Mr B chucked some wet used coffee grounds into the compost bucket with my old sawdust in it.
It looks like a brain map
OK so some imagination was required. We are tired of being locked down and some very silly thoughts are being thunk around here.
By the way, we read something recently about research into brain folding. Different types of cells occupy the ridges and valleys of the folds - they fire differently. Brain 'misfolding' at its formation stages (in vitro) results in the cells being out of position; as if the cells are all laid out before the the folding job gets done. Misfolding has been observed a lot in people with various neuro disorders. They just ain't sure how the misfolding is triggered at the development stage... like an origami apprentice didn't understand the folding instructions perhaps.
We would give you the link but F can't find it. (Eyeroll)
If you have ever tried to make an origami crane, you will know what I mean - F's attempt has the pattern worn off one side of the paper (it has been refolded so often) and years later it is still an unfinished 'bookmark' in her paper-crafts book.
Do you reckon there is such a thing as an autistic cat?
It’s fascinating how the human body is developed and how it works
ReplyDeleteModern medicine knows so much but unfortunately there is sooo much more they just don’t know or understand.
We really are miracles
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteGyrification (there's a link for those interested!) And I totally see the brain map in the bucket. Well done to F for having the camera handy. That's the sort of thing that folk charge four figures for!!!
I am of the opinion that all cats are on the spectrum... hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Thanks for the link. Whatever we read was more 'brain mechanics for 12 year olds' sort of reporting (science summarized for the stupid kind of thing) and wasn't about the folding so much as the fact that cells intended for certain places on the surface of the brain, ended up in the wrong places - as if arranged first rather than developing according to where they found themselves.
ReplyDeleteThat 'artwork' is a bit weird for our tastes. No one would pay anything for our bucket of compost, even if we wrote a very 'deep and meaningful' description about what it symbolizes for the artist and exhibited it. Its 'scent' would put most people off. (Mr T is hurt - he regards himself as a superior being.) Mind you being on the spectrum might be superior, and we neuro-normal types wouldn't be able to know that.
i see the brain, but might have missed it if you did not ask if i saw it... i don't believe animals can be autistic. butt then we will never know. when I read things like dogs are color blind, well who KNOWS is my question, until they learn to talk they can' tell us... i have found that if i ask the same question of the universe better known as internet, I can find different answers as long as I search... even the sites like Web MD and the other doctors sites all say different answers to the same question... now for the imporant stuff to fill our minds while locked down. why do you have sawdust in compost?
ReplyDeletehttps://tiggerswee-blog.blogspot.com/2019/12/compost-developments.html - we make compost in buckets, the base component of which is sawdust sifted out of Tigger's litter tray. All the household fruit & veg scraps get stirred in as they are generated. There are 4 buckets. As the oldest one gets emptied onto the garden, the rest get 'turned over' and the latest sawdust goes into the bucket at the start of the line. The sawdust evens out the moisture content so we don't get wet, sour-smelling, anaerobic slop. (Mr T's dirt tray uses wood pellets, which disintegrate when they get wet.) A friend of ours uses a similar process with used coffee grounds (from local cafes) as her base component. However, even at 12% moisture content they tend to be too wet, so about once every two months she takes from us a couple of 10litre sacks of the sawdust and old pellets that are generated with a complete renewal of litter and which then exceed the capacity of our 4-bucket industrial process.
DeleteWell you did ask.... And it is all good for regenerating the soil in the garden we have made in the patch of public space in front of our apartment
A decent cat would never admit to being autistic or anything else. We just ARE!
DeleteI'm proud of your recycling efforts Mr T - without your contribution the humans would have nothing to start off their compost buckets. Keep up with all the good toilet habits.
Lots of kitty kisses and purrs, Mittens 😻
Hi Mittens. Litter tray was a bit of a shock after having been 11 years an alfresco toileting kinda guy, but I've gotten used to it. How's your autumn? Piles of leaves to play in yet?
DeleteProbably autistic cats exist just like humans do. The brain is a complex thing, who knows what it gets up to half the time.
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