The Cat/Code Principle
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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.
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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
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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
When I'm on the couch the cats don't seem to care, but when I go to my 'office' to work then it's two of the three cats clamoring for attention. Then Yokozuki starts to headbutt my legs.
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tgrt wrote:
But in this case he is right. Cats are pure evil.
I have to agree. I have owned numerous cats and dogs over my life and there is no comparison. Cats are evil incarnate. Every dog I have owned still has a special place in my heart. All the cats (but one) are completely forgotten about - only the smell of them still lingers... you can't get rid of that even with steamcleaning.
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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"....
Steve_Harris wrote:
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"....
I believe this is a cultural reference to a line in "Amish Paradise" by Weird Al Yankovic:
So don't be vain and don't be whiny Or else, my brother, I might have to get medieval on your hiney!
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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
Rich Leyshon wrote:
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.
Sounds like the perfect dog. [goes dreamy eyed] Got a pic to share? :-D
Cheers, Vikram.
The cold will freeze our stares We won't care...
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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
My dog goes up and puts his paws on the keyboard and stares at the screen sometimes. It's pretty silly but as soon as I grab the camera he always moves. For some reason it never results in anything happening though... he's too light to push the keys down I think. Cats are too stubborn to be trained, but if you take her off it every time, eventually she'll give up on it. Just probably wants to be close to you. I'm sure that's why my dog does it... he gets in my chair and puts his paws on the keys just like I do :)
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And dogs are just plain stupid.
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ColinBud wrote:
Dogs have NO self respect. I prefer cats.
ohh-kay, or maybe since dogs and cats are not humans, just perhaps neither have self-respect. Dogs know their place. Cats couldn't care less. So, which one is a better pet? (rhetorical question)
Yeah at least a dog gives it a good college try. Cats just don't care. See this: http://smoothjazzy.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-i-dont-like-cats.html[^]
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http://www.smoothjazzy.com/ - see the "Programming" section for freeware tools and articles. -
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:
Now if I could just bioengineer the virus to attack the dogs vocal cords so they could not bark, I might actually start to like my dog too. I kind of inherited it along with the marriage to my wife, but I only am comforted by the fact that a dog's lifespan is MUCH shorter than ours. Only a few ... more .. years .. to go. I am making a mental note to myself, next time around, NO DOGS! I won't care HOW charming the woman is :-D
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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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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:
delete this;
