Stupid cat. Lately she’s taken to leaping into my lap and taking a nap when I’m trying to type.
It’d be fine if she weren’t crap at composing biology lectures.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
“No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to complete a draft of your term paper on time.”
Jaws, :)
She is a beautiful kitty, whatever her personality faults are.
She’s awesome.
Jaws @1
So having a cat on his lap is sufficient to make PZ a bond villain?
Jaws appeared in two Bond movies as a baddy.
Awww!
FWIW if she settles on your lap and sleeps you should still be able to type. Manage to do that with my cat quite regularly. Its when she wants to sit on my shoulde rthat it gets trickier – and also when she digs her claws in.
@5: No villain ever believes they’re a villain.
Which explains a lot about politicians… and university administrators… and El0n Mu5k…
I’ve learned to type with a cat sleeping on my right arm. The problem is using the mouse–he gets annoyed when my hand moves back and forth. I tried shifting him to my left arm, but he always goes back to the right.
I’m seriously contemplating learning to mouse left-handed.
Oh yes, Bad Bart.
Heinlein nailed it in one of his aphorisms: ‘Never try to out-stubborn a cat.’
(Having been a cat-servant for lo these many years, I entirely endorse that)
Wait, you are typing while she is trying to sleep? Shame PZ, shame on you.
Re: Bad Bart @ #8…
Have you considered getting a trackball?
Re: whheydt @ #11: I’m already a trackball user, I usually go with “mouse” since it is more generally understood.
I suspect that the relative immobility of my hand while using the trackball has contributed to the cat’s sleeping on my arm instead of my traditional mouse-using wife’s arm.
PZ’s cat might be set to publish:
Evil Cat.2024.The migration patterns of rodents in a Minnesota home and measures to seek and destroy (including ways to display the trophies). Journal of Rodent Slaughter. 54: 243-266
It’s in purr review but so far it’s either been shredded to pieces, batted around the floor, pissed or shat upon by experts in the field.
She is cuter than you.
Hey, she LIKES you! We don’t just hang out on ANY old laps, you know.
Is this the very cat that was so traumatised?
If that is the case, it is terrific! 😊
I borrow the use of the PC at work to avoid having feline tap-dancing on the keys. Also, the cell phone is useful as I can lift it to a cat-safe altitude.
Give the cat time to get more comfortable with you, and she will warm her butt on winter nights by wedging it under your chin as you are trying to sleep. As cats wag the tail in their sleep the result will… prevent you from snoring as you keep getting flogged by a furry tail before you can sink into deep sleep.
Good for your wife, not so good for you.
Just noticing how pale and gray I am. I definitely need to get some sun.
Please do not overdo the suntan. I lost my dad to malign melanoma.
When I have a cat in my lap, nothing else matters. There’s only cat. And cat is good.
Kitty! 🤗
I had 4 cats . Tourbillon , Perquetsitz (pronounced Per cute sits , we all called her Cutesy) Stupid, and Tomcat! A Couple of days I noticed I had 5 cats around the food bowl . They’d invite the neighbor’s cat over for dinner . A tourbillion is a type of firework . I have no idea how my oldest came up with these names . Stupid wasn’t his name we called him that because he lost his tail. It just fell off ! Tomcat was a big tuxedo male! All 4 were strays and my son found Tourbillon tied to the railroad tracks by some sadistic asshole . I know his former owner cried when he/ she/ they lost him to that sadistic thief because he was a pleasant animal and used to use the toilet
Looking at the photo and wondering who has the cuter whiskers. You both seem to have white in your eyebrows and (probably for PZ) ear hair. As for eyes, I’m going to have to go with the green, reflective ones.