“May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.”


"This report is maybe 12-years-old. Parliament buried it, and it stayed buried till River dug it up. This is what they feared she knew. And they were right to fear because there's a whole universe of folk who are gonna know it, too. They're gonna see it. Somebody has to speak for these people. You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, 10, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people . . . better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave." ~ Captain Malcom Reynolds

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Large Cats and Dinosaurs

I've noticed that many large cats lack the self-awareness that they are large, or the impact it causes. Not that they don't have spatial awareness, or that they're necessarily clumsy. Rather, that in their kitty-mind they're still "smaller", and thus interact with the world as such. Whether that means knocking things off a shelf as they navigate a path, driving the breath from a human when leaping onto a lap, or just the resounding shock when they flop to a side - each is met with a somewhat befuddled look of "How did that happen?" For years, I've somewhat amusedly pictured many dinosaurs the same way. A herd of apatosaurs walking along, trees and boulders randomly scattered behind them, as they obliviously leave a trail of destruction in their path.
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