News: Transport Tidbits

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And because kitties need transport to:

News: Funny Ha Ha

Long time, no post! Anyway, here's some stuff to kill some time.

• Yo Mama jokes are universal!
• For Fluzz:
  

News: Cat Wisdom

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News: Cats'R'Awesome

These are dedicated to my awesome kitties, who just went through the ordeal of moving 300+ miles with me!

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News: A New Whiteboard Jungle!

I just started a new job, so let's celebrate the workplace!

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News: High-Density Vroom Vroom

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• It's not always like this, I swear. That said, avoid Hollywood buses late on weekends....
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• Studies show that even small increases in public transit ridership can have a visible impact on road congestion.
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News: Critical Facepalms

These make my head hurt.

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• 4th grade "science" quiz, which explains a lot and makes me sad at the same time...
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News: Even More Random Stupid

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• Why I always freeze to death in an office when I dress for the actual weather. The building at my last entertainment-industry job was kept cold enough for storing meat (which was apropos, considering how they treated the IT people), which struck me as particularly at odds with the fact that Hollywood was touting how green it was. If they'd turned the thermostat up a few degrees, they could have reduced their energy consumption quite a bit. (Also, if they gave bus passes instead of a car allowance to VPs and above, they could have done even more in that direction, but... wait, you think I'm calling them hypocrites? Hollywood? Never!) For men who insist on wearing suits in the summer, they should revert to the Southern gentlemanly practice of wearing linen. Surely some big agro-business is trying to engineer wrinkle-resistant linen?
• Instead of inventing machines to do physical labor for us, maybe we should be inventing machines to think for us...
  

Kitty's response to the stupid:

News: Cleverness

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• Stray dogs in Russia commute to work by subway
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News: Geeky Round-up

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  I'd save us! And I don't use the damn leading dash for the standard flags, so I can deal with almost any incarnation of tar, just in case the bomb runs on some 20-year-old UNIX version.
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  Minecraft builders complain about this, too. Updates are always breaking redstone circuits or minecart mechanics or monster grinders.

News: Ah, Florida

Click on me!

For those who don't know, I spent my formative teenage years in the state. When someone asks if I would ever move back (after having been absent, except for short visits, for almost a quarter of a century), I have a long list of reasons why the answer is "No." And this isn't even near the top:

News: Stupidity Legislation

Yes, background checks for people trying to buy guns are all well and good, but what we really need are minimum IQ requirements to keep guns out of the hands of morons.

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News: Maybe I Should Try That...

This dog

must have seen this toy

and was as envious of its rainbow excretion as I was. And it had a plan!

News: Even More Random Round-up

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  I can't even watch the History Channel anymore. The irony being it's more sci-fi than Syfy, but the quality is equally sucky.
• Bruce Schneier on writing-style analysis and how it can be used to track supposedly anonymous output. Now that everyone can analyze the hell out of everything to take supposedly anonymous data and track it back to an individual (whether it's your browser's User-agent or the specific type of websites you browse or links you click on)... it's time to escalate!
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• While this seems as much like a recipe for disaster as anything else, at the same time it seems oddly hypnotic... DIY USB-powered glowing potion
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News: Super Cats!

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• This is... mind-blowing. And I cringed more than once.
  
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Kitteh here doesn't return the sentiment... Ouch.

News: More Random Round-up

• this country would be lost without the moral compass of South Park

  — kristin hersh (@kristinhersh) October 3, 2012

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• Woot! Dunkin' Donuts are going to make another attempt to invade Southern California! But not until 2015! Hrm...
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News: Whiteboard Jungle Warfare

• How to weaponize office supplies
• Now, supposedly "ninja" is not as recession-proof a position as I would have thought, which boggles my mind, because I've tried to find ninjas-for-hire to deal with recalcitrant developers.
• A field guide to office nemeses

News: More Cat Awesomeness

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• Medieval feline warfare.
• This is pretty much Spoon's bathing technique. Bathing is probably his main form of exercise these days, although to reach all the parts of his rather large surface area, it takes some work.
  
• Some things never change: feline pawprints on a 15th-century manuscript:
  
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