Favourite Cat Quotes through Time Man has always been intrigued and fascinated with the cat so it's not surprising that there are so many cat-related quotes throughout time. This is a selection of some of my favourite quotes that I have collected over the years that I know all feline lovers will enjoy. This page will be updated with new quotes from time to time so please feel free to come back again soon! "In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat "A home without a cat- and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat- may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?" "If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much "A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime." "I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. "Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash. "Dogs come when they're called.
Inside Mike D's Brooklyn Townhouse Mike Diamond - the founding member of the Beastie Boys - recently let The New York Times have a snoop around his spacious 3,200-square-foot Brooklyn townhouse, which he shares with his wife Tamra Davis and their two sons. The couple have now been living in the house for a year and a half, following from an extensive $500,000 six month long renovation process. Prior to moving, the family lived in a TriBeCa loft, but speaking to the NYT the couple say the change was worth it. Their older son can now walk home from school by himself, something which Mike D was never able to do growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. "It was traumatic," he said. www.nytimes.com
I Love Coffee - - A blog for coffee lovers. 20 of the Sneakiest Secret Doors (list) Hidden Doors and Secret Passageways are always a cool amenity to any house. Not only does provide mystery to your living quarters, but it also allows for a bit of privacy. Hidden doors and secret passageways seem to be a popular room addition since there are numerous companies on the web who specialize in such requests, like The Hidden Door Company, Creative Home Engineering and Hide A Door. Of course, you can easily get the typical hidden door in a bookcase, but we’ve found some pretty interesting ones below! 20. Mirror Secret Door This one is crazy! 19. Just because it looks like a dead end doesn’t always mean there’s nothing behind it… 18. This is the best place to keep that stack of cash or gold bars you don’t want the Uncle Sam to get their hands on! 17. This is one of the most famous hidden doors in history (at least to us). 16. 15. A hidden room under a set of stairs is definitely an unusual idea. 14. 13. This is seriously something out of the game Clue! 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5.
30-Something Everyday Tasks You Might Be Doing 'Wrong' My breakfast this morning — blown, not peeled. Matt Thompson hide caption itoggle caption Matt Thompson My breakfast this morning — blown, not peeled. Matt Thompson I prepared my breakfast of hard-boiled eggs a bit differently this morning. This egg-peeling trick, demonstrated below by Internet-famous life hacker Tim Ferriss, was one of dozens posted to the question-and-answer site Quora, in response to the question, "What are common activities people do wrong every day but don't know it?" While many of the 30-something videos listed deal with food prep, the full list covers a fun variety of everyday activities, including adjusting your rearview mirrors, popping a zit and taking off a T-shirt. I've long been utterly certain I could never be a credible beat-boxer. I wash my hands several times a day, so "shake and fold" has been a revelation: Not all the tricks I sampled worked for me on the first try, though. And of course, there's more than one way to peel an egg.
20 Signs You Grew Up a Church Kid | Chasing Supermom *This post contains affiliate links. Clicking on the link and making an Amazon purchase helps support my family. Thanks in advance! I grew up a church kid. My husband was raised on the opposite side of the country, and grew up in a different denomination. And yet, in spite of all of these wonderfully cheesy things, I remain a person who clings to her faith, loves Jesus, and loves her church. So, sit back, pop in some Steven Curtis Chapman or Geoff Moore and the Distance, throw some cocoa in your dad’s Promise Keeper’s mug, and enjoy this trip down memory lane. 1. *Bonus points if you can sing Bullfrongs and Butterflies and/or the “Arky Arky” song! And now I’m singing, “The Lord told Noah, there’s gonna be a floody floody….get those animals out of the muddy muddy.” 2. Straight up – I challenge anyone – any day – anywhere. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Superbook! or this….McGee and Me! 8. *Bonus points – You sang worship songs “in a round” around said campfire. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
Melt Them Down! Recycling Old Crayons Gather up your old crayons - short ones, long ones, fat ones, skinny ones. It doesn't matter what shape or color they are because we are just going to melt them down. They can be Crayola or Rose Art or even the crayons that you get at a restaurant. You will need a handful to make a new crayon, if you look at this picture, you can see about how many it will take to make a new chunky crayon. These crayons have already been peeled, but if yours have wrappers then you will need to remove all of the paper before you can get started. You don't have to sort them by color, but I suggest it.
