WTF Do I Do For The Poor Kitty??????????

Lao Tsu, the damned rat bastard, went and seriously fucked up his back paw.  It didn't get stepped on or smushed or anything.  As near as we can tell he either got a claw caught in something and it pulled out (which seems likely except the evidence doesn't support it) or he was doing that thing where cats bat at their claws trying to get that outer layer off... trimming them, I guess... and he got too rough with it and pulled it out.  That seems likely since there was a small pool of blood on our bed and then the scattered bloody footprints throughout the house and no evidence of the kind of struggle or violence you'd expect if it had gotten caught in something.  He seems relatively unbothered by it unless we try to clean it or inspect it.  Still, that can't be good.  It's the equivalent of pulling off your toenail right?  It actually looks worse than that.  We changed the cat litter right away and are planning to keep it super clean.  We cleaned up all the blood from all over the damned house.  I bought some pet wound care spray which must sting because he tried to run from it, shake it off, then attack it, and finally lick it off when we sprayed it on him the first time and he totally flipped out when we brought out the bottle the 2nd time.  I dunno what to thin about it.  It looks awful but it's scabbed up and he seems content.  It's clean and isn't continuing to bleed.  Should I just watch it for infections and keep it clean or should I take him to the vet?  Vet = $$$ but I love the cat and the money is well worth it if I thought it'd ease his suffering... but he doesn't seem to be suffering.  I just don't know.

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Boat Cruise to Downtown

We took a boat to downtown Disney last night. It was a bit chilly, but was great fun. Today we are waiting for a Canadian tour video. Yah eh, look at dat der moose eh!!!

Redistribution Of Nougat

Is it just me or is the new Snicker's wrapper vaguely... proletarian?

What type are you?

I found this on wikipedia. Wouldn't it be fun to be a poo scientist?

Celebrity Morph by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebs

Gold!

Normally these kinds of videos are pretty stupid but this one is absolutely full of win. I mean, it's still super stupid but the massive funny at the end wasn't meant to be hilarious and that makes it awesome. Make sure you've got sound on.

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F-ing Barf

Beggars Night

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Beggars Night or more properly Beggars' Night, is a regional term for what is referred to in most parts of the United States as "Trick or Treat." Specifically, the term is broadly but not exclusively used throughout Ohio, in many parts of Iowa, and in some cities in Massachusetts.

In general, Beggars Night represents the "treat" portion of Trick or Treat, where children in costume make evening rounds of homes (and to a lesser extent to businesses during the day) and are given candy. This being closely tied to, but distinct from Halloween, when various forms of mischief may occur.

The night has usually been scheduled by municipal governments on a date prior to the actual Halloween date of October 31. In recent years however, the trend has been towards having it on Halloween, and the use of the term has been slightly diminished because of the loss of the distinction from the date of Halloween.

*My kid can't trick or treat on Halloween, which is a FRIDAY NIGHT, because some uppity paranoid cracker decided to lobby for Beggar's night on the 30th. Subsequently I am also missing the Beastie Boys concert in town.

So here, I believe, is the reasoning. Some kids did something dangerous and mean on Halloween and everyone panicked thinking we were headed to some sort of orgy of arson like Detroit and so they created Beggar's night so that the kids could be out and trick or treating on a night that isn't halloween, when the the bad people would be less likely to strike since they are obviously fuelled by Satan and can therefore only reach their full mischief potential on 10.31, and that way the cops can whip around on Halloween and detain/harass/imprison anyone that looks under 25 or wears a costume because if they were a legitimate trick or treater they would have been out the night before... on Beggar's night. Is that right?

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Am I Rain Man?

Judge Wapner's on...gotta watch Wapner. OK, so maybe I'm not Rain Man, but my prowess on Lumines Live makes me feel sort of Rain Man-ish. Last night I sat down to play a little Lumines, and I decided to play the Tokyo club Mix mode. Mind you I wasn't thinking about anything, just sort of playing the game like I always do. When I finished the game, I curiously checked the weekly leaderboard, and lo and behold, where do I stand? # 1 on the top of the weekly leaderboard!

Whackly and I have always joked that I have a talent for that game on par with Rain Man...imagine if I actually played to be "good" at that game...I could be the next King of Kong...but on Lumines! Well, I don't think that is going to happen...

