The Cat/Code Principle
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Dogs are too noisy. I live in the country, in a typical day you can hear nothing but birds, crickets, the wind and just about non stop all day and all night someone's dog barking. I've laid in bed half awake on more than one occasion thinking about some short sci fi story I read years ago where all the dogs in the world die from some weird disease. :mad:
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The Cat/Code Principle states that a cat's desire to walk on your keyboard is directly proportional to how diligently you are trying to work on the computer. It always seems that the harder I try to work on a program the harder my cat tries to interrupt me by walking on the keyboard, sitting on the keyboard, threatening to knock stuff over on my desk. :mad: And I can't get angry at her because it just makes me feel guilty. :sigh:
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
That's cats for you. Luckily mine is so lazy, she'd wouldn't shift for an oncoming truck, :-P.
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If you consider the dog as a 5 or 6 year old child and the cat as a teenager, it all makes sense. The dog will always try to show you it loves you, but will listen when you tell it to stop. Cats will ignore you until they want something or you are actively ignoring them! My cats ignore me until my fingers hit the keyboard, and then the war starts. Cats know how to (ahem) push your buttons. ;) Dogs have NO self respect. I prefer cats.
Greetings from sunny South Africa!
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I hate cats. X| Dogs are much better. :cool: [Waits for the flames]
Cheers, Vikram.
The cold will freeze our stares We won't care...
I prefer cats but I like dogs too. They taste like chicken, :-9.
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The Cat/Code Principle states that a cat's desire to walk on your keyboard is directly proportional to how diligently you are trying to work on the computer. It always seems that the harder I try to work on a program the harder my cat tries to interrupt me by walking on the keyboard, sitting on the keyboard, threatening to knock stuff over on my desk. :mad: And I can't get angry at her because it just makes me feel guilty. :sigh:
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
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No flames. Everybody's entitled to their own opinions, no matter how wrong they are.
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
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I hate cats. X| Dogs are much better. :cool: [Waits for the flames]
Cheers, Vikram.
The cold will freeze our stares We won't care...
Hmmm .. I quite like cats .. Mind you I couldn't eat a whole one.
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If you consider the dog as a 5 or 6 year old child and the cat as a teenager, it all makes sense. The dog will always try to show you it loves you, but will listen when you tell it to stop. Cats will ignore you until they want something or you are actively ignoring them! My cats ignore me until my fingers hit the keyboard, and then the war starts. Cats know how to (ahem) push your buttons. ;) Dogs have NO self respect. I prefer cats.
Greetings from sunny South Africa!
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My cat just sits on my lap.
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The Cat/Code Principle states that a cat's desire to walk on your keyboard is directly proportional to how diligently you are trying to work on the computer. It always seems that the harder I try to work on a program the harder my cat tries to interrupt me by walking on the keyboard, sitting on the keyboard, threatening to knock stuff over on my desk. :mad: And I can't get angry at her because it just makes me feel guilty. :sigh:
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
In the cat world staring and looking are signs of aggression. Cats feel more comfortable with the person who shows them little attention. So out of a group of people cats will often curl up with the person who ignores them when they enter the room. And similarly the busier you are staring at the screen, the more likely they want to be with you. See Desmond Morris' Cat Watching J Fuller
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In the cat world staring and looking are signs of aggression. Cats feel more comfortable with the person who shows them little attention. So out of a group of people cats will often curl up with the person who ignores them when they enter the room. And similarly the busier you are staring at the screen, the more likely they want to be with you. See Desmond Morris' Cat Watching J Fuller
I have the reverse problem - a dog that likes to do a bit of typing! Rich
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In the cat world staring and looking are signs of aggression. Cats feel more comfortable with the person who shows them little attention. So out of a group of people cats will often curl up with the person who ignores them when they enter the room. And similarly the busier you are staring at the screen, the more likely they want to be with you. See Desmond Morris' Cat Watching J Fuller
Cats don't only do it when you're coding, they also like nothing better than to sit right in front of the monitor whilst you're trying to move a scout in Civilization or drape themselves across the keyboard just as you hit a big fight in Oblivion! Never mind when you're on a call, remote controlling someones machine, and they decide your hand on the mouse is a great toy. Of course it could just be that they've decided it's feeding time and you're the one to do it. Wouldn't be without them though. The Dragon
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Folks who claim that cats are evil are revealing their own feelings of inadequacy and paranoia. If they weren't so defensive about the size of their brains and penises, they wouldn't have to scribble such nonsense. The truth is: only humans are evil - especially everyone but me. :cool:
Jon Information doesn't want to be free. It wants to be sixty-nine cents @ pound.
