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Nice

July 31, 2007

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The Boyfriend™’s right-wing christian mom sorta-kind included me in the family last night. She was discussing some drama that I won’t go into on this blog and suggested that they should have a family meeting including “you guys.”

Well, it’s taken over 5 years, but it’s still nice.

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  1. Are you sure she wasn’t referring to the cats?

  2. My brother and his partner were at our Big Family Reunion two weeks ago.

    Ironically, everyone thought my brother’s partner was my husband.

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It’s Easy Being Green

July 30, 2007

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In a post that got WAY off topic over at Music City Bloggers, #9 (the same nutcase I mentioned in this post) responds thusly to someone’s suggestion that we “get off the oil tit:”

Do you ride your bike to the grocery store? I guess you have a little cart behind your bike to haul the vegetables home. I’ll stick with my car.

While this post isn’t a direct response to #9 or anyone else, reading this comment reminds me of a rather disturbing trend I’ve seen lately. Namely, the idea that if you can’t or won’t make every aspect of your life 100% eco-friendly, then you might as well do nothing (or worse yet, if you do one thing eco-friendly, but not another, you are somehow a hypocrite!). Some of it’s politically motivated (“Al Gore isn’t dumpster-diving for his food, what a hypocrite!”). Some of it seems to be the result of some defense mechanism (“I don’t want to feel guilty for not doing my part so if I package it together as an all-or-nothing proposition, I can feel ok about not taking it on”). Some it is just the result of low self-esteem (“I’m so small, what can I possibly do that will make a difference”). Whatever the reason, I’m calling bull. A would-be environmentalist needs not do without the luxuries modern life gives us. Being “green” is about doing what you can to reduce waste or conserve resources, not about reducing your consumption or waste to zero.

Sure, it’s great if you can bike to work. If you’re close enough, it’s good for the environment and it’s good for your body. Most of us don’t have that option. My legs start to hurt at mere thought of biking to work and even more so once we move a good deal further away. That doesn’t mean there is nothing I can do. With simple steps such as keeping my tires aired up, staying within 5 mph of the speed limit, using cruise control on the highway, and (especially) taking it easy on the accelerator when the light turns green, I can increase my gas mileage by up to 30%1. In addition to putting a bit of extra cash in my pocket, the potential is there for a massive positive impact on the environment. The average American drives 34 miles per day2. The average car in America gets about 25 miles to the gallon3. That means that if every American driver (all 196 million of them4) took the simple steps above (without even changing the frequency in which they use their vehicle or the kind of vehicle they drive), America would save about 51,592,258 gallons of gasoline every day. In one year that’d mean the equivalent to over half the amount stored in the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve!!!

You don’t have to live completely self-sufficiently in a hut in the woods to help the environment. All you have to do is take small and simple steps to just improve from where you are, and whether you’re the type of person who makes your one car trip a week in a Prius and that’s only to pick up some food to supplement what you can get from your garden or the type of person who drives the kids to soccer practice in a Hummer while chowing down on McDonald’s, there is some small step you can do to decrease your negative impact on the planet, without having any kind of significant impact on your life. If we all took just one small step, what an impact we could have.

  1. CNNMoney.com []
  2. CNN.com []
  3. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (PDF) []
  4. Wikipedia []

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  1. Heck, I ride a scooter that gets 90+ mpg, and the MTA bus.

    It’s more than any of them would do, I know.
    .

  2. You mentioned the economic benefits. Perhaps that is the best way to sell these ideas. Thats one thing you have to give Ed Begley jr. credit for. He isn’t mean or pissed off, and he lives what he preaches, and he brags about how much his lifestyle saves money.

  3. #9 is Stealth Stupidity in action. I think he’s a paid Karl Rove operative. No one can be taht stupid. I think he exists to troll the internet and disrupt the conversation.

    Other parts of the discussion were a lot more interesting.

    Thats one thing you have to give Ed Begley jr. credit for. He isn’t mean or pissed off, and he lives what he preaches, and he brags about how much his lifestyle saves money.

    And the right still writes him off as a joke. I have a huge problem with people (not pointing at you Glen, your comment just made me think of it) who insist no one can have an opinion about anything in this country unless they are first living the perfect life. You know, the whole “Al Gore is a hypocrite because he flew in an airplane” crowd. That’s bullshit.

