May 29th, 2008
So, my first challenge was to link the mighty manticore to the great state of Wyoming.
The manticore is a mythical beast with the tail of a dragon, which is also a type of fractal, which are repeating geometric patterns found everywhere, even in the chaotic splatterings of Jackson Pollock, who was born in the town of Cody, which is in Wyoming.
What's next? Doughnuts to condoms? Psh. Doughnuts are gaining popularity in Argentina, where they are sold in Wal-Marts, many of which have a pharmacy, where one can find things to treat infectious diseases, including STDs, which can be prevented by using a condom.
Flag semaphore to the Silk Road? Fine! Flag semaphore was used in the Battle of Trafalgar, which at one point involved Napoleon ordering ships to Naples, where one can find the Instituto Universitario Orientale which was founded by Jesuit missionary Matteo Ripa in 1732 after returning from Inner China, which are the historic lands of China, which contains the Silk_Road.
Moving on, Trompe-l'œil is an art technique used to create the optical illusion of a third dimension in paintings, seen a lot in ceiling paintings done in fresco, a type of which being buon fresco, which consists of a thin layer of fresh, wet lime mortar painted with a mix of pigment and water, which can be utilized in various styles of cooking, such as baking, which utilizes sodium bicarbonate, also known as baking soda.
Who wants to know about feet? A hallux is another name for the big toe, which is located on the foot, which is called a hoof on unguligrade animals such as cattle, which are made into beef, which can be ground and made into hamburger, which when made into a patty and put with cheese, becomes a cheeseburger, which I can has.
So, did you guys know that L'Oréal makes products for hair, which on animals is called fur, of which there is a further subset called wool, and that the kind that comes from alpaca is called alpaca fiber?
There is a wonderful little thing in mathematics, where a+b is to a as a is to b. This is called the golden ratio, represented by theta in the Greek alphabet, which was the starting point of many Slavic languages, as spoken by Slavic peoples, like those found in Eastern Europe, such as Poland, known for their pierogi, a delicious little dumpling full of potato and sometimes other things.
Endometriosis is a fancy word for uterus lining tissue growing outside the uterus, and its stress aspects can be treated with lavender, which grows in India, who usually has a problem with Pakistan, which is divided into districts, including the Larkana District.
You guys know about this hullabaloo against Scientology, this Project Chanology, run by Anonymous, who hail from 4chan, where they are a bit obsessed with anime, such as Pokémon, the world of which contains the region Kanto, containing towns named after colors, one of which is the water town and home to Misty, Cerulean.
Celebrity gossip site TMZ.com broke the story on the pregnancy of Jennifer Lopez, who is Hispanic, as are people from Spain, who had the Spanish Revolution.
Vacuum induction melting is a way of melting metal in conditions of a vacuum, in which next to nothing can survive except for Tardigrades, a weird little bug thing that looks like a bear kind of and is a segmented animal, animals being things that evolve, as outlined in Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which Darwin came up with upon noting on a childhood zoo trip how much like a naughty child an orang-utan is, which belongs to the Family Hominidae, who have teeth similar to Old World monkeys, such as the Wolf's Mona Monkey, which practices allomothering.
So, let's hear it for the Virginia_Tech_Hokies, sports team of Virginia Tech, which has a college for liberal arts, such as Philosophy, which is useful in international relations, which deals with globalization.
Oh boy, Harry Potter junk. In particular, the Horcrux, an object containing part of a dark wizard's soul in the Harry Potter series, in which they play Quidditch, which has similarities to association football, which is governed by FIFA, whose rules in part are made by The Football Association, who is responsible for the FA Cup, which teams fight for including the Bristol City F.C., which includes Adriano Basso, who has his own foam hand.
There you have it. Man, I am awesome.
May 9th, 2008
We have a problem in my house. A serious problem. The problem? A cat. A very smart, mischievous cat. We always knew he was smart but this just takes the cake.
Literally.
