An Easy Keeper

Easy keeper, from Wikipedia


Wow, I just found out that I'm an easy keeper!

According to Wikipedia, an easy keeper is a critter that can do well with relatively poor feed. They generally come from stock that has been bred to survive in harsh climates; on a too-rich, modern diet, an easy keeper is prone to obesity and related ills. Ponies, which are basically small horses, are usually easy keepers. Well, I'm pony-sized compared to the average person, bred in a harsh climate (F3 Buffalo via Poland), and prone to obesity and related ills.

Wiki further tells us that easy keepers need to pay attention to diet, and to get plenty of exercise, especially aerobic exercise. I should take heed.

Sweating the Small Stuff

This post gave me a laugh, as I have been having a horrifying frizz experience of my own. My graying hair no longer goes into pleasantly frizzy, non-beauty-compliant curliness of its own accord, and now wants to be simply frizzy. I have begun to use "product" to smooth out the frizz, and spend far too much emotional energy worrying about succumbing to patriarchal ideas of acceptable appearance.

"I've never done my hair!" I argue.

"But I look like Grandmama Addams!" I reply.

"And what's wrong with that? She's an old lady and can look however she wants."

"She didn't have to fit in at work."

Critter Blogging - Fort Magg

Maggie took over the Zappo's shoe carton; it's become her second-place favorite place to hang out, after the donut bed on the chair next to the computer desk.

Props to Bill S

This is the funniest thing I've read in ages - comment by Bill S at World o' Crap


Oh yeah-Eve chopped down the apple tree and said the snake did it.

But God said, “Oh, c’mon! He’s got no hands! How would he hold up a hatchet? Oh my Me, you’re stupid!”

At which point the snake interjected, “Well so much for it being the Tree of Knowledge! I hope you still have the receipt for the darned thing.”

To which God replied, “Aaah, shaddup.”

And that is why, to this day, snakes don’t talk.

Strange Religious Sighting

Via Pharyngula:

God has an awesome PR department

A religious book publisher wants authors to write for a "Thank God Something Awful Happened to Me" series of books. The commenters have some good suggestions, especially
#35: Thank God for Persephone Otherwise There Would Be No Skiing or Hockey.

Friday Pet Blogging

Great cats from the past: Maxine, the calico, and Yuki, the little white bit of fluff.

This feature will be "Friday Pet Blogging" instead of just "Cat Blogging" because this is an equal-opportunity pet website.