Cats I know are pretty smart animals because I have raised many of them, but they all have personal traits and quirks. My last cat (who died a year ago age 19) was white just like the one in this article. Her quirk was that she liked string and small pieces of rope. Not to play with, she would just collect them from the neighborhood and stash them under the porch.

Here is another cat with an interesting quirk nicknamed Macavity, from the poem by T. S. Eliot. Macavity's quirk is that he likes to ride the city bus two or three times a week. Macavity always gets on, then off at the same stops.







What next for Macavity, a limousine to get a nail trim and something better than the fish and chip shop near his debarking stop? Oh and BTW Macavity is listed on Widipedia.

Update: Over at Deans World, in the comments, cardeblu links another cat with an entertaining quirk.

There are times that Google Maps has come up with information that just made me go huh...? Well here is the worst I have seen yet. At one of my daily forums someone posted the googled directions from New York, NY to Paris, France. Of course google maps isn't a completely reasoning piece of software, therefore sometimes the directions can be a bit disconcerting.

At the top of the directions google says:

Drive: 3,800 mi (about 29 days 7 hours) [ or 703 hours ].

Well drive is not quite accurate, as step 23 of the journey says:

"23. Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3462 mi"  

*blink*

Because I have a lot of time on my hands, here is some useless but possibly interesting math trivia about google maps silly nonsense.

The actual driven miles, 3800-3462 = 348 miles. Lets assume that we break every urban/suburban speed limit and travel the 348 miles in 7 hours which averages just a tad under 50mph (49.7). Improbable but within the realm of possibility if the law doesn't catch us. That leaves us with 696 hours to swim the 3462 miles if we can swim at an average speed of 4.97mph.

Of course impossible even if we could endure the distance. Here is the speed of the worlds two fastest human swimmers. We would have to swim almost as fast as David Holmes Edgar's 5.05 mph, and faster than Mark Spitz at 4.367 mph. And they swam flat out for only 100 meters.