    #9 said I need to ride a bicycle to the grocery store to be taken seriously about anything. No, actually, I don’t. Bush lies all the time, that hasn’t been a problem for #9. Last time I tried to ride a bike in Nashville I was nearly killed. Hey maybe if there were more sidewalks I’d walk to the store more often than I do. Maybe if it wasn’t 100 fucking degrees outside.

  4. I have a huge problem with people who insist no one can have an opinion about anything in this country unless they are first living the perfect life.

    And that’s exactly why I wrote this post. I have no idea if Al Gore is a hypocrite or not, because I don’t know exactly what he’s said about the environment. If he’s said no one should fly in planes or use electricity, then he’s a hypocrite, but if he has simply said people should do something to help the environment, then he’s not because my understanding is that he has taken steps to help the environment.

    Ed Begley Jr may “practice what he preaches,” but caring about the environment doesn’t mean you have to live like Ed. I don’t suggest that anybody live like Ed unless they want to. All I suggest is that people find simple ways to live greener than they currently do. If you use/waste the equivalent of 7 trees a year (that’s the average for an American), then what I ask is that you find a simple way to perhaps use 6.5 trees next year. Most people won’t (or even can’t) live like Ed Begley, but everybody can take some small step, and if everybody does, the effect will be greater than if 100,000 Ed Begleys popped up throughout the country.

  5. All I suggest is that people find simple ways to live greener than they currently do.

    That’s what I suggest to people all the time. Can we make small adjustments to try to do better? Then let’s do it! We don’t have to be living in huts, all sackcloth and ashes to save the planet- we just all need to be doing what we can do that suits us best.

    For example, I can’t take the bus or drive a scooter since I live in La Vergne and have 3 kids. So I drive a Honda Accord instead of a van or SUV. It’s a fairly minor adjustment in my lifestyle. If everyone would try to make these minor adjustments, we’d all be in a lot better shape. (and, as has been mentioned in the comments, save money as well)

    Sorry for the diatribe, it’s just a pet, well, not peeve. It’s a pet, um, issue of mine.

  6. Gary Kulash

    I have to entirely agree. This has nothing to do with “all or nothing.” If every citizen would make minor changes to their lifestyle, such as purchasing cars that only obtained 30MPG or more, we could easily see major impacts for the better on a global level.

    I feel perfectly good about the minor, but large, changes that Ian and I have made in our lives:

    1. Only drive cars that obtain 30mpg or better highway mileage. We have a 2006 Toyota Avalon and 2004 Honda Civic, both of which easily reach those goals.

    2. Replace all lights with halogen bulbs.

    3. Conserve energy when/where possible. Don’t leave a faucet running unattended, don’t have the A/C set to 70 degrees on a day where the outside temperature is 90+, don’t leave lights on throughout the home, don’t leave electronics such as a computer or TV turned on when not using them.

    All of these are minor changes that have minimal impact on my personal lifestyle, but they make a MAJOR reduction on the carbon footprint we leave behind.

    As for those saying “all or nothing,” good luck with that :-)

    I’ll instead opt to purchase a membership to a legitimate organization such as http://www.terrapass.com and offset the remainder of my carbon footprint with an equal amount of financing for alternative energy studies.

    -Gary

  7. In a post that got WAY off topic over at Music City Bloggers, #9 (the same nutcase I mentioned in this post) responds thusly to someone’s suggestion …

    #9 is a freelance moron who’s worn out his welcome on several community forums in TN. It’s never his fault, natch.

    If you can stomach it:

    http://www.knoxviews.com/node/3506

    http://www.knoxviews.com/node/3697

    Following his eventual banning, he started a semi-regular gig co-blogging at “saysuncle.com” but he doesn’t quite get the audience that he craves – that is, the audience that vocally contradicts his k00kery. He needs your negative energy to reinforce his puckered, paranoid worldview.

    Engaging him in conversation will only make matters worse. FYI. Forewarned is forearmed.

