Anna Jameson, the Victorian writer, was born on May 17, 1794. An icon of feminist history, Jameson mentions in her memoirs, this metaphor of a cat, "as they say, the little cat that has been scalded, dreads fire and water." Which proverb did not make sense to me til I recalled the obvious: fire was part of the pre-electric household in a vivid way that it is not now.
Kevin Mitnick was born on August 6, 1963. He was at one time the most wanted criminal computer hacker in the world. Nowadays he is a rich (and deservedly so) computer security consultant. His latest book (2008) is titled: "No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing." Mitnick co-authored this book, and I am not sure if he or his co-author has a cat, but one of them definitely does. This book mentions shredding old mail to use for cat litter.
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