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Do you know what’s responsible for all these kittens? Global warming. I kiddeth thee not. They’re really pushing that line. Warmer weather means more hot, steamy, painful cat sex, I guess.

Eh. More kitteh!

Slutty little ho of a kitten she/he may be, but damned cute nonetheless.

You’ve just brought new meaning to the term “sex kitten”.

Can’t we just crush global-swarmers under the wheels of our SUVs? I mean, why own an SUV if you can’t use it? It would be quite sportive, and believe me, very utile.

/just another suggestion

jw – the problem with squishing them with a nice, beefy SUV is that they’re smart enough to not gather in large groups except where the terrain prohibits SUV travel – like Senate hearings, the Capital steps, and various other public sites that prohibit vehicular traffic. They’re cunning, these G-swarmers. Like Scandi’s and hobos, only they smell a bit better.

I’m afraid wholesale machine-gunning, sniping and occasional hand grenades are the only practical recourse. And chem/nuke/bio weapons, of course.

Didn’t I just hear that our automakers are going to stop making SUVs?

I’m with you McGoo…screw this dialogue (inertia because they don’t want to do anything)…it is past time for some serious action. Time for another tea party.

So if I understand you, McGoo… gun control (besides being about good aim) is for the wackos you refer to, all about self-protection in their own interests – and not so much that they want to deprive us of our right to self protection.

Ahhh, just lock ’em all up and they’d be plenty safe and we could still have our constitutional right to protect ourselves.

Chem and nukes would kill the sex kittens. Can’t do that.

I think our bombs are now smart enough to run up Barbara Boxer’s ass and detonate without harming any nearby kittens (a little viscera-splatter on their fur is, of course, acceptable).

Good points, all.

Hit Barb Boxer’s ass?
Hell, jw, the new weapons are so accurate, they could hit her integrity! Now that’s shootin’!

…and that viscera-splatter is known amongst kittens as … a snack. No harm, no foul.

Hell, jw, the new weapons are so accurate, they could hit her integrity! Now that’s shootin’!

Can’t argue with that one, McGoo (or *top* it).

I WANT that white kitten!

Thanks, iamfelix. That white on is pretty darned precious. I bet Weasel wants it too, but is afraid to admit it.

Weasel, they say learning a new language – even a tough and incomprehensibly gibberish-like one like British – is easiest when young. You could snatch up that li’l “Whitey” – as Ms. Obamamama allegedly says – and give her a little international experience. Broaden her horizons, so-to-speak.

Plus – think of all the postings you could do on her!

It’s called the BabsBomb. It is not actually a smart weapon, it’s much more cunning than that. It’s an idiot weapon whose guidance section seeks out the lowest IQ in the room.

Recent tests with several Senators have overloaded the seeker so a more robust design is in the works

The ol’ multi-target ploy, eh? They need a MIRbabsbomb.

They could call it the Clusterfuck.

There are four or five of those little white puffballs. The Kitteh Man is very fond of them. He says as far as he can tell none of them is deaf.

It takes about seven months from beginning to end to get a cat into the UK legally. Just not feasible, or I’d be lobbying for that big orange bastard I’m so taken with. Still no sale on him.

…into the UK legally.

Heinlein once said, “Never let the law prevent you from doing what’s right.” At least I think he did. If he didn’t, he should have. Yeah, I’m almost sure he said that.

Now, what’s right in this case is what we adults call “self-gratification”.

Heinlein said something else, Weasel.

He said, “Always give in to temptation, because you never know when it will pass your way again.”

O’course someone else also said, “Temptation resisted is a true measure of character.” But I call bullshit on that. I find that saying highly inconvenient at this time.

or I’d be lobbying for that big orange bastard I’m so taken with.

Yes, he is a handsome boy. How will the kitty immigration know that he isn’t Damien?

Hell, jw, the new weapons are so accurate, they could hit her integrity! Now that’s shootin’!

Integrity? Not going to find any in that waste of skin.

I like the one in the first picture who is being used as a pillow. Resist, resist the temptation, I have enough critters as it is.

I have a breeding pair of roadrunners on my property. Roadrunners are really cool birds, and don’t seem to be afraid of anything. One day one of the roadrunners was just wandering around my horses’ feet. Strange sight.

Oh, it’s unbelievably rigorous. The very first step in the process is getting them chipped. Then the chip is checked at every step afterward. Some people go to the extent of plunking down a couple of hundred bucks to buy their own chip reader, just to make sure the thugs at Heathrow don’t turn kitteh away for having an unreadable chip.

I thought that was taking it too far, but the Kitteh Man says they’d be very grateful to have another chip reader at the pound (they wear out, apparently), so I’m thinking of buying one and donating it to him afterward.

Uncle B sent me this adorble kitteh:

Which looks all cute and everything, until you get a look at the size of that paw. That is a human-face-eradicating tool. It’s a famously untameable evil bastard Scottish wildcat from our local wildlife conservancy.

