The Vent and Rant Thread - Page 707

kennyc · 06-27-2010, 04:43 PM

No it's not funny. Nature adapts. Nor is nature compassionate. Man is currently doing massive wrong to nature. It's not funny at all.

Coyotes are very smart, I've seen many out in the day and they have little fear of people, hell they are even a "protected species" around here and no one is allowed to shoot them or get rid of them so they prowl the neighborhoods and pick the easy pickin's for lunch, the cat, kitten, small dog. Way easier to live that way than in the wild catching wild animals.

No it is probably not rabid.

recluse · 06-27-2010, 04:58 PM

Sorry, kenny.
I'm pissed off at something else. Didn't mean to snap at you.
And you are right. But.....
The damn things are living in a ritzy golf course. They take out some jackass in plaid pants, justice is done.
I just get a bad feeling about them being here.
We had feral dog packs in the cemetaries a few years back.
This could get really ugly.
Worse if PETA sticks it's nose in.

kennyc · 06-27-2010, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by recluse

Sorry, kenny.
I'm pissed off at something else. Didn't mean to snap at you.
And you are right. But.....
The damn things are living in a ritzy golf course. They take out some jackass in plaid pants, justice is done.
I just get a bad feeling about them being here.
We had feral dog packs in the cemetaries a few years back.
This could get really ugly.
Worse if PETA sticks it's nose in.

No apology necessary, my comment was pretty snippy....it's a horrible thing for a child to get attacked by wild predators....particularly in a city!

I'm a believer that they should be run out of town, but as I said around here the average person can't do anything (such as shoot the bastards) and the authorities WON'T do anything. Yeah an then you got the peta nuts and earth first nuts and the skwirrls!

recluse · 06-27-2010, 05:35 PM

The thing that really freaks me out is that the first reports of coyotes were coming out of Central Park. How the Hell do they cross Manhattan without being noticed? Why even try?

God help the homeless.

WT Sharpe · 06-27-2010, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

that's the main reason I decided on the Savannahs! I'm PISSED at coyotes!

Don't blame you.

DMcCunney · 06-27-2010, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

On my PC, books are stored all over the place, but mostly in my Books folder where they are unorganized.

Maybe it's because collections (folders) are new to the Kindle and to me, but I only made four folders for the Kindle: To Be Read, Samples, Finished reading, and Miscellaneous. The books I'm currently reading are not in a Collection. Simple things for simple minds. The Miscellaneous folder contains mostly tech manuals and user guides.

My description was for my master library on my desktop. Things are handled differently elsewhere. My primary ebook viewer, for example, is a Palm OS PDA, and most of my eBooks are converted to the format used by the open source Plucker offline HTML viewer for Palm devices. Plucker uses the built-in Palm OS category function, and that has a hard limit of 16, so categories on the PDA aren't always the same as on the desktop.

I also have the Palm version of the MobiPocket viewer on my PDA. Mobi substitutes Reading Lists for categories, and supports up to 32 on Palm devices. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to control the order in which they are listed - it's by date created, which is a bit of a PITA.

I'm beginning to think about a database supporting BLOBs as the master repository, where author, title, category, and other elements would be fields in a record, and the actual eBooks would be the mentioned BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects). Among other things, that would make it easier to handle pseudonyms and properly associate them with the real author.
______
Dennis

WT Sharpe · 06-27-2010, 07:18 PM

Norton pooped on the rug today. Don't blame him. If I had to depend on an outhouse in this weather (heat index of 112⁰F/44⁰C), I'd poop on the rug myself.

kindlekitten · 06-27-2010, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Shoulda got Cheetah's!

the Savannahs are legal without having to buy all sorts of permits!

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Originally Posted by recluse

kenny, the hunting by daylight crack?
Not funny.

If the damn things are out in daylight, does it mean they're rabid?

I see them cutting through my pastures in daylight all the time as well as drinking out of my pond. even if I yell at them, they just give me an insolent look. they aren't rabid. I only have one .22 rifle and it's part of a collection. I feel like getting a bunch of cheapies and hanging them from various trees so I can always be close to one.

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Originally Posted by kennyc

No it's not funny. Nature adapts. Nor is nature compassionate. Man is currently doing massive wrong to nature. It's not funny at all.

Coyotes are very smart, I've seen many out in the day and they have little fear of people, hell they are even a "protected species" around here and no one is allowed to shoot them or get rid of them so they prowl the neighborhoods and pick the easy pickin's for lunch, the cat, kitten, small dog. Way easier to live that way than in the wild catching wild animals.

No it is probably not rabid.

that's amazing! there was a $15 bounty on them in the 70s there!

Quote:

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Norton pooped on the rug today. Don't blame him. If I had to depend on an outhouse in this weather (heat index of 112⁰F/44⁰C), I'd poop on the rug myself.

get him a litter box! boaters have litter box trained pups!

recluse · 06-27-2010, 08:33 PM

My maltese is litter box trained.
And rather proud of his trick shooting!

