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I like science & braille & food & cats & books. And large plaster statues of yeti.

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FMD17@fmd17· 16d

We have one like that too. His name is Noodle because he’s long & skinny and has only noodles in his head

Snoozy orange cat with one paw curled over his face

Orange tabby curled up on Stripey Pillow with tummy exposed.

FMD17@fmd17· Jul 5

May I share mine?

A very cute orange striped kitty is curled up against a sleeping man (equally cute IMHO). The cat is on top of the green quilt which looks quite attractive against His Orangeness.

FMD17@fmd17· Jun 20

Oh. I didn’t. I uploaded this one. In guess I didn’t get the memo either.

My favorite painting of a woman on horseback—sort of. The perspective and body parts are completely fantastic in the original meaning of the word. The horse especially looks as though someone stuck a triceratops head on a bench. It makes me happy.

FMD17@fmd17· Jun 1

Was just in Seattle & visited the Burke Museum and learned that current day humans are closer to when the triceratops lived than the triceratops was to the stegosaurus. 🤯I love both of those.

A graphic from a museum exhibit that reads: “Check this out. Less time separates us from triceratops than separated triceratops from stegosaurus.” A timeline is shown where stegosaurus lived 150 MYA so it’s 84 million years apart from triceratops. Triceratops lived 66 MYA so current humans are only 66 million years apart. I stupidly tend to lump “dinosaur time” altogether but that’s my ignorance. There were a lot of dinosaurs in a time span of millions of years.

FMD17@fmd17· May 21

It’s a great little neighborhood place. Warm doughnut filling changes every day. And I wasn’t kidding about the pancake.

An adorable man with grey hair wearing a red shirt sits at a restaurant table eating scrambled eggs. In the foreground is an enormous pancake taking up most of the table. It’s sprinkled lightly with powdered sugar & there’s a small cup of butter on it. My mouth is watering as I describe this pancake.

FMD17@fmd17· May 16

Seems harmless but . . .

A gray & white cat curled up on a blue blanket that’s on a table by a window. One back leg is resting on a piece of paper from a yellow legal pad. Could it be a top secret message? Cat is playing it cool.

FMD17@fmd17· Mar 8

Looks like my boy!

A gray & white cat curled up asleep on a beige blanket. He is shaped like an apostrophe with his head tucked in and his two back feet sticking out . He is adorable 🥰

FMD17@fmd17· Feb 23

Two stripey cats on the Stripey Pillow. A few months ago they were arch enemies but now they snooze together

An orange striped cat curled up sleeping next to a brown striped tabby. They are lying on a red & white striped pillow on a window seat. That window seat is over a radiator and next to a sunny window = perfect cat sleeping area.

FMD17@fmd17· Feb 3

My bookends.

A photo of the laptop on my desk with a sweet brown tabby on the left side looking up at the calendar & an orange menace tabby on the right side pretending to be asleep

FMD17@fmd17· Jan 31

My little work buddy. #cats #caturday

Adorable orange tabby curled up on my desk, his little pink toes resting on my laptop. Front paws curled up under his chin. My desk is situated over a radiator so the table top is nice and warm (it’s -1 F outside right now)

FMD17@fmd17· Jan 29

I can’t be expected to work under these circumstances.

An orange tabby is curled up asleep atop a yellow legal pad next to a laptop computer on my desk. A useless ballpoint pen is next to the pad of paper since I certainly won’t move him to write anymore. His little paws are curled up under his chin & he is distractingly adorable.

FMD17@fmd17· Jan 8

Very well, and extremely interested in what I’m doing in the bathroom.

Three cats in a doorway. A gray & white cat is lying on a small red rug next to the open door. A tabby cat is standing in the doorway looking back at the orange striped cat coming in —and with good reason, since orange cat cannot be trusted not to cause trouble.

FMD17@fmd17· Jan 7

Washington Post reports that people who cover or mar Dear Thin-skinned Leader’s face on the new national park pass may be accused of “fraud” and have to buy another pass. I guess they know that people will want to, um, get creative. Posting just a screen shot of the full story.

Photo of the new national park pass with George Washington & President Mugshot on it. Text says “Visitors to national parks who plan on covering President Donald Trump’s face on their 2026 entrance passes may face additional fees.”

FMD17@fmd17· Dec 21

The year we got this goofball Noodle we decided not to get a tree & instead put Christmas lights on our drying rack. Good thing. We had put skeleton lights on it, and Noodle enjoyed biting the legs off. We found little plastic legs around the house for months.

