{"id":1683,"date":"2009-09-27T21:04:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T03:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2009-09-27T21:04:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T03:04:13","slug":"technokittens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2009\/09\/27\/technokittens\/","title":{"rendered":"Random musings about kittens and technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post in which I shall blawg about nifty feats of geekery and show you pictures of cute kittens &#8211; i.e. a typical blog entry from me.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today I finally accomplished something I&#8217;ve been trying to do unsuccessfully for quite a while: get my NEC MobilePro handheld PC to access, via wi-fi, the other machines on my home network which are acting as servers.  I was really mainly interested in being able to access two shared directories: one in which I have all e-books, scans of printed material, etc., and one which is set aside for scans of the booklets from all of the CDs in my music library.  I&#8217;ve been trying, slowly but steadily, to &#8220;digitize&#8221; as much of my life as possible: papers, documents, photos, and so on.  I write the bulk of the reviews and articles for the site while I&#8217;m away from my desktop, so it&#8217;s nice being able to call up the scans for a CD booklet and check the credits or liner notes for something.  This has proven, until now, to be a bit difficult because the MobilePro is old enough that it&#8217;s not quite on the same page with an XP-driven Microsoft Windows network as far as naming conventions, etc.; now it all works just fine and dandy, and I&#8217;ve got one hell of a library for toilet reading.  Just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Now onto the important stuff: kittens!  The little ones no longer stay in the box; they&#8217;ve invaded the bathtub and I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re working up invasion plans for the whole house.  They&#8217;re walking very well, wrestling each other, hopping a little (I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll be jumping here in a week or two), and driving their mom NUTS.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/kittens11.jpg\" alt=\"Taxi + kittens\" \/><br \/>\nTaxi contemplates the fact that (A) she&#8217;s the octomom of the cat world, and (2) she he unleashed a force that she cannot hope to control.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/kittens12.jpg\" alt=\"Kittens\" \/><br \/>\nCome play with us!  RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/kittens13.jpg\" alt=\"Kittens\" \/><br \/>\nA close-up of our pile of small cats.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/kittens14.jpg\" alt=\"Kittens\" \/><br \/>\nYou want to adopt me, don&#8217;t you?  This one is one of a pair of&#8230; if they&#8217;re not twins, then they&#8217;re damn close.  They both sit and stand in exactly the same position when they&#8217;re together &#8211; it&#8217;s like the Stepford Kittens.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/kittens15.jpg\" alt=\"Kittens\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to go ahead and fess up: this is one I want to keep.  Darkest of the dark grey kitties, with quite a fun personality.  And so cuddly and friendly and trusting; some of the kittens, when we reach in and grab them, instantly start calling for mom.  This one&#8217;s more like &#8220;Hey, cool!  I&#8217;m out of the tub.  I&#8217;m going to climb you now, okay?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/kittens16.jpg\" alt=\"Kittens\" \/><br \/>\nI would also like to keep this one &#8211; mostly white, but I have a feeling that when we&#8217;re a bit bigger, we&#8217;re going to look a lot like our mother, who as many of you have commented is quite an attractive cat.  Obviously a little camera shy.  My wife&#8217;s not crazy about me adopting two of the babies&#8230;I understand.  That&#8217;s two who will need shots, and two who will need to be rewired so they don&#8217;t go having babies or causing babies to happen, and they&#8217;ll both need this stuff at the same time.  Still, I&#8217;m a two-cat kinda guy.  And these two &#8211; the darkest and lightest of the litter &#8211; remind me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/earls-pictures\/othello-and-iago\/\">someone<\/a> for some reason&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post in which I shall blawg about nifty feats of geekery and show you pictures of cute kittens &#8211; i.e. a typical blog entry from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,37],"tags":[42,71],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-gadgetology","tag-kittens","tag-taxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}