I'm sure my first place on the leaderboard will be surpassed this week, in fact as of this writing it probably has been already. But it is nice to know that for one small moment I was on top of the Lumines Mountain looking down at all others!

Xbox Live Update 11.19.08

New Xbox dashboard and live update on November 19th.

It's going to have all kinds of new and original* features.
It's going to to use spuring bearings to make 33% less heat generated in every seventh slot of the stater.
It will serve as a gift for the 3rd anniversary of the glorious day I first goy my 360.  Probably the end to my ability to make warranty claims.  *sigh*  This refurb replacement had better hold!
Most importantly... Direct to the community ameteur/indie games for free and cheap.  Time to get ahold of the XNA tools, Mezzo.  I feel creativity coming on.

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Cincinnatti Time Waste

The George Costanza Candy Identification Quiz Score: 90% (9 out of 10)

Beer Tasting????

Michelle and I went to an IFT event tonight. It is a group dedicated to food technologists. The keynote speakers were from a company that births new products from inception to delivery. Tonight's topic....beer!!!!

It was rough. We had to go eat a nice German dinner of schnitzel, sausage, and spaetzel. (Whackly exclaims....pbbbbbbtt), and afterwards we got to sample a whole gamut of new beers that have just reached the market.

My favorite as the IPA, an my least favorite was the clamato bud light. Although the stuff that tasted like cough syrup was a Close second. My other observation was that the pumpkin beer wasn't pumpkin-y enough.

Aside from having to parallel park at the restaurant Austin powers style, and the surly wait staff, it was a good time. Beer and german food. You gotta love Octoberfest!!!

Oh For Fuck's Sake

Recently someone I know mentioned they had missed meeting a friend and were told by another friend that the first friend likely had failed to show up because she had become hooked on marijuana and had run out. I made a mild polite protest but inside my guts were screaming "BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT". All over this country and, indeed, the world people are being fed misinformation about marijuana and they believe it because it comes from sources they are programmed to trust... like the government... who (and this is noteable fact... go check it out) outlawed marijuana as a move against mexican immigrants in the early 20th century.

Here's a little truth (with citations of published studies) about marijuana.
Here's an article from earlier this year concerning some of the reasons the press and government have a vested interest in a continued prohibition (slightly less full of citations but still full of researchable claims).
Here's a history of how it became illegal. This story appears on an pro-legalization propaganda site but despite that it's actually true. There a show that runs semi-regularly on the History Channel and a similar show you might catch here and there on PBS that outlines this same story. It's all true.

In conclusion, you can believe whatever you want about marijuana. You succumb to the product of the racism, jingoism, and yellow journalism of 100 years ago. You could, and I recommend this path, take a few moments to consider that not everything you are told by the government and the media is true. This girl may have a douche bag loser boyfriend who sits around smoking pot all day. She might have the self esteem of a sexually confused frat boy's jerk sock. She might be trying to regulate depression or any number of treatable mental illnesses with marijuana, or maybe she's just plain stupid. No matter how you look at it, though, it's extremely unlikely that she was dragged down by an addiction to marijuana. You don't have to smoke it. Until it's legalized smoking pot is a risky behavior whether you agree or disagree with the information in the links above. On the other hand, don't look down on people who don't believe as you do. You would have to at least square, possibly cube, the number of people with an actual problem with marijuana to come up with the number of people with alcohol problems. Go look down at them. They're actually a danger to you. Hearst and Pulitzer never told you that did they?

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My apoligies if you are offended... but...

I hereby pledge to respond with bile and venom to any email forward I get that isn't of some legitimate purpose (like travel arrangements, necessary informational updates, or shared congratulations). I pledge to do so no matter who sends it to me so I hope to god I never get one from my mom. If you have my email address just because you know me and don't send me email for any other reason why the hell do you think I give a shit about your "answer all these questions with the first letter of your name" email? I really fucking don't. I moved hundreds of miles away and have maintained friendships with 5 people in the whole state and you aren't one of them. I don't have any personal problem with you. I don't dislike you but please understand...

every time I get excited because I think I got and email from my cousin and I click on it and it turns out to be another inane pile of tripe I want to tattoo your name on a puppy and strangle it.

Puccini's Smiling Teeth Pizza...

This was the neon sign outside the pizza place that whackly and I got a pie from in Indianapolis. The pizza was good. Mission accomplished on finding a local pizza place, not a chain.

Someday We'll Go All The Way