FARKING WIRELESS NETWORK!
But at least my daughter's computer is now running Linux, and is on the network. Which makes her happy, because she can play web games and email her friends, and makes me happy (happier) because I don't have to disinfect her computer twice a month. I think I'm going to need to do the same to my university-provided laptop Monday. I'll need to maintain the ability to dual-boot, though, so I can test the website on IE.
One of our cats came from a pet store, but it was a store that (at the time) would take litters of kittens from folks who hadn't planned on having kittens (oops) and I think they were charging $20 or something like that, which basically covered the medical care they'd given and some food. This was 17 years ago. They probably don't exist any more.
Our other kitties have all been from shelters, strays, bulletin boards, etc.
I've only had one dog. He was given to my family by another family as a "Christmas present" when I was about six, and I'm not sure where they got him, but he was hardly a purebred. (Some kind of Golden Retriever mix, possibly a bit of Collie.) Probably they knew someone who had some puppies they needed to find homes for.
My dad used to buy ice cream from the Mennonites while he was in the Peace Corps in Belize. I've never had much to do with the Amish. I'm pretty disappointed about their attitudes toward animals, I must say.