Heh…the first thing I saw was that paw and thought that it was not your average adorable kitteh.

Well, maybe you can get the orange one anyway and let a friend look after him when you move for the several months more he would need and THEN either come back for him or invite the friend, with orange kitteh in tow, for a visit.
Hey, just throwing ideas out in the event you fall head over heels for the bag of sneezes.

Hmmm, blackmarket RFID chips for kitty smugglers. Hey Weasel, where can I get one of those chips from? I feel an attack of reverse engineering coming on.

Well, this is the outfit that made Damien’s chip. I got some interesting hits doing a Google search of “universal chip reader” too (there’s no such thing, incidentally).

Allen – you read my mind. I think Texas Instruments makes those chips. *Correction: Destron makes these* Bet a Google search would reveal the culprit. Bet its already hacked, too. Just a matter of a bit of digging…

Weaz! This may be one of those “I wonders, yes I wonders” moments. Opportunity knocks…

Odd, that they say the readers “wear out”? What’s to wear out, unless they’re using an optical (laser) reader?

I’m not sure, McGoo. The power is supplied by the reader; the chip is entirely passive. Kitteh Man said he gets about 500 reads out of a reader before…something…slips.

Harrumph! Nothing should slip. A critical piece of info is missing here, because rf-induction readers shouldn’t wear out any faster than any other piece of e-hardware.

Not to get you off on a tangent, but did he say what he did in that case: replace the unit, send it back to get it fixed, or have it serviced?

Calibration/drift might be an issue, but that would be a piss-poor design in this day and age. Self-cal is almost a given nowadays.

*My retired technical juices are flowin’! God, I messed myself…*

He did actually say what “slipped” — but I didn’t catch it. Sorry. Girl moment. He didn’t say what happened then.

I kinda sorta got the impression they all say they check for chips, but they often don’t. I think that’s just me being paranoid because I feel hopeless about Damien, though.

Ah, well. I shouldn’t get excited about this stuff – I’m retired. But I still get techno-wood occasionally. Bet that’s too much info?

I still think Damien is coming back. I hate to quote some old guy, but “Be of good cheer.”

That does seem strange on the RFID readers. Sounds like planned obsolescence to me.

Meanwhile, another Rodayo this weekend. This one is kind of odd it’s in a town that has a population of 130, and is the biggest one day rodeo in California. Thousands of people show up. The ways of the horse people are strange. Oh, wait a minute.

I hope the wandering one does indeed come back. You know he’s doing it just out of spite. Maybe he’s anglophobic.

Allen – damned right it does seem strange. What would be wearing out in modern circuitry? It’s not like they’re pooping out all that much RF, so it couldn’t be heat or power stage stress. And the rest of the circuitry should outlive the Vet and all his clients.

I suspect built-in obsolescence-chisel-factor, or bad design. Wouldn’t be the first time a systems house did it…

Yeah, it’s either bad outta the box, or it’ll run forever.

I ‘member way back in the early days of PCs (I recall the dinosaurs were all dead but had yet to turn into oil), about 10% of ’em were bad-outta-the-box.

Oh, yes, jwp. The main culprit in those early PCs were the power supplies. They’d fail either on switch-on or switch-off.

I’m sure we both remember it then became the custom to leave them on all day – and then, later, leave them on all the time. That’s when screensavers came on the scene; to keep the monochrome screen from burning in while it was just sitting there all night.

But back to your point: no reason I can think of for the RF readers to not last for decades.

Well, it wasn’t my point, but I agree with you that they oughtta last muchos años, as we say south of the border (and pretty much north of it, too).

That’s ok – I’ll share my point with you. We can call it our point, jw!

Hee – When I took Spanish (I spelled that Snappish) I used to get años an anos mixed up.

Big difference. Really, really big difference.

Internal Memo
To: Steamboat McGoo
Subj: your point

As the great philosopher Rickie Lee Jones once said:
“Keep your business in your pocket where it belongs.”

/ahem

Good point.

The philosophy of RLJ is really a bit under-appreciated. I guess you like her for “The Horses”? I think she was a bit preoccupied with Chuck E.

Maybe I’m in a minority here, but I don’t know what cat baubles look like.

Yeah, you’d have a job getting that kitten into Britain. I mean, it’s a white for a start…

They’re fuzzy.

How did I get here? I don’t remember. Check out NotHired (bad resumes) and FFFFound (good images).

I just spent a few hours on that Not Hired site, Ms. Weasel. Quite hilarious!

I did the same! Some of those entries are hilarious, no? And I remembered how I got there: from Sippican‘s place.

I hate you, Weasel. I spent like an hour reading that. At work.

“I am bilingual in 3 languages. English, Spanish, and Indian.”

Heh heh heh. ‘Fess up. It was more fun than what you were supposed to be doing 🙂