DON’T buy a Cat Genie

January 31, 2008 at 8:33 pm (fredlet) (, , , , )

Unfortunately, the toxoplasmosis parasite that many cats have can survive sewage treatment processes and will find its way into the waters. If it manages to get to a coastal area, it can kill sea otters. This is the cause of ~20% of the sea otter deaths in the California coastal region.
PLEASE DON’T BUY THIS PRODUCT IF YOUR SEWAGE CAN END UP IN THE OCEAN. Also, the state of California has passed a law that prohibits cat feces from being put into the sewage system.
Please look into alternate litter systems (such as Feline Pine that is not made from strip mined clay and doesn’t contain chemicals that can cause cancer in your cat.)

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How commerce works chez fredlet

January 31, 2008 at 3:42 pm (fredlet, heh)

tex: have you seen [insert name of some consumer electronics]
fredlet: yeah, but I am relatively unimpressed and jaded.
tex: yeah me, too. why are people buying that?
fredlet: [insert miscellaneous non-committal noises regarding people and their buying habits]

[undetermined time period passes]

tex: Look! I bought [name of aforementioned consumer electronic]!
fredlet: Oh cool…!

[random playing around with consumer electronic, Googling of features/hacks/usage instructions]

tex: [name of aforementioned consumer electronic] is sooooo cool! Look, we can cure cancer with it!
fredlet: I never knew it did *that*!
tex: Boy, they didn’t market this correctly!

ad nauseum…

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soooo tired.

January 29, 2008 at 4:29 pm (JconWeeta(Pie)ConJNon, fredlet)

delayed flights and a lady with SEVEN kids under 10 on the long flight. (close your legs, woman).
but I made it back.
more in a bit.

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St Brendan’s with a Guinness haze

January 27, 2008 at 12:41 pm (JconWeeta(Pie)ConJNon, fredlet)



St Brendan’s with a Guinness haze, originally uploaded by fredlet.

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Greetings from the Very Bad Bar

January 26, 2008 at 10:09 pm (JconWeeta(Pie)ConJNon, fredlet)



Greetings from the Very Bad Bar, originally uploaded by fredlet.

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stupid SFO

January 24, 2008 at 7:44 am (Bucky's)

Whoever the fucking asshole silly buttons is who changed out the Starbuck’s kiosk out for that Peet’s shite needs to be removed and quite possibly beaten.
I’m sure I looked like I had Tourettes bitching about it to Tex on my bluetooth headset as I walked all the way across Terminal 3 (twice).

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Hoooooooooo doggies…

January 21, 2008 at 9:08 pm (JconWeeta(Pie)ConJNon)

Weather for Green Bay, WI

7°F
Snow
Wind: N at 7 mph
Humidity: 80%

Mon
Snow
8°F | 5°F

Tue
Partly Sunny
13°F | -1°F

Wed
Chance of Snow Showers
7°F | -8°F

Thu (this is when I am going)
Mostly Sunny
5°F | -1°F

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MLK day

January 21, 2008 at 1:09 pm (I'm a Leo., grr arg)

I don’t know if I can adequately express the relief of having today off.
Lots of stuff to do before THU and also one more day not being at work and that is not a bad thing at all.

Lotto. Please. NOW.

Pluto in Capricorn

In a lecture the other afternoon, I figured out a good example. Happened twice, different genders. Once was a guy, once was girl. Girl I was dating, Virgo, in fact, not that it matters because this is about Pluto going into Capricorn.

Point was, she was mousy blonde. I think that’s the term, “mouse,” not “moose,” and she certainly wasn’t a moose, barely tipping the scales, at that time, at 100 pounds. I had made comments about Goth Girls, and from blonde to black, she went. Odd occurrences, after that. As a blonde, she was used to getting preferential treatment. As black-haired girl, she said she felt like she turned invisible.

A few weeks later, she learned the horrid truth that a suicide goth-look (dyed by her own hand) had irrevocable consequences. Ask any hair expert, “Once you go black, you can never go back.”

Another one of my buddies, a lad who’s been in and around Austin (TX) all his life? When we met, he had hair longer than mine. At least, the strip down his back was longer than mine; at that time, it was shaved on the sides. He was a natural blonde, and while I think his hair had been a variety of colors, I don’t think he really fit the “goth” profile. Again, a Virgo influence, and he dyed his hair black. Long, close to a meter of jet black, straight hair. Good look, in a death metal way.

He started up a conversation with my friend the hair colorist, one of the most famous of all the red headed Capricorn girls. I think he was less interested in her opinion on his hair color and more interested in some of her obvious attributes, which had nothing to do with hair color. However, she did assure him that “Once you go black, you never go back,” like only a Capricorn girl can. He did the leer and nod with the comment.

My buddy eventually shaved is head to get rid of the black-look, something about Goth Girlfriend who wasn’t there anymore. Or something.

He’s bald now, more by choice than force, but he has the option, at any time, to grow his hair out.

The point of Pluto, as it enters Capricorn? Think About permanent decisions, like dying hair black.

As Pluto enters Capricorn, later this month, for the first time in over 200 years, think about the long-term effect of that choice. Like the hair color, more permanent than one would like.

