WRT hairless kitties:

Are they especially wrinkly, or would my cat be that wrinkly if I shaved off all of his hair (not that I am thinking of doing this-- he has lovely orange fur)?

Those pirolettes need to be goblets. How much would that rock?

Totally.

I wonder how much harder that would be? They make the thing on a lathe, which typically supports the object being lathed on both ends. It seems to me that in order to hollow it out, it could only be supported on one end. Hmmm. - I don't know enough about lathing to know how hard that is....

Are they especially wrinkly, or would my cat be that wrinkly if I shaved off all of his hair

I think they're just as wrinkly as regular cats.

I once was taking care of two Cornish Rex cats. One was nearly hairless - she looked as wrinkly as a Sphynx.

She used to love to climb on top of me when I was sitting down - she'd climb up on my chest and push her warm, almost hairless head hard against my neck.

I have a friend who is getting a Singapura and she's been sending me pictures of the litter -- oMG so cute!!

This isn't where she's getting her kitten from (I don't think!) but look they have Singapuras + Sphinxes!

Much as I hate to side with a smug jackhole over Isaac Hayes, I think Parker's right here. I could accept a simple "lampooning my religion made me too uncomfortable on a personal level to continue" without difficulty, but suddenly discovering a lofty moral objection after nine years of skewering just about every other set of beliefs out there reeks of phoniness.

Yup. Sounds to me like Clamsucker Central said "Whoa, they have offended Xenu. They must be labelled Suppressive Persons and denounced. P.S. We still don't care about those other delusions masquerading as "religions".

Why I Love Where I Work Sometimes, this internal email:

Good morning from the Math Department!

Today is 3.14--International Pi Day! Some interesting facts about this remarkable number:

If the first billion digits of pi were printed in "ordinary" type, they would stretch from New York City to the middle of Kansas.

As far back as Mesopotamia, people have known that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter always the same, no matter the size of the circle. Pi is even mentioned in the Bible in I Kings 7,23 and in II Chronicles 4,2.

Einstein was born on Pi Day.

On this day, thousands of otherwise perfectly sane people share a lot of pretty much useless information about pi.

you don't work where I work, do you?

It is funny to think of my cat as wrinkly, even though it is cute!

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE PIE FOR LUNCH!!!

MMM PI!

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE PIE FOR LUNCH!!!

And a hairless cat to keep the lap warm.

OK, maybe not.

ION, human brain == freaky.

IRVINE, Calif., March 13 (UPI) -- Scientists at the University of California-Irvine have identified the first known case of a new, superior memory syndrome.

Researchers Elizabeth Parker, Larry Cahill and James McGaugh spent more than five years studying the case of "AJ," a 40-year-old woman with incredibly strong memories of her personal past.

Given a date, AJ can recall with astonishing accuracy what she was doing on that date and what day of the week it was. Because her case is the first of its kind, the researchers have proposed a name for her syndrome -- hyperthymestic syndrome -- based on the Greek word thymesis for "remembering" and hyper, meaning "more than normal."

McGaugh said AJ's case differs from others with superior memory. Nearly all recorded cases involve people who used mnemonic devices to create associations among facts.

"What makes this young woman so remarkable is that she uses no mnemonic devices to help her remember things," said McGaugh.

The research is published in the current issue of the journal Neurocase.

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