Mike Traynor, a know-It-all

@miketrilobite

Catoholic, trilobitoholic Canadian. Math/science & law at uni. Most important: empathy & humility. Most interesting wit & insight. I try to live up to 'Never be afraid to admit you were wrong. You're only admitting you're wiser now than you once were.'

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· 15d

Jackson likes to keep me company as I read in what I call the small reading room in my house.

Orange tabby cat curled up in form-fitting white bathroom sink while I read nearby.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· 18d

Some will find the sight of undies and the implications I'm on a toilet [reading, I'll have you know] off putting and not notice how sweet my cat Jackson is that that's one of his very favourite places to curl up in.

Orange tabby curled up with pale front paws projecting beyond his nose, on the green shorts and black underwear between the feet of his friend.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· 29d

Jackson says hi to your kitties. He doesn't mind you think Heater the prettiest cat in the world as long as it doesn't cost him any food.

Orange tabby cat with white muzzle with his head resting on the edge of the box he's in. Seen from floor height

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Jul 4

Jacky using my hand as a pillow as is his cat-given right.

Orange tabby cat resting his head on his servant's hand.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Jul 3

Reminds me of this cover of Dumptruck's excellent album 'Terminal':

Painting of orange California poppies waving in a breeze against a deep blue sky.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Jul 3

Not sure if anyone's already posted this, but Kimble gets supremely whiny about getting dragged. 1868 was before he was born, how was he supposed to know. Seriously, he wrote that on Xitter. I reckon he's probably dishonestly playing to his racist, bigoted voters.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Jun 29

My long Boi on my, err, I mean, his desk:

Big orange tabby cat sprawled across a messy desk with monitors beyond iim

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Jun 22

He's lovely. I have this big boy, Jacky.

Orange tabby cat lounging on top of box surrounded by clutter

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Jun 9

Right now. Can't get any computer stuff done and wouldn't have it any other way.

Orange tabby cat resting his head on a sheet of cardboard on a desk.desk

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Jun 6

Snuggling with Jackson, on an 'artificial lap' formed by my shorts spread between my thighs as I was in the process of getting up from the throne.

For all pics, orange tabby cat sprawled across his servant's left arm and lap. Servant is wearing a blue t-shirt and dark green shorts and has a pale arm.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· May 31

I'm old. I hope for a Saturday with nothing more to report than cute thing my cat did

Hugely yawning orange tabby nestled on flattened paper bags in a chair.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· May 24

Just finished listening to the latest WTYP pod, and that sure sounded like it was rough for you. Glad your city and community are there to pick you up. Me, it's cats. Cat sitting this one at the moment. He's purring his head off just sitting there.

Tiny brown tabby cat in a blue couch arm.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· May 20

As a crazy trilobite nerd, I'll point out this ledge at the rear of the trilobite which indicates it is upside down (ventral as opposed to dorsal). That ledge does not show up on the dorsal shell. It is part of what is called the 'doublure', where the upper shell wraps around the underside a bit.

Image of a ventral trilobite labelled to show an indistict ledge produced by the doublure of the shell at the rear of the bug.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· May 20

The page this image is from [https://www.trilobites.info/trilovent.htm] has a number of good images of trilobite legs. That site, trilobites.info is the go-to site for non-specialists like me to first learn about trilobites. Run by the most excellent Sam Gon III.

Ventral image of Triarthrus eatoni trilobite displaying the legs and antennae preserved in pyrite.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· May 11

The tiny, pretty kitty I'm visiting while his mom is out. He's purring at me there. Other cats greet with a mew, he dies it with loud purrs.

A brown mackerel striped tabby cat us sitting on the arm of a blue couch and looking off to his right.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· May 11

Jackson being cuddly.

Orange tabby cat deigning to be held by geezer with white beard.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· May 10

Everything is improved by a cat pic.

Orange tabby cat curled up in a packing paper lined cardboard box throwing his head back in a huge yawn.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· May 9

Sure won't get a bug head from a cat! Mine keeps me in my place.

Orange tabby cat on blurred messy desk looking nonchalantly to his right

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Apr 30

Orange tabby cat getting his jaw rubbed to his great pleasure

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Apr 27

I signed up for the patreon (1$ level!!!) because your campaign and continued activism are uplifting and because who couldn't use more pics of orange tabbies, like my Jackson here.

Orange tabby cat face over the edge of a cardboard box.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Apr 18

Thank god for cats in these times.

Orange tabby cat Jackson on his back on pale parquet flooring that he kind of blends with

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Apr 9

A day late, as is my wont, I present an enrolled Kettneraspis williamsi from the lower Devonian Harangan formation of Oklahoma. Prepped by the most excellent Dan Cooper. To my eyes it looks like the bug is doing an impression of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Apr 7

I have a number of fossil crinoids in my collection. In the Paleozoic, most crinoids were anchored to the sea floor rather than being free-floating. Here's a plate from the Devonian of Lucas County of Ohio with Gilbertsocrinus ohioensis (larger) and Logocrinus brandoni (smaller) crinoids.

Long, narrow, rough sedimentary rock slab with several crinoids on it with their feathery arms prepared out from the rock to display their fine filaments. It is a somewhat wild scene, as if the crinoids were whipped by wind, as indeed they were in the underwater mudslide that burried them.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Apr 7

Here's a drawing of an Old Testament angel as imagined by Turkish artist Memo Kosemen:

Grayscale, over a sere plain, a being floats with rotating arms and wheels within wheels, with eyes on the wheels and grasping appendages hanging below it.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Mar 23

On that theme:

In 1865, Robert E Lee signing the surrender of his army to General US Grant at Appomattox with an aide to Lee saying, in a word bubble, 'So much for the tolerant left.'

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Mar 21

Cartoon character Bugs Bunny is standing, holding a carrot with the same hand pointing while Bugs says 'What a maroon".

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Mar 15

Afternoon naps are great. I'm never 'on' for anything and still love me some afternoon naps. I also love naps at any other time. This helps:

Jackson, an orange tabby cat getting scritches on his cheek while he's under the covers with his human.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Mar 11

Jacky getting his favorite fa e rubs.

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Feb 24

So, as I was scrolling down my feed I saw a Coke can on the head of a guy with receding hair and immediately thought 'Scalzi!' before I got any more than this:

Mike Traynor, a know-It-all@miketrilobite· Jan 21

Here's an alien-like trilobite I have. I use it as my avatar in various places. Kettneraspis williamsi, enrolled. From Oklahoma. Prepped by the excellent Dan Cooper.