Happy birthday cibetky

Big birthday hugs!

Kibble bandit

Well the little guy is eating some kibble and some development formula though he still snarfs down the KMR/AD mix at feed times. Padmini has also developed a taste for kitten kibble and dev form and keeps trying to steal the kitten's food. After getting us up in the middle of the night by getting stuck behind the dresser she needs to work a bit harder on staying feles grata around here.

You know you are a geek when

every time you see mandelbrodt cheesecake at the market you think about fractals.

A personal bête noire

Why is it that some historians and archaeologists lose all perspective when confronted with Homer or the Bible? I just finished Taylour's The Myceneans which for the most part is a reasonable if dry summary of the archaeological evidence. However when Homer comes into the picture he goes nuts. What kind of dope tries to date the fall of Priam's Troy (sic)? It's as dim as trying to work out Noah's birthday or how loud Joshua's trumpets were. Its a legend, pal. The fact that there was a not very important city somewhere in the Troad no more proves that The Iliad is historical fact than the discovery of a barrow on a headland in Lower Saxony would prove that Beowulf was fact. As further proof that an otherwise worthy archaeologist can go completely gaga I offer the following; "their stuccoed surface recounted many a saga of feats of valour and heroic legend , such tales as the king fain would hear..."

Pageing Professor Finley...