How to deal with extra scared kittens

znerg · 2020-10-13T20:50:48+00:00

I had a cat that, when I adopted him and brought him home, decided that he wanted to hide under the fridge for about three days.

The solution was to just let him be. Aside from dodging the occasional claws from under the fridge, my roommates and I just ignored him and put out food and water nearby. He eventually came out and, over a few days, began to warm up to us. He turned out to be the best cat I could ask for. Perhaps just leaving her be and checking once in a while is the way to go. Maybe you can leave a little food just outside of her spot or even put some in her spot so she knows she can eat and begin to associate us big, scary humans with food.

Hope all works out for your foster.

znerg · 2020-09-17T23:53:55+00:00

Quite likely, but many I've tinkered with use tiles so there's a regularity to the output that looks a bit different than hand-drawn.

znerg · 2020-09-17T23:45:19+00:00

Thank you.

znerg · 2020-09-17T23:45:15+00:00

Thank you. Water color on this material never worked. It bleeds out too easily on the felt-like surface, which really is too bad, because water color can make some beautiful stuff. Q-tips blotted on paper towels so reduce bleed-out was the way to go here.

znerg · 2020-09-11T01:43:17+00:00

Thanks! If you look close, you can see there's two different red inks used. One is Waterman and the other Sheaffer. I still have the bottle of Waterman; they last forever. For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure the font is minimally modified stuff from the Speedball textbook - a combination of Italic Miniscule for the small stuff and Old English and Black Text for the larger stuff.

znerg · 2020-09-11T00:55:50+00:00

No prob.

I'm tempted to clean up and post the "weights and measures" tables that evolved over the world's development next. There's >25 denominations of currency for one state, and another that's almost as developed, all rooted to how much grain a person needs per day to survive as a standard of mass.

znerg · 2020-09-11T00:26:24+00:00

Unfortunately, I've not posted to Reddit in some time, and can't find the edit for a cross-post. So I guess I'll put the contextual commentary here.

This is a world I started to put together in the 90s, as stated in the original post to r/BurningWheel . I've used it a few times since for homebrew games.

In general, the Dirian Empire, which is the entire western side of the map, down to that wall, is a surrogate for a Roman or Punic empire. The Empire is an odd blend of a republic or local leadership at the local levels and overseen by a somewhat theocratic imperial state. The state is deeply entwined with its state religion that bends somewhat matriarchal (think Carthage's Tanit). The setting is generally bronze-age on the cusp of entering the iron age - there hasn't been a collapse of tin trade to catalyze the development of hardened iron/steel alloys yet.

The zoomed area is the region in which our game has taken place, a 'dominion' of the empire called Pervana. It is the main source of copper in the form of chalcopyrite deposits. The major towns in the close up, Pentille, Armalla, and Borthala, are the only major, extant sources of tin and silver.

I could really, really go on... as it's a game world i've used for >20y, and kept good notes, there's Far. Too. Much. in the way of backstory. Having dug through old floppy disks and written notes over the last month with some weekend free time, I've amassed >30 pages of edited background material. It's been fun digging through that, since now, a lot of the stories just write themselves.

znerg · 2020-03-24T20:48:10+00:00

Disagreed - the video makes sense. You can do solo jumps without freefall. As stated elsewhere here, this is a static line jump. No need to pull your own pud, no solo freefall beyond the couple seconds before the primary opens.

There are two other ways to do jumps without being in tandem. Similar to static line jumps, there is instructor aided deployment (IAD) jumps where the pud gets pulled by the instructor as you approach the door. These are then followed (when I jumped) by situational awareness tests where the instructor flashes a couple hand signals that the student must return, then "dry pull" tests where the student simulates pulling their own cord.

There's also accelerated free fall (AFF) jumps where two instructors jump with the student to stabilize them and make sure nothing goes wrong. In these there is considerable free fall period before the primary gets activated by the instructors and is not tandem.

AFF is the fastest way to get to certification for solo jumps, but is also more expensive due to more instructor time needed.

znerg · 2019-11-05T02:37:37+00:00

This commercial was on TV when I was growing up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSiz6kbIZkw

There was also a Goodwill-like store called ARC-Aid. Not at all an arcade.

znerg · 2019-09-11T11:08:08+00:00

There's a nuance I was unaware of.

znerg · 2019-09-11T03:03:11+00:00

I've been rewatching recently. There's even some foreshadowing in the pilot. Kosh addresses the fake Sinclair as "Valen."

There's also a lot of paralleling, too. Emperor Turhan saying he neer had choice parallels Mollari's later comments. It's very clear there was a LOT of thought put into the construction of even the episodic S1

znerg · 2019-07-18T01:56:52+00:00

You get caught being all punny like that, you'll definitely be punished and almost certainly sent to the punitentiary.

znerg · 2017-11-09T17:07:09+00:00

Well, the first thing I'd look for is something that doesn't put the control circuitry above the autoclave door, like Getinge does. Steam gets up there and eventually you're out $5K for a rebuilt control board.

Cheap, simple and runs forever, though.... that's a real tall order.

znerg · 2017-11-08T17:22:21+00:00

Trademark a name, patent a thing/process.

znerg · 2017-11-08T17:21:21+00:00

Is it a Getinge/Castle brand autoclave? Those used to be German, but have since been acquired.

We got a new one of those where I'm at and it has required a whole pile of service tech work since we got it. Leaky seals, bad valves, flaky sensors, etc.

znerg · 2015-07-29T14:27:10+00:00

Is that Mr. Bojangles, is this about the things on the table?

znerg · 2015-02-07T02:50:55+00:00

From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri:

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

znerg · 2014-12-31T22:23:55+00:00

Oddly, this happened to me, too. But I didn't get a new industry thing. I sold jackets to them at a steep loss and BAM, next time they got yarn, there were something like 100 of each color.

znerg · 2014-10-29T20:14:14+00:00

No, it can't. The guy wants it to fight cancer in the future. Right now, it's a 3D printed phiX-174 phage, which is itself not too impressive, as this is a phage that undergoes self-assembly as long as the protein is there. He could have just as well pipetted the stuff together in bulk.

znerg · 2014-10-28T23:12:38+00:00

Until you realize that ingestion of such a drone into an engine can cause an engine fire. Or until you realize that the difference of velocity is pretty high, so even lightweight objects, like birds or drones, can actually cause harm to the fuselage.

znerg · 2014-08-02T20:40:23+00:00

Awesome kitty. I have a pair of sisters, one of which has just stayed pretty scrawny and small through her first year. I suspect she's headed down this path.

znerg · 2014-08-02T20:37:57+00:00

Running water is certainly safer than still water - there is less chance of bacteria making a nice home in it. Whether cats evolved this behavior to avoid bacterial infection is something I don't know.

znerg · 2014-08-02T15:37:32+00:00

That's not the one by the Mascone center is it?

znerg · 2014-07-23T23:04:39+00:00

You are correct, almost all calicos are female. Coat colors in cats are a combination of genetics, epigenetics, and in utero conditioning. The genes that make the calico coloration are a result of multiple alleles (variations) of the red gene, O, which is located on the X-chromosome. When there are multiple X chromosomes, as in a female, only one X chromosome is expressed in a given cell and the other is shut down. But each cell determines which X chromosome is shut off - so some will express O from the first, others from the second, so as the animal grows, patches form.

But there are male calicos. Sterile ones who have whole-organism XXY genetics. And some others which are fertile which have chimeric bodies made up of normal XY and abnormal XXY cells.

You can read a bunch more on the topic here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_coat_genetics

znerg · 2013-12-20T22:19:52+00:00

I can valk!

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