Friday catblogging: not my cats

Oh my god the hours -- hours, I tell ya -- that I waste looking at funny pictures of cats I’ve never even met. And also hours I spend cleaning up liquid spewed over the keyboard.

My favorite:

And a close second:

It’s the cleverness of geeks that gets me: the wordplay and the self-deprecation involved in the captions and the sheer adoration of kitties. Dogs would be no fun. Dogs would be like, “You took my picture? Cool! Let’s post it online!” And cats are like, “Talk to my agent. I want residuals.” Cats are fun to tease. And I think geeks are jealous of cats: who wouldn’t like to spend their day sleeping and -- here’s the key point -- not feel guilty about it?

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