One of our cats (we have four, by the way) has learned how to open the refrigerator. He sits at the bottom and works at prying the door open with his wee little paws until it pops open. I don't know how most refrigerators are made these days, but ours has a magnetic strip that runs along the inside of the door that makes it snap shut, nice and tight, when the door begins to close. It takes a lot of work for him to open the door, but by golly does he work at it. And by golly, there are rewards for him at the end. Food. Lots and lots of food. All for him.
Or so he has led himself to believe.
Our first "HEY CAT GET OUT OF THE DAMN FRIDGE!!" deterrent was to move a kitchen chair in front of the door, thinking that he couldn't possibly be smart enough to move the chair first and open the door second, and he clearly wasn't strong enough to move both in one fell swoop of the paw. HAHA, HOW WRONG WE WERE! Well, on the first count, that is. He isn't strong enough to move both at once, but he is smart enough to move the chair and then then open the door.
Our second method of keeping him out of the fridge is holding so far, but as I just witnessed, may not hold for much longer. My dad put a huge, unopened box of Tide laundry powder in front of the door. It's one of those boxes that has enough detergent to do 96 loads of laundry and it is heavy. Much too heavy for a cat... you would think. The little nuisance has been sneaking into the kitchen to try and move the box, and sometimes he gets enough leverage and enough oomph to move it an inch or so.
It looks like we'll be purchasing one of those safety devices for keeping toddlers and small children out of refrigerators. For a cat.
I'm scared to think of what his next "project" will be once he discovers he can no longer break into the Never Ending Food Box of Pure Joy.
He looks rather sweet and innocent, doesn't he?
You're wrong. The hamster that is his mind is always running in its wheel, and it is beefed up and is apparently training to win the Boston Marathon.
We're doomed.
May 9th, 2008
So, wow, you guys. On May 7th, our wee little KITTYBUTTS.org turned two years old. Can you believe that? We certainly can't. It doesn't feel like two years have gone by at all! Does it really seem like we've been giving you quality (ha!) entertainment (HAHA!) for that long?
We've been through a few layouts and a ton of articles/entries and a little drama and two separate hackings (once was our fault and the other the whole server we live on being hit). We've made ourselves laugh and we hope we've made all our readers laugh along with us... or at least AT us. 'Cause Lord knows we laugh at ourselves, too. We're dork enough to do it and dork enough to admit it.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say but probably not saying so eloquently, seeing as how it is three in the morning and I am dead tired but sleep is only a distant glimmer on the horizon of things that shall come in the near future (or so it seems), is that while we do KITTYBUTTS.org for ourselves first, we're also thankful to have readers.
Holy crap, that was one huge run on sentence. See what I mean about a lack of eloquence at three in the morning? Yikes.
Where was I going with this? Oh, right. Mike and I want to know what you want to see in the next year of KITTYBUTTS.org. You know, besides posting more. We plan on doing that already. Leave us a comment or drop one of us an e-mail (our e-mail addresses are listed over there in the happy little sidebar area). All suggestions are welcome! Then we'll have a secret meeting in the secret underground KB bunker and discuss all your awesome suggestions! We might even use some. ;)
Happy 2nd Birthday, KITTYBUTTS.org. I'm sorry I almost forgot to renew you. You're an awesome site and we love you. Maybe I'll even bake you a cake. Huge thank you to Mike for being such an awesome partner, both in this website (the blog-o-spheeeeeerrreee!) and in life. :) Huge thank you to the few people who still decide to visit and read our inane ramblings.
P.S. Mike's still doing the Wiki Challenge. I probably chose a bad week to challenge him as he is doing his final week of finals forever. Mike graduates from college next week! I am super-dee-duper proud of him! :D He has most of the challenges done, but between writing a thousand essays and studying for a hundred final exams, he has a few left to do. I'm sure he wouldn't mind a few more, if you have any in mind. He has a whole week off between finals and his graduation ceremony. I imagine the challenge results will be up somewhere in there.
