Couch 92 Found my shoe

Cute fluffy Calico!

....and couches in the shape of cats!

I love pastrami...

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I have no clue. For me, that would make me feel worse.

That is the last place I would be. I would not be able to function at one of these types of events. I don't even go to funerals.

I am not certain calling ourselves advanced is accurate. And I am also not certain other species are less advanced. I am not convinced in the superiority of humans.

I just finished The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. Anybody read it, or anything else by Waters? H has been a fan of her books for several years, but this was the first thing I read by her. I actually liked it better than he did, even.

I am playing with a new toy -
I bought a used surface pro 3 and am using windows 8.1 for the first time. I have a windows computer at the university but have been using macs/ipads at home for a few years. I still like the mac better - but this is so far more useful than ipad for work and more flexible than an 11 in macbook air.

I looked at the surface in the windows store one day; it looked interesting. I would be curious if I could put a Linux based OS on it. I don't need any new computing devices at the moment, but one day maybe.

I'm also primarily a Mac user. I have a Windows PC for work and that is it.

That sounds awesome. I'm trying my hand at carnitas in the pressure cooker today. If I'm successful, I'll be immersed in taco and quesadilla bliss for the next several days.

Glad you got some time for yourself! You've definitely earned it.

Thanks... It was much needed.

I ended up taking a bunch of nature photos, got some lunch, and groceries on my own. Then spent time in my home office, alone.

That sounds like a perfect day, to be honest!

Yeah... After my epic emotional meltdown. LOL

aw, it happens to many of us!

Pastrami is advanced. Can your puppies make pastrami? Do you think they could do it even if they had hands?
Not necessarily superior, but definitely advanced.
We're as capable of great good as we are of great evil. It's not a black and white world and neither are we.

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It appears as though you can:
How to install Linux on Surface Pro 3

And I did not really need it either - but it is proving handy. I am sort of looking forward to windows 10 now. The thing that first drew me to it was the stylus - much better than any I have tried on ipad and I find it so much easier to mark up documents with the pen than I do using a keyboard.

I don't think the concepts of good and evil are black and white - I don't actually think anything is black or white - I am very much a relativist in almost all things.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

(and yes - I had at least one dog who would have taken over the world if she had possessed opposable thumbs)

Geez you guys are all brilliant. I just finished doing my very simple taxes. Yay for me for getting them done ahead of time - ive never been this early.

Yea Hankster. I got my info to the accountant by last friday - which for me was also way ahead of the game.

Thinking is a dangerous gift. It likes to take over and believe itself superior, but it needs to be in balance with the emotional mind. In that way other higher mammals may well be superior - their cortex is not as well developed as ours and doesn't interfere as much with emotional (limbic) function.

Your dog may have had the ability to take over the world, but I'm sure it would have involved enslaving the human intellect through the use of overwhelming cuteness And I still doubt she would have made her own pastrami.

OMG paperwork!! *runs*

I did make coleslaw yesterday - greek yogurt for the dressing. So i just had a couple of air tacos - thats when all you put into the tortilla is coleslaw! I had chicken for breakfast, i didnt want more protein yet.

They have a POV in that they experience the world. I was going to say they are as adapted to the world as we are but wild animals are better adapted because they don't exceed their carrying capacity as a long term strategy and they don't leave the world worse off. I value creativity highly but I still don't think the ability to make pastrami is a valid offset for remaking the world into the servant of one species. Our brains can do specific tasks well. We value those tasks because they are our specialties. A lemur values other things even if s/he can't articulate that. Same with a hermit crab.

This is an issue of mine. I started a blog several months ago on the theme that humans are the real 1%. I need to get it going again.

Is posting some of the photos on here a possibility?

Pretty please? Pretty please with cool whip on it?

My sister had a cat who didn't need opposable thumbs. My sister had a window screen leading to the patio that she didn't know how to remove. The cat figured it out.