Cat Games

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Jul 072012
 

Duchess has a small collection of cat toys. Some are toys we actually got for her, from a pet store—a toy mouse, a yarn ball, a little stuffed chicken. Some are items she’s found around the house that she enjoys playing with and added to her pile of toys—a hair scrunchie, a wine cork, a foam disc from my son’s toy gun.

Sometimes we join her in playing with the toys, and other times she invents her own games. One of her favorite games is “drop the toy in Alpha Geek’s shoe.” Alpha Geek typically leaves his shoes under the coffee table. Duchess likes to drop a toy in his shoe, then fish it out again. She’ll do that for half an hour or more. It’s a great game.

Last night she emerged from the basement with something in her mouth and headed for the coffee table. Alpha Geek’s shoes were, for once, not there. She turned around and went into the other room, where Alpha Geek was on his computer. Apparently his shoes were not there, either, for shortly she came back and dropped a cockroach on my sandal. Then she halfheartedly patted it around for a while, but it just wasn’t as much fun.

Then I had to explain to Alpha Geek what I was giggling about.

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Looks Like Livejournal’s Borked for Good

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Jul 042012
 

Ever since I started this blog, I’ve had it mirrored over to LiveJournal, because that’s where most of my usenet friends collected when usenet went down the tubes.

A while back (I don’t know, three or four months? Alpha Geek will tell you I’m terrible with time) LiveJournal changed something and all their formatting went to shit. I could still read it, and post comments, but I had to scroll through a page or two of unordered lists because their style sheets were fucked. Oh well.

Their latest change seems to have killed LJ completely for me. I can read posts, but I can no longer read comments. I just see the list of menu items (all vertical, since there’s no styling), and a comment box that I don’t use because it just replies to my own posts. I see the comments via e-mail, but I can’t see them on LJ and hence can’t reply to them.

So everyone who’s been making comments to my last few entries, I see you—I just can’t answer you. At least, not in Chrome, and I know myself well enough to know I won’t be opening a separate browser just to keep up with LJ. (If more sites were breaking I’d switch, but since it just seems to be LJ I probably won’t.)

I miss the days when web developers would try their code out in several different browsers before they released it.

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