Mister Splut: I see you've heard about the Geocities closing too. Yahoo the Destroyer strikes again. It murdered Simplenet, mauled Webring, chewed up and spat out several formerly-good mailing list companies, and now this. There are a lot of old sites on Geocities that will be missed. At least they're giving people ample warning so they can make offline copies of abandoned sites. And, of course, there's always The Internet Archive.

Zefiel: Stay healthy, man. Wear a silly looking mask if it'll help. Wear a Moltar suit if you need to!

wow 'cause of new work business i haven't been looking here since like all of April -- so happy birthday!

50... man. I guess I'm not that far from there myself. But I don't really count the first 10-12 or so years, I wasn't me by then, I think

cause of new work business i haven't been looking here since like all of April-- so happy birthday!

Hey, thanks! Not looking at timewasters is GOOD when it means you have a paying job!

Is it possible to get cabbaged to death?

Yammed if you do; yammed if you don't.

LOL! I wonder if anyone but you and I got the joke.

Likewise, you're probably the only person besides me who'll think that this is funny.

The swine flu scare is slowly ebbing away here.

In other news of my life, I sent my laptop back to HP to be repaired for the second time, and in less than a week I got a bigger, prettier, more modern laptop, with twice the HDD; triple RAM, and a decent processor and video card. Score!

And today they called to say it was a mishap on DHL's part, they don't even know where *my* laptop is, and a DHL guy will swing by on monday to take this laptop from me. (it's from another actual customer who might or might not have my own laptop, or nothing)

=(

El Zef just told me about the Possible New Kittehness. YAY! *clappy hands*

And the Way of Cats discussion was muy interesante también, not in the least cos one of my little darlings is still inaugurating my laundry on a regular basis. I'd love to blame this on MOT's introduction to the household, but the fact remains this was going on long before Skinny Boy showed up and adopted us.

I'm not sure what else I can do to mitigate the girls' stress levels, apart from playing with them more often (well, playing with Sophie, because like with much else in life, Beezer tends to be wildly interested and then abjectly disinterested in short order), but I'll have to contemplate my other options there, if any.

And of course, the person who dubbed her newest, "Mr. 'Oreo' Tennant" thoroughly approves of you naming a cat after Cap'n Jack. :D

Edited by author 05-10-2009 09:10 AM
I imagine you're looking for some of this kind of crazy cat action:
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Of course, a new presence might just cause more piddling-- "This is mine, that's mine, ALL these books are mine...."

I want you to know that I cannot look at little Jello cups without thinking THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR GIALLO! That must have been you, because it was not me.

Oh, yeah, that was me.
Sorry!
But don't eat the giallo. It's kinda...stabbily hemoglobic. Also frequently full of cholesterol and dario argento. While there is good cholesterol, there's very little good argento.

Liked the Ebert link...

My mind must work like Ferd's. =( I think the joke is that he got on the bus like everybody else, forgetting that he did bring a car to work or whatever that day. It's a stupid joke but understandable to those of us who have ever gotten on the bus without any money for the fare (Here in some buses you pay when getting off)

That said, I found the 'Ferd has a Yugo' comment more funny.

I'm trying to remember the egg-heating formula which appeared in Discover magazine a few years ago. I believe that the egg put into a 67C environment, wet or dry, will yeild a fascinatingly gelid object that can never be called rubbery.

Does Ferd ever try to be topical? Could he have read something that made him want to support the auto industry by driving instead of busing?

Ferd tries to be anti-topical. It's one of the very few strips that's published internationally, so it tries to be as generic as it can to appeal to different audiences. It's made in Denmark, and supposedly it's most popular in South Korea, which I think a couple of people here could confirm or deny.

I don't know how many strips are published in foreign papers. The only other example I can think of is Fred Basset, made in England apparently to punish Americans for winning the Revolutionary War. Do Family Circus and Cathy turn up outside of America?
If so, my apologies.

Mmmm, I've never seen Ferd'nand here. Most newspaper comics are manga-style ACTION!comics. Needless to say, the comic technology over here is light-years ahead of anything we have in America.

I saw the Star Trek movie yesterday. I was actually quite offended by it. The appeal of the original show was that it pretended to be ACTION!, but it was mostly just wordy and and cerebral and focused on socio-politics and philosophy and literature and such. And, ok, yes, bad acting and shitty props too, but still.

This movie was just a straight ACTION! movie. Boo! It kept me occupied for two hours, but now that it's over not a single thing that happened sticks with me. Except that when Kirk had his obligatory one-on-one fight with an alien, he remained fully-clothed throughout. Wha?

Also, Bill, I'm quite convinced that your parody is the best internet parody of this movie I will ever read. At first I was going to put it in the top five, but the cat doody sent it right to Number 1.