Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts

Thursday, March 31, 2011

StumbleUpon

Many years ago, or maybe it was a few months ago, I downloaded the StumbleUpon addon to my Firefox.  At the time, it sounded like a pretty cool idea, but I ended up hating it.  It never found anything I wanted to look at and I never used it.  Shortly thereafter, the addon was uninstalled.

A couple of days ago, I decided to give StumbleUpon another try.  I haven't used it much, but I already like it much better.  I'm not sure if they changed their coding or if I did a better job of selecting my interests, but it's a lot better than I remember.  One of the first things it stumbled upon was Hello Adorable and this picture:

I guess I'll just sleep over here...


 
This is picture alone is enough to make me keep this addon. 

Photo by: Hello Adorable

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Karma

There's a man in my complex who feeds stray cats.  This bothers me for various reasons:
  • It's a violation of the lease.  The lease clearly spells out that your are not supposed to feed stray animals so as not to attract more.
  • Management knows who is feeding the cats, but does nothing about it.  The man is an attorney who threatened to sue if management actually enforces the lease.  It's people like him, people who believe they're entitled to do whatever they want by threatening lawsuits, that are what's wrong with our legal system.
  • Stray cats are not taken care of.  By this I mean that they do not have flea or tick prevention treatments, they are not spayed or neutered, nobody cleans up after them, etc.  This means my dog can pick up fleas, ticks, and diseases from relieving herself the same place they do, not to mention the kittens that show up occasionally.
Last week, karma kicked in.  I was talking to one of my neighbors yesterday who happens to live a few doors down from this man.  Apparently, he took a step up from feeding the cats to trying to domesticate them.  Somebody should have told him this was a very bad idea.  Let's just say he used to have a lot of really nice leather furniture.  I know it's evil, but I couldn't help but smile.