flat cats

Yep, you read right...

At long last spring is trying to heat up. We've opened the windows (hurrah!) but not put on the A/C yet. I feel fine, but I'm not wearing a fur coat.

A useful loose gauge of temperature is the extent of small mammalian spread - the hotter it gets, the more surface area a housepet will attempt to air out, by stretching out as flat as possible. Normally mine (especially Kisia) adopt controlled catloaf postures, but this is them last night (via crappy cell phone camera):

( cats're long today )

Based on this I'm guessing an interior temperature of 75-80F. Once I see them doing this on linoleum or tile I'll know it's time to put on the A/C.

Additional: Cat Drinking Songs - lemme know if they're any good (no sound at home).

sci-fi/writing podcast

Attn: jlsjlsjls and any other sci-fi fans/aspiring writers: Dragon Page's Cover 2 Cover.

The interviews don't seem as exhaustively researched as Bat Segundo's but each episode has extra goodies in the form of answers to audience writing questions (this one discusses how to write battle scenes) and book reviews (more reviews).

Favorite so far: Vampire writer's roundtable, because despite being a newbie to the fantasy genre, I've always loved vampire novels.