Hi, I've been caught in a time warp (which doesn't exist). Is this thing on?

Just stumbled across a long lost bookmark. And what the hell, Bill is still updating his New. Hooda thunkit.

Nice to see this again. I have to see if I can put the "new" in my RSS reader.

I just had a nightmare about being trapped in a small town fulla Fundies (rather a flashback to living in Wyoming, that) and how one of the evil townsfolk took Sophie as a hostage until I returned the evidence of their predictably-corrupt leader's misdoings, so I'm sending {{massive hugs}} the lovely Jessica's way about now. You've mentioned Majoriam several times before, so I'm absolutely sick at heart to hear about this, and strongly second your sentiments about hoping the big guy will make it through this.

Thank you! He's doing as okay as he can today, but there are still tests to come back. Poor Jess has really gone through the wringer over his health lately, but not as much as Major.

Poor Jess, poor Major...sending thoughts their way. I'm going through the "how much money is too much, what is my breaking point" trauma with my cat right now. You feel like a horrible person even considering it, but you have to...

... and it sucks.

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Glad to hear the good news on the Major front--Beezer has had a horrible bunch of black gunk emanating from her nose for a while now and after my dad bitched and moaned to high heaven after it cost approx. $150 for MOT to get his shots, I dunno how the fuck I'm gonna come up with the cash to get my cranky old lady seen to. (For now I've settled for regularly cleaning it off with Vaseline, a process with which of course La Beez is utterly thrilled--for the first time in her thirteen years of life, she actually bit me the other day.)

And I sporfled at the virginal joke too, ya know.

tiredcynic:
You have my empathy, and my love for your feline friend. I hope your kitty comes through it okay. Our little ones ask so little, yet give so much.

Our little ones ask so little, yet give so much.

Absafrigglutely. Rather than now getting all weepy and emotional here, I'll merely pass along--with hopes you haven't seen it already--what immediately made me think, "What if Killsy and Byron had a child?"

I'm sitting here chuckling at the expression of immense alarm that Her Beezness got when that clip started playing, and the fact that Sophie is still trying to figger out where those other kitties are.

Killsy's ears pricked up for a second, but otherwise she and DJ ignored it.

FWIW I still always do my own HTML coding ...

Kirk:
When I wrote that, I wondered who I know that writes their own code, and I thought "Of course Kirk does!" But you also coded "JoustPong 3D," whereas I once thought that the BR tag took up less space than the P tag, because P added 2 spaces and BR only one.

Do you do it out of habit, or personal pride? It's about 30/70 for me. A friend once made a joke about me not using Blogger, and I asked him, "So, you're making fun of me for knowing how to do something you can't?"

Good luck to all those beautiful cats =(

I do a combo of hand and machine coding. I do the volume work with an editor - in my case, Namo Webeditor - and then go in and manually tweak the code so it looks exactly the way I want it to. I edit Javascript by hand, too. I'm macho that way, plus it simply gives me more control over the result. When I blog, I write straight HTML rather than use their silly WYSIWYG editor for mere italics and lists.

Ah, another video from Cyriac! I've been a fan of his since I first saw the "animated GIF loop" video and spent several days crawling around in his site. His work has a Salvador Dali appeal for me.

A bit belated, but hi, Mike! Glad to see you again after all these years!

Thoughtty, on that cleaned-up page there are some dead Geocities links. Are you going to recover those pages as well? If you can't get them through the Google cache, then the Wayback Machine might have them.

Some of both, pride+habit.
I set up so much stuff before a lot of the cool tools were out there and it would be a pain in the ass to convert, but I like the kind of fine grained control I get being able to rig up my own archives and stuff.

on that cleaned-up page there are some dead Geocities links. Are you going to recover those pages as well?

Probably not. Most Geo pages were shut down a month ago; for some reason, I got the special treatment and had mine shut down in mid-June. I've tried finding all of my major pages on Wayback, but some have only scraps left. Wayback didn't seriously start chasing down Geo pages until mine was already consigned to the boneyard.

I can't believe I'm the first one here to suggest that "Killian and Company" should be the new name for Bill and his brood. (Speaking of which...been a while since we saw any kitty pics...) [/obnoxious hinting]