>>>>>>>>Wondering if anyone here bought an iPad & what they think of it...
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>>>>>>>Like one man said, “I can do everything on my MacBook Pro, cellphone and BlackBerry, I don’t need any more devices. I already have six phone numbers and enough things to plug in at night.”
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>>>>>>This has gotta be worth 600 bucks, easy.
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http://mashable.com/2010/04/14/its-official-cats-love-ipads-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher>>>>>
>>>>>Absolutely, but unfortunately, I have 4 cats. $2400.00 USD is just way too much.
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>>>>4 cats? That makes you a cat man. And if anyone is wondering what you're up to, they're thinking:
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>>>>"What does a cat man do?"
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>>>>(best I could come up with at 01:00 local)
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>>>Get some sleep. ;)
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>>>I'm known in my neighbourhood as "The crazy old guy with the cats". At least, I should be. The neighbour kids come over to see the cats and pet them when they're outside. A never ending source of joy. And as I explained to them very clearly, the moment they stop being entertaining, they're history. So now they're all taking tap lessons.
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>>I had a siamese cat for a long time ago that I got when it was about 3 hours old (its mom died giving birth to it). Had to feed the thing with an eye-dropper & warm milk for a while - real pain in the neck - but turned out to be a good cat.
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>>I've been keeping my eyes open for a Savannah cat (I want one of the F1 ones) - they're HUGE for a house cat.
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>Mine are all ex stray alley cats (actually, Ben and Virgil are really orphaned ex barn cats). One of them, Ben, is a HUGE cat, but it's mostly fat. His for real brother, Virgil, is sleek, and they eat the same food.
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>Charlie has diabetes now and takes 3 medications twice a day. Fortunately, no insulin shots at this point. he seems to be doing ok, but he's thin.
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>And Russell, well, Russell is a rebel. He allows me to feed him, and he allows me to pet him sometimes, but whatever he allows, he allows with a smirk.
There you go. Russell is a true cat ;-)
In a job a few years ago I worked very closely with a guy who had six cats. Correction: he and his wife had six cats. Further correction: Helen acquired six cats and Tom (funny name considering) was smart enough to share her enthusiasm for them if he knew what was good for him. So anyway, the most gregarious of the six -- most of them headed for cover at the sound of the doorbell -- came down with some weird ailment akin to diabetes. Tom had to inject her with insulin several times a day. I said that must be a treat, giving a cat a shot. He said you get used to it.
He probably sounds like a wimp from that description. In fact he is anything but. Before taking a self-initiated step "back" to being a developer, because he could no longer stand being responsible for the work of underlings who were less serious about it, he was the #3 guy in a commercial software company with practically the whole company reporting to him. Not a guy to mess with in the office. He was all business and you better bring your A game every day. Helen somehow cracked the code. She is his polar opposite in some ways. She is a vegetarian, teaches yoga classes, likes things quiet, all that. She has told him, not that jokingly, that if he cooks meat in or on the stove he has to buy her a new stove of her choice. Tom is a carnivore, as I well know from many lunches together. He accepts it as a rule of the arrangement. About the only thing they have in common is an approach of wary evaluation. And each other. They will be together until one of them dies. Isn't love wild and mysterious?
