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In the great tradition of Battlestar Galactica LOL Cats (One, Two, Three), Star Trek LOL Cats, and Torchwood LOL Cats, I proudly present Buffy the Vampire Slayer LOL Cats!
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January 20th, 2010 at 8:55 am
Xander Kitteh made me laugh! I liked the Dawn one too, but mostly because I hated the whole Dawn storyline.
January 20th, 2010 at 9:01 am
Well, I’ve never seen it but Xander was adorable.
January 20th, 2010 at 10:30 am
SPESHUL POWRZ, Ha Love it.
January 20th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Poor Xanderkitteh. I just want to pet him and hug him and make him feel better.
January 20th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Yeah, so how’s everyone doing today? I’m on my last day of antibiotics. Hooray.
January 20th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
They are finally fixing my graphics card today, so I will no longer have to use my laptop. Having to work like your doing remote access while being in the office is the worst of both worlds.
January 20th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
As much as I love my laptop, working with a desktop is just so much easier.
Was hoping this post would pop up on Whedonesque. No such luck.
January 20th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
I’m writing this from my desktop. I can use the home and end buttons when writing code!
January 20th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
LOL! Sweet! I always miss the home, end, page up, and page down keys when working on my laptop.
January 20th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
I have the best of both worlds, I have a laptop that plugs into a dock that I use with a keyboard and nice big screen when I am in my office.
So how is the yougurt working out?
January 20th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Yogurt made things a bit better, thanks
January 20th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Glad you are feeling better Craig. I am soooo tired today. Not sure why. I have a massive screen at work which is quite disconcerting when I go home to my little netbook.
January 20th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
YAY! My faves are the 2nd and the last.
January 20th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Glad the yogurt worked, I mean just how many times can you do this and live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7l6jg4Hlog
January 20th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
If I knew anything at all about BSG I’m sure I would have found these hilarious. Glad the antibiotics worked. Once i got crackers to stay down my maw, I took some Advil, and I’m feeling a bit better myself. Sorta.
HUGS…
January 20th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
OH…see, I’m still a bit delirious, cause this about Buffy, which I also know nothing about, and NOT BSG.
Now that I know that the vampire one makes a bit more sense. I was thinking, “There was a vampire on BSG?” *SIGH*
HUGS….
January 20th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
I like cats!
January 20th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Craig, Did you LOL these cats up yourself, or did you find them pre-LOLLed up?
I have two big wide screen LCDs on my office computer. I usually have between 30 and 75 windows open at the same time, so I am thankful for all the screen real-estate I can get. I don’t think a laptop would suite me very well at work.
I just got a Netbook, but I only used it to take notes at Pride Center board meetings. I miss the full keyboard, but it works fine for just taking notes.
I have a very old Notebook that I just don’t use any more, and never used much. It is too heavy to be comfortable to carry around, and too slow to be much fun to use.
I LOVE my smart phone. I don’t know how I managed before I had one.
January 20th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Chris D.: My monitor was working, so I could use both it and my laptop screen at the same time. However, my laptop is like yours: old and heavy. I was very uncomfortable after carrying it in a messenger bag on the 25 min. walk from my apartment to my office. It will have it’s sixth birthday in June. I plan to get a netbook by the next time I go to a conference.
January 20th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Very cute. I liked the Anya kitty with the money and the Buffy mummy hand kitty.
Ryan, are you staying dry?
January 20th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Michelle M.: I am currently dry, but I do not have high hopes about staying that way on my way home. However, there may be a shuttle that can take me most of the way. Too bad it won’t be around again for almost half an hour.
January 20th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Michelle M.: The bus stopped running just before I wanted to get on. My socks and pants are soaked. At least, my umbrella survived.
On my walk home, I listened to Yellowcard’s Back Home five times. I was being ironic:
“Another sunny day in beneath this cloudless sky. Sometimes, I wish that it would rain here.”
January 20th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Ok, Ryan & Craig. What IS it about you girls and your prissy fussing about Home and End keys? I haven’t used my desktop computer in YEARS! Even when I DO have some (rare) reason to use my desktop computer, I just Remote Desktop to it from my laptop. Laps. Couches. Working at home. No desktops for me.
Chris: I’m pretty sure Craig “LOL’ed these cats up himself.”
How many times in history has that sentence ever been said?
January 20th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
I like home and end as well. I use them a lot. But since we are talking about keyboard keys, one thing I did not like about Macs is the absence of the delete key. There is none, only backspace! Crazy!
Also there was one key combination (can’t remember what), that I use a lot in Windows. The Mac was running Windows in VM, and I used that normal key combination and threw me out of my Windows VM and showed me SPORTS SCORES! Who the heck needs a hotkey for random sports scores?!?!?!
Also, who here uses old school Ctrl-Insert / Shift -Insert to copy and paste? My boss, who is older than me, uses those new fangled key strokes. Anyone else? Perhaps that is just a legacy from my OS/2 days.
January 20th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
I … use… Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert.
Am I … going to have to take back the comment I just made on Josh’s blog?
