The Cute Animal Pics/Videos Thread

[Pseudonym]

... No...?

[Carol the Dabbler]

[Arcadia]

 Me!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Anybody care to 'splain?

[Arcadia]

Nope. :p

 

 

 

Okay, okay ... Life of Pi.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Can I use 2 seconds of my free time to drive The Dabbler nuts?

 

Answer:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609...

 

Eta: Dang it, Arcadia!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Now close your eyes and repeat that. :D

 

I never got it actually memorized past 14 decimal places, but even that was enough to impress my students. Dunno why -- it's not like I actually accomplished anything.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Guess what I evicted from Mom's house today?

 

Nope, not a spider or a cricket -- though I used the same basic technique, and I had actually escorted a cricket outside last week.

 

It was a lizard! Pretty sure it was a five-lined skink, a fairly young one (maybe four or five inches long). Took me three tries, but on my third attempt he seemed to be using the rabbit-invisibility technique (if I don't move, I am invisible), so out he went, to the ecosystem under the giant quince bush.

[Pseudonym]

I like lil lizards but yea, not sure I'd want one in the house. 

 

Ah yes, I thought Richard Parker sounded familiar but couldn't remember what it was from. Grumble grumble, Life of Pi, grumble grumble. That film peed me off. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

I didn't so much mind the lizard being in the house -- I hardly saw him and in fact I now suspect he had been keeping the interior cricket population under control -- but it sure seemed like he'd be better off being in a nice moist outdoor environment in time to fatten up for the winter and then find a good hidey hole.

[Pseudonym]

Eurgh, yes, if it's between crickets of lizards I'd go for the lizard. I'd just be scared of standing on him or him going on me in the night. 

 

I just watched this which cracked me up. An Irish guy trying to catch a bat. :D "He's making a mockery of you, boy!"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk0pA-G0Kz8

[J.P.]

Poor batty. They only scared the hell out of it.

[Arcadia]

Can I use 2 seconds of my free time to drive The Dabbler nuts?

 

Answer:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609...

 

Eta: Dang it, Arcadia!

 

 

Oh, stop whining, you're just upset because I'm the nice one.

 

I like lil lizards but yea, not sure I'd want one in the house. 

 

Ah yes, I thought Richard Parker sounded familiar but couldn't remember what it was from. Grumble grumble, Life of Pi, grumble grumble. That film peed me off. 

 

What??!!?!? I loved that movie! 

 

I didn't so much mind the lizard being in the house -- I hardly saw him and in fact I now suspect he had been keeping the interior cricket population under control -- but it sure seemed like he'd be better off being in a nice moist outdoor environment in time to fatten up for the winter and then find a good hidey hole.

Admit it ... you heartlessly turned him out into the cold to die. Poor little skink. Frozen solid.

[Pseudonym]

Next thing you know he'll be floating outside of your window a'la Salem's Lot. Caaaarolllll, let me in Carrolll... *the scritching sound of tiny claws on glass*

 

As for Pi...

 

 

It was the ending that peed me off - the SURPRISE! I made the whole thing up! It's all complete bullshit! :D :D :D

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

Can I use 2 seconds of my free time to drive The Dabbler nuts?

Oh I meant to say I use my my 2 seconds free time to emphasize my dedication whenever there is chance to drive someone nuts.

 

Oh, stop whining, you're just upset because I'm the nice one.

And you ruined it!!

 

I never got it actually memorized past 14 decimal places, but even that was enough to impress my students. Dunno why -- it's not like I actually accomplished anything.

The number of pi digit I memorize is very close to yours, 3 or 2 depends on how you count the decimal place.

 

Well, 3 and 14 is very close from unlimited! XD

In my earlier grades the math teachers always preferred to use 22/7 instead of 3.14.

 

Lizard.. huh.. there is one colourful lizard currently sneaking around my house, not sure how it got in. Maybe it wants to befriend the house lizards.

 

I actually don't remember that ending being absolute in Life of Pi, thought it's left ambiguous but maybe I was too distracted by dreaming of the whale and the stars.

 

Anyway, to bring it to topic, if you think this cutties are lovechild of wolves and corgis, they are not!!

 

These are Swedish Vallhund

 

 

[Arcadia]

Methinks you've had a little too much caffeine. Sit. Breathe. :P

[Pseudonym]

Who? Me or VBS? The mention of whales and stars reminds me of that Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy) quote I always see floating about that makes me wonder if I should make time to read it or not. Has anyone read it?

 

"... the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

[Arcadia]

VBS. You're always hyper. :p

 

Never heard of it, but after reading that line I want to read it too. Nice prose! Except it scares me a little, I find his books beautiful to read but difficult to understand. I always end up feeling rather stupid.

[Pseudonym]

I've never read anything by him, and from the reviews I've seen I know Blood Meridian is supposed to be particularly brutal. Going by that quote it's the type of thing I'd end up reading aloud to myself - certain books seem to demand that I think, there's an enjoyment to be had from the way the words flow off the tongue.

 

I'm not very hyper right now, it's half 3, I just woke up, and I feel like that zombie chihuahua I posted. 

[Van Buren Supernova]

Caffeine? Haven't had chance to get some today. I move around by just adrenaline these days.

 

I quite miss you guys, it's unsettling that you all live peacefully. You need people to drive you nuts.

 

But I have to go. Sigh..

 

Corgi butt! (My war cry for the day)

[Carol the Dabbler]

I just watched this which cracked me up. An Irish guy trying to catch a bat. :D "He's making a mockery of you, boy!"

 

You don't catch 'em, for God's sake you close 'em into one room and open all the windows (and exterior doors, if any).  They want out even more than you want 'em out!

 

Admit it ... you heartlessly turned him out into the cold to die. Poor little skink. Frozen solid.

 

Nope, they hibernate (or something like that) the same way snakes do.  The weather won't turn seriously cold for another month or more, therefore he presumably has time to fatten up and find a nice moist niche.  Far better odds of surviving the winter than in a dry house.

 

... if you think this cutties are lovechild of wolves and corgis, they are not!!

 

These are Swedish Vallhund

And Swedish vallhunds are -- the lovechildren of wolves and corgis?

[Pseudonym]

We had a bat in our living room before and had to catch it. The odds of it managing to get back out of the small window it came in through were pretty slim.

[Arcadia]

Yeah, the way they tend to flutter up around the rafters kind of precludes getting them out a window in a lot of houses. The last time we had a bat in the house (which has gabled ceilings), everyone was running around trying to smack it ... I just followed the cat, and waited until she knocked it down, and threw a sheet over it. Then stood back and let my brother deal with it from there.

[Carol the Dabbler]

There is that.

[T.o.b.y]

I love bats! At least the little ones that live around here, they are harmless and gentle. Only youngsters ever got lost inside our house when I was a kid and I remember they were quite easy to trap in a bucket eventually and set free.

 

I miss them. I hope that some day, I will be able to live in the country again in an old house that has bats.