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Happy Birthday, Stella!
Stella turned 20 this month! She’s the oldest kitty I’ve ever had and is still going strong. She’s eating a new food called Orijen and is back up to about 5 pounds. I never thought Stella would last this long. 🙂 She has some kidney issues, but the fluids have helped her. She definitely feels…
Riding the roller coaster with Stella
In the past two weeks, Stella’s weight has gone up, gone down, gone up, gone down. Today she was back up to 3 pounds 15 ounces. Stella has been getting her anti-phosphorus medicine and potassium supplement every twelve hours. Every morning and evening around 8:00, Stella gets her medicine. She knows what time it is…
Jane Austen + Zombies!
New book I read about on io9 talks about Jane Austen’s characters from Pride and Prejudice dealing with a zombie infestation. Classic! I will have to get this. Here is the “book trailer”: Related Images:
LaTeX replacement
Slashdot had an interesting discussion on LaTeX, a document markup and typesetting system used mainly by scientific and mathematical publications. LaTeX is complex and hard to setup but offers powerful tools (most of which do not have a reasonable substitute). Admist the conversations (and jokes about latex verses polyurethane), was this little gem of a…
Word of the day
A friend of mine sent me this term: Desk Rabbit Someone who hides under an office desk with out informing the desk’s owner that they are there. Being a desk rabbit can have many benefits, one can listen into office gossip, find out who the boss is going to fire next or even look up…
Foiled again! Pranks at work
I love where I work. Great people with a sense of humour and love for what they do. One of the guys at work was out on vacation at the same time I was. Some of my coworkers plotted to cover his desk with aluminum foil. These are programmers we’re talking about: detail oriented to…
