“Indolence is the natural character of a cat, to such a degree that nothing but the necessities of hunger, thirst, and other wants equally pressing can stimulate it to action, until domestication is introduced.” -- John Adams*
“A cat acts only because it wants. You domesticate a cat by increasing his wants, or, as his wants increase he becomes domesticated. You find a lazy cat who would not hunt a mouse to save your life. But let him have a few tastes of wet food, and he will run his legs off after the mouse.” -- Robert Ingersoll, 1892*
Probably not right to compare cats to old Western thinking about civilized man vs. the "lazy savage," but it just rang a bell. I love the thought of the lazy house cat sprung into action not to please its "master" (who, every cat owner knows, is actually the cat's servant), but rather because there's finally something worth chasing -- a live rat! Get that fuzzy catnip ball out of my face, I'm not in the mood.
As you may have noticed, the site has changed. Sampa, the free-site host, did a version 2 of some sort.
Despite an FAQ that made it sound like allowing one's site to go through v.2 surgery would be okay, there were several flexibilities that surprisingly disappeared with the click of a button. (e.g. I cannot believe sidebars like this one are even narrower than before.)
And I'm told -- miraculously! -- that the conversion cannot be undone. Truth be told, I'm actually quite pissed. But free is free. Sampa has otherwise been good to me.
So I need to sort through site "features" to see how I can make do. Except that I don't have the time at the moment, in the middle of graduate classes and Lighthousehockey.com. (btw, I've removed that Lighthouse RSS feed so that you're not clogged with random Islanders hockey gibberish).
But I promise to touch up the accessories when I get a chance, and return to irregularly scheduled blogging.
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February, 2008