how much is someone's social life worth?

Around this time last year, I wrote about the "four fun blokes" in Sydney who were auctioning their friendship for a weekend including a couple of beers, snags (sausages), and a good time.

This time of the year must be the silly season. A philosophy student (alas, another Australian) is now auctioning his social life on eBay including his name (but not legal identity), all his possessions, access to his friends and family, as well as training in his skills (surfing, climbing, fire stick twirling etc).

See
- eBay
- myspace
- Nicael's page


Some people want to be him and are willing to pay nearly $20,000.

Would I exhange my cat's life for that? No way. My meals are served on demand (twice a day), I sleep all day, lay on a lap as I wish, my fur is brushed nearly weekly, and people come and visit me.

Now, perhaps I could auction my lifestyle.

*Don't forget to check out Shamus for The Ongoing Barks of a Well Read Dog (who is continuing Cammie's legacy)

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Not much to report today.

giant bunnies

Rabbits have a similar bone structure to us cats. In certain butchers' markets in Europe, the fur on the tail is left intact to prove that it is indeed rabbit that is being sold and not cat.

Rabbits are also of a similar size to us cats. That is, except for the giant bunnies called German Gray Giant.

These giant bunnies are about double my size and weight. Now Kim Jong Il, that dictator from North Korea, wants them to help 'alleviate food shortages'.

See - Der Spiegel of 10 January 2007.







*for The Ongoing Barks of a Well Read Dog, check out Shamus (who is continuing Cammie's legacy)

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Today wasn't as hot as yesterday, but it was still warm. I also had visitors today. Woohoo! Tim and Toni, whom I had never met before, came to visit for about an hour in the afternoon. And I managed to sit on their laps.

Aside from that, not much else to report. Not even a nap on the couch together with my human today.