Fun Stuff

Cat Grooming

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Instructions on a cat grooming product:

1. wet cat thoroughly
2. apply product and comb through cat’s wet coat.
3. keep cat from grooming for 10 minutes.
4. rinse product thoroughly off of cat.
5. dry cat to make sure (product) is completely off cat.

Of course they left out a few steps. Read the hilarious details here.

Speaking of cats, last night Cody went on a destructive rampage, knocking things down all around my home. He woke me up with loud meowing at 2:30AM and I found that he changed the thermostat setting (which he can do by climbing on my sofa and hitting the switch on it). After he started running around my bedroom, I shut the door and locked him out so I could sleep. Meanwhile, Midnight was laying on my bed and purring loudly. When I got up this morning, I found all of the destruction.

A test for your hosting company

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It’s pretty sad when a web hosting company doesn’t understand specifying a port number for telnet. When I was having problems with the mail server at my previous host, I sent them the following message & terminal log:

IMAP server seems to be down for all of my sites:

[mike: ~]$ telnet mail.macmegasite.com 143
Trying 69.93.143.83…
telnet: connect to address 69.93.143.83: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

Their reply:

Please try again it seems to be working fine now. Also if you are trying to use
Telnet it might not work since we have telnet disabled for security 🙂

Coolest Bluetooth device ever

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I just got a Sony Ericsson CAR 100 Bluetooth remote control car. It charges from my phone (a T616) and can be controlled with the phone’s joystick. There’s also a Car-100 control application for the Mac, which lets me control it with the arrow keys.

Cody & Midnight find it very amusing. I’ve been driving it around them and they love stalking it. When I make it stop, one of them will come over and start pawing at it.

Beating Bible-bashers with showtunes

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An awesome story, via Boing Boing: A New Yorker on a subway car grew tired of the homophobic Bible-thumping preachers, and retaliated by singing show tunes until they shut up:

Me: “If you all don’t lower your voices and cease calling me Satan, I will have to sing show tunes.”

The other straphangers look at me with stony faces.
I begin to sing.
“Its very clear, our love is here to stay. Not for a year, but forever and a day”

Preacher lady and the Jesus police start mumbling and beseeching G_d to strike me down and boil me in molten tar. (I look better in silver.)
The train reaches Wall Street. Confused subway riders check out the scene. I begin swaying and feeling the music.

The slamming Bible man looks like he is going to pop a blood vessel. “I cast ye out, Satan.”

I go into jazz dance crouch and then spring up to belt out, “THAAAAAAT OLD BLACK MAGIC, HAS ME IN A SPELL”

Bible man has to get off the train as I wriggle and shimmy. “That same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine!”

Bible man exits. SHOW TUNES 1, FUNDAMENTALISTS 0.

Read the full story here.