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VA Driving Fees

July 27, 2007

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I don’t often talk about local issues, but the new “abusive driver fees” our state government has cooked up merit some discussion. For those who aren’t aware, the Virginia General Assembly has decided that it’s time “bad drivers” pay big for their offense. They have instituted civil “fees” that are applied separately from and on top of the fines and punishments already in place for driving infractions. These fees can total up to as much as just over $3000 for one offense and offenses range from the fairly benign, like speeding or not using your turn signal, to the more extreme such as DUI. Needless to say, the law is already being challenged in court, several petitions against it have appeared, and several lawmakers (who trumpeted their support of the bill initially) are now trying to distance themselves from it.

I have no problem with justice being served. I’m generally a law abiding citizen1, but I speed from time to time. The thing is, if I get pulled for speeding, I acknowledge that I was breaking the law and wouldn’t have a problem paying the ticket. That all changes when the punishments no longer match the crime.

Let’s look at it this way: let’s say you steal a pack of gum. It was a bad idea to do, and I don’t think you’d find anybody who would tell you you’d done the right thing, but really the harm was minimal. But the shopkeeper saw you and came running out of the store after you. Most of you would probably acknowledge that you made a bad decision, pay for the gum, maybe a bit more for his trouble, then go on your way. But how might your response change if you knew that getting caught with the gum would leave you with a $1000 fine? A $5000 fine? Jail time? Death? Having already taken the gum in a moment of weakness, I suspect most of us, at some point, would decide to take our chances running rather that pay a horribly disproportionate cost for our indiscretion. Now take that runner and put them behind the wheel of a motor vehicle, and you see why amplifying penalties to absurd proportions can be a dangerous proposition. Justice is served by giving appropriate sanctions for crimes committed. Nothing is served by leveling massive fees for the smallest of offenses.

Of course, all of that assumes that the goal of the legislation is justice.  It isn’t, and the politicians aren’t even trying to hide that fact.  This is about one thing and that’s generating revenue for the state.   For one thing, these penalties are being billed as “fees” not “fines.”  The money from fines goes to education, but our legislators have other plans for the money they collect through these civil penalties, so to avoid having to spend the money they make from this lucrative scam on schools, they’ve decided that these are “fines” but “fees.”  If this is about serving justice and keeping us safe, why the need to direct the funds obtained through the legislation to anywhere other than where all the traffic fines go?

Another by product of the “fee” system is the fact that it’s simply not so easy to collect “fees” from non-Virginia residents as it is to collect “fines.”  To solve this they simply exempted no-Virginia residents from having to pay the fees in the first place.  Get that?  The politicians want to “keep us safe” from Virginia drivers, but when the guy in the car behind us is from Maryland (or elsewhere), we’re on our own.  How is selectively fining (I’m sorry, “feeing”) drivers from only within state keeping us safer again?  If the state has legitimate need of more funding, then simply raise taxes and try to convince the voters of the need before the next election.  Creating money-making legislation in the name of “keeping us safe” isn’t the way to go about it.

  1. In fact the only traffic violation I’ve ever gotten was a parking ticket when my car broke down in 2 hour parking and the tow truck took more than two hours to get there []

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  1. Gary Kulash

    Erhm….methinks you’ve been brainwashed along with the rest of the residents in your state on the logistics of this new fine system.

    To make your analogy more correct, you’d have to have gotten caught shoplifting gum MULTIPLE times…not once, not twice.

    The new fines in Virginia go strictly after habitual, dangerous drivers who are the types of aggressive, reckless folks that have caused many of us to nearly get into what could be fatal accidents. More importantly, they are the same types of people who DO kill others on the road through their reckless disregard behind the wheel.

    The new fines aren’t about punishing those of us who get the occasional ticket once a decade. They never have been.

    As far as where the money from the fines is going (to improve Northern Virginia’s disgusting excuse for a transportation infrastructure), that is the direct product of the worthless General Assembly that has been more concerned with protecting Virginian’s from gay marriage than filling in those massive potholes and fixing ungodly congestion problems in their half of I-495.

    The transportation issue in VA has gone un-touched for far, far too long. Either raise taxes, make major cuts in exisiting local government programs or use these new “fees” or “fines.” Bottom Line — your state needs this money *BAD*.