399 Games...to keep your brain young What a great book to review! It’s a book that is fun and entertaining. It might even make you feel very smart. Even better, it will help keep your brain sharp (and sharper) at the same time. That’s what I was looking for when I got this book. As a retiring baby boomer, I am edging up in age. It’s an easy-to-take prescription, don’t you think? I am loving this book. This particular book breaks it into levels of difficulty, but in addition each page has a little box showing for what purpose the puzzle is effective. Long-term memory Working memory (part of which is short term memory)executive functioning attention to detailmultitasking processing (needing information repeated, for example) Most of these are self explanatory. 399 Games offers exercises for each of these functions, so if you feel a need to work on one more than another you can choose puzzles that associate. The games are fun. There is all sorts of variety that you will find entertaining and engaging.
Spurious Correlations TransProse turns literature into music A great novel has an ambience unto itself -- but what if you could translate that ambience into a different medium? Music, for example? That's the idea behind TransProse, a project that examines works of literature and transposes them into music. The project doesn't translate the works directly into music. "Often different emotions are expressed through different words," Mohammed explained in his research paper on compiling the lexicon. When a novel is fed into TransProse, the program reads the text, searching for these words. The tone and density of emotional words in a text is then used to determine how the musical piece is strung together: tempo, key, notes, octaves and so forth. "The current version of TransProse is just the beginning of our investigation, and we don't claim to be making beautiful music yet," the TransProse website reads. Based on what they have so far, we think the project is pretty successful.
How to start your career as film crew You’ve made it to your first film set as an unpaid intern, congratulations! Your main reasons for being here are to prove that you can work dilligently and that you’re willing to learn. If you’re in a technical department the “willingness to learn” part becomes doubly important. Here are a couple of common sense bits of advice for those who are just starting out: Work hard. Stay busy. Be accountable. Respect the pecking order.You may have creative suggestions on how the Director of Photography can improve his carefully composed shot, but if it’s not your department you should keep your suggestions to yourself. There’s proper protocol on set. Never take something from a different department without permission. If you don’t know, ask. Be punctual. ———- Photo Credit: Michael Augustine
Man-Tracking 101: How To Find And Follow Tracks For Search And Rescue One common method of tracking is done with a three-person team, consisting of a Point person and two Flankers. (The team leader can be any of the three.) The Point is the person on the track, while the Flankers are to the left and right of the Point. The distance between the Point and the Flankers will depend on things like terrain, vegetation, weather, and the quality of the track itself. When the Point gets tired — or even before then — a Flanker can take over that position, and the Point can take the Flanker’s spot. Flankers can be helping the Point by looking ahead, trying to spot prints or clues (or the subject) in the distance, which can enable the team to jump ahead and therefore move more quickly. Flankers should also keep their eyes out for obstacles or dangers that the Point may not notice while so focused on the track. Of course, this isn’t a perfect world, and a three-person team won’t always be possible.
Tim Ferriss Will Teach You How To Quickly Master Any Skill Tim Ferriss is a human guinea pig: in his researching the 4-Hour Workweek, Body, and Chef, the author has thrown himself into deadlifts and omelets and French--and from all that experimentation, a meta-sequence of contrarian best practices emerged. During a talk at the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, Ferriss unpacked--or is it deconstructed?--the madness to his methodology. To begin, dissemble all parts. The first stage of skill acquisition, behavior change, or however you want to call improving yourself is deconstruction, the art of breaking a complex practice into small tasks. Within that deconstruction, Ferriss says, you can suss out the failure points of your potential practice and avoid them for the first five sessions, after which it can become a habit. Ferriss learned to swim only five years ago, he says, because he had a hard time breathing and kept getting exhausted from kicking. Then find where the value comes from. And nail the timing. "I'm learning how to sauté.