An orange striped cat climbing up on a decorated wooden clothes drying rack. He does not look in the least bit guilty.

FMD17@fmd17· Dec 12

Today at our faculty meeting I received the highest, most prestigious honor one can get. Yes, the 2025 Faculty Ugly Christmas Sweater award.

A close up of the winning fashion design! Sweater is a patterned aqua & white design but appliquéd on the front is Rudolph the reindeer barfing up a big green blob that spreads across the front of the sweater. In the green textured blob are stitched on green plastic jewels to provide an extra soupçon of holiday cheer. It is a masterpiece if I do say so myself.

FMD17@fmd17· Nov 19

Noodle is my name because that is what my head is stuffed with

Orange cat sitting on a stripy pillow but one back leg is pointing towards the camera looking impossibly long.

The same orange cat lying on his back with front paws curled adorably while one back leg is stretched out

FMD17@fmd17· Nov 18

So many! But one I still listen to? This one.

FMD17@fmd17· Nov 17

Last year on my birthday we rescued this skinny but sweet tabby cat. It took some patience for the other two to embrace their new brother but a year later, Toby is a comfortable happy boy & all three sleep with us every night. Deep rumbly purrs, Toby, & happy adoption day 😻

Sleepy tabby sprawled across a notebook on my desk, in front of my computer monitor. He looks blissfully at home & certainly does not care that he is preventing me from working

FMD17@fmd17· Nov 13

Here are our Purr Queens, Lilliput & Esmeralda. Lilli, my constant companion, had a slow growing cancer that stopped responding to treatment; the day after she died Esmé suddenly took sick and died a few days later, Nov 20. Worst thanksgiving we ever had, missing these two friends. Still miss them.

Two adorable cats on a dark red couch. Lilli is a tabby with a white front who liked to sit with her paws crossed. Esme was a big pile of white & black fluff who talked to us all the time. We loved them very much.

FMD17@fmd17· Nov 12

I was at a conference in the Netherlands last summer that was using AI to add text on big screens as the speaker presented. I don’t recall what the speaker was saying but I’m positive it wasn’t “Yao am I van Yao pom?”

A photo of text on a screen that says “Yao am I can Yao pom?” which I s what the AI came up with from this conference speaker.

FMD17@fmd17· Oct 22

“No one will play with me? I’ll just collapse in the doorway dramatically.”

Overhead photo shot of Orange tabby in the doorway on his back, all four paws in the air, looking sadly askance because no one will play with him.

FMD17@fmd17· Aug 22

Here’s how Noodle likes to sleep

An orange tabby curled up in a cat tree. His front legs are sticking out in front of him in a way that looks like it can’t possibly be comfortable, yet he’s asleep

FMD17@fmd17· Jul 28

How’s this? Made me smile—hope it does for you too

Here’s Noodle, our orange tabby, lying on his back, paws in the air but his head at a quizzical angle, as if to say, “you don’t find me adorable, do you?” (Reader, I do.)

FMD17@fmd17· Jul 26

Yes! And this outside

An old vehicle with the cab in the shape of a Zippo lighter.

FMD17@fmd17· Jul 26

Here’s my squeezy guy, Tip.

A gray and white cat lies on his back in the middle of the tile floor with his big white belly showing.

FMD17@fmd17· Jun 28

We’re having thunderstorms that startle cats into weird shapes.

An orange cat on a bed with a dark green bedspread. The cat is twisted into an impossible shape with his top half facing just off the camera’s view & his back leg & tail hovering above the bed. His other three limbs aren’t visible. He’s sort of in the shape of a trussed croissant if you can imagine that.

FMD17@fmd17· Jun 15

The sign depicts a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark over a depiction of an open book. I have no idea what it means—beware of literature? This book is rude? Don’t believe everything you read?

FMD17@fmd17· Jun 14

Pittsburgh came out in the thousands. No kings, no jagoffs!

FMD17@fmd17· Jun 14

And thousands further west in Pittsburgh!

Woman in a crowd holding up a sign that says “Trump is a jagoff!”

FMD17@fmd17· May 26

My mom was a big fan of Longfellow so maybe that’s where she got it. I have her copy of collected works where she’s written inside, “This book was presented to me by my dear Uncle Cornelius in 1933 as a gift.”