So, six months after I adopted a catastrophe of cacti from my friend Brian, the final culling has been completed and the survivors are lookin’ mighty hearty:
These aren’t all that’s left out of the 45 or so plants that I took in, but only about a third of them made it -- they were in bad shape to start with, and I knew that many of them would die.
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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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This is why I am frequently uninspired to catblog:
My cats are both 17 years old, and they don't do much beyond sleep anymore.
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