Better my cats than my children
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hapticbackup12 cats is a lot of cats to have, and they all ought to have names. Obviously, the first and second will be named One and Two, but in the vagueness of "...and then get ten more cats," I've left myself a lot of leeway. Here's what I'm thinking:
Third cat: Tree (Is this too twee?? One, Two, Tree. I think it's funny.)
Fourth cat: Fuck You (I'm pretty decided about this one. What if it gets lost though?!? And what about applying for a pet license?)
Fifth Cat: Something literary/historical, because witches and librarians always have cats named Ophelia or Agamemnon.
Sixth Cat: I'm thinking I'll name this cat something like Always Already or The Other. Then I might have to hate it on principle.
Seventh Cat: ??
Eighth Cat: Prague, Algiers, Barcelona, Madras, Auckland, Montreal... I always find lists of cities really inspiring, but once I pick one the name will be a list one item long, and that isn't much of a list.
Ninth Cat: Cooking or Gardening or Watching Television? Maybe Sitting.
Tenth Cat: ??
Eleventh Cat: I feel like I should name one of my cats after one of my Ancestors, but I'm already named after my one grandparent who has died, so unless someone else dies, I'll just have to make do. I could use Might Could, because my Grandmother Doris says that a lot, as in "you might could set the okra on the table for me."
Twelfth Cat: It's hard to pick the last name. Like, what do you name your last child? un+1?
An eclipse occurs whenever the Sun, Earth and Moon line up exactly. If this occurrence is at the time of a full moon where the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow, it is called a lunar eclipse. The type and length of a lunar eclipse depends upon the Moon's location relative to its orbital node.
Because the Moon's orbit around the Earth is inclined 5° with respect to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, lunar eclipses do not occur at every full moon. For an eclipse to occur, the Moon must be near its orbital node—the intersection of the orbital planes. Passing through the shadow at or very close to the node results in a total or partial eclipse.
Every year there are at least two lunar eclipses. If you know the date and time of an eclipse, you can predict the occurrence of other eclipses using eclipse cycles. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed in a certain relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of the Earth. If you were on the Moon's surface during a lunar eclipse you would witness a solar eclipse, with the Earth passing in front of the Sun.
Ancient Greek astronomers noticed that during lunar eclipses the edge of the shadow was always circular; they thus concluded that the Earth was spherical. In 1504, while stranded on Jamaica, Christopher Columbus predicted a lunar eclipse, thereby intimidating the island's natives into continuing to provision him and his men and thus saving them from death by starvation.
Third cat: Tree (Is this too twee?? One, Two, Tree. I think it's funny.)
Fourth cat: Fuck You (I'm pretty decided about this one. What if it gets lost though?!? And what about applying for a pet license?)
Fifth Cat: Something literary/historical, because witches and librarians always have cats named Ophelia or Agamemnon.
Sixth Cat: I'm thinking I'll name this cat something like Always Already or The Other. Then I might have to hate it on principle.
Seventh Cat: ??
Eighth Cat: Prague, Algiers, Barcelona, Madras, Auckland, Montreal... I always find lists of cities really inspiring, but once I pick one the name will be a list one item long, and that isn't much of a list.
Ninth Cat: Cooking or Gardening or Watching Television? Maybe Sitting.
Tenth Cat: ??
Eleventh Cat: I feel like I should name one of my cats after one of my Ancestors, but I'm already named after my one grandparent who has died, so unless someone else dies, I'll just have to make do. I could use Might Could, because my Grandmother Doris says that a lot, as in "you might could set the okra on the table for me."
Twelfth Cat: It's hard to pick the last name. Like, what do you name your last child? un+1?
An eclipse occurs whenever the Sun, Earth and Moon line up exactly. If this occurrence is at the time of a full moon where the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow, it is called a lunar eclipse. The type and length of a lunar eclipse depends upon the Moon's location relative to its orbital node.
Because the Moon's orbit around the Earth is inclined 5° with respect to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, lunar eclipses do not occur at every full moon. For an eclipse to occur, the Moon must be near its orbital node—the intersection of the orbital planes. Passing through the shadow at or very close to the node results in a total or partial eclipse.
Every year there are at least two lunar eclipses. If you know the date and time of an eclipse, you can predict the occurrence of other eclipses using eclipse cycles. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed in a certain relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of the Earth. If you were on the Moon's surface during a lunar eclipse you would witness a solar eclipse, with the Earth passing in front of the Sun.
Ancient Greek astronomers noticed that during lunar eclipses the edge of the shadow was always circular; they thus concluded that the Earth was spherical. In 1504, while stranded on Jamaica, Christopher Columbus predicted a lunar eclipse, thereby intimidating the island's natives into continuing to provision him and his men and thus saving them from death by starvation.
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Date: 2005-09-25 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-25 08:54 pm (UTC)also, i'm going to start lobbying for a new facebook picture for you. not that i don't love ursula. you know what i'm saying.
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Date: 2005-09-26 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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