March 2004 Archives

Here's a few movies about a new gizmo for your car called Trunk Monkey. Recycled from the Corey and Jay web site. Hillarious!

Ever get that feeling that behind the napping, soft, purring exterior of your cat that is lying on couch, there is an evil predator? Here (http://www.mycathatesyou.com) is a website and collection of photos that serves to prove that statement correct.

Beware of that killer on your sofa...

I have opened an account with PictureTrail.com and moved a bunch of photos online. Go to http://www.picturetrail.com/kellytadams/ to see my latest pics, including my most recent trips to Maine and Idaho. The photo album will also be in the static links on the left side of this page.

In several years of reading Slashdot, this is the first time my ticket has been pulled to moderate (that I have noticed). Pretty neat huh? Well, maybe not, but at least I feel semi-important.

Once again, I bring you only the choicest internet oddities. This one was noticed in the Fark personals discussion forum (where Farker's such as myself rip on the personal of the day). Here it is: The Gallery Of Regrettable Food. Apparently it's also available as a book, so you might speak to my mom about that one. I'm still chuckling from the Recipe Books, Meat! Meat! Meat! is wonderfull. It kind of reminds me of my father's (-ed. correction: it's my mother's) now-vintage copy of the Joy Of Cooking.

To everyone, Irish or not: Slainte!
    

I have found a nice collection of Jargon, both from Wired Magazine and other sources. To keep yourself current with the latest techie mumbo-jumbo, put on your "Yoda Lives" t-shirt and point your browser at http://wired.drofmab.com/.

This pretty much sums up recent days:

In the interest of promoting open source software. I'm giving credit to MovableStyle for providing the Cascading Style Sheet I used as the basis for this site's look and feel. Also, if you are interested in embedding fonts in your own web site, try the free Microsoft WEFT tool here. It's a little clunky, but it got the job done for me.

Today, in my boredom, I have completely re-vamped the templates and style sheets of my 'blog. It now includes some embedded fonts and other neato web stuff. Clicking the topic categories will take you to the category archive, and clicking the entry title will take you to the individual entry archive. Leave comments if any of you non-Internet Exploder users have trouble with the site-- the embedded fonts are supposed to be part of an Open architecture, but Micro$oft has their hand in it, so ya never know...

Also, for the legions of friends and relatives who's help I've enlisted in finding a job, there is a link to my resume right under the Unemployment Countdown timer. It's in Adobe PDF format so it's very portable, and you can save it locally by clicking the little diskie icon in Acrobat. Feel free to give it to anyone you want-- yes, even night manager at Krispy Kreme.

Alice the kitty is back home after three days at the vet for her long-awaited bladder surgery. She's alert and seems to be passing fluids. They had to shave her forepaws for the catheters and she has a pretty big Frankenstein on her belly. Her face is a little goopy, but the vet put some medicine in her eyes to fix her chronic eye bogies.

The vet took a lot of stones out, and they have been sent to the lab to be analyzed. It turns out they are calcium oxylate stones (without a bacterial core, which means it's dietary, not an infection). So, special food for Alice from now on. Right now, she's eating 50/50 new food/old food because the vet was more concerned that she hasn't eaten in awhile than getting her switched over to the new food.

The other two cats have been pretty decent and have left Alice alone (although Afro makes noises, she doesn't actually do anything). Also, she gets antibiotic pills for 10 days then I take her back to have her sutures out. Either way, it's great to have her back home, and I hope she ultimately feels better and lives longer with the stones removed.

Also, I got some film back from my trips to Idaho and Maine, so hopefully I'll have all of those scanned in by this weekend.

From my mother, check out the Finnish Men's Shouting Chorus (Huutajat) here. Their rendition of the Star Spangled Banner is truly unique.