Miaows

Introducing: Mishka & Mokka — two kittens settling our house.

Here’s Mishka:

And here’s the sibling, Mokka:

You will surely see them from time to time here. Meow

On a Car Free Day on Ginza Street (Tokyo) on a fine Sunday afternoon, a couple of cats make a public attention. Wearing scarves, they performed a classic opera of Romeow and Juliet. Or something like that. You imagine .

But, does a cat dream?

Meow. A meow is a movement used by cats to signal a request to their mother. Adult cats do not normally meow to each other, and so the meowing to human beings that domesticated cats exhibit is likely partly an extension of the use of this plaintive signal. When communicating with human beings, adult cats express variations of this tone to demand food or attention, register complaints, and convey bewilderment. An alteration in tone, pace, or punctuation changes the meaning, however slight.While cats occasionally vocalize to one another with purrs, growls, and can emit long, articulated meows. Most vocalizations recognized as “meow” are specifically for human interaction.

Purr. A purr is a sound made by all species of felids. A tonal buzzing can characterize differently between cats. Domestic cats purr in a frequency of 25 to 1,500 vibrations per second. Purring is often understood as signifying happiness; however, cats sometimes purr when they are ill, or during tense, traumatic, or painful moments.Although purring is a universally recognized phenomenon, the mechanism by which cats purr is elusive. This is partly because the cat has no unique anatomical feature that is clearly responsible for the sound.

Hiss etc. A cat hissing and arching its back to make itself appear larger to ward off a threat.Most cats growl or hiss when angered or feeling threatened, which serves as a warning to the offending party. If the warning is not heeded, a more or less serious attack may follow. Some may engage in behavior or batting with their paws, with claws either extended or retracted. Cats sometimes make chirping or chattering noises when observing prey. Proposed explanations for this behavior include that it is a threatening sound, an expression of excitement or frustration, or an attempt to replicate a bird-call (or replicate the call of a bird’s prey, for example a cicada). Recent animal behaviorists[who?] have theorized that it is a “rehearsal behavior” in which the cat anticipates or practices the killing of prey, because the sound usually accompanies a biting movement similar to the one they use to kill their prey (the “killing bite”, which saws through the victim’s neck vertebrae).

Source. Pic: Chika Nadya at Flickr. Text: Wikipedia.

Law of Cat Inertia. A cat at rest will tend to remain at rest, unless acted upon by some outside force – such as the opening of cat food, or a nearby scurrying mouse.
Law of Cat Motion. A cat will move in a straight line, unless there is a really good reason to change direction.
Law of Cat Magnetism. All blue blazers and black sweaters attract cat hair in direct proportion to the darkness of the fabric.
Law of Cat Thermodynamics. Heat flows from a warmer to a cooler body, except in the case of a cat, in which case all heat flows to the cat.
Law of Cat Stretching. A cat will stretch to a distance proportional to the length of the nap just taken.
Law of Cat Sleeping. All cats must sleep with people whenever possible, in a position as uncomfortable for the people involved, and as comfortable as possible for the cat.
Law of Cat Elongation. A cat can make her body long enough to reach just about any counter top that has anything remotely interesting on it.
Law of Cat Obstruction. A cat must lay on the floor in such a position to obstruct the maximum amount of human foot traffic.
Law of Cat Acceleration. A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop.
Law of Dinner Table Attendance. Cats must attend all meals when anything good is served.
Law of Rug Configuration. No rug may remain in its naturally flat state for very long.
Law of Obedience Resistance. A cat’s resistance varies in proportion to a human’s desire for her to do something.
First Law of Energy Conservation. Cats know that energy can neither be created nor destroyed and will, therefore, use as little energy as possible.
Second Law of Energy Conservation. Cats also know that energy can only be stored by a lot of napping.
Law of Refrigerator Observation. If a cat watches a refrigerator long enough, someone will come along and take out something good to eat.
Law of Electric Blanket Attraction. Turn on an electric blanket and a cat will jump into bed at the speed of light.
Law of Random Comfort Seeking. A cat will always seek, and usually take over, the most comfortable spot in any given room.
Law of Bag/Box Occupancy. All bags and boxes in a given room must contain a cat within the earliest possible nanosecond.
Law of Cat Embarrassment. A cat’s irritation rises in direct proportion to her embarrassment times the amount of human laughter.
Law of Milk Consumption. A cat will drink his weight in milk, squared, just to show you he can.
Law of Furniture Replacement. A cat’s desire to scratch furniture is directly proportional to the cost of the furniture.
Law of Cat Landing. A cat will always land in the softest place possible; often the mid-section of an unsuspecting, reclining human.
Law of Fluid Displacement. A cat immersed in milk will displace her own volume, minus the amount of milk consumed.
Law of Cat Disinterest. A cat’s interest level will vary in inverse proportion to the amount of effort a human expends in trying to interest him.
Law of Pill Rejection. Any pill given to a cat has the potential energy to reach escape velocity.
Law of Cat Composition. A cat is composed of Matter + Anti-Matter + It Doesn’t Matter.

