While TuxBrat was at the vet's for 3 days and nights, Miss HRTortie enjoyed having the house and the people to herself. Lots of talking, purring, and playing.
I'd been wondering why they were only vaccinating girls, when boys are a transmission vector.
And if you were trying to wipe out a virus, wouldn't you want to eliminate the source and all.
Logically, if you want to protect your girls, you need to vaccinate the boys too, no?
Is not a single-gender virus.
I just came across this:
"HPV vaccine will eventually be available for boys and men ages 9 to 26 because the Food and Drug Administration approved it for prevention of genital warts in October."
Well, that's nice.
Wouldn't want them getting warts on their little heehaws in the course of transmitting potentially lethel germies....
Stevie Olympics.
Jump 1 is behind the plants
Jump 2 is between the water jug and wall
Jump 3 is across the steps.
Lets think about how nice the view is up here
Jump 4, Cannonball!!!!!
Cinnabon Minibon and crispy bacon. Last time I was decadent, I just had the Minibon, but I got logey in the mid-morning because I hadn't had any protein. Problem solved this time.
I'm now fueled to start another day of writing. 25 minutes on, 5 minutes break.
Here's some Christmas Creep for you.
Bah Humbug:
Buy Nothing Christmas (Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping)
Alternatives to cut Christmas Trees
Something for your Festivus needs
Dear Santa letter generator (NSFK) Not safe for kids
A Santa by any other name:
Holiday Helpers:
The Yule Cat, Jolakotturinn
The Yule Goat, Julbock or Julbukk
Other:
Here's a video of when I first sat down after the boy got home:
And here's a not-very-good video of him. Tried to show off his tummy, but didn't have enough light.
You can see his shaved peenk tummy pretty well in this photo, though:
This is some very expensive content for
It hasn't quite been a normal day (Edgar and I aren't feeling up to snuff), so no animal post today either. Honest, I will tomorrow.
Neat things about my car:
- the doors not only lock as you start driving, but they unlock when you remove the key after turning the car off
- the side mirrors are heated - it comes on with the rear window defroster
- it corners on a dime
- great shock absorption
The neatest thing about my car:
- it's mine!
HP joined the microcomputer craze in 1979 with their Series 80s computers. These were usual and actually more like an followup to their calculators. They utilized a custom 8-bit processor made by HP. It had nifty non-standard features. For one thing lots of registers (64 of them) and the system was designed to work with BCD just like a calculator. It supported natively 12 digits with exponents to 499 (IIRC). The first release (HP 85) used a built in tape drive. Again very unusual. When diskette support was released, they chose HP-IB (GP-IB or IEEE-488 nowdays) instrument bus.
This example was picked up at an University of Kentuck Surplus auction. It is an HP 86B with 3 memory cartridges and a ROM expansion cartridge. Hence its total RAM is 448K. Not bad for the early 80s. Too bad it only ran HP series 80s software. Also it would not run the HP 85 binaries! The HP series 80s computers were to some extent incompatible with each other. The series was discontinued in 1984.
EDIT: I believe the only thing I have used it for was as a calculator.
Monitor was bought at Goodwill
Memory expansion was by cartridges like many other systems of the time.
ROM expansion used this carrier with places for individual chips. Very much aimed at the engineer market.