Tom, I got one word for you: Depends.

And to Hell with "protected species" crap. They can only fine you if they find a corpse.

kennyc · 06-27-2010, 08:46 PM

Couple of my coyote pics from a small nature area a mile or two from my house:

http://www.kacweb.com/cgibin/emAlbum...ver&img=7&tn=1

http://www.kacweb.com/cgibin/emAlbum...ver&img=8&tn=1

http://www.kacweb.com/cgibin/emAlbum...ver&img=9&tn=1

Looks real scared of people, eh?

recluse · 06-27-2010, 09:01 PM

How confident do they look when you set one on fire?

Hypothetically, of course.

Gas is expensive.

WT Sharpe · 06-27-2010, 11:04 PM

We have foxes at work that come around begging food. Some are braver than others, but even the most brave will only allow you to approach just so far before taking off.

kindlekitten · 06-28-2010, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by recluse

My maltese is litter box trained.
And rather proud of his trick shooting!

Tom, I got one word for you: Depends.

And to Hell with "protected species" crap. They can only fine you if they find a corpse.

I dated a guy who was really proud that his poodles had never walked on dirt.
yeah...

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

We have foxes at work that come around begging food. Some are braver than others, but even the most brave will only allow you to approach just so far before taking off.

foxes are a different story entirely. I worked on a ranch that had a lot of wild animals that they probably shouldn't have. they had a fox pair that were so incredibly timid it was painful. a;; the others at least tried to interact

recluse · 06-28-2010, 02:34 AM

The litter box business wasn't my idea. That was the breeder.
My maltese walks everywhere with me. Which usually means a bath every two weeks.
And he does go outside. The expression he had the first time he peed on grass was priceless!

kennyc · 06-28-2010, 06:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

We have foxes at work that come around begging food. Some are braver than others, but even the most brave will only allow you to approach just so far before taking off.

I caught a fox nose-to-nose with one of my cats in the middle of the street early one morning....fortunately I saw it and scared it off.

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06-27-2010, 04:43 PM	#10591
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,922 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6	No it's not funny. Nature adapts. Nor is nature compassionate. Man is currently doing massive wrong to nature. It's not funny at all. Coyotes are very smart, I've seen many out in the day and they have little fear of people, hell they are even a "protected species" around here and no one is allowed to shoot them or get rid of them so they prowl the neighborhoods and pick the easy pickin's for lunch, the cat, kitten, small dog. Way easier to live that way than in the wild catching wild animals. No it is probably not rabid.

06-27-2010, 04:58 PM	#10592
recluse Banned Posts: 3,724 Karma: 535488 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: the Mortuary Device: Kindle 2	Sorry, kenny. I'm pissed off at something else. Didn't mean to snap at you. And you are right. But..... The damn things are living in a ritzy golf course. They take out some jackass in plaid pants, justice is done. I just get a bad feeling about them being here. We had feral dog packs in the cemetaries a few years back. This could get really ugly. Worse if PETA sticks it's nose in.

06-27-2010, 05:35 PM	#10594
recluse Banned Posts: 3,724 Karma: 535488 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: the Mortuary Device: Kindle 2	The thing that really freaks me out is that the first reports of coyotes were coming out of Central Park. How the Hell do they cross Manhattan without being noticed? Why even try? God help the homeless.

06-27-2010, 07:18 PM	#10597
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	Norton pooped on the rug today. Don't blame him. If I had to depend on an outhouse in this weather (heat index of 112⁰F/44⁰C), I'd poop on the rug myself.

06-27-2010, 08:33 PM	#10599
recluse Banned Posts: 3,724 Karma: 535488 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: the Mortuary Device: Kindle 2	My maltese is litter box trained. And rather proud of his trick shooting! Tom, I got one word for you: Depends. And to Hell with "protected species" crap. They can only fine you if they find a corpse.

06-27-2010, 08:46 PM	#10600
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,922 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6	Couple of my coyote pics from a small nature area a mile or two from my house: http://www.kacweb.com/cgibin/emAlbum...ver&img=7&tn=1 http://www.kacweb.com/cgibin/emAlbum...ver&img=8&tn=1 http://www.kacweb.com/cgibin/emAlbum...ver&img=9&tn=1 Looks real scared of people, eh?

06-27-2010, 09:01 PM	#10601
recluse Banned Posts: 3,724 Karma: 535488 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: the Mortuary Device: Kindle 2	How confident do they look when you set one on fire? Hypothetically, of course. Gas is expensive.

06-27-2010, 11:04 PM	#10602
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	We have foxes at work that come around begging food. Some are braver than others, but even the most brave will only allow you to approach just so far before taking off.

06-28-2010, 02:34 AM	#10604
recluse Banned Posts: 3,724 Karma: 535488 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: the Mortuary Device: Kindle 2	The litter box business wasn't my idea. That was the breeder. My maltese walks everywhere with me. Which usually means a bath every two weeks. And he does go outside. The expression he had the first time he peed on grass was priceless!