but not after spending the country into an actual crisis.

It is my understanding that, later in life, Marie would show some frugality, doing away with expensive gifts for her children during famines and such. This happened when she was an adult, I think I must point out. Again, I am an American and thus indoctrinated against the very idea of royalty, but a flaw in absolute monarchy is that absolute power over foreign and domestic policy may land in the hands of a teenager who can’t figure out his crotch by himself, and the only thing standing between the nation and an empty treasury is one very specific teen pregnancy.

You know, genuinely…American education tends to go “Then there was World War One and we tried to stay out of it because it was Europe’s problem but we had to go win it anyway then there was the roaring 20s and the great depression 30’s and then MOTHAFUCKIN WORLD WAR TWO, the four years that makes up two thirds or our nation’s 250 year history.” So the scene where Blackadder sits George and Baldrick down and describes the alliances and how “there was only one problem. It was bollocks.” Is genuinely my understanding of WWI. That and rotary piston engines. I know what a blip switch is.

And also that weird wrist nub cats have.

Well, I think Vine was too early. The videos were too short, could you imagine trying to put ads or sponsors in 6 second videos? So how do you monetize it?

That’s Microsoft. They got desktop PCs. They repeatedly failed to get mobile, they repeatedly failed to get portable, they never had embedded, they had fucking Skype at one point. They drink gold and piss nickel, Microsoft.

Probably a domestic longhair. Maine Coons have really distinctive heavy snouts, they’re dramatically huge, like the size of a bobcat, and they’ve got this dense 3 layer coat that forms a lion-like mane.

If it’s just some little dude that wandered up out of the world in the top 50th percentile of fluffiness, what you’ve got there is a domestic longhair. Probably introduce him to brushing while he’s young because mats aren’t fun, otherwise same operator’s manual as a shorthair. Obligate carnivore diet, scatching post and sandbox, gentle scritches behind the ears, lots of naps, sunny windowsill for basking.

I am a moderator for a community. I haven’t ever had to do any moderating because everyone in there has behaved reasonably.

The answer they give you is “If you want it written, YOU write it.” Which…it’s no wonder open source software doesn’t hold up, right? It’s made by idiots who think it’s up to end users to write the manual.

I haven’t used it in awhile, but OnShape I think had the best UI, for being in a browser.

There are some macros out there I’ve found that make FreeCAD a lot better. I kinda wish they had a half-decent reference for macro writing; they’ll point you to their unfinished out of date wiki if you ask.

Look up how to use FreeCAD’s spreadsheet.