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Perrine

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 02:44am on 2004-06-10

(Wrote this yesterday (Wednesday), but 'clive' hasn't been able to log in to post it. After re-trying every hour or two when I've been awake, I'm now trying the web interface.)

Not feeling well today or yesterday. Hoping I feel better by the weekend -- need to feel better by the weekend, with Conterpoint, and gigs both days of the Potomac Celtic Festival. Not at my most talkative but felt like sharing a cat image before I forget it.

Last night I went to feed Perrine, and she ignored her food to stare up at a spot high on the wall instead, where a toomanylegs was climbing near the ceiling, unnoticed by me until I followed Perrine's gaze. I was amused that she leapt to the counter and ran to that end of it as if to pursue or pounce ... as though she'd forgotten that even with the kitchen counter as a starting point, eight and a half feet up was beyond her reach.

(Not unusual feline behaviour; I'm easily amused. I would have hit it with bug spray, but I worried about her biting it after it fell if I did so, so I knocked it down with compressed air instead, for her to chase. I really don't like those things. Eight legs are okay -- I'm not fond of spiders near me, but I don't go ew ew ew ew ew at them -- but these things really bug me (pardon the pun) on a gut level.)

The day before, I observed her hunting a mosquito. "Heh," I thought, "turnabout is fair play, no? Better that the mosquito be hunted and slain than that she bite me or Perrine."

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posted by [identity profile] keith-m043.livejournal.com at 11:55pm on 2004-06-09
The toomanylegs is probably a "house centipede" They have them at the University of Maryland and I've seen them featured on Sluggy Freelance about three years back.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 12:19am on 2004-06-10
Oh, right ... what was its name, "Fluffy"? If it looked sort of like a crawling eyebrow, yeah. (Not going to creep back through archives at 56Kbaud right now, but have a vague recollection of a photo there of what I've got.)
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posted by [identity profile] keith-m043.livejournal.com at 12:44am on 2004-06-10
I was sifting through at cable modem speed but got sucked into the "game called on account of naked chick" thread. ;) I know there is a substory called torg in the land of the fluffies but I can't find it. I do know it's before july 2002 cuz I saw a reference to it in someone's blog
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posted by [identity profile] juuro.livejournal.com at 10:46am on 2004-06-10
(technosticklery)
I doubt that your modem is really 56 kilobaud. 56 kilobits per second is quite plausible. I don't recall, however, what the baudrate is for the 56 kbps modem.

A baud is one symbol on the communication line per second. One symbol of line code, that is, not one symbol of payload. There are coding schemes that put three, or four, or five, or even more bits of payload into one symbol of line code. The higher-speed things do odder things, but still there remains a difference between line symbol rate and delivered bit rate.

Sorry about that. The difference between bit per second and baud has been something of a pet peeve of mine for well over twenty years.
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posted by [identity profile] doubleplus.livejournal.com at 11:59pm on 2004-06-09
Reminds me of the Far Side cartoon featuring birds in an "Invertebrate Taste Test." "Nope, don't like that at all -- too many legs." :-)
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 12:21am on 2004-06-10
:-)
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waitaminutute

posted by [identity profile] kara-h.livejournal.com at 04:43am on 2004-06-10
A cat ... forget?

She was just indicating she wanted it, and she did, right? She just found an efficient and way to ask for help without losing face.

"Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity."
-- Terry Pratchett, 'Witches Abroad'
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posted by [identity profile] malada.livejournal.com at 12:02pm on 2004-06-10
I would have hit it with bug spray, but I worried about her biting it after it fell if I did so, so I knocked it down with compressed air

Good idea. We usually use Windex or some other spray cleaner especially for flying bugs. Gums up their wings so they can't go anywhere but down. Easy clean-up afterwards.

But that won't be good for kitty tummies.

Feel better.

-m
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Have to be careful

posted by [identity profile] lupikocat.livejournal.com at 03:50pm on 2004-06-10
Most Millepedes Centipedes and spiders can bite or sting. Be careful, Lost a cat to a Wasp sting, was very sad.
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toomanylegs

posted by [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com at 09:14pm on 2004-06-15
When I saw you had bolded toomanylegs, I first misread it
as an LJ nick: [livejournal.com profile] toomanylegs. I nearly created an account
under that name just to comment on your post.


Luckily for you, I'm lame.

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