Oh my goodness. I hope she's on the mend. I know dehydration can be a big deal for cats, so maybe that's the heart of it?
Angel: I appreciate you guys looking out for Connor all summer. It's just—he's confused. He needs time. That's all. Fred: Right. Time, and some corporal punishment with a large heavy mallet. Not that I'm bitter.
'Just Rewards (2)'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - May 09, 2008 11:59:46 am PDT #6019 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
sarameg - May 09, 2008 12:00:01 pm PDT #6020 of 10001
Glad you got that sorted out, Kathy!
I really have no idea on how much furniture should cost in the real world.
shrift - May 09, 2008 12:02:23 pm PDT #6021 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Poor, constipated kitteh!
Burrell - May 09, 2008 12:06:55 pm PDT #6022 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
We compost. The wormy ones are a bit of trouble, but the non-wormy (we have both) are a breeze. The only effort is actually getting the compostibles into the compost. (I recommend a kitchen bin.)
The key to a non-smelly compost is, as Steph says, not trying to compost anything that smells bad while it rots. So no meat, fat, beans, or potatoes.
Kathy A - May 09, 2008 12:08:12 pm PDT #6023 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm hoping that those fluids did the trick, and that the antibiotic will bring down her temp.
Hey, she just ventured out from under the bed to curl up under the computer desk!! This is the first time she's done that since last night--she must be feeling better!!!
This was her first medical emergency, and I'm hoping her last for some time to come. Good thing was that it happened this today, being an extra payday month as well as that government check--$450 at the vet.
CaBil - May 09, 2008 12:09:11 pm PDT #6024 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
So there is an article about how some experiments from Columbia were salvaged, with a computer guy managing to lift data from hard drives that were found after Columbia broke apart.
And yes, that's good and all, but there is something in the article that made me stop and wonder. Part of the reason they could salvage the data was the OS the hard drive was using stored stuff together rather scattered throughout the drive.
The OS was DOS.
And all I can think was why they hell they were still using DOS as the main OS even on an system, even if it was being just used for experiments, on the shuttle in 2003? I had figured everyone had tossed DOS out the window pre-Y2K
shrift - May 09, 2008 12:09:25 pm PDT #6025 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I need to get my hair cut again. I guess I can kill a few minutes looking for my one true bob.
(I will refrain from making a Bob Bryar joke at this juncture. Almost. THAT One True Bob has long ladyhair!)
tommyrot - May 09, 2008 12:13:25 pm PDT #6026 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
CaBill, are you sure the OS was DOS? Or was it just the file system?
Often, computers taken into space are very obsolete, as they need special chips that are hardened against stray radiation. (This is why laptops aboard the shuttle and space station often crash, as they're just off-the-shelf models.)
amych - May 09, 2008 12:18:24 pm PDT #6027 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The article I read seemed to imply the filesystem (a DOS-formatted drive, rather than a DOS computer, IOW. Which really should be FAT, but I don't trust the papers to get the fine points in a world where algorithm and logarithm... well, anyway.)
sarameg - May 09, 2008 12:19:52 pm PDT #6028 of 10001
And all I can think was why they hell they were still using DOS as the main OS even on an system, even if it was being just used for experiments, on the shuttle in 2003? I had figured everyone had tossed DOS out the window pre-Y2K
It's probably because the shuttles were designed and built in the 70s and 80s and there is only so far they can upgrade systems with the existing physical and electrical infrastructure. On top of that, everything has to be tested exhaustively before it's allowed operationally. The tech that flies on them now had its design frozen years ago.
Even for experiments, god only knows how long ago the proposal was accepted and the proposers had to outfit the experiment and went into a design freeze.