While I have seen house cats jump the same way, they usually don’t leave a tree swaying afterward.
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I love how the instigator cat just casually swats at the other cat’s tail; then it backs away from the wet cat because it knows all hell is about to break loose.
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I feel like a child, tracing them with my finger.
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Ha, right?
Does it give you a headache too? 
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Fortunately no!
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good one, hadn’t seen that one before.
perfectly geometrical
that is just ugly. I’d have written “these are two perfect, geometric circles” or at least “perfectly geometric.” and may as well mention “concentric” while I was at it.
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So what just killed me? Wait, there’s an app for that.
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Seems extremely helpful.
Although I can see counterproductive scenarios along the lines of “And what have we got here? I’ll just move a little bit closer to get a good pictu - aaaaarrrggghhhhh!”
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(The ‘like’ here is for the police joining the protests, not for the complaints.)
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Microsoft? AWS? Nein und nein. Deutsche Bank signs up with Google Cloud for its latest crack at digital transformation
Deutsche Bank has snubbed the world’s two biggest purveyors of clouds to name Google Cloud in a deal that the German giant said “is as much a revenue story as it is about costs”.
The bank had reportedly been courting Amazon, Microsoft and Google since February as it sought to “transform its IT architecture” or, more likely, put its ageing infrastructure out to pasture in favour of something more services based.
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There’s a point at which science says “Australians’ gunna Australian” and concludes the best thing to do is (a) accept that poking venomous animals is part of our national heritage; and (b) that if we get bitten by a snake, it was probably because we were too drunk to even think about using an app. That’s why our snek antivenom is multipurpose and multisnake.
https://www.nps.org.au/medicine-finder/polyvalent-snake-antivenom-concentrate-for-infusion
(Damn you Onebox!)
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Column The modern always-on workplace isn’t designed for everyone. And that’s why a search for a coping strategy for dyspraxia* took me to eBay, where I bought an archaic Apple iBook for the princely sum of £40 (excluding shipping).
*) Explained in the article.
The guy Douglas Adams visited for Last Chance To See and his colleagues?
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We’ll pay £400k for a depth charge-proof robot submarine, says UK’s Ministry of Defence
Britain’s Ministry of Defence is offering a £400,000 pot of cash to anyone who can develop an autonomous submarine capable of withstanding naval depth charges.
In the latest phase of its “autonomy in challenging environments” R&D programme, the ministry wants to hear from companies who can build underwater robots that can survive “sudden and enduring pressure or acoustic extremes underwater” as well as “congested and contested [electromagnetic] environments (including radio frequency (RF) emissions)”.
For £400,000? No way. Even if BAE isn’t involved.