    On a last note, I personally think a plan like this should be rolled out nationwide. I’d love to see those jerks who weave in and out of traffic at 85MPH nearly clipping cars having to dish out thousands (or more) in fines to make the roads safer for the rest of us.

    -Gary

  2. Actually, you’re buying into what the politicians who voted for the legislation are SAYING (now that the public has voiced their displeasure) the law says versus what it actually says. The fees ARE based on a point system, meaning that people with multiple smaller infractions will be charged the horrific fees, BUT one-time offenders can also be charged. For example, if I forget to use my turn signal (which in my case won’t happen as I use my turn signals out of habit) and hit somebody in my blindspot, I will be forced to pay the outrageous fees, FIRST OFFENSE. The new fees hit repeat and first-time offenders alike, but I still think the penalty should match the crime either way. We don’t shoot a jay walker whether it’s the first time he’s done it or the 100th time.

    As I noted in my post, if the state needs money, there are more appropriate way of getting it. I’d much rather pay a couple of bucks more in taxes than be killed in an accident because some speeder decided that $3000 (on top of normal fines and sanctions) was worth the risk of running from the police. If the state is concerned about my safety, they might consider keeping me safe from out of state drivers as well. I guess our politicians figure Virginians can only be killed in auto accidents with other Virginians?

    For too many people who are living paycheck to paycheck, a blow like a $3000 fee (again on top of whatever they’d normally get) will seem (and in some cases be) the end of their world (nobody wants to live on the streets yet for many that is exactly what it will mean). If you think those “jerks who weave in and out of traffic at 85MPH nearly clipping cars” are dangerous now, try giving them “nothing to lose” by running from police. Fear-based deterrents aren’t especially effective at their best. Absurd fear-based deterrents are more likely to encourage bad behavior than deter it.

  3. Gary Kulash

    Dolph —

    My apologies for taking so long to respond. I’ve been crazy busy at work lately, but also wanted to dig even deeper into this controversy.

    The new fees *do not* hit first time offenders for small traffic violations, such as failing to signal. That is simply incorrect. Should you fail to signal and be pulled over AFTER having been pulled over for reckless driving the day before, then you do have a point. That said, I would fully agree with the fee.

    Scenerio #1: You are pulled over for speeding in a 55mph zone while you are doing 65mph. You have not been pulled over recently for other traffic offenses.

    RESULT: Normal fine. No special fines.

    Scenerio #2: You are pulled over for speeding in a 55mph zone while you are doing 80mph.

    RESULT: Even if a first offense, you’ll likely be eligible for the new, higher fees.

    Scenerio #3: You are pulled over for speeding in a 55mph zone while doing 64mph. You were just pulled over last week for the same reason.

    RESULT: You’ll pay the higher fees.

    The more I research these new fees that Virginia is proposing, the more I support them. I think that we can all agree that those of us who are pulled over more frequently for traffic offenses in a short period of time, therefore raking up more points on the license, are by default more dangerous drivers.

    These fees do, in fact, target at a much higher weight the drivers out there who are going 80MPH on the beltway, weaving in and out of traffic, drunk driving, tailgating, etc.

    And, in cases like this, the punishment DOES match the crime. We’re not talking about jay-walking. We’re talking about being in control of a vehicle that weighs more than a ton and is hurtling down the road at dangerous speeds. One miscalculation due to negligence can cost another person or an entire family their lives.

    By setting the standard/expectation early on in someone’s driving life that such behavior behind the wheel is entirely unacceptable and will be aggressively punished, I feel that Virginia is actually offering a far better deterrent to future crime.

    As a failsafe, remember that the officer pulling drivers over often has a large degree of leverage for points/punishment left to his or her sole discretion, within reason of course. Many police officers already limit the number of points to the minimum required by law for regular traffic stops, and frequently “doctor” tickets to avoid charging drivers with serious crimes for speeding. One would reason that this practice will continue into the future, and an officer pulling you over for failing to signal is not going to slap you with the extra points that will result in a $1,000 fine.

    As I said before, I do agree with the argument that these new laws are unjust in that they are only being enforced against Virginia residents. I personally feel they should be spread nationwide, and be enforced against ALL citizens. This country has far too serious of a problem with aggressive drivers in massive SUVs or sport cars feeling as though they are superior, own the road and drive through intimidation of others via tailgating, reckless speeding, etc. New rules such as this would seriously combat a growing problem.

