A few months after my ex and I had separated and I’d moved to an apartment, taking one of our cats in tow (Bonnie was ‘my cat’ and didn’t really like anyone else anyway), there was a tiny kitten who’d started milling about the house and took a shine to our Malamute, Lady. Now, most mals aren’t known for liking cats,…

When I was a kid, the vet used to tell folks to wait until a female cat had her first heat before getting her fixed. My little Emily Dee missed the heat part - she just got real fat.

I came by a kitty and a pup thanks to jerks who abandon/otherwise give zero shits about tiny kitties/puppies.
My Meow-Meow was found by the side of the road with a broken jaw, she was probably 9 weeks old but so malnourished and sickly it was hard to tell. Some kind soul found her and brought her into the vet where my…

I’m just going to add that people who abandon (better word is dump) animals instead of taking them to a rescue or shelter are both lazy and shitty. Gah!

this mama dog had a far better Mothers’ Day:

Young Justice, the much beloved DC cartoon on CN was cancelled because CN execs felt that too many girls were watching the show. I took this to mean they may have to spend money on making female action figures and that wasn’t about to happen, so they cut of their nose despite the face.

Back in the dial-up days, the quality of the phone line was directly tied to the quality of a connection. Given that she could barely hear the caller over static, it was obvious that the phone line was the issue.

My favorite call from working at AOL, doing late shift tech support? The guy who called in about something unrelated (adding another screen name or something basic) and being told that he would have called earlier, but his computer only works at night.

30+ years old? you must live in the new part of town. I have seen them that have had 60 year old wiring, and I have been in a Switching station that actually scared most of the guys as they did a half assed upgrade from regular relay switching to a digital system and left all the old stuff in place as there were…

Managed a help desk for a company of 300 employees. I have dozens of great stories but my favorite: took a call from a woman in the marketing dept. that her printer was broken. I go down and find that she had removed the toner. I sit at her desk for a minute to make sure it’s working and she asks for a new printer. I…

I dunno, these pretty closely mirror my own experiences, the guy in the shower notwithstanding. The one from last time where the guy insisted he was a cyborg trying to connect his brain to wifi definitely takes the cake, though. Never had ANYTHING within an order of magnitude that weird in 15 years. As far as I’m…

Oh wow, I remember that hot mess. There was one of these monoliths inside our backyard fence, because city planners don’t. Occasionally we had to let a telephone man in to work on someone else’s problem.

I see that wikipedia repeats (is the source for?) hutnick’s misconception, but the o and - symbols combined to make the power button symbol stand for an open and closed circuit, respectively. It has nothing to do with binary. They are a combination of the separate symbols on a rocker switch (combined because it is a…

There are some things you can just never account for.

OK, here’s a really ancient story. I was told this by Dr. Bill Hays, the BYU CS department chair back when I was an undergrad in the mid-1970s.

They’re not in this to reduce abortions — they’re in this to shame women and force their religious-based morality upon them.

I never thought something would make me pity both Salinger and Lindsay Lohan at once.

Against Salinger? In my opinion: yes.