I was sitting at SFO waiting for a flight (and trying to find a working power outlet in the International Terminal), and ran across this old cartoon. So there is a 66% chance I am crazy.
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This video is fairly old, but it always amazes me. This guy's cat was injured in an accident with a car, so instead of putting it down, he built it a robotic platform to move around. I guess sometimes it pays to be a mad scientist.
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Nothing to lighten the mood like a cat riding a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Or a robo-hoover for the chaps across the pond. Allo, Guvnah!
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For those who have been following the Mr. F saga, we have finally found him a home. That home is with our loving family. Unfortunately we did not find a home that would be able to take care of this plump dumpling of a cat in the luxury he is used to, so we've decided to keep him here at Rancho Relaxo.
We've had to make some ADA compliant accomodations in our home to deal with a cat of this girth. The first to go was the pet door to our garage (where the cat boxes are located). A quick trip to Home Depot to replace the size small pet door with a medium dog door did the trick. The issue here is to have a big door, but not too big. Dogs love the faux almond roca that cats produce. Nuff said.
Mr. F has been on a diet and has lost some weight (down to 21lbs!!!) since he came to our simple home and is beginning to fit in with the other residents. He is an interesting feline. He is cross eyed. He is lovable. He can be a demon sometimes, resembling the character "Stuart" played by Michael McDonald on MadTV. However, Mr. F does not talk about funny feelings in his goo goo.
I am by no means qualified to be a food or wine critic. Throughout the 90's and most of this decade it has been a foregone conclusion that craft brewed beer should be sold in 12 or 22 ounce brown glass bottles. When a brewer such as 21st Amendment puts beer in cans, people start to listen. When they made a Watermelon Wheat beer, people look at each other in confusion and give it a try. When I read an article on the stuff in the local paper, I knew I had to track some of this stuff down. From the description alone I can imagine it as something sold next to a self warming can of squid juice in a Tokyo train station vending machine.
After several weeks of looking I found a six pack for sale at the local Beverages & More location. Simply amazing. Not too sweet like some other fruity wheat beers on the market. Just enough to balance the flavor and make it refreshing in the summer heat. If you are camping, take some Watermelon Wheat along with some canned hamburgers, or not.. ;)
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Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last ten years, you have probably heard of Craig's List. For some people it is a great place to find garage sales, for others they find apartments or jobs. There are other parts of the site that are meant for adults, and will most likely find you catching a "social disease". Beyond all this is the most amusing a maddening thing of all, the rants & raves section of Craig's List. Here people write the most foul, disturbing and sometimes amazing content, all under the cloak of anonymity. I'm a big fan of our Constitutional rights in the United States, but sometimes is can be saddening to see how people abuse our right of free speech with this kind of amazing content.
An example of the fine content available, with a search for the word "crap" returning 84 hits on postings in the last week.
Out of those 84 hits, I picked one of the least offensive posts, one about a famous TV psychic.
If you weed out the racially, culturally, genderally, politically, and any other offensive "ally" word, you end up with some posts that are sometimes incredibly witty, insightful and amusing. The best of these posts end up in what is called "The Best of Craig's List" where these can live on forever.
There are not enough lolcats in the world these days, so I bring you beauty and splendor!
Mr. F has been enjoying his time at the ranch.
This post is somewhat humorous and sad at the same time. We have a new visitor staying at Chateau de Anderer and his name is Mr. F.
As you can see, Mr. F is a really big boy. Here comes the sad part. Mr. F, or "Mr. Fatty" as she named him, came from the house of my wife's good friend that passed away last week. Although she only had him for about eight months, he was her beloved companion. We chose to truncate his name in honor of one of our favorite shows, Arrested Development, and the fact that calling this cat fat is sort of like throwing stones in glass houses. ;)
He's a temporary guest at the ranch right now. Unfortunately he can't fit through the cat doors (actually we installed medium sized dog doors). While he is spry, he makes our other 18 pound cat look like a dwarf. He's looking for a permanent home, but until then he'll be camping out on our couch.
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I am a lover or all things lolcat, so when I heard about this mural, my heart skipped a beat. San Francisco finally has something to be proud of ;)
link here: http://laughingsquid.com/the-worlds-largest-lolcat-invisible-bike-mural/
the ichcb original: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/01/26/invisible-bike/
(note: this does NOT get old)
One of my co-workers came across pictures of my cat on the Internet. I'm glad that someone else could get a laugh out of it.
I found this amusing, as I put this in a public folder, but didn't plan on people blogging it.
On a not-so-amusing note, our third cat had to go through the Iodine-131 treatment for hyperthyroidism. Ka-Ching $$$. Oh, and BTW Ely will steal your soul. And if you are wondering why this picture was made, it was to thank Dr. Charlotte Sugar for taking such good care of Ely while he was in quarantine.
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Sleeping. Go away.
As summer approaches, it is time to think about cleaning and sharpening the clippers. Clippers, you say? Yes, it is almost time for the annual cat shaving. Being that I have allergies, and Ely doesn't groom himself that well, we opt for the most direct route to hygeine...
No animals were harmed in the making of this video, or generally in our household.
Note: Hello to our friends at Microsoft Live Operations!
In homage to the "I have no idea what you're talking about... so here's a bunny with a pancake on it's head" meme page starring Oolong the rabbit, I proudly give you...
(No cats were harmed in the pursuit of the perfect head/pancake combination. Yes, that is steam coming off the pancake. What is the point if it is not straight off the griddle. Do not stare directly into the sun. Do not taunt happy fun ball.)
Update: Grampy's Cliche City has a great link with multiple photos
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Note: For some reason I get about 50 junk trackbacks to this page from Russian fashion blogs. Odd.
Это нет страницы интернета которая общается с способом, его изображение кота нося шлем.
Many people are already aquianted with Despair, Inc.'s de-motivational posters. You may have seen them in some random geeks office or online.
They are now providing a much needed service of allowing you to create mini de-motiviational posters in JPEG from. Their website is here: http://diy.despair.com/motivator.php
Huzzah!
Thank you to JD the cat for posing.
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