Cats have taken over the internet & the Library of Congress wants in on the action:

Where do you get kitty cat sized boxing gloves?

The idea of a blog devoted to MRIs of fruits & vegetables is so wonderful I’m surprised no one’s thought of it before.

A cucumber looks pretty much exactly like I expected.

Nah, I don’t need to write that password down.  I’ll totally remember it!

I’ve been fumbling along with a PC for about a year & a half now, and for what I needed at the time, it was just fine.  I had my Notepad ++ text editor & GiMP for working with images, but if I needed to use anything more advanced than that, oh hell no.  There have been tears, curse words, threats of violence, and victories that were too few & too far between.

I’m looking at you Cigwyn.  I’m still mad at you, asshole.

So at this point in my nerd career, it’s time to get the right tool.  I need something where development tools run naively.  And I need something I can carry without breaking my back.

So I got a MacBookPro.  And it’s really pretty, and I’m a little intimidated by it.  It’s more computer than I’ve ever owned, and I feel like kind of a fraud.  Am I really a person who needs something so ‘vroom vroom’?

I did manage to knit it a sweater, because that I know I’m competent at.  And I named it Flapjacks.  I don’t really even like pancakes all that much.