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Cuteness: we haz it.

I’ve just uploaded a bunch of photos of flowers to my flickr site here. I added them to a set I posted earlier so some of them you may have seen before. I’ll probably put up at least one more set of photos of the dahlias since they’ll probably keep blooming for several more weeks. [...]

Our kittens now have the run of the house. Generally speaking things are going quite smoothly, although they have displayed a fondness for chewing through small wires. This meant that I had to spend some time jacketing all of the wires on all of the wall warts in the office/studio with plastic tubing so that [...]

The kittens are starting to explore the house. It has become evident that they’re fond of chewing on smallish things, including wires, so I’ve spent a chunk of yesterday and today attempting to cover wires that they might find tempting or remove them altogether. Partway through this process I rebooted my main PC and was [...]

Since our previous attempt to acquire more feline house mates didn’t work out, we decided that we needed to start smaller–that is, with cats smaller than Edwin. The theory is that if Edwin can establish with newcomers that he’s Macho Kitteh without contradiction, he’ll accept them and everyone will get along. This is how it [...]

One of the best vision-of-the-future movies ever made, Metropolis, has been newly restored. 25 minutes of missing footage has been recovered from a copy found in Argentina. I think I’ve seen three different versions of it over the years, including the somewhat notorious Giorgio Moroder version (which was weird, yes, although the music that Moroder [...]

Yeah, it’s been a week since I last posted something here. Sorry about that; it’s been a somewhat unusually full week. Maddy and Edwin caught a virus of some sort and have nasty sore throats. This meant a trip to the vet and a course of antibiotics–not because antibiotics do anything for viruses, but because [...]

We returned Raymond and Robbie, the recent feline additions to the household, to whence they came this afternoon. It turned out that Robbie and Edwin had irreconcilable differences, the nature of which will never be completely understood by the humans that know them. It became painfully clear that Robbie just wasn’t going to be happy [...]

I’ve run across a few videos demonstrating SMT soldering techniques. An online electronics shop called Curious Inventor has a nice collection of videos here which will show you how to solder SMD devices with relatively inexpensive tools. Their most recent video here shows how to drag-solder the pins of a 0.5mm pitch SOIC. If you [...]

The new cats in residence started exploring the house yesterday. I posted a dozen photos of them on my Flickr site here. They’ve also met all of the other cats. Reactions have been fairly predictable. Tracie is currently trying to break the ice by showing them that they have common interests such as plastic things [...]