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Please imagine you are sleeping, fitfully. There is a ... pressure on your chest. What is this ... great weight on your breast? Hazy and confused you part your sleepy eyes.
And get the macro view of this face, filling your world. Everything is Pica. Looking into your eyes. Waiting. But for what?
The warm weight on your chest shifts, a tiny paw touches your chin.
"Wake up. Isn't it time you did something for me?"
It is well past that time. And? You know it.
This is how i LIVE.
@kimlockhartga @TheOtterDragon
What a remarkable little gentleman.
I thought making a diagram was "overkill" but I can see that it's not.
Lets see if this helps them to be more independent about this part of the project.
She has heard your cries. She asks "what have you brought to please me? Or do you disturb me for no reason?"
I liked your alt text for that Scientific American cover.
That is her perfect natural little face.
It's what she thinks of you, of me, of the whole world.
I think this dynamic of people learning a task wanting formal official steps leads to people thinking that there is "One Right Way" to do tasks that can be done in many ways.
A frustrated teacher formalizes something that just isn't formal to avoid having everyone bugging her over and over "but how do I start it? how do I knot it?"
Will I cause someone in 20 years to be told "That's the Wrong Way to do it."
hmmm
Some things are harder to teach than others. One of the most difficult things to explain is "how to start sewing without putting a knot at the end of the thread."
Like many tasks that I stumble over when teaching I made the fatal mistake of thinking "this is easy"
I think I need to draw diagrams?
What makes it worse is it's not that important when you are sewing a book signature how you "knot the thread" since it will be covered in glue later.
My students want an "Official Procedure"
#PicaTheCat has a comment on this:
"That you cannot comprehend the necessity of her important work is *exactly* why it must continue.
Pray that you may never find out what could happen if she didn't do all of these Important Tasks for you. It is a blessing of ignorance for humans such as yourself (and my own hapless staff) not to know such things."
... no idea what she's on about.
RE: https://mas.to/@markarayner/115950543535649648
This is what it is like to get on the 4 train during rush hour.
I kind of knew it wasn't him. I don't think he was that portly.
But I want to think it's him. LOL.
@mansr @nazokiyoubinbou @AbyssalRook
But inferring that people walk around probably doesn't require that you see them doing it. Our built environments suggest walking as a way to interact with them. And going on all fours hurts the back.
Happy? #caturday from #picaTheCat
Gonzo that's enough snow for now ... please my whole family is freezing.
That's a very cute cup.
And here I thought "Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin on Steam Powered Roller-Skates!" was just a common turn of exclamation or surprise. Little did I know it may well have happened.
(@oscherler has replied with information on who is really in the photo, and is being much less silly and more informative than me, thank you)
NO.
Normally I'm very open to immigration but we how do I say this? Ya'll are chanting "Albertans! Albertans! Albertans! "
But in the USA we "have Albertans at home" lord knows we do.
don't make me pull this car over.
Basically I'm at the point where I regard amazon as *more* sketchy than aliexpress ... while they are both in their own way sketchy.
It's popular in South Korea and at this point I trust their stores more than the US to get such things right. Really the quality of things made for the big city China and SK markets is always higher than what they send to the US. There are things we never even see.