random bits

[cellio]

New vocabulary seen today: "clienticide". Thanks, steven. :-)

My virus scanner spontaneously turned itself off today. I wonder what that means. (I turned it back on and ran a scan, which was clean.)

I give Erik his canned food on a certain counter that Baldur is too heavy to jump onto. Since his surgery Erik has been reluctant to make the jump himself (I usually pick him up when I feed him); I assume that will get better. A few days ago I saw him attempting to do feline chin-ups; he had his front paws on the (horizontal) handle for the cabinet and his back feet were not in contact with the floor. Alas, cats don't have sufficient arm strength to do that, but it was a valiant effort.

The last season of Blake's 7 is coming out on DVD soon, so I went to Amazon (UK) to order it. They offered a pre-order price of L34.99, which is a little steep but I decided to order. When they processed the order, it was L29.99, and that's what the confirmation email said. Weird! I think something like this happened with a past order from them too; I don't know what it means but so long as the change goes in the right direction, I'm not complaining.

"The Defendant's motion is accordingly denied for being incomprehensible". Check out the footnote. (Thanks to osewalrus and rjmccall.)

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[msmemory.livejournal.com]

The price may have dropped when they discovered it was to be shipped outside the UK. I think they can take the VAT out for international shipments.

[cellio]

Good point. I'm pretty sure the price hasn't always dropped when I've ordered from them, but maybe it's a new policy.

Kitty pull-ups

[sue-n-julia.livejournal.com]

Vandal does that all the time. He climbs up the couch, the bed, and other soft things that way - he reaches up as far as he can, grabs with his front claws, and then "lets go" with his back feet (sort of curling them up underneath him). If he doesn't have a good grip, or if he's grabbed a pillow or blanket that's not well attached, then he lands on his ass. But he's gotten very adept at it.

It turns out that cats with diabetes often develop muscle atrophy in their hindquarters; add that to the cut (and repaired) tendon that Vandal had when he was in Pittsburgh, and he's both too timid to and often unable to jump much.

- J

[jducoeur]

My virus scanner spontaneously turned itself off today. I wonder what that means.

Did the Corporate Overlords install a remote-controllable scanner? That's increasingly common these days.

And thanks for the note about Blake's 7. I really ought to get the whole set as a present for my mother...

[cellio]

This was the virus scanner on my home machine. It hasn't happened again, but I still don't know why it happened the first time.

And thanks for the note about Blake's 7. I really ought to get the whole set as a present for my mother...

Can she play region-2 DVDs? (Mind, last I checked the cost of fixing that if not was less than the cost of one season of the show, but it's something to bear in mind.)

[jducoeur]

Hmm -- good point. No, I'm sure she can't: she's got one of those integrated TV/DVD jobbies, for simplicity. (It says much about my mother that she has two TVs at the foot of the bed, one with an built-in DVD and the other with VHS.) I'll need to think about the best way to get around that problem...