January 20th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
That’s what I use, Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert! I think the “new trendy” ones are Ctrl-V and something else. I guess were just old school.
January 20th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
*facepalm*
“we’re”
You may be sweet, Chris, but that doesn’t stop me from going all pedantic about spelling on your ass.
January 20th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Justin: Yep, that was a typo. Forgive me, if you can?
I think I am just getting tired. I have been debugging a bitch of a migration this evening, featuring binary data version subtleties in a view persistence framework causing errors. I solved that, now I find that the system view layout framework classes has been refactored in a way that breaks my subclass of it. I’ve already forked into two images, I REALLY don’t want to have a third image to support (yet). To avoid that I may have to script some moderately complex fixes. Sometimes this software stuff is a pain in the ass!
January 20th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Justin: Having to arrow over a long line of code in order to get to the beginning or end of a line is tedious.
I was sad to discover that the old version of Matlab that I have on my laptop doesn’t have emacs shortcuts. I had grown used to killing and yanking lines.
January 20th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Chris: I forgive you
I know exactly what you mean about this software stuff. I’ve been having a bitch of a time with some JAX-RS and Spring Bean stuff tonight 
Ryan: *rolls eyes* There IS a Home button on MY laptop. I would never be caught dead arrowing over a long line of code.
January 20th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Justin: I have the button. It just doesn’t work in the terminal when I log in remotely.
January 20th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
“I have the button.”
I just BET you do
January 21st, 2010 at 7:37 am
Control-C for Copy. Get it? C = Copy. Okay, granted control-V for insert doesn’t make a whole lot of sense but the V is a bit like the carrot that editors use when they want you to insert something in a sentence so it does make sense that way. Sheesh.
January 21st, 2010 at 7:42 am
I keep hitting the Esc button, but I’m still here!
January 21st, 2010 at 8:46 am
All this computer talk has raised the geekiness level of Puntabulous about 135%. And for Puntabulous, with it’s already high geeky level, that’s really saying something.
Actually, I’m just jealous that you guys can understand each other. To me, it’s like you’re speaking French. But without the snobbiness.
HUGS…
January 21st, 2010 at 8:57 am
The http://2010.bloggies.com/ nominations should be posted today. I was nominated in 2008 (and lost to Perez, ugh) but that was at my high point in readership after the other bloggies. Even though I pretend blog awards are dumb, I’m still curious to see who’ll get nominated.
January 21st, 2010 at 9:02 am
Apparently the wiki article on copy and paste has a nice little table showing the key combinations in different contexts. I had forgotten about “Cut” — Ctrl-X is even harder to remember than Ctrl-V! If somebody had asked me, I would have said “Ctrl-T?” I use Shift-Delete.
Et Polt — si tu préfères, je parlerai des ordinateurs en français
January 21st, 2010 at 9:05 am
Craig don’t you mean voting closes today? Nominations closed on Jan 12 and finalist voting happened on the 18th, according to the calendar on that site …. :-/
January 21st, 2010 at 9:17 am
No. People nominate, then select voters are emailed a list of nominations, and they narrow it down to five per category, then today the final five nominees for each category should be listed for a final public vote.
January 21st, 2010 at 9:38 am
Oh cool. And you already know you are one of the final five in a category?
January 21st, 2010 at 9:46 am
I don’t think we’re communicating correctly.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:00 am
Nominations were made. Random voters were emailed a list of say 20 nominated blogs in each category. No one but those voters know who was nominated. They voted for their favorites which are being narrowed down to 5 per category. The 5 per category will be announced today and a public vote held to pick the best in each category.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:05 am
Ah. So we have to hope that you and Josh and Enrico and the Chrises (both of them) and the Davids (all three) and Milo and Kári and Jere et al. have all ended up as finalists in different categories so we can vote you all winners, right?
January 21st, 2010 at 10:26 am
Exactly!
January 21st, 2010 at 10:27 am
X = Cut = a pair of scissor? It all makes total sense.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:57 am
okay, I have to ask, what with all computer jargon going about cutting and pasting…why don’t you just highlight and then right click where is says “cut”? Why use the keyboard at all?
(he asks, revealing his lack of smart computer knowledge)
HUGS…
January 21st, 2010 at 11:07 am
Ah, well, some of us prefer not to take our hands off the keyboard to move them onto the mouse; it’s just faster to keep the hands in the same place all the time. Especially if you know how to type with both hands and 9 fingers and without the hunt-and-peck method.
Of course with a laptop, especially with one that has the *ahem* TrackPoint™-style pointer (visit see link for alternative *HORRIFYING* terms; personally I prefer “eraserhead mouse”), one can do it your way *without* taking one’s hands off the keyboard!
January 21st, 2010 at 11:34 am
I decided to drive the 1.3 mi. to work rather than get soaked again.
January 21st, 2010 at 11:43 am
Ryan — how do you *usually* get to work? 1.3 miles is purty durn walkable (as long as it’s not raining); in fact depending on how fast your buses run, it might be faster than the bus.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Justin: I usually walk. I had to walk home last night because I wasn’t familiar enough with the buses to use them in an emergency.
