An Engineer’s Guide to Cats
Early Sunday morning web trawling yielding this little gem of a video.1 If you’re a Cat Person, or a Geek, or even a Geeky Cat Person, this is well worth six minutes of your time. Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy.
* * * * *- Originally seen over at Cute Overload. [↩]
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I like the cupboard (tuna, peanut butter, jelly) and the shopping cart (bread, apple juice, PB & J).
July 20th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Hello Paul and TJ,
I am interested in learning more about the “aspect ratio” and the capacity to predict feline dynamic potential, or behavioral traits based on that measure. I am not an engineer. I was the slave to my late beloved cat, Milo. (He was the brother of Venus dei. ) I believe he had an aspect ratio of somewhere in the 2. range. He had extraordinarily long legs, and weighed in around 15 lbs. In addition to the traits of Oscar, Ginger, and Zoey for lounging, sleeping, criticizing othersm he would spontaneously run the length of the house making primitive gutteral sounds. [I had never thought of him as a conduit of electromagnet energy that could be harnessed to reduce my electric bill.] Can you expand on the calculation of the aspect ratio and its meaning? I would like to consider this measure as a predictor variable as I consider the factors of the next feline I serve.
Thank you for this rational view of the domestic house cat.