Both cats love to eat out of the same dish.

Here’s what my home looked like for Halloween.

This is truly scary! I think it looks a lot like Tor Johnson.

(from Joy of Tech)

Jeremiah pointed this out to me. It looks very interesting. I suggest making the interface to the database look something like the IO Registry with applications as keys.

On October 31, 1993, one of the most promising young stars of his generation died. River Phonix died of a massive drug overdose outside the Viper Room in West Hollywood. River starred in movies such as Stand By Me and was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Running On Empty. He was just entering his prime and had unlimited potential, but he threw it all away.

Casper, Wyo., City Council members on Tuesday night unanimously rejected a request by the notorious anti-gay Rev. Fred Phelps to install a monument saying Matthew Shepard went to hell because he was gay.

The city refused to succumb to lawsuit threats from the preacher, who claims that God hates homosexuals, after a strong outpouring of community opposition to the monument, which had been deemed “revolting” by one gay rights group.

“Mr. Phelps, you are not welcome,” said Councilman Paul Bertoglio. “This city will not allow you to place your monument anywhere in our community.”

On Oct. 7, 1998, Shepard, a Casper native, was tied to a fence outside Laramie, Wyo., beaten unconscious with a gun and left to die. He died five days later.

Phelps wants to install in a park a six-foot granite monument that would include a bronze plaque with Shepard’s image and the words, “Matthew Shepard entered hell October 12, 1998, at age 21 in defiance of God’s solemn warning.”

Phelps, from Topeka, Kan., gained notoriety in 1998, by carrying signs proclaiming “God Hates Fags” outside Shepard’s funeral.

At a City Council meeting earlier this month, city leaders listened to four hours of testimony. All opposed Phelps’ monument. And on Tuesday night, about 50 people prayed for the council.

“As I look at Phelps’ life, I don’t see love as his personal agenda,” said Pastor Milo Miller of the Highland Park Community Church. “He disguises his real agenda under the cloak of Christ.”

Phelps had said that Casper must allow his Scripture-based monument on city grounds because the town already has allowed a Ten Commandments monument, which was donated to the city in the 1960s by the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

The council now must decide whether to take on a lawsuit, move the Ten Commandments monument to private land or create a special area. The council has taken initial steps to create a designated spot for the Ten Commandments. [Yahoo News]

This explains why I still haven’t received my voter registration card for my change of address, which I requested in August:

Elections Supervisor Miriam Oliphant’s office is so far behind in its work that new registration cards have not been mailed since mid-July, leaving about 80,000 Broward County residents without their voter identification.

“We have a backlog,” conceded Bruce Eldridge, the elections office’s director of computer systems.

Eldridge said the office ran out of money for the printing of registration cards and postage in mid-July.

The office has fielded hundreds of angry phone calls from voters waiting months for their cards, according to a state report released last week that was highly critical of Oliphant.

This looks very interesting. Unfortunately it won’t be compatible with the Mac initially.

Posted to comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior:

With every CF function, there are two simple rules:
-If the function name includes “Create”, you should release the result
-If the function name includes “Get”, you should *not* release the result

I just replaced my T68i with a T616. The sound quality is a lot better and it doesn’t drop the call suddenly with weak signal. I still get only 2 bars or so, but it seems to do much better with a weak signal.

Here’s a picture I took with the built-in camera:

“Simpsons Creator Matt Groening Revealed That The Fox News Network Had Threatened To Sue The Simpsons Over A Parody Of The Right-Leaning News Channel (Fox News Is Soooooooo Oversensitive)” [Daypop Top 40] (original article is here)

For a while I’ve had a problem with one of my cats pooping on the floor outside the litterbox. I suspect Cody although I’ve never caught him in the act. I had two litterboxes and both were being used. Midnight always makes a big show of pooping in the box when I’m watching him. I’ve also seen him attack and chase Cody away when he was using the box.

Someone suggested the problem may be that the box isn’t clean enough (I try to scoop it out whenever I notice a mess), and I know Midnight is using both boxes, so today I bought a Littermaid.

I left it off so it wouldn’t scare the cats if the motor came on. I also left one regular litterbox next to it. Cody was the first to explore it, but he didn’t use it. A few minutes later, Midnight explored it. Something frightened him and he ran away, but he went back and used it. When I went out for two hours I found that someone used it while I was gone, and when I got back Midnight used it (and made sure I was watching). Cody eyed it suspiciously a few times. I noticed that the other litterbox is also being used.

As I was writing this, Midnight jumped up on my lap. He purred loudly and wanted me to pet him, then he suddenly bit my arm and ran away.

Has anyone else noticed Safari 1.1 in Panther crashing frequently? Perhaps it’s related to URL Manager Pro 3.1’s shared menus – I’m disabling it now & I’ll see if that stops the crashes.

Dyckmen lets them have it. Florida learned three things, none of them comforting, about its political leadership last week he notes:

1 – Tallahassee is too small a stadium to contain his (Byrd’s) boundless demagoguery and contempt for constitutional principles. He needs to play in the same grand arena as Huey Long and Joe McCarthy.

2 -The boundless hypocrisy of Jeb Bush

3 – Your living will may soon be worthless.
[Flablog]

I installed Panther on my PowerBook after backing it up to my FireLite 60 external drive. I’ve been running 7B85 for about a week on my G4 with no problems.

“Don’t the Democrats care even a little about terrorism? ” [Daypop Top 40] [original article here]

This is fucking bullshit. The republicans know their best bet for Bush to win is by keeping us constantly afraid of terrorists and constantly making up new threats. As a bonus, it also lets them take away more of our civil rights and most people are stupid enough to willingly give up rights for the illusion of security. As Benjamin Franklin said, “Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety.”

If I sound pissed off, I am. I’m fucking mad as hell and devoting every bit of my energy to make sure Bush doesn’t get elected next year.

I was just introduced to Children of the Revolution, a Seattle-based world fusion group and was completely blown away. Their music combines Flamenco, Middle Eastern, Latin, and Native American sounds into a seamless whole. This is one of the most exciting new sounds I’ve heard in a long time. [WorldBeatPlanet]

http://www.moveon.org/87billion.mpg

Troxler on how an Arrogant Legislature finally walks all over itself.

Tuesday’s banana republic mayhem was a spectacularly bad way to make new law. It was immature and intemperate. It was inconstant. It was law made up on the spot by a flock of clucking chickens jerking their heads in unison at loud noises and bright flashes of light.
[Flablog]

Fla. Gov. Orders Feeding Tube Reinserted

The government has no fucking right to intervene in people’s private lives like this. He should have kept out of this case. It’s none of his fucking business. Is this a fucking dictatorship or something? No government in the entire history of this country has intruded on personal liberties as much as the Bush brothers have done.