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Cat! That’s not how you catch birds! - Catatar

(Cool) The Ultimatum Game, Westerners Vs. The World. - Madville.com - Unofficial Direct Feed

You're looking at the doors in front of my main closet. They're fronted entirely by mirrors. When I moved in, they had only some residue where stick-on handles must have once been installed. Long story short, finding a decent replacement has been tough. Just now I realized a quick hack: some light rope tied around the hinges provides an easy hand hold. And doesn't look awful, either.

Videos of 11-foot-8 trestle eating 12-foot trucks - Boing Boing

Cat sneaks on to train, gets lost, is reunited with owner via Twitter - Boing Boing

Finally hung artwork on my walls, one of the last things to get unpacked.

Take great photos of your projects - Electronics-Lab.com Blog

(Funny) Sketchy Ice Creams - Madville.com - Unofficial Direct Feed

Seriously - is there really no bubble? - Hacker News

[+2588] You Will Never Look At A Duck The Same Way (PIC) - Digg.com - Unofficial Direct Feed

Thanks to an internal goal to increase employee's health, I've had a panel done because it was in the office and convenient. Here's all my secret numbers:
Blood pressure: 133/75 (they didn't like that one, but maybe it was elevated from the walk to work, I scheduled it for very-first-thing because they wanted at least 9 hours of fasting)
Glucose: 86 (on what scale? the form says <100 is normal)
Total cholesterol: <100 (mg/dL, desirable is <200)
HDL (good): 43 (desirable is at least 40)
LDL (bad): n/a (too low for the meter to measure, it only goes down to 40, optimum <100)
Triglycerides: 54 (desirable is <150)
BMI: 25 (barely)

It generally says I'm healthy. Which is pretty good, because I wasn't expecting to go changing any habits.

I've got what I think is a "Benno" TV stand from Ikea ( http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70203099 -- but mine doesn't have that center support or caster). The page says "Open back; makes cable organizing easy." Which is true. But it also makes it very ugly, a white wall visible through the back of a black stand, holding a black TV, black Wii, black PS3, black Tivo, and black DVD player. Not to mention the rat's nest of cables back there, which aren't the most attractive either. In my old place I propped a piece of cardboard back there which wasn't beautiful, but was better. This time, I've got a sort of satin black paper glued to the front of it. In the picture below, thanks to the flash, you can actually tell where it is (it doesn't reflect like the wood finish on the sides). But in regular use, you can't tell at all. It's just a pleasing black gloom that distracts not-a-bit from the screen just above it. Even the holes for the wiring to run through were strategically placed and sized so that you can't see them either! Yay!

This weekend, I got my old bookshelves set in place, and some of my last boxes unpacked into them, my closet doors aligned better, with new adjustment points I found, and picked up a used copy of Rock Band for a quarter of what it would cost, new. It's even more fun than I expected, but I've avoided singing so far, and any difficulty setting above medium.

Life is certainly calming down. I've calmed down from the big deal of moving and all, things are set up and comfortable, and life is pretty much. back to normal. It's actually a bit surprising how quick it all went from scary hectic back to gentle everyday. Plenty has changed, but lots is the same too. My luck is that both parts of that feel rather nice.

With a desk again, I got a chance to set up my desktop computers. There's still some mess to clean up, bit I'm happy with the braided style of cables I tried, it looks very neat, and took little work.

Spent all day yesterday moving stuff between my Mom's house in NJ and my place I'm the city. Phew. Fell asleep at 9:30 and just woke up now, eleven hours later, sore all over.