I definitely made the right decision. The front of my trousers still got soaked from the walk from apartment to car and car to office.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:03 pm
I come from the old school computer camp; I am used to using keyboard shortcuts for everything, I only use the mouse if I absolutely have to. I highlight (shift+Home, shift+End, shift+ctrl+arrow), cut (ctrl+X) and paste (ctrl+V) about a bajillion and one times a day. When browsing the internet I also create new tabs (ctrl+T), switch tabs (ctrl+Tab), close tabs (ctrl+W), and change web address (ctrl+D) all without using the mouse. Don’t even get me started on the number of MS Office shortcuts I use. Oh, and do I get extra geek credit for typing on a Dvorak keyboard?
Craig: keeping my fingers crossed for the bloggies!
January 21st, 2010 at 12:15 pm
I don’t have Windows 7 yet, but I am excited about some of the new shortcuts for it. I really want to try the one where you grab a window with the mouse and shake it to minimize all other windows. What can I say, I am a computer geek.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:18 pm
M.N. — I’m the same way! I use the mouse as little as humanly possible. I TAB between editboxes, I ALT+TAB between applications, I use whatever shortcuts I can in whatever app I’m in, and if I don’t know the shortcuts, I use the ALT+mnemonic combinations to pull up the menus or set focus to the place in the dialog I want to get to. Having the eraserhead nub does make it easier to use the mouse, so I do use it more now than I did when I had no mouse; and in particular on my ThinkPad I love to use the center button + nub to scroll.
And, yes. Dvorak keyboard is ultra-über-nerdy. You are vying with Craig for reigning Puntabudork.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:19 pm
Windows 7? I never upgraded to Vista. On principle I hate the DRM stuff Microsoft built in to Vista and I find the OS far too Mac-like (i.e. everything is hidden and hard to modify and they think they know better than you do about how your computer should work). I gather Windows 7 is better than Vista in the latter respects, but I am sure they are just as DRM-nazi-like as before.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Windows 7? Vista? I do have a pleasant vista outside my bedroom window, one of 15 windows in my house…am I playing along correctly?
HUGS…
January 21st, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Justin: I skipped over Vista, mainly because there was no real good reason to leave XP. The “added value” of Vista was minimal and, as you said, made some things more difficult to do because MS knows better than you what you want to do. However, I am more optimistic about Win 7, especially after learning about God Mode.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Justin: and there are ways around DRM, as long as you don’t mind breaking a rule or two.
January 21st, 2010 at 1:11 pm
I know there are ways around DRM. But what Microsoft did was even worse: they bullied the hardware manufacturers to build DRM protection into their drivers such that, for instance, you couldn’t play your own home movies from your own HD camcorder in High Def on your computer, because drivers are required to downscale from HD to SD if the stream DOESN’T have DRM on it. Or at least that’s what I’ve read; I’ve never tried it myself.
I have been seriously considering switching to Linux for my next OS… As for my work-owned laptop, I doubt IBM will *ever* switch to Vista or Windows 7. For now we are all still on XP (Vista/Windows 7 are not supported by IBM’s IT department, though obviously some people have to run those OS’s for testing purposes, but nobody gets to run it as their primary workstation OS). If Microsoft ever decides to EOL XP support, I wouldn’t be surprised if we all got switched to Linux. We’ve already been required to remove Microsoft Office from our work computers.
January 21st, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Ugh. Windows 7 DRM is even worse than Vista’s
January 21st, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Justin: My understanding was that Vista would downgrade DRM HD if your cable/monitor wasn’t DRM compliant. This prevented people from recording DRM HD in real time (which I understand would require something like a RAID array of 20 hard drives to write that fast).
January 21st, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Ryan, yeah, I can’t swear that the story I repeated above is actually true; I don’t have Vista and I don’t even have an HD camcorder.
I’m a huge un-fan of DRM and of so-called “intellectual property rights” in the first place. As far as I’m concerned, copyright is an entitlement, not a property right; it’s there to serve a public good, and unfortunately it’s been taken to a point where it is no longer serving a public good but in many ways decidedly thwarting it and stifling creativity.
Don’t get me wrong: I believe strongly in paying for music, movies, software, etc., and I do — I don’t have the least desire to circumvent DRM in order to be able to “steal” content.
January 21st, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Paul: Escape key = LOL!
Tam: X as cut makes sense, C as copy makes sense. V as paste/insert I think it is because it is in line with C and X and it is like the short hand symbol for inserting that teachers used when we were in grade school. Just a thought.
M.Nico: Dvorak keyboard = Nerd FTW!
January 21st, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Dear Craig,
Maybe LOL does not mean what you think it means.
Warmest Regards,
Someone who hates {insert name of crappy show here} LOL Cats
January 21st, 2010 at 2:55 pm
My window.
It doesn’t help that San Diego doesn’t know how to weatherize.
January 21st, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Adam: LOL. You’re just waiting for me to post {crappy show you liked} LOL Cats. A-Team LOL Cats perhaps?