What The Hell Am I Doing Here?

Saturday, December 20, 2003

Dept. of Holiday Visitors
We had a little lost visitor today- Sassy, the cat! She'd been hanging out around the back porch since last night and this afternoon she started scratching at the back door to be let in. So, I checked her collar, looked up her address on mapquest and saw that she was a quite a way from home. I gave her people a call and a very relieved dad picked her up fifteen minutes later, much to everyone's relief.
She's a sweet little cat- got a motorboat purr and is very talkative. Not too fond of Bob and Scooter; there were growls and hisses to be had. She liked Domino and even gave him a little bump.
Scooter wasn't very happy about another cat on her turf, but Bob seemed to like the idea that a younger woman was in the house. Bob looooves da ladies.
You can see Scooter glowering in the background of the photo on the left.
A Sassy Photo Gallery

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Dept. of Tough Love

BoingBoing gets all medieval on A&E's ass:

A&E gratuitously slams science fiction.
A&E has produced a craptacular Flash site to promote Lathe of Heaven, a telepic adapted from an Ursula K Le Guin story. The promo copy contains this grotesquely patronizing bit of gratuitously insulting analysis of science fiction, apparently aimed at ensuring that any science fiction fans who enjoy the work are put firmly in their place and instructed that this is different from that crappy rocket-ship stuff that they're accustomed to. I thought that this kind of thinking was dead and buried, but apparently, it's alive and well at A&E's marketing department. Flash Link, click "Author"(Thanks, Emilyg!)
[Boing Boing Blog]

Hit 'em again!!!

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Dept. of Hauntings

A picture named hamptonghost.jpg Hampton Court 'ghost' on film Hampton Court Palace is well known for tales of ghostly activity. Never before, however, has anything truly suspicious been captured on film. Yesterday it emerged that a mysterious pale figure, dressed in a long black coat, had been caught by CCTV cameras tampering with a set of fire doors. [The Telegraph]

Ohhhhh spooky!!!

Could it be the ghost of Jane Seymour's agent, looking for her career? Or maybe it's actually Gareth, of TV's The Office, looking out after fire regulations, because after all, not only is he in the territorial army:

One of the palace's security guards said: "It is incredibly spooky because the face just didn't look human."

Definitely Gareth. Because it sure isn't a ghost.

Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychology researcher from Hertfordshire University, yesterday cast doubt on the footage.
He said: "It is either a publicity stunt by the Palace, which I doubt, or it is a member of the public thinking they were being helpful by shutting the doors."

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Dept. of I Think Faces Are Really Glamourous, Don't You?

Screentest: Scooter a 1 minute movie.

(Quicktime .mov 11M)

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