Links: Glass Ceiling? Try “Floor”

Two cats sit on a glass table top, viewed from underneath

And finally: Cat Scratch

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18 thoughts on “Links: Glass Ceiling? Try “Floor”

  1. allein ๐Ÿพ February 18, 2025 / 8:44 am

    See no evil, see half the evil, see all the evil.
    (That’s how that goes, right?)

    It’s called a scarecrow, not a scareowl.

  2. Ricky & Bibi's Mom February 18, 2025 / 8:49 am

    That cat-scratch video was a very upsetting shock to me. I can’t get over my childhood programming in how to treat records and use the record-player correctly.

    *sigh* Baggage? What baggage? ๐Ÿ™„

    Extra points to Mike for โ€œpeasants under glass.โ€

  3. Georgiana February 18, 2025 / 9:19 am

    When I was growing up vinyl records were precious things and my first reaction watching the cat pushing the needle across that record was horror and hearing the person laugh about it was almost more upsetting.

    • Ricky & Bibi's Mom February 18, 2025 / 10:41 am

      Exactly!

    • 6rabbits February 18, 2025 / 12:06 pm

      Yes! Training of too many years taking over!๐Ÿ˜–

  4. allein ๐Ÿพ February 18, 2025 / 9:22 am

    I love the Mean Girls names for mama Regina and her babies.

  5. debg February 18, 2025 / 10:55 am

    Regina and her babies are so sweet, I’ve got a cavity.

    I understand the shock reaction to cat scratching, and I share it, but I was also laughing my head off.

    Shamrock the goldie really did luck out! What a gorgeous, happy dog.

  6. Kar February 18, 2025 / 11:35 am

    Man we’re old.

    “I remember when the records were wax tubes and you had to use a special phonograph machine…”

    • debg February 18, 2025 / 12:21 pm

      How many of us had victrolas?!?!?! That’s what I want to know.

      • Ricky & Bibi's Mom February 18, 2025 / 12:25 pm

        This is an Edison Phonograph, which played cylinders.

        Gramophone was a competing product, which played discs; this was the technology that later won out.

        Victrola was another brand name, for the RCA Victor company, known as HMV (His Master’s Voice) in the UK.

        All were brand names that lost their trademark status,

        I didn’t even have to look this upโ€”I regularly have to explain this stuff for shows that I work on.

        • Ricky & Bibi's Mom February 18, 2025 / 12:29 pm

          We had a hi-fi stereo system that included a reel-to-reel tape recorder/player as well as an AM/FM radio tuner. Mind you, many of our LPs and 45s were still in mono (short for monaural or monophonic).

          Anyone else remember when you could hear sound travel from one stereo speaker to the other? Or different instruments coming from each one?

        • Georgiana February 18, 2025 / 2:56 pm

          My grand-mother had a gramophone like the one below, when I was a kid I loved to crank it up and play her old 78s disks.

          • Ricky & Bibi's Mom February 18, 2025 / 6:40 pm

            Neato!

        • debg February 18, 2025 / 2:58 pm

          I did not know any of this! Cylinders look so cool.

  7. tara February 18, 2025 / 2:53 pm

    Some of the kitties on glass are looking very judgy! makes me feel like I’m looking up some one’s skirt or something.

    • debg February 18, 2025 / 2:58 pm

      You kinda are.

      I love those photos. Might have to put a bubble on the wall for my fur babies.

      • 6rabbits February 18, 2025 / 3:31 pm

        I love the bubbles!

      • Tara February 18, 2025 / 10:05 pm

        Oh yeah! absolutely.
        (and for the record, I love them too! ;))

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