Useless Conversation

[Signe]

I lol and rofl all the time at the kitty.   Every time I go in the kitchen he makes a huge fuss at my feet, rubbing them like mad.  If I'm wearing a long t-shirt or something, he'll grab hold of it and literally hang on, swinging, while I walk around.    When I finally have to push him away, he either goes to his food bowl or his litter box.  I seem to invoke visions of food and shit.  I'm not liking that bit so much.   

[Bunk]

I recently started painting my apartment and moved my cat's perch to the center of the living room. The cat has decided that her perch is in fact now the Throne of Twitching Tail Doom. Woa be to any unfortunate soul foolish enough to venture in to her range when she is lording over the living room from her Throne.

Also, my cat is infatuated with my toilet. Specifically watching the water when I flush. It's disturbing, especially when she pokes her head between my legs when I'm standing there. Someday I'm going to wind up with a very angry, wet headed cat.

[Signe]

I recently started painting my apartment and moved my cat's perch to the center of the living room. The cat has decided that her perch is in fact now the Throne of Twitching Tail Doom. Woa be to any unfortunate soul foolish enough to venture in to her range when she is lording over the living room from her Throne.

Also, my cat is infatuated with my toilet. Specifically watching the water when I flush. It's disturbing, especially when she pokes her head between my legs when I'm standing there. Someday I'm going to wind up with a very angry, wet headed cat.

You will sob with pain and despair when she takes her revenge on what is dangling right in front of her.

[Furiously]

I recently started painting my apartment and moved my cat's perch to the center of the living room. The cat has decided that her perch is in fact now the Throne of Twitching Tail Doom. Woa be to any unfortunate soul foolish enough to venture in to her range when she is lording over the living room from her Throne.

Also, my cat is infatuated with my toilet. Specifically watching the water when I flush. It's disturbing, especially when she pokes her head between my legs when I'm standing there. Someday I'm going to wind up with a very angry, wet headed cat.

My cat did that twice. After shower-time the second time he learned his lesson. (Being a pisshead is a bad thing)

[WayAbvPar]

Lrn2P.

[Samwise]

If your cat is anything like mine was, he's trying to crack the code.  My cat eventually figured it out, too.  Hell of a thing the first time I walked into the bathroom and found him sitting there taking a leak.  He never quite worked out the flushing trick.  Then again, those were the drought years, so maybe he was just letting it mellow.

[Bunk]

I've been trying to encourage it, I had a friends cat that learned it on his own. So far though, she just likes to watch it flush.

Then she goes and unrolls the entire roll of toilet paper. It's funny having to yell "it's in the drawer beside you" through the door at guests when they use my bathroom.

[Sauced]

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/family/pets/pimp-dog-costumes

[WayAbvPar]

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/family/pets/pimp-dog-costumes

Very good times.

[Samwise]

Scroll up to the top of the page and paste this into the address bar.

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

It won't make your computer asplode, I promise.  Also, you must do this when viewing an existing page, like this one.

[HaemishM]

Freaky. It worked in Firefox, but did nothing in Avant Browser.

[Murgos]

Without having run it I'm guessing that it pulls all the images off the page and then spirals them.

edit: Yep.  Cool effect for little effort, nice one.

[schild]

All it did in my firefox was fuck up the alignment of everything.

[Murgos]

Yeah, if you use it here it just screws up the CSS (I would guess that there are some scope issues with the variables used).  Open a google image search and stick it in the address bar there.

[stray]

OK, I just woke up and saw that I left my browser open, and stayed logged in all night.

I do this a lot.

My total time logged in says: 99 days, 2 hours, 51 minutes


Just so you know, I really do not like this place THAT much.  :-D

[Ironwood]

Who does ?

[WayAbvPar]

How does it calculate that? I leave my browser open all the time and I have less than half of that.

[stray]

Do you stay logged in though? That's what I do.

[WayAbvPar]

I am eternally logged in. I do move to other tabs in my browser though- do you keep your browser as the focal the entire time?

[Sky]

How does it calculate that? I leave my browser open all the time and I have less than half of that.

I also have less than half that.

[stray]

I am eternally logged in. I do move to other tabs in my browser though- do you keep your browser as the focal the entire time?

I've only recently adopted tabbed browsing. Heh. Didn't know that'd make a difference.

Weird though. You guys aren't too far behind in my post count and yet you have half the log in time. Not to mention that this is my first big spout of even coming to this site in about 6 months.

[Yegolev]

We are celebrating 52 years of partnership with Waffle House, so I got free waffle today and a coupon for one free waffle with any purchase.  Victory is mine!

[stray]

But it's not chicken and waffles. 

[Strazos]

Not really news, but the browser on the PSP kinda sucks. 1st time using a mobile browser.

[voodoolily]

I picked ~25 pounds of chanterelle mushrooms (and some Zeller's boletes and a 2-lb. cauliflower mushroom) today. I made a mushroom ragout with fingerling potatoes and baby arugula, cabernet-braised oxtail and a salad of figs, pears, gorgonzola and hazelnuts with honey-shallot balsamic vinaigrette for dinner. God bless the Pacific Northwest.



Zeller's bolete



Cauliflower mushroom (mine was as big as my head)

[Murgos]

It's a good thing you know what you're doing.  If I picked 25 lb's of mushrooms and cooked them you can be damned sure someone would be dead by the end of the meal.

[cmlancas]

Or very, very happy.

[Bunk]

Or very, very happy.

She's in the right part of the world. I had a conversation with a cop a few years back that lived down the street from parents, in a rural area of Vancouver Island. He said half his job was just parking his car in front one of the local fields and waiting for guys to just come walking out with paper bags in hand and arresting them. Weren't no chantrelles they were picking.

[Sky]

They should just arrest the field for growing illegal mushrooms. Take that, land! Mother nature is really asking for it, if you ask me.

[Signe]

Kittens are making me fucking insane! 

[voodoolily]

Kittens are making me fucking insane! 

the best trick I ever discovered for getting rambunctious kittehs to settle down is, you grab 'em by the scruff and run 'em under the tap. they will squirm a bit, but when you put them down they just start licking themselves dry and they tucker themsleves plumb out and fall asleep for a long time. and they're also clean when they're done.

[Signe]

I'll give it a go.  BTW, scruff of the neck is the best thing ever.  It's the only way I can brush the darn things.  Lister, the boyitten, is nearly OCD about his grooming so it doesn't matter so much but, Magenta, is a dirty slutwhore and demands constant attention and someong (me!) to attend to her every need.  She doesn't even bury her shit, which is annoying as hell. 

[Trippy]

I am eternally logged in. I do move to other tabs in my browser though- do you keep your browser as the focal the entire time?

You have to keep refreshing the page if you want to rack up your online time -- just staying logged in is not enough. If you want to "cheat" some browsers can be set to auto-reload pages so you can set that to run overnight and really rack up the time. I can tell schild isn't doing any real work at work these days cause he passed me in the online time rankings.

[voodoolily]

  She doesn't even bury her shit, which is annoying as hell. 

we have one like that, little primadonna fucker. get some dog hair and lay it about near the box, and maybe she'll realize there're predators about! or you can grab her paw and physically make her bury it, then follow up immediately with a treat. she'll learn.

[Samwise]

we have one like that, little primadonna fucker. get some dog hair and lay it about near the box, and maybe she'll realize there're predators about!

This is why formerly feral cats make the best pets.  They've already learned all the valuable life lessons, like burying poop and not getting stepped on or run over.