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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #375 on: 27 November, 2014, 11:10:22 am »
Polterzeitgheist obv.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #376 on: 27 November, 2014, 08:45:35 pm »
The beginning of S Express is actually a Rose Royce sample. Can't believe I'd never realised. Thank you, TOTP1979.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #377 on: 28 November, 2014, 01:42:32 pm »
The Israeli firm Babylon Ltd, formerly a specialist in translations & translation software, has lost 95% of its value in the last year, & is pretty much going down the tubes.  :thumbsup:

I'm pleased by this because Babylon transmuted from a legitimate firm with decent software (particularly good for Arabic, apparently) into a malware pusher, making its money from advertising, which it pushed via a toolbar which hijacks browsers & tries to hide itself so that you can't uninstall it, & which it got onto computers by paying download sites to inconspicuously bundle it with legitimate software.

Eventually, Microsoft started limiting it on IE, & Google blocked it, & set Chrome to block it. Hence the crash of the company. Hooray!
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #378 on: 28 November, 2014, 08:04:56 pm »
Just how overstated the feeding guidelines are on cat food. Felix is 70-75kcal per 100g pouch, Kitekat is about 80kcal per 100g, and Whiskas is 80-85kcal per 100g. Given that my fatty 7kg cat needs 200-220kcal per day to get him down safely to 6kg, the 3-4 pouches per day for a 4kg cat are excessive.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #379 on: 28 November, 2014, 08:29:35 pm »
That this    is the weather symbol for, "Well, it would be sunny if the sun actually rose above the horizon, but it doesn't at this time of year so it won't be".

ian

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #380 on: 28 November, 2014, 08:48:44 pm »
Just how overstated the feeding guidelines are on cat food. Felix is 70-75kcal per 100g pouch, Kitekat is about 80kcal per 100g, and Whiskas is 80-85kcal per 100g. Given that my fatty 7kg cat needs 200-220kcal per day to get him down safely to 6kg, the 3-4 pouches per day for a 4kg cat are excessive.

Blimey, both my cats added up only make 7kg. One is teeny though, and weighs in at 3kg. Of which 2 kg is fearsome claw. She doesn't have teeth though or she'd weigh more. They only get one sachet of food a day and the exceedingly expensive crunchy stuff (it'd be cheaper to hire Heston to cook unicorns I'm sure).

Anyway Bad Cat got told off by the vet (fortunately the über-stern German locum was off terrorising some other branch) for biting at her stitches. I fear there might have been some implicit criticism of her human staff for removing the collar of shame. She has compliancy issues

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #381 on: 28 November, 2014, 09:44:26 pm »
Pete was neutered late so he grew quite big, and he had free access to dry food for the first few months I had him but didn't learn to self-regulate and totally stuffed himself. I think it's an ex-stray thing. So he's on two wet pouches and 10g diet biscuits a day until he's 6kg.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #382 on: 28 November, 2014, 09:49:14 pm »
That this    is the weather symbol for, "Well, it would be sunny if the sun actually rose above the horizon, but it doesn't at this time of year so it won't be".

I always found that one quite amusing.
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ian

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #383 on: 30 November, 2014, 01:24:09 pm »
According to the leaflet my wife has helpfully left on the kitchen counter, if I hear gunfire I should run or hide (it wasn't clear how I'd know which to do, that's an opportunity for a flowchart missed), and when I've finished doing that, I should tell someone. Presumably not everyone notices the outbreak of hostilities. They should get themselves on Twitter. That kind of shit is bound to get retweeted.

Well, it's useful to know. In the event of being caught up in a terror attack my plan had been to build a papier-mâché decoy tank. Terrorists are scared of tanks. And griffins, though making a griffin is more challenging, especially under pressure. I now realise that my decoy tank strategy is misguided and I'd be better either running or hiding. I could run with a bathtub over my head which covers both bases.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #384 on: 30 November, 2014, 01:55:28 pm »
Just how overstated the feeding guidelines are on cat food. Felix is 70-75kcal per 100g pouch, Kitekat is about 80kcal per 100g, and Whiskas is 80-85kcal per 100g. Given that my fatty 7kg cat needs 200-220kcal per day to get him down safely to 6kg, the 3-4 pouches per day for a 4kg cat are excessive.