Laws from Heather (z950257#NoSpam.oats.farm.niu.edu)
Picture “Tomtom” from Teh Ranti lagi

Konon Isaac Newton memiliki kucing. Agar tak sering terganggu kucingnya yang sering merongrong untuk keluar masuk ruangan, maka ia melobangi pintu ruang kerjanya seukuran si kucing. Jangan2, pintu kucing pun sebenarnya penemuan Newton, haha. Tak lama, kucingnya memiliki anak. Maka Newton membuat lobang baru yang lebih kecil untuk si anak kucing.

Matematikawan lain, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, menulis buku tentang Alice in Wonderland. Tentu, banyak yang curiga bahwa buku ini memang ditulis seorang matematikawan, biarpun ia menggunakan nama samaran Lewis Carroll. Dalam buku itu ia menulis seekor kucing khayalan: Cheshire Cat, yang bisa meredup menghilang menyisakan senyuman. Wow, sebuah attribut yang terlepas dari karakter, haha.

Di tahun 1960an, matematikawan Russia Vladimir Arnold menulis persamaan transformasi dari sebuah torus ke dirinya sendiri, yang didefinisikan sebagai (x,y) –> (2x+y,x+y)(mod 1), dst. Dinamika transformasi ini bersifat chaotic. Transformasi ini tak lama dikenal sebagai Kucing Arnold (Arnold’s cat), karena ia mengilustrasikan efek transformasi dengan menggambar kucing di atas torus, dan menunjukkan bagaimana si kucing terdistorsi oleh transformasi itu.

Matematikawan mana lagi yang memiliki cerita dengan kucing?

(Cat: Foto diculik dari blog Novi)

Wie alles war – weiss ich; wie alles wird, wie alles sein wird,
seh’ ich auch, der ew’gen Welt Urwala.
Doch höchste Gefahr führt mich heut’ selbst zu dir her.
Höre! Höre! Höre! Alles was ist, endet.
Ein düst’rer Tag dämmert den Göttern:
Dir rat’ ich, meide den Ring!

• Jax, by Teh Ranti
• Lyric, from Act 2 of Das Rheingold, by Richard Wagner

Action this day
Action this night
We’ve gotta learn to learn to live
We can’t say it ain’t right
Action this day
Action this night
You’ve got the power, you’ve got the power
You’ve got the power to love, to live
You can’t say it ain’t right

*Queen

Sometimes I feel I’m always walking too fast
And everything is coming down on me down on me
I go crazy oh so crazy living on my own

Sometimes I feel nobody gives me no warning
Find my head is always up in the clouds in a dreamworld
It’s not easy living on my own

Dee do de de dee do de de
I don’t have no time for no monkey business
Dee do de de dee do de de
I get so lonely lonely lonely lonely yeah
Got to be some good times ahead

*by Freddie Mercury

Sueño Del Gato
Pablo Neruda

Cómo duerme cuidadosamente un gato, duerme con sus patas y su postura, duerme con sus garras traviesas, y con su sangre insensible, sueños con todos los anillos — una serie de círculos quemados — que han formado la geología impar de su cola arena-coloreada.

Debo tener gusto de dormir como un gato, con toda la piel del tiempo, con una lengüeta áspera como pedernal, con el sexo seco del fuego; y después de hablar a nadie, estirarse sobre el mundo, las azoteas excesivas y los paisajes, con un deseo apasionado de buscar las ratas en mis sueños.

He visto cómo el gato dormido undulate, cómo la noche lo atravesó tener gusto del agua oscura; y ocasionalmente, iba a bajar o a hundir posiblemente en las acumulaciones de nieve abandonadas peladas. Creció a veces tanto en sueño como el grande-abuelo de un tigre, y saltaría en la oscuridad sobre tejados, nubes y volcanes.

Sueño, gato del sueño de la noche, con ceremonia episcopal y su bigote piedra-tallado. Cuidado de la toma de todos nuestros sueños; controlar la oscuridad de nuestro valor slumbering con su corazón implacable y el gran acerino de su cola.