    Last, but not least — no one has EVER run from the police to avoid a fine, even in cases where they knew they were talking about $1,000+. People run from the police because they are drunk behind the wheel and know it, because they shouldn’t be driving with a suspended license, or because they’ve just committed a crime, etc. That will continue to be the case in the future. I highly doubt any normal driver would be stupid enough to try and outrun the police to avoid a fine, regardless of the amount. Time has shown that those running from the police are doing so with a criminal reason in mind; and not to avoid a hefty fine for a traffic violation.

    If you want some good, unbiased information on the subject, go to:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/22/AR2007062201781.html

    -Gary

  4. Gary Kulash

    PS —

    Straight from The Washington Post:

    “….Standard traffic infractions, such as low-level speeding and running a stop sign, do not carry the fees. The state courts posted the fees and eligible offenses this month.”

    -Gary

  5. That’s the same article I link to in my post.

    Basically it comes down to this. I know what violations the laws cover, I’d had several conversations with a police officer friend of mine prior to writing this post on exactly what kind of offenses and in what circumstances the fees will be leveled against drivers. I assure you that if you don’t use your turn signal and hit somebody, you WILL be fined (or “fee’d”) first offense.

    Also on the topic of running from the police, why do you think it is people run from the police when “they are drunk behind the wheel and know it, because they shouldn’t be driving with a suspended license, or because they’ve just committed a crime?” It’s because they want to avoid the steep punishment that goes with such crimes. If you take the same level of punishment and assign it to lesser offenses, you’ll see people start running for those lesser offenses.

    I do think we’ll just have to agree to disagree on the appropriateness of a given punishment for a crime. I think reasonable people can disagree on what is an appropriate punishment is for any given crime, but I can assure you that you won’t convince me that 3 Grand is an appropriate punishment for speeding.

  6. Gary Kulash

    “Also on the topic of running from the police… It’s because they want to avoid the steep punishment that goes with such crimes. If you take the same level of punishment and assign it to lesser offenses, you’ll see people start running for those lesser offenses.”

    I would argue that they are running from the police to avoid prison, not a fine. The two carry a very, very different stigma in society.

    On everything else, of course, we simply have a different opinion and can agree to disagree.

    You’re wrong, of course.

    Just kidding :-)

    Hope all is well on your end!

    -Gary

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Feline Friday

July 27, 2007

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“Here’s looking at you, kid.” -Hobbes1234

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  1. Check out cats and other animals on the Friday Ark []
  2. And more cats at Weekend Cat Blogging []
  3. and Carnival of the Cats []
  4. and the Bad Kitty Chaos Festival []

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  1. Friday Ark #149

    We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….? Visit all the …

  2. [...] looking at you, kid” expression down pat in this super-cute picture over at Dolphin’s Dock this weekend. Look at those perky little [...]

  3. Hi! Thanks for taking part in WCB this weekend! And I must say, that expression is priceless! :D I’ve added your link and look forward to future WCB’s with you! :)

  4. [...] you should not show your girlfriendcat the pic which dolphin presents she may fall in love with this guy at Dolphin’s [...]

  5. Well, he’s handum but not as handsum as my boyfriendcat Miles. hehehe
    Purrrrrrrs,
    Sanjee

  6. You are very handsome!! But “sigh” I’m already spoken for. (S)

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Cruel and Unusual?

July 26, 2007

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When I first saw this story1 about an inmate charged with indecent exposure for masturbating in his jail cell, no verdict had yet been handed down and I jokingly commented:

I think I’d define being confined to a jail cell WITHOUT even being able to touch yourself to be cruel and unusual punishment… :-)

Now that a guilty verdict has been reached, I’m wondering if my statement might be more accurate than I’d originally guessed in posting it. Well, perhaps not technically “cruel and unusual,” but perhaps simply not the best thing to be regulating. Prisons may be government-funded and that might make them “public” per se, but I interpret indecent exposure laws as being more concerned with what goes on in the view of the public rather than simply on public-owned land. Prisoners (for good reason) don’t have private rooms they can wander off to. Certainly, they must expose themselves multiple times a day for activities such as showering and using restroom facilities. Many would argue that the drive for sexual release is as natural and common as the activities I mentioned above. In fact, every member of the selected jury acknowledge having masturbated at some point themselves. As a rule, prisoners have no other avenue for sexual release short of raping other inmates (and we don’t want to encourage that do we?). Unless he was wagging it out the window at passing traffic, I have a hard time finding fault (let alone criminal offense) with him just getting off by himself in his cell.