“So this means I’m gong to get a dye job?”

More like a suicide hair color – dye it yourself. And for those who still think this about hair color? Never mind.

[kramer on Astrofish.net]

oh fine, I won’t do anything rash.
Can I do something sneaky instead?

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harry potter moments

January 19, 2008 at 12:11 am (obsession)

there are several moments in all the movies that I love (and have named)

generally they are centered around “Ginny Weasley sighting!” or “Harry Potter Great Hair Moment” or snark.
Granted, there are several Snape-y times… and those I find amusing because a greasy git is supposed to be reviled and we all find Alan Rickman in those purple velvet robes so very hott.

HP2: Ginny Weasley sighting!
“Mum! Mummy! Have you seen my jumper?”
“Yes dear, its on the cat.”

HP2: Floating Snape
As Guilderoy Lockhart is introducing his sparring partner, Snape seems to float up the stairs onto the table.

HP3:You and your bloody chicken!
Draco is carried off after taunting Buckbeak.

HP3:Best hair moment… evah
When Harry is waving goodbye to Ron and Hermione as they head off to Hogsmeade without him as he doesn’t have a signed permissions slip

HP3:2nd best hair moment… evah
When Harry is smiling to himself as Remus Lupin is recounting something about harry’s father.

HP3: 394
“Turn to page 394.”

HP4:Go back to your knitting!
Fred and George tell people to sod off when Ron and Harry get back together and then Ron and Harry decide to have hot monkey love… not really. Just seeing if you kept reading. But they did tell everyone to go back to your knitting (this is also a Ginny Weasley Sighting!)

HP4:Moaning Myrtle perving all over Harry in the bath.
Smart (dead) girl.

HP4 also had the added bonus of having Dr. Who in it, though they blew it not having CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!!! in there. Rat bastards.

I didn’t love HP5, so I haven’t watched it over and over. I’ll append this if I decide that I like anything about. Granted, it improved after I got over my extreme disappointment in the theater, but still…
I think it may not get any better than Azkaban and Dave McKean having his fine hand in the look of that one with Harry and the best hair ever.
Anime hair.

Also, they best not fuck up the Harry/Ginny moment. I’m just sayin’.

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More things I like

January 18, 2008 at 10:33 pm (grr arg)

I am in a really filthy mood (and not the fun kind of filthy either.) so in an effort not to perforate my stomach lining with the ulcer that I have resurrected I will not talk about that.
Plus, my throat is raw from saying bad words at the top of my lungs.

where was I?
oh yeah…

31. when Karl Elvis talks about cooking
32. quinoa made with chicken stock and parmesan cheese
33. Green Bay, WI when we gather en masse
34. my PSP and the fact that I mostly use it as a movie watching thing
35. the “Repeat One” setting on my iPod
36. putting moola into my Roth IRA
37. winning
38. Jude Law’s lips (the rest of him isn’t bad, but he vaguely reminds me of someone I’m SO not into lusting after, so I’ll just think about the lips right now)
39. the 23″ Apple Cinema Display with the lucite feet
40. crocs (especially my Mary Jane’s)
41. making guys go slackjawed with the things I say
42. when bloggers I read work their way through an epiphany, the resulting anger at having lived like *that* for so long, the process of figuring out what they want to do now and then getting *there* finally.
43. Snood (though I miss the South Park version I had long ago on my mac)
44. MaciGame
45. Nutella
46. wool
47. sock monkey hats

I’m sure there are more, but I was starting to get kinda weird in my choices and I decided wearing out my Delete key would be contraindicated.

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Spam Quiche – Makes 4 servings

January 17, 2008 at 9:32 pm (food porn)

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20? Then I still have a chance to skip a few mistakes this go round.

January 15, 2008 at 9:40 pm (fredlet)


You Act Like You Are 20 Years Old


You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel like an adult, and you’re optimistic about life.
You feel excited about what’s to come… love, work, and new experiences.

You’re still figuring out your place in the world and how you want your life to shape up.
The world is full of possibilities, and you can’t wait to explore many of them.

What Age Do You Act?

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I can handle Kottke.org vacation

January 15, 2008 at 9:07 pm (meh)

I can’t handle the housesitter.
Radio silence is preferable to the ongoing static there now.

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yay!

January 13, 2008 at 2:40 pm (hooray!)

FINALLY they have “The Eight” released to audiobook… unabridged even! Hopefully they will bring it to eBook soon.

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…aaaaand we’re gone again.

January 13, 2008 at 1:17 pm (fredlet)

Little VAIO pooped out again.
Its definitely going to have to go in for repair.
So, I’m on the beast VAIO for a while. Its so weird that my computer doesn’t have a wrist strap on it and I can’t carry it around in my pocket.

Stupid Mercury Rx in Aquarius.
At least it had the courtesy to do it within the warranty period.

And it made me vacuum and rewire the desk area when I swapped out tables for computer. I don’t love the new setup as it doesn’t match terribly well and the table is a bit high for typing, so I’ll probably be in pain as well.
Arg.
(you know that this means I have to go through and reinstall the MX suite and then the CS3 upgrade…again.)

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