I spent yesterday morning researching which is the best quality food for the kittens and found some interesting articles about the pet food industry and the crap the put in it, and how the manufacturers are prone to exaggerating the food required so they sell more. Some of the stuff I've been reading suggests that the premium food contain more meat and less grain based carbs which might be either less calorie or better calories. This site is quite interesting http://www.justanswer.com/cat-health/2dmhh-female-cat-weighed-3-6-kilos-10-mths-old-spaying.html

I'm hoping that our 2 will self regulate on dry food eventually, but not yet apparently....

When I feed next door's cat he only gets 2 pouches a day but how much of that gets eaten by other cats I dunno.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #385 on: 30 November, 2014, 02:12:51 pm »
Our cats seem to self-regulate on dry food (I think it's Hills, whatever the most expensive is) – they don't come running when we put it down but will diligently munch through it. They are more enthusiastic about soft food. They were brought up on dry food (probably, they're rescue kitties), we only started giving them soft food when little cat had all teeth pulled out and we weren't sure she'd manage the hard sufficiently (and at 3 kg she doesn't need to lose weight). Surprisingly she seems to manage fine with her gums and palate but they get a pouch of soft stuff a day as a treat.

Bad cat managed to escape today by getting her paw behind the out-locked flap and pulling it inwards. Fiend. She did a good job of removing her own stitches earlier too. We're going to get stern looks from the vet. It's probably a good job we don't have kids, we'd be terrible parents, the ones that make the teachers sigh.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #386 on: 04 December, 2014, 03:05:39 pm »
That, unlikely as it is, the word sacro-iliac appears in the lyrics of The Message by Grandmaster Flash.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #387 on: 04 December, 2014, 03:39:46 pm »
That Mogwai really don't like being referred to as "Post-Rock".  Sorry, chaps, but if GY!BE and their like are Post-Rock then you are too.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #388 on: 04 December, 2014, 04:27:34 pm »
Just how overstated the feeding guidelines are on cat food. Felix is 70-75kcal per 100g pouch, Kitekat is about 80kcal per 100g, and Whiskas is 80-85kcal per 100g. Given that my fatty 7kg cat needs 200-220kcal per day to get him down safely to 6kg, the 3-4 pouches per day for a 4kg cat are excessive.

I spent yesterday morning researching which is the best quality food for the kittens and found some interesting articles about the pet food industry and the crap the put in it, and how the manufacturers are prone to exaggerating the food required so they sell more. Some of the stuff I've been reading suggests that the premium food contain more meat and less grain based carbs which might be either less calorie or better calories. This site is quite interesting http://www.justanswer.com/cat-health/2dmhh-female-cat-weighed-3-6-kilos-10-mths-old-spaying.html

I'm hoping that our 2 will self regulate on dry food eventually, but not yet apparently....

When I feed next door's cat he only gets 2 pouches a day but how much of that gets eaten by other cats I dunno.
A friend of mine feeds her dog and cat stuff that's just ground up muscle and organ meat. I can't remember the name of the place she gets it from. It's only slightly more expensive than pouches of cat food. If I had a bigger freezer, I'd get it for him.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #389 on: 04 December, 2014, 05:53:51 pm »
apparently the Smithsonian agreed to never recognise any other potential first flight pioneer in exchange for the Wright's plane. Dundee claims an early flying pioneer, possibly the first in UK, maybe the world.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/history-2.1462/is-history-right-or-was-dundee-s-preston-watson-the-first-to-make-a-powered-flight-1.718839
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ian

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #390 on: 04 December, 2014, 07:17:57 pm »
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A friend of mine feeds her dog and cat stuff that's just ground up muscle and organ meat. I can't remember the name of the place she gets it from. It's only slightly more expensive than pouches of cat food. If I had a bigger freezer, I'd get it for him.

Mine eats poppadoms. I have no