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The Cat/Code Principle states that a cat's desire to walk on your keyboard is directly proportional to how diligently you are trying to work on the computer. It always seems that the harder I try to work on a program the harder my cat tries to interrupt me by walking on the keyboard, sitting on the keyboard, threatening to knock stuff over on my desk. :mad: And I can't get angry at her because it just makes me feel guilty. :sigh:
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
It could be worse. My daughter likes to bring her pet rat(1) in to my office and lets her walk around the desk. She has a strange fondness for the mouse with the red eyes(2)... (1) Yes, a pet rat. She's actually pretty cute, and very friendly. (2) I have a Microsoft optical mouse.
Software Zen:
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I hate cats. X| Dogs are much better. :cool: [Waits for the flames]
Cheers, Vikram.
The cold will freeze our stares We won't care...
Even me? :rolleyes:
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The Cat/Code Principle states that a cat's desire to walk on your keyboard is directly proportional to how diligently you are trying to work on the computer. It always seems that the harder I try to work on a program the harder my cat tries to interrupt me by walking on the keyboard, sitting on the keyboard, threatening to knock stuff over on my desk. :mad: And I can't get angry at her because it just makes me feel guilty. :sigh:
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
This is especially true if you maintain a home office. They sneak up behind you on noiseless paws then pounce in your lap while coding, on the phone or live on webcam. There is no harder boss to work for than a cat -- when they want attention, they want it NOW!
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Folks who claim that cats are evil are revealing their own feelings of inadequacy and paranoia. If they weren't so defensive about the size of their brains and penises, they wouldn't have to scribble such nonsense. The truth is: only humans are evil - especially everyone but me. :cool:
Jon Information doesn't want to be free. It wants to be sixty-nine cents @ pound.
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I've noticed that as well. The more you are trying to concentrate the more the cat wants your attention. My cat is part siamese and so really clingy, if she starts feeling ignored and I try to shoo her away she get's all medieval on me and starts jumping up on the back of my chair and putting her foot on my head. Back when I had CRT monitors the cats loved to sleep on top of them in the heat, when I first got a flat screen they were looking at it and you could tell they were thinking about jumping up on it. I ended up putting an old pillow behind it to encourage them to keep out of my face while I'm working which has worked pretty well so far.
John Cardinal wrote:
I try to shoo her away she get's all medieval on me and starts jumping up on the back of my chair and putting her foot on my head
I'm confused as to how putting her foot on your head is "medieval"....
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I have the reverse problem - a dog that likes to do a bit of typing! Rich
How old is your dog? Surely a big dog would do some permanent damage to a keyboard? :~
Cheers, Vikram.
The cold will freeze our stares We won't care...
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How old is your dog? Surely a big dog would do some permanent damage to a keyboard? :~
Cheers, Vikram.
The cold will freeze our stares We won't care...
I can't use the excuse that he's only a puppy, he's 6 and quite large - virtually a greyhound (with a lttle bit of something else (unidentified) in there.) When he wants a fuss he tends to stand on the sofa with his front paws over the back which, if I don't oblige results in him climbing further until his front paws are on my lap or the keyboard and a head gets inserted under my chin which proceeds to give me regular nudges until said head gets well and truly rubbed. Rich
