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TARDIS Ice Bucket please.

Thank you!

I have had two cats that were leash trained. First was my older cat. The first time I put her in a harness she was 10 years old. She mostly followed me around or would tug to get near people to pet her. Her entire goal was to get more people to pet her and was mostly indifferent to the experience of outside vs inside.(She lived to 19 BTW.)

My new cat was harness trained as 10 month old kitten. At first, he hated it. Now he meows excitedly when I pick up his harness and leash. He still spooks easily, which means I have to be very aware of my surroundings. (He hates cars, which I consider a plus.) But when I take him out now, he jogs along the side walk with his tail high in the air. He is familiar with the limitations of the leash and even follows when I call him. He is also clever and I had to add a strap to his harness to stop his Houdini like escapes from it.

Truly depends on the cat and the owner. A lot of leash training a cat involves hours and hours of just letting them get used to it and feel safe with you outside. Some cats will never feel safe enough outside to walk on a harness. Also, you don't walk a cat on a leash so much as follow a cat on a leash or cajole the cat on a leash a few feet this way or that and periodically untangle the leash from various items. It's nothing like walking a dog. Most cats have little interest in following you much less being obedient to 'proper leash etiquette'. A leash just keeps the cat from taking off full speed into traffic or climbing a tree you can't get them out of.

I work a Renaissance Festival in the end of summer (August through the beginning of October) and probably wear just as many layers as goths (perhaps more). Honestly, you get used to it. Also, large flowing skirts get a lot of air underneath and can actually be cooler then most pants. My arms are covered by billowy cloth which can sometimes be as cool as not having them covered.

When did Neatorama become Facebook?

@P. Lobster I think you close correct. Looks like a ship's horn or a steamboat whistle. The other side probably has a slit here the air comes out to create the sound.

Crows and Ravens are wildly intelligent. There are piles of videos on youtube of crows and ravens doing clever things. Josh Klein actually built a vending machine that crows figured out how to use. To the extent they were stealing change from commercial vending machines around the area.
http://www.wireless.is/projects/crows/
I always find myself amazed at how clever some animals are, specifically scavenger species like crows and squirrels.

I had the same problem. It seemed to occur from about 10 am to 10:30 am EST. I thought maybe it was my computer.

Oh well, encouraged me to do a registry clean up and run my more intense virus scanning programs.

The Audio Perv has the vid up:
http://theaudioperv.com/2009/01/11/neil-patrick-harris-snl-doogie-howser-theme-video/

Ha ha ha, because women are hateful wardens imprisoning the men they 'love' because they didn't get bribed with jewelry. Ha ha ha! /end sarcasm

Sexist tripe.

Much funnier video:
http://current.com/items/89614245/target_women_jewelry.htm

I was 4 and we lived in Hingham. My mother stuck a broom stick with a handkerchief tied to the top down the back of my jacket because she couldn't see me over the snow banks around the walk and drive way and she was afraid she'd lose me. There's a picture in one of the family albums of a little hanky-flag waving over a huge pile of snow.

(Turn about being fair play and all)

Dear Technical Support,

I am writing to express my deep dissatisfaction with your Companion for Women series of programs. While Boyfriend Ver1 was quite lovely, having flowers delivered, sending sweet emails, subsequent versions were increasingly less useful. Each version would install numerous additional sub-programs that I could not disable. I'm not entirely sure what the 'Night Out With the Boys' program does, only that while it was running the Boyfriend program seemed to disappear from my system. If I tried to uninstall NOWB I would get a Smothering error message.

I was told that would all be fixed in the latest version, Husband, but I have found this version riddled with even more problems then the Boyfriend series. The Flatulence audio bug is particularly annoying.

The regular email alerts no longer contain compliments and declarations of love. Instead they complain about the figures in the Quicken budget and criticized the frequency of my online shopping purchases. I also keep finding links to diet and plastic surgery websites that I did not add in my bookmarks folder. That is particularly amusing since I've needed to upgrade my RAM several times to compensate for Husband's ever expanding consumption of resources.

The calendaring functionality is completely broken as the Anniversary, Birthday and other special occasion features have ceased to function at all. The Handyman program functions sporadically, only working for one Saturday out of a month. If I'm lucky. I've just given up on the Romance packet. And don't get me started on the Bedroom Peripheral. Functions for about five minutes then just dies and refuses to function again for several days.

The program is also quite susceptible to viruses. The Buddies Worm has destroyed my operating system, particularly the Living Room Suite. Some second party program called 'Poker Night' installed itself, consuming even more of my resources and littering my system with vulgar .txt files while the tower discharges this noxious smoke.

Any attempts to modify the Husband program have been met with administrative error messages berating me for being too controlling. In fact, the Husband program has taking over most of my operating system, bogging it down with constant requests, especially 'file not found' errors. The program just can't seem to keep track of anything for itself. Honestly, I can't tell you how many times I've had to re-establish file paths for it.

It's gotten to the point where it's absolute misery to log into my computer. I come home found work (followed by a series of necessary errands) only to be meet by a long list of requests from my Husband program as if I have nothing better to do then meet it's needs when I log in.

I suspect the only solution will be to wipe the hard drive and reinstall my operating system. I don't really need your help as I've purchased the Divorce Lawyer uninstaller program and it promises to both remove all traces of Husband from my operating system while recovering most of my resources.