So, apparently some cats can see cathode ray TV pictures and some can't. This is why some kitties will start swatting at the TV frantically when Animal Planet is on, and some will wonder why their parental guardians are just staring at this box instead of petting them.

My cat was of the latter variety until we got the new idiot box. Then I realized something while I was watching Equator on Discovery HD - my cat was flipping the fuck out.

I can't remember what animal it was, but to my cat it looked like a really really really big dog, it was running really fast, and that was enough. On my way to the kitchen I realized that her eyes were fixated on the TV, her heart was beating a thousand beats a minute, and she was panting as if she just ran a marathon.

After a few commercial breaks she seemed to realize no animals were going to go jumping out of the big box, so when the focus of the program turned to seagulls Larry decided to get a closer look. She sat right in front of the TV and watched the birds fly by. When they flew off the screen, she looked at the side of the room wondering where they went.

I often wonder what she thinks the TV actually is. My best guess is that she thinks it's a new window that's popped up out of nowhere. Whenever I watch a nature program now, I call Larry over to look at the animals with me, and try to figure out what on Earth my cat could be thinking.

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So, basically, everyone is so in love with their iPods that they can't bring themselves to state the obvious.

Those earbuds suck.

They don't sit in your ear well, have to be dangerously loud for you to hear anything, and I think a tin can could provide more bass.

At this point enters the best fourteen dollars you will ever spend. They sit in your ear and actually cancel out a good portion of the nails-on-chalkboard squeaky subway breaks. But, the sound, my god the sound! With the volume set to only 50% you still feel like you are in your living room listening to your home stereo. Everything sounds so much warmer, and bass is very well represented without the distortion and clipping from Apple's earbuds.

Kicking Apple's earbuds to the curb - it's a good thing.

Sometimes you see something and you go "Wow, that would be really cool... if I was 8." And with that, I present to you.... Star Wars Transformers!!!!

So, it just happens to be the case that the first book I've finished this year (I am going to be reading like crazy now that school is over) is also a complete and utter lie (kind of).

I dunno. There were rumblings of the author's "creative license" before I started reading the book, so I kind of took everything with a grain of salt as I was reading it. Overall, I liked it. It wasn't amazing, I wasn't in complete awe by the end like I was with, say, "The Corrections" or "Life of Pi." Parts of it did seem a bit exaggerated, and it runs out of steam towards the end.

I'm currently reading "The Kid : What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant" by Dan Savage of Savage Love fame. It's easily the funniest thing I've read since the last Sedaris novel (why is it that only gay writers have a sense of humor these days) sprinkled with actual information about adoption (which is rather timely, considering the urge to raise a kid spiked way up as soon as I turned 30 for some reason).

In literature, as in life, if you want to have a good time stick with the perv and stay away from the crackhead. :)