Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
OK. I have a little story for you (and Mary, if she's around.) So I was at this meeting all day yesterday about some $25 million crystal dome we're getting (Woo hoo Chicago School!) and as I was eating some chocolate tarts (Woo hoo Chicago School!), the girl sitting next to me leaned over and said, "I love your shoes. You always wear the best shoes. I have shoe envy." Yay!
lol.
I'm feeling a little better. Marginally.
"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
And shoe envy!! Sounds like a good day to me. :)
ARP:
I should have figured out Moog but I wasn't familiar with Arp. Not being a musician.
I'm not familiar with Arp.
CIA recruited cat to bug Russians
THE CIA tried to uncover the Kremlin's deepest secrets during the 1960s by turning cats into walking bugging devices, recently declassified documents show. In one experiment during the Cold War a cat, dubbed Acoustic Kitty, was wired up for use as an eavesdropping platform. It was hoped that the animal - which was surgically altered to accommodate transmitting and control devices - could listen to secret conversations from window sills, park benches or dustbins. Victor Marchetti, a former CIA officer, told The Telegraph that Project Acoustic Kitty was a gruesome creation. He said: "They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna. They made a monstrosity. They tested him and tested him. They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that." Mr Marchetti said that the first live trial was an expensive disaster. The technology is thought to have cost more than £10 million. He said: "They took it out to a park and put him out of the van, and a taxi comes and runs him over. There they were, sitting in the van with all those dials, and the cat was dead." The document, which was one of 40 to be declassified from the CIA's closely guarded Science and Technology Directorate - where spying techniques are refined - is still partly censored. This implies that the CIA was embarrassed about disclosing all the details of Acoustic Kitty, which took five years to design.
In one experiment during the Cold War a cat, dubbed Acoustic Kitty, was wired up for use as an eavesdropping platform. It was hoped that the animal - which was surgically altered to accommodate transmitting and control devices - could listen to secret conversations from window sills, park benches or dustbins.
Victor Marchetti, a former CIA officer, told The Telegraph that Project Acoustic Kitty was a gruesome creation. He said: "They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna. They made a monstrosity. They tested him and tested him. They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that."
Mr Marchetti said that the first live trial was an expensive disaster. The technology is thought to have cost more than £10 million. He said: "They took it out to a park and put him out of the van, and a taxi comes and runs him over. There they were, sitting in the van with all those dials, and the cat was dead."
The document, which was one of 40 to be declassified from the CIA's closely guarded Science and Technology Directorate - where spying techniques are refined - is still partly censored. This implies that the CIA was embarrassed about disclosing all the details of Acoustic Kitty, which took five years to design.
I take it that no one in the room when this idea was proposed had actually ever owned a cat... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
It's hard to see Arp with that black shoe.
Spoiled little devils. Do they have their own teevee and cellphones - or do they have to wait until they show they are responsible enough to deserve them? :)
