Month: December 2008

  • REALLY Random.
     
    Here is Himself's current fav ICanHasCheezburger:
     
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    Too bad he can't remember the lyrics when recounting this gem to the unsuspecting...who end up nodding uncomprehendingly and backing away from him as fast as possible.
     
     
    Google Reader FAIL.
    Keeping up with GR has became a chore. Maybe one overdid one's blog subscriptions just a tad but being such a well-rounded individual (she says modestly) meant it was almost mandatory that a plethora of topics be covered. Like food (line cook. COMPLETELY ROCKS), Project Runway, Top Chef, your Xangas and...oh yeah, career-related shtuff like Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik and Seth's Blog. After telling myself I wasn't "allowed" to GR until I actually finished a project—the problem being I was READING rather than DOING—the issue was resolved in a rather catastrophic way: after selecting All items, hit the "Mark all as read" button and whalla! No mo slave to the GR master! Free at last...free at last!
     
    Before closing the app, finally got to the Happy Holidays entry from the GR team. What appeared in the very first paragraph of said message? "(don't forget you can hide unread counts!)" Further: "We've heard you loud and clear. For some of you (and some of us on the Reader team), unread counts are a source of anxiety (my red) and can feel more like a to-do list than the random awesomeness of the Internet. So to help you sleep better at night, we've added the ability to turn off unread counts for each section of navigation independently."
     
    Gee. Ya think?
     
    Soooooooo...after waxing 100s of unreads, I finally arrive at the message which basically says I just nuked myself. And without an Undo button.
     
    <sigh>
     
     
    Okay, greel08...You Asked For It!
    Here's the latest money shot of Sammy Samperson:
     
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    And here are more that didn't make the final cut (but still show off his ultimate cuteness):
     
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    Isn't he the shweetest???

  • Okay, alright, important safety tip, thanks Egon.**
     
    Here are the Leçons du Jour (well...to be more correct (ignore the fractured French), lintpickers: Leçons de Nuit):
     
    1) If, while cooking at one's outdoor grill, a storm suddenly hits which is cold enough to pile snowcone-textured ice onto said grill, its okay to not simmer your open pot of chili the last 5 minutes.
     
    2) If, when readying oneself to cook on the aforementioned outdoor grill (because we don't have an indoor kitchen, silly), one decides a wool hat, extra jacket & earmuffs are necessary because one can see one's exhalations inside the warehouse, its okay to rethink the importance of making chili this particular evening.
     
    3) If, because you can't eat any of the frackin' chili anyways due to dietary restrictions and so you decide to make turkey taco filling with cheater packaged seasoning, don't inhale just as you pour said seasoning into a cup of hot water.
     
    **4) One can never watch "Ghostbusters" too many times. The take-home lines alone are worth it.
     

  • The Others
    A number of our kittehs have never or rarely graced these Xanga entries. Sometimes its because they're lightning fast and hard to capture with a measly ultra-compact digicam. Others are not as...photogenic—eh, that's the term...as Tobi or Marvin or Fredders. Without further ado, here are the Sadly Neglected Kittehs (from a photographic PoV only, mind you):
     
    Jorge
    (AKA The Big Bee-Bee, the Ever-Expanding Jorge (thanks again for that monniker, patticass))
    Represents my idea of what Jake La Motta looked like towards the end of his boxing career. Still pretty aggressive towards Mr Shithead and has a predilection for spraying any and all objects sitting at floor level. NICE.
     
    CIMG2668   CIMG2666
     
     
    Shmokey
    (Shmokers, Shmoke-Shmoke)
     
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    Looks like a close relative of Ezzie but when you view them side-by-side (virtually...it wouldn't work in Real Life), they actually don't resemble each other all that much.
     
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    Ezzie in the good ole 4-footed days...
     
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    Shmokey shunning
     
    I mean, aside from the fact that Ezzie's now a tripod, their faces, bodies, expressions and even coloration are remarkably different. But one does have to admit: a grey kitteh is a grey kitteh is a grey kitteh.
     
     
    Penny
    (Penelope, Pen-Pen)
    Floats like a butterfly and folds like a wet noodle. Known for both her incredible leaps up concrete walls and her passive-aggressiveness which translates to being just about everybody's Victim but let's be really noisy <snarl, hiss, spit> about it, shall we? We think Penny and Cindy (Cinderelly, Cinders, Cynthia) hail from the same family; not only are both calicos but they possess the biggest paws for the smallest kittehs ever. See the familial resemblence?
     
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    Our pretty Penny
     
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    Note the massive paw on Cinderelly
     
    We believe our long-lost Eddie (Edward, Eduardo Rapido) is also a sibling due to his paw size, good looks and the fact that they all magically appeared at just about the same time. I'm convinced Eddie is still amongst the living; my theory is he got snagged by his real owners when they moved away.
     
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    The real tragedy about Eddie disappearing is that Bennie (Benita, Ben-Ben) was completely devoted to him.
     
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    In fact, he's the only reason she would even come into the warehouse as they'd cuddle up in a nest or chow down together. She has been looking forlorn ever since...
     
    psn00001   psn00028
     
     

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