Post a picture of a cat!

[TheSteve]

Looks at those eyes!

[Neomys Sapiens]

Looks at those eyes!

She is obviously begging for an own bitset. I hope that the reason behind is not that paulca doesn't treat his tools well!

[BU508A]

This looks like an AI generated picture of a cat.

[TheSteve]

Real cat, real happy.

[xrunner]

Hadn't turned on the hp 8594E in a while so I warmed it up and let it perform a calibration. Maxim heard it making clicking noises so had to investigate.

After he was satisfied with that, he proceeded to push the BNC termination laying by the handle onto the floor and observe how it rolls around in a tight circle. 

[paulca]

Angel does make some faces

[BU508A]

A cat named Junior who loves to eat ripe Persimmon fruits:



To reach the fruits, he is doing quite some stunts!

[xrunner]

Maxim watching Junior -

[BU508A]

[Ed.Kloonk]

Hadn't turned on the hp 8594E in a while so I warmed it up and let it perform a calibration. Maxim heard it making clicking noises so had to investigate.

After he was satisfied with that, he proceeded to push the BNC termination laying by the handle onto the floor and observe how it rolls around in a tight circle. 

He's wondering about it's CAT rating.

[Tom45]

[Homer J Simpson]

[Neomys Sapiens]

That caption is so obviously wrong. It is a pie diagram indicating that this cat is about 75% empty!

[Ed.Kloonk]

That caption is so obviously wrong. It is a pie diagram indicating that this cat is about 75% empty!

Pacman heading North East. [wunga wunga wunga wunga]

[NiHaoMike]

[paulca]

My bench assistant.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Heatsink with fan spinning is not as nice to lay on as toasty laptop.

[paulca]

Heatsink with fan spinning is not as nice to lay on as toasty laptop.

It's all off.  The surprising thing is how comfortable she looks. She is sitting on a pile of test leads, screwdrivers and components.  Seems perfectly happy too.

[TheSteve]

Boomer decided he didn't need to use the bridge.

[Ranayna]

One question comes to my mind, when looking at all these cats on workbenches.
Isn't there a significant danger to the cat? Not just immediate danger should something be turned on. But what about solder and flux residue, that one component leg that was snipped into who knows where, or even simply lost tiny SMD components? When the cat is grooming, isn't there a significant change of ingestion?

[BU508A]

One question comes to my mind, when looking at all these cats on workbenches.
Isn't there a significant danger to the cat? Not just immediate danger should something be turned on. But what about solder and flux residue, that one component leg that was snipped into who knows where, or even simply lost tiny SMD components? When the cat is grooming, isn't there a significant change of ingestion?

That is exactly why I won't let my cat into my lab because I'm afraid, that he (Loki) will pick up something unhealthy.

[Ed.Kloonk]

One question comes to my mind, when looking at all these cats on workbenches.
Isn't there a significant danger to the cat? Not just immediate danger should something be turned on. But what about solder and flux residue, that one component leg that was snipped into who knows where, or even simply lost tiny SMD components? When the cat is grooming, isn't there a significant change of ingestion?

That is exactly why I won't let my cat into my lab because I'm afraid, that he (Loki) will pick up something unhealthy.

My fear is the cat will finish one of the dozens of projects I have started.

[Mr.B]

My fear is the cat will finish one of the dozens of projects I have started.

Exactly!
Thats why I only let our cat into the workshop when I am behind schedule on a project...

As for people worried about them ingesting something that might have gotten caught in their fur.
A friend of my wife and mine is a Vet (and so is his wife) and when I was discussing this exact subject with him, while showing him actual SMD parts in my workshop, he said an SOT23-3/5/6 should pass through quite safely.
Small SMD components without legs like 0603, 0805, etc would be no problem at all. They will pass right through.
A 32 pin TQFP part with all its legs sticking out could be a bit of a concern, but they are not the type of part I leave lying around or accidentally drop on the floor and don't bother picking up.

[paulca]

You ever see them eating in the wild?

If you let you cat outside, especially around "Holiday season" there are at far, far, far greater risk of someone leaving out roast chicken or turkey.

Cats will simple eat the smaller bones.  They will pass through.  However, roasted meat bones are brittle and fracture creating incredibly sharp spikes and edges which, leads to some serious difficulties.  Angel fell foul of this and was in a right state for a few days, but she was fine.  Black "occult blood" in her waste which she had little control over, vomitting which included said turkey bones.

NEVER feed a cat cooked bones.

[tautech]