Category Archives: Misc

Pixel bites toilet paper

Fair warning…..this post will diverge a bit from my usual geek/tech posts……

Why the hell does my cat, Pixel, like to bite toilet paper? If we leave any of our bathroom doors open, she goes in and gnaws on the toilet paper on the roll – she just puts lots of holes in it but doesn’t actually eat it. The worst part is she doesn’t destroy it, she makes it look like it’s still usable since it’s still intact, but when you try to unroll it, it sticks to itself where she has punctured it and when you do get the paper off it has big cat-mouth-sized holes in it. If the roll was full I usually have to remove half off it to get past where here teeth penetrated. If the roll was half or less, it goes in the trash.

Damn cat. Oh yeah, she chews wires too. As an example, the power cord on our cordless phone in the living room is about a foot long now since I have had to splice it so many times since she chewed it. She stopped doing that when I coated all the wires I could find with Tabasco.

Pixel’s cute though. Here are some pics of her as a kitten – see how she got her name? She’s following the mouse cursor around the screen. Anyone else have cats or dogs with geeky names?


(click for the full photo set)
My cat Pixel

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Come Clean

Found this today via Jimmy Jett’s Podcast About Nothing: http://comeclean.com. Make sure you have sound turned up and headphones on when you visit. It’s a site that you can “come clean” and confess your wrongdoings or you can view what others have confessed. It’s narrated by a woman with a beautiful (Indian?) accent. It’s actually a very funny site – keep an eye on the bottom too – funny things pop up there – mine said “We have received a lot of murder confessions – we hope you were kidding.”

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Who is Michael A. Beavers?

So I’m browsing Flickr tonight and I see this text ad on one of the pages:
Michael Beavers ad

Just who is this Michael A. Beavers guy? Are so many people looking for him that it is worthwhile for a company to pay for an ad to help you find him? Have they found him and they just aren’t telling anyone? Was he missing? I have never known a Michael Beavers (or anyone with the last name Beavers for that matter). Now I’m wondering if I missed out on something by not ever meeting him. What makes him so special so many people want to get in touch with him again? Now I feel like I should find him. Damn you Michael Beavers!

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