As for the Corrections Officer who filed the charge (as she has with seven other inmates), I’ve little sympathy. If it so terribly offends you to see humans being human, then perhaps a job watching humans day in and day out isn’t the best job for you.

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  1. [...] Dolphin has a thought-provoking post about the inmate who was convicted for masturbating in his cell… Prisons may be government-funded and that might make them “public” per se, but I interpret indecent exposure laws as being more concerned with what goes on in the view of the public rather than simply on public-owned land. Prisoners (for good reason) don’t have private rooms they can wander off to. Certainly, they must expose themselves multiple times a day for activities such as showering and using restroom facilities. Many would argue that the drive for sexual release is as natural and common as the activities I mentioned above. [...]

  2. Seems like a pretty good way to release some tension. Instead of outlawing it, they should be encouraging it.

  3. I agree. If the prisoner was whipping it out as an act of defiance and such, throw him in the isolation cell with bread and water, or whatever they do nowadays to punish disruptive prisioners. (Must… avoid… snarky ACLU comment here)

    If just getting his rocks off, let him. A prison guard shouldn’t have to deal with abuse, but catching a glipse of a guy getting himslef off seems like a frank but somewhat expected matter for a guard.

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Always Right

July 23, 2007

Filed under Politics, Splashes

Hey, I like to be right as much as the next guy, but it is hysterical the lengths some folks will go through when it’s pointed out that they were wrong. Check out the bizarre measures a commenter calling himself #9 goes through over at Southern Beale’s just to avoid having to admit what was probably initially an innocent misreading. At some point it just becomes funny.

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  1. thanks for the support, Dolphin!

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Downstream

July 23, 2007

Filed under General, Politics, Splashes

I looked out my office window shortly after I arrived at work this morning to see that 8th Street has turned into a river. The local news has finally gotten around to confirming that there was a water main break and while city maintenance is on the scene, they still haven’t found the problem. Is it a sad commentary on the state of American society that I was shocked there were no interviews with citizens speculating on terrorist involvement?

On a more humorous note, I’ve really been enjoying watching businessmen trying to jump over the stream without getting their expensive suit pants wet. Not one has made it all day.

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  1. Massive rain here in NYC this morning. I got so wet that my cell phone shorted out and is now either dead or (hopefully) just in a coma.

    Skroo the expensive pants — they can be dry cleaned. ;-)

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IE6 Resolved

July 23, 2007

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The IE6 problems have been resolved (I think).  Things don’t look exactly the same between IE6 and better browsers, but they look close enough that an IE6 user shouldn’t feel like anything is out of place or not working correctly.  There is still some minor bugginess in IE5.5 but since I’m not even sure when the last time I’ve received a hit from an IE5 browser is, I’m not gonna worry about it for now.  If you have any problems, let me know.

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Fortuneless Cookies

July 20, 2007

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When did “Fortune Cookies” become “Mildly-Inspirational-Sayings-As-If Off-A-Hallmark-Card Cookies?”

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Feline Friday

July 20, 2007

Filed under Cat-Blogging

Look out Gryphon!

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Sigyn is about to pounce on you!!

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Update: Both Gryphon and Sigyn (and Hobbes too) wonder why Carnival of the Cats isn’t accepting submissions this week?! Anybody know?

Update2: According to The Cat Blogosphere the problem with the Carnival of the Cats submission form is technical and you can still submit via email.

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  1. Gryphon and Sigyn are very cute. But Gryphon better be careful!

  2. Friday Ark #148

    We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….? Visit all the …

  3. I don’t know why the submissions form for Carnival of the Cats won’t work but the email address still seems to function so you can still submit your entries.

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  5. I hope it is a play pounce, not a pounce pounce.

  6. Cute photo! :) Looks like someone is about to pounce!

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