I have been warning our readers for years about the evil designs and secret lives of cats. 
Now, Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach, Florida is in jail because of a frame up by his kitty. Griffin was arrested on 10 counts of possession of child pornography after he says his cat downloaded over 1000 images of porn by jumping on the computer.
Griffin says that he left the room briefly only to return to find “strange things’’ on his computer.
The cat-computer connection is well known. Why do you think they call it a “mouse” and a pad a “cat”?
For a recent exposure of this secret world . . .
This is not the first frame up by a cat of an innocent man, here.
For the full story, click here.
Buddha and AY,
A most heavy discussion and one that deals with truths we all face at one point or another, but few of us have the courage to verbalize. I have experienced much more than my share of deaths in my life, yet the particular experiences for both of you would be hard for me to contemplate. Humans, when having to deal with speaking to the loss of someone they know find themselves being inane many times because there are really no words to say except something like “It pains me to know what you must be going through” and perhaps to share a hug. This is an appropriate response, yet some feel impelled to try to diminish the others pain and to spout inanities like “They’re in a better place,” or “they’re looking down on us now.”
The reality is that the mourning process involves pain and nothing can relieve one from experiencing it, the attempt to do it for them by others denies/diminishes the feelings of people suffering the loss. The psychological mourning process is usually about 6 months, but that merely refers to processing the feelings and letting oneself move on with life.
The reality for all of us is that the loss is felt lifelong and that’s just the way it is. That is why life is always even at best a bittersweet experience and we need to savor the joys where we can find them. You both seem to be experiencing this painful process in appropriate ways and that is the best I can wish for you.
Mike
JT,
You have learned the secret of marriage in a much shorter time than I in my three decades of same: Abject cowardice in the face of an angry spouse is the mark of an intelligent man. Personally, I liked the original, but had I been in your shoes not only my wife, but my grown daughters would have gone eewww!
They do it now when my speech becomes too ribald, to put it tactfully.
AY,
I appreciate the concern. There is no need to be concerned though. Yeah, there have been a few dark moments, but I’m good at keeping my demon on a leash. I did tell someone IRL to go F themselves this week who may or may not have deserved it, but that was the only slip of the leash. That aside, I know from experience I am not prone to extremes in the face of the death of a loved one. In chemical retreat, I exercise moderation both in good times and bad. I’m not a self-harmer or suicidal by nature. Absent a quality of life issue or a knowing self-sacrifice to save the lives of others from imminent danger, I’ve always felt suicide the coward’s way out (even among the friends I’ve lost to their own hands over the years).
You offer is most generous, but I’d rather spare you reliving the dark corners of your troubles just to ease mine when I know I’ll be fine eventually. If losing my grandfather (my hero as well as my grandpa) didn’t knock me down, I’ll get back up from this too. Pain fades. I’ve learned that lesson. It will take as much time as it takes. No need to slow your fade to ease mine. I think it speaks volumes about your character that you offer though. I know I slam Texas a lot and I will never live there again, but you are most certainly added to my short list of good things from Texas. I don’t care what anyone else says, you’re alright with me. A real mensch.
I’ll be okay. I have to be. I am a carrier of T’s memory. I will be until my final heartbeat. It’s my duty. And someday I know I’ll be able to talk and think about him without a cloud of pain obscuring the light of memory. Today it’s still mostly cloudy with spotty showers. Much better than the initial hurricane though. This is analogy of which I am well equipped to make and I think it is accurate.
What I require is time and patience. One, I have no idea how much I nor anyone else has, the other, when required I have the patience of stone (especially when it comes to loved ones).
However, should the strangeness of life ever bring me your way on unavoidable business, I will look you up through the Prof. Dinner will be on me.
That is easy to say in practice but not always easy to practice in theory. Hence, the rationale mind is mush and you may have the best mind in the world but when emotional logic is stymied by a rational being, we react by acting out or shutting down. I was real good at acting out. Especially when I drank, Acting Out and ACTING OUT LOUD was what it was all about. Try dealing with this shit without the comfort of something to take the edge off. I was getting good at shutting down. So I shut down and slept 10 hours in 8 days (sober). If you want to know more what was going through my mind at that time. I will tell you personally but never write it down. As I look back they were not good thoughts, but they seemed like a logical choice at the time.
If the scientific realm is any good and they say that we are 98 percent water. Then the Atom/Proton Analysis is a good theory. Also the Moon phases are a real practicality as well as we are put here for a substantive reason and that is a life to be learned.
I for one do not believe in Hell. I have my doubts about Heaven as well. I think that they are both adjective states of being. I don’t know where we go when we leave the planet we call Earth. I think we may either evolve up or down depending on your kismit.
I know that in the last 2 years my life has been “toadly” turned from where I was. I had lost my Mother in Law, bought a mini Mac, Lost my Mother and lost a case where I got hit pretty heavy in the stomach. I took it personal, this all happening between February 9 and April 6 of 04′. I know that I did do anything except shut down and shut down and continue to shut down.
I am rebuilding from the inside out. No Drugs, No Alcohol, No Weed, NO NOTHING. (I expect someone to comment nastily on here about this) So after nearly 30 years of smoking and par-tayee-ing life got real strange, and Faces did come out of the rain. I did not know how to deal with real life so. There you go. If the Professor can delete this after you have read it I would appreciate it. if you’d like my email addy ask me or the professor. I have one for stupid shit on the internet that I can filter out the spam, request for money, yada yada.
AY,
I’ve been thinking a lot about harmonics lately.
What you said about the two types of people touches upon that. If one comports the model of physics to the analysis of life as a subjective experience, life (to me) seems to be like a photon – both wave and particle at the same time. Like a photon, life interacts with other waves (lives) and particles (direction changing or fundamentally life changing events). Just like in physics, the interactions can result in turbulence (discord), resonance (harmony) or in some cases a fundamental change in state.
I think happiness is in the harmonics. But just like harmony, it can only last for a time. I’ll defer to late musical genius Warren Zevon and say that the “enjoy that sandwich” strategy works when dealing with the issue of death. It makes the patches of discord somewhat less painful until the dissonant note of loss turns into the supporting harmony in memory.
Kitty porn?
Buddha,
I am unsure how close you were, but blood ties does not mean the hurt is any less. I am ok, the things that get me, is people will still say I am sorry and is there anything I can do. Which at first I was just wanting to say shut the F up. Two Attorney should have known better, asked that same question and I am not one to offer idle sympathy, said in a matter of fact tone: Yes, get me a gun. You should have seen the reaction on the faces. I never said I wanted to use it. I just wanted stupid statements to cease with people who like to hear their brain rattle.
I am a say what you mean and mean what you say. Alas, I have found the real truth to life though.
There are two types of people, and they both bring you happiness. Some when they come and some when they go. Life is that simple.
AY,
I’m okay today. The week was bumpy, but better than last week. Reminders are turning sweeter rather than despondent but no less sad. As you know better than I, it’s a daily process. How are things in your neck of the woods? Still liking the new job?
Buddha,
Morning sir, I too have had a post that states that it was awaiting moderation or approval. So how are ya? I see you are up early this morning.