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Just for future reference
I had to remind Obi today why he couldn’t pick on the new kitten. I thought this might help.
Any questions?… Read more
Month: June 2011
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Extreme kitten makeover
A couple of weeks ago:
Today:
She’s fought off an infection, taken up eating like there’s no tomorrow, and gotten comfortable enough in her new surroundings to slow down and worry about previously trivial stuff like grooming. All in two weeks.
Oh, and she’s decided that Portia’s her buddy.
Not bad for two weeks. It hasn’t been easy on her by any means; a week ago I thought we were going to lose her to the infection. But now she’s safe, getting healthier, and now she can get to the good stuff – just being a happy housecat.
I can’t save them all though. Spay and neuter your pets, folks. There’s only so much space at my place – I have almost twice as many cats now as I’ve ever had at any one time, because we’ve taken in two rambunctious rescue kittens this year alone (plus a puppy who’s now about the size of a compact car). For every Portia and every Maria that we manage to take in, there’s a lot more who simply don’t make it, and there’s no need for that.… Read more
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Full coverage
I showed these off in theLogBook.com Forums, might as well show them off here (even if they’re still works-in-progress – VWORP!1 and WARP!1 will both almost certainly undergo further tweaks, if not from-the-ground-up reshoots*).
As silly as it is to have covers done before there are finished books to go in ’em, it’s kind of a motivational thing for me. And maybe to anyone out there who’d wanna buy ’em.
I promised a downloadable PDF file of excerpts from each of these, plus the also-in-the-works Phosphor Dot Fossils book (let’s call that PDF!1 just for laughs), at OVGE; I’ll see about getting that done soonish.
* they’re actually heavily-treated, composited miniature photography with nifty lighting and crap. My grandfather would either nod in approval or shake his head and tell me I’m doin’ it wrong. Or both.… Read more
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As the gods of video are my witness…
…the blog post to which I’m about to link may be one of the most useful things in the history of home-server-based video.
AVI Chunk Viewer: how to remove it
AVI Chunk Viewer, or as I’ve come to call it, AVI Chunk Blower is something that gets installed with a lot of video codec packs. What it does is pop up anytime it finds an AVI file that it thinks doesn’t conform to AVI standards, as laid out by its author. It stops you from doing anything else with the file it’s flagged until you close AVI Chunk Blower again. It doesn’t take different codecs into account (i.e. an AVI generated with an AVID codec). It’s the most nitpicky, annoying thing I’ve ever seen on a computer that happened not to be a virus.
And the above blog link shows you how to rid yourself of it by nondestructively renaming a single file.… Read more
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Once more unto the increasingly furry breach, dear friends
For the third time since the beginning of 2011, the Tail Waggin’ Mail Wagon has unexpectedly brought home a new face on four legs. This one, though, must have a pretty sad story.
This is a female kitten who almost got herself run over today during my wife’s mail route. She’s skin and bones – you can feel every vertebra, every rib, every bite she’s suffered being out on her own. She was pretty dehydrated. She’s done nothing but sleep, occasionally coming up for air to eat for a bit, since she got here.
She looks like she might be some distant relative of Olivia (for right now, I’ve given her the name Maria – i.e. Olivia’s maid in Twelfth Night – because everyone should have a name). More likely she’s barely survived being part of a litter of kittens dumped somewhere in Crawford County. She has no basic cat socialization skills. She hisses at everyone. She’s pretty skittish around people. She’s had it rough.
Portia seems especially defensive about another new kitten in the house, especially since Portia was a bad kitty today and pretty much destroyed a computer I was getting ready for an OVGE display piece. The more mature cats are giving her a wide berth – they know the drill by now. (This is cat #5. Out of those five, we have only one humane society cat. The rest are adopted strays.) The new kitty ought to feel pretty safe – her bunkmate in the kennel beneath her knows how to deal with the other cats.
We really need to find a home for this one. Four cats plus two dogs is stretching things pretty thin; a fifth cat, especially one who potentially has special needs (she may not be suited to a multi-pet household), is potentially a back-breaker. Get in touch with me if you’re local and would like to give this poor kid a peaceful forever home.… Read more
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Little E-xterminator
We’ve been getting into Daddy’s toy shelf more, now that we’re getting really tall and all.… Read more
