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I'm pretty sure I mentioned my sister's cat.

Ahh, that's something different than attacking though. Playing is fun (for them) and cats play rather rough between themselves. Mine will go for each other's throat like they're going for a kill when they play with each other but they keep their claws in when they're playing with me.

This one bites.

He never bites/scratches my sister though. I dunno if it's an all-females thing, or just her. But I suspect it's just her, and it's because she never played with him like that. So she's a special case in his mind.

Photo cause Protein asked for it. It's paratrooper Jesus.

The picture is kind of missing the scale too, that ceiling is probably a good 50 meters high, the building is absolutely massive.


Edit: on a sidenote, I had the tastiest burger I've ever had in Barcelona and it was a vegetarian one too! (almost vegan but I got the optional cheese)

Edited, Dec 10th 2013 7:07pm by Aethien

Yeah, cats are actually quite smart. If you discourage them from biting and scratching in play with people, they will learn not to do it. On the same token, if you encourage them to do it they'll keep doing it because they think it's okay. It's much easier to break them of those habits when they're young.

Chauncey was a big biter when we first brought him home. He's gotten a lot better about it over the last two months. When he does bite now, it's very gentle play bites which I don't mind. Plus the girls are helping to teach him how to play nice as well. He's not perfect, he riles them up sometimes too and they'll hiss and bat at him and run away. He'll figure it out eventually.

He's also definitely going to be a big boy. He's 4 months old now and he's about 3/4 the size of the bigger girl cat who turned 1 in September. And he's also super fluffy and soft. My roommate thinks he's going to be a medium hair. I'm kind of hoping for a long hair but I think she's probably right.

That level of detail is mind blowing, especially in this day and age. The thought that a building might take over 100 years to build, it'd be crazy tall, and every inch of it would be symbolic, or have meaning, or convey a message or something. Old cathedrals, and even newer ones built in that tradition, were always fascinating to me for that reason. The thought of this one being built a step above those is pretty awe inspiring.

If you can you should visit it. The way the coloured windows light up the interior is also gorgeous and bound to get better and better the more of the windows are tinted. You can take a lift up to one of the "small" towers that have been built as well (though it costs a little more) which is fantastic if you're not afraid of heights as you walk down and down and down and then when you look outside you're still 40-50 meters up and out of every other window you can see how the building has grown over time with the different discolourations or the stonework.

The rest of Barcelona isn't bad either, lots of amazing food and so much to see, sometimes both at the same time with a roofed market with many stands selling everything from delicious candy to amazing looking hams (at "only" €169 per kilo). And if you like churches Barcelona is the right place as every third or fourth building seems to be a church or cathedral.

Edit: Close enough idiggory, it's been under construction for the past 131 years so it's probably seen thousands and thousands of people working on it.

I was also wrong about my estimate on the roof (and the towers), the roof above Jesus is 75 meters tall so the towers must be at least 85-90 meters tall. To put that in some context: you could fit a 24-25 story building under the highest point of the Sagrada's roof.

Edited, Dec 10th 2013 7:56pm by Aethien

Good luck tomorrow!

First thing that popped into my head was "We have tasted the gel and scented the egg chamber."

So like Adobe but worse?

Yeah, Adobe programs aren't quite as expensive but there's also not a single alternative and I'm guessing that the vast majority of photographers and designers are one man companies so the 2k or so hurts.