'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
You see that mirroring in a lot of torties, though usually not that light/dark dramatic.
What sarameg said. My tortie has something similar, though hers has a ragged border and doesn't cover such a large area. She would be much cooler looking if it did.
Forecasts tend to be very general, specifying a range of decades rather than years or weeks for possible activity.
Because if they could narrow it down to years, that would be oh so helpful.
I just want to know where it came from. I can see the logic for a lot of other patterns, but the mirroring is just cool. My brother has a very dark tortie, but you can see the demarkation right down her nose where the reverse-mirroring starts.
Wolfram, how was Israel and Passover in Israel?
Cindy, it was incredible. First real vacation our family has had, ever, and we couldn't have picked a better spot. What a beautiful country. And Nilly (who I was unable to see this visit unfortunately) tells me the Passover weather was one of the best she can remember.
ION, Baby Beagle!!!
t dies from cuteness
::dies of the critter cuteness::
::thus serendipitously escaping the nutbar-crypto-crazyland the Bush administration is busy creating::
For a coffee voucher, I'd probably offer up the following clue: My password is the name of a secondary character in a Victorian novel.
For mixy-uppy letters/numbers passwords, I usually go for Schoolhouse Rock songs, with an exclamation point or question mark at the end as needed; and if I've used too much SHR in the past however-many passwords and I have to wait a couple of cycles, I go for Buffista-related terms with an excitable-fannish !1! at the end, and a Post-It on my computer saying something semi-cryptic like "moldy rice!1!" or "bluehair" or "tickytickyticky."
ION, Kathy A's cafeteria is way cool with the gambly thing and all.
IOON, I have probably just totally screwed myself over by taking the time to write this. Fucking work.
Sarah Hartwell says this in her page on mosaicism at messybeast.com:
The distribution of orange and black in a normal tortoiseshell cat depends on the migration rate of the cells and on the randomness of X chromosome inactivation.
(It's at the bottom of the page.)
That website if chockful of interesting facts about the genetics of color in cats.