random bits

[cellio]

Ok, you guys were right: Heroes rocks, at least so far. I picked up the first season recently; I was hooked after two episodes and have seen six so far. It looks like the second season will be released on DVD in August, which means I won't have too long a wait. Increasingly, I'm coming to think that this is the way to watch most TV shows. (I should also be able to return the first season of Lost to the person who lent it to me and exchange it for the second season soon.) Still, I want to get an antenna up on the roof too. (Note to self.)

We've been having some modem troubles (two modems with different failure modes), so we ordered another recently to experiment with. It looks like we have a family of modems -- maybe a breeding program. given the evidence, I'd have to say that Westel-ness is a dominant gene. :-)

My vet wanted to see Erik recently (just a quick check on something), so while we were there I asked if she could try again to teach me how to push pills into him. (Currently he gets his medicine ground up in canned food, as I seem unable to reliably get a whole pill down.) She demonstrated, then had me try... and she finally said "it's ok; mixing it into the food won't hurt him". I feel inadequate; even my vet gave up on me. :-) (Yes, I have tried that plunger-like gadget. I haven't found the cat treats that have pockets for hiding pills in, but I suspect he's too smart for that.)

A bakery run on the honor system seems not to be loosing money. Interesting idea. (Someone on my reading list posted this link, but I forget who.)

I have a question for the Hebrew-literate. Please humor me. How would you say "I will thank you" (masculine, singular)? I thought I knew, and then I heard a different formation in a song, so I asked a native speaker, who provided a third option. (I think "odecha", song was "odeka", speaker said "odelecha". It's entirely possible that "odecha" is biblical and "odelecha" is modern, but what's with "odeka"?)

Comments

[zevabe.livejournal.com]

What the native speaker told you was two words: "אודה לך" while what you are looking for is the more condensed, and more poetic "אודך". The difference between the kaf (with dagesh) and the chaf (w/o dagesh) is likely the difference b/w your thought and the song. So you could be mishearing, or the singer could be mispronouncing.

I checked against a verse in Psalms 118 which seems not to have the dagesh, so your thought of 'odecha' is likely right. However, this may be some kind of exception, perhaps because of the dropped ה. There are other examples of dropped letters becoming dageshim, such as roots which start with נ in הפעיל being dropped and "becoming" a dagesh in the second root letter.

[alienor.livejournal.com]

Can you pill the other cats, or is it just Erik that you have trouble with? I'm wondering if he has a special wiggling technique or something. :-)

When medicating Yates we discovered that he's definitely right pawed... no matter which side you try to squirt (in the case of a liquid) the medication in from, he tries to bat your hand away with his right paw. If you manage to trap the right paw, he doesn't try to get you with the left. He's weird.

[giddysinger.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, why do you think that you need an antenna on the roof? There are many indoor antennas that are just as good as roof-mounted ones for most users, but without any of the horrific hassle.

[multislackerkim.livejournal.com]

Maybe the singers were not Hebrew speakers but come close phonetically for the most part, so you don't notice right away, but just some of the words sound wonky. Kind of like ABBA.

Here's a pill pocket link. I'm not sure the link works, but if you just search Pill Pockets on the site, you'll find that product that works for dogs (because dogs are dumb.)

[Julie? What are you doing walking around on the keyboard? Get off the keyboard!]

Anyway, speaking of Julie, she gets a pill twice a day -- in tuna. She wouldn't even eat it mixed in wet cat food. I'm definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as pilling that gal. But since it's for a hyper?thyroid? hypothyroid?...since she's really skinny, I don't mind pilling her and beefing her up at the same time.

There's no way she'd go for the pill pocket.

[ariannawyn.livejournal.com]

Interesting antenna site. I will have to make a decision on TV soon, because the reception in the basement of the new house is absolutely terrible (as in, not worth watching) with rabbit ears. Though I will admit to leaning toward just caving and getting FiOS TV, since they have it out here and everyone I know who has it raves.

FWIW, I have a Westell DSL modem that I've used for years with no problems. Actually, if you want it, you can have it, as the DSL at the new house came with a free wireless modem/router combo. I also have an old (wired) router I no longer need if you're interested.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I would warn you: the second season is a mess. The writers REALIZED it was a mess, and the end of the season starts to pull itself together, before the writers' strike, but it's not as good as the first season.

[gardenfey.livejournal.com]

You can also catch some subset of Heroes shows on the NBC website.