Several things!

[telophase]

#1. wintersweet needs a bit of help with her thesis project! It's going to be on the use of honorific titles (-san, -sama, etc) in manga. Please go HERE to read more about what she needs!

#2. I am STEALING rachelmanija's post wholesale:

Creative Nonfiction is seeking narrative blog posts to reprint in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 3, edited by Lee Gutkind, forthcoming in August 2009 from W. W. Norton.. We’re looking for: Vibrant new voices with interesting, true stories to tell. Narrative, narrative, narrative. Posts that can stand alone, 2000 words max, from 2008. Something from your own blog, from a friend’s blog, from a stranger’s blog.

The small print: We will contact individual bloggers before publication; we pay a flat $50 fee for one-time reprint rights.

Deadline: October 31, 2008.

Nomination form linked above. If you decide to nominate a post by me or anyone else, please link it in comments. If it's by me, I will be pleased and flattered. If it's by someone else, link so I can enjoy reading it!

#3. Via tammylee: The Eyeballing Game.

#4. Via yhlee: What Color is my Cat? Mine's a Brown Classic Tabby.

#5. I have finally received the camera I left at my mother's house! Expect photos of ... stuff! And cats! Including my mother's cat, perhaps with a poll asking what color YOU think she is, from the above link!

#6. And my power bill this month is $1.68! I'm a bit confused, but as far as I can figure out, I accidentally paid it twice a month or so back! Hmmmmmm!

Comments

[chomiji]

I got worse on the eyeball thing the more times I played it ... .

Also - about the cats ... tortoiseshell cats are mosaics. The differently colored bits of cat have different genetics. Article here. Site contains a lot of other info - some of it quite strange - about cat characteristics and the related genetics. One of the strange bits: "This may seem an odd topic, but if you clone a tortoiseshell cat you will end up with a cat of one or other of the constituent colours and not a tortoiseshell clone" (because the cell that's used for the clone with have either the gene for red or the gene for black - not both).

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Not exactly. All cells in a tortie have both the black and red genes, but only one gene activated. The size of the spots on a tortie correspond to when the activation happened. With large spots, the activation was early, and the spots expanded when the cat embryo grew. With smaller spots, the activation is a bit later, so the spots don't get as big.

Only some torties are mosaics, and that is one way to get a tortie male (getting around that whole 1 X issue).

[chomiji]

Ohhhh. Thanks for the clarification! (Maybe someone needs to explain it to the folks at www.messybeastcom? Or maybe I totally misread their explanation ... .)

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

I got a 6.10 on the eyeballing game >.>

My cat is either a Brown Mackerel Torbie, or a Brown Mackerel Tabby. She has these patches of orange(or Red) on her that confuse me.

[heyoka.livejournal.com]

3.75 on eyeballing! Damn solid on angles, kept blowing the line midpoint. Huh.

[melster.livejournal.com]

I had an average of 2ish on the eyeballing game until the last one...