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Friday, February 17

Cat blogging - the new interloper.  

Today's seratonin reuptake inhibitor picture is the latest cat to join this family. She's actually an older cat, despite her small size, about 9 or 10 years old according to the vet. She only weighs a little over 8 pounds, and she has a tail stub, of which we're not sure if she was bobbed, or if she was just born that way. She matche's Hairy's coloring pretty well. She goes by various names, Stubs, Loupe (short for interloper), and I have her down at the vet's office as Number 6, an ode to The Prisoner.


Click on the picture for the largest picture.

She was a wreck when she first adopted us. She learned how to use the cat door, and set herself up on our futon in the TV room. She has sinus issues, which seem to be congenital, as we've given her a full treatment of antibiotics, and she still has it, it's just not as bad as it was. Once summer hits, I expect her to get over it, as she's been trying to bake it out of her system by laying in the sun when it's out and warm. She had bathroom control issues in the beginning, as we were finding her turds in various places, and I suspect that she actually peed herself while she slept, judging from the smell that came from the futon, and the fact that she was smelling good herself. Although I noticed that the same smell she was giving off was also coming from the cat food that we were using. Either she was getting the smell from the food, or she managed to piss onto the food and make it smell that way. We've changed food, and she and the food no longer smell bad.

She's constantly starved for attention, but she now settles for 10 minutes of attention without complaining about getting the boot afterwards, and sometimes even she decides she's had enough. She was a little psycho in the beginning. If I talked, or coughed, and she didn't like it, I'd get a bite on the chin or nose and/or a slap of the paw. Now I just get a warning growl.

She likes to play peek-a-boo, where she spies on me until I notice, and then she runs off, and then she tries to spy on me again.

Right now, all of the cats are happy, playing with the various Q-tips that our daughter managed to spill in the bathroom. They are all over the house right now.

She is absolutely fascinated with Kitto, the youngest cat we have. He's now a 16 pound hunk of cat that totally ignores her. Then again, he pretty much ignores every other cat in the house, unless he's sniffing their tail.

If I'm worth anything, I'll have some new pictures of the other five cats on the site for Garfield and Sparx to look at latter today.

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Quick launch workspaces  

Hack Attack: Quick launch workspaces - Lifehacker

An interesting article. The issue I have with it is that, properly coded, you can deal with spaces in a shortcut. I would make a comment about this, but I find their way of getting commenters to be absolutely assinine, with an emphasis on ass.

Now, how do you start a shortcut with spaces in the name?


start "" "shortcut with spaces in the name.lnk"


Yeah, you just put in a null string as the first parameter (which Windows takes as the name of the created window, which I find absolutely f---ed up), and then the next quoted string is taken as the shortcut.

So, you can create a .bat/.cmd file called st.cmd and make that


@echo off
start "" %*


Or, you can do what I did, which was to take the Windows 95 start.exe, and rename that to st.exe and use

st "shortcut with spaces in the name.lnk"


You can't just use start.exe, unless you spell it completely out with extension because start (no extension) is a built in command to cmd.exe.

And then, if you want to start everything in a folder by itself, you can just code this short little .cmd file:

@echo off
for %%j in (*.lnk) do start "" "%%j"
for %%j in (*.url) do start "" "%%j"


This way, you can just drag the URLs from the title bar to the folder, and not even have to worry about setting a shortcut to Firefox/Opera/Internet Explorer. Reading further, I see the reason why he setup a shortcut to Firefox. With my setup, if I start another .LNK, it opens in a tab anyways, but I can seen an issue that if Firefox isn't already started, starting separate links will probably make Firefox open them up in separate windows.

I just tried an experiment. If I just type (say) linkblog for LinkBlog.lnk in the command line, it won't execute the link (I need to use the .lnk extension). But if I use start linkblog, then start does indeed start the link. An interesting finding.

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Monday, February 6

Caring for Your Introvert  

Caring for Your Introvert

How can I let the introvert in my life know that I support him and respect his choice? First, recognize that it's not a choice. It's not a lifestyle. It's an orientation. Second, when you see an introvert lost in thought, don't say "What's the matter?" or "Are you all right?" Third, don't say anything else, either.

I Linkblogged this, and say this at the end, and decided to put this here.

And yes, for those that don't know, I'm an Introvert.

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Friday, February 3

An update  

I've been down with the flu. I've seen some kick-ass strips from Dilbert I'd like to comment on.

I've also updated a bunch of links to my linkblog (which Blogger, bless its little heart, seems to actually be still processing, instead of just dumping them into the bit bin), which should help out somewhat.

So I haven't forgotten about the blog, I'm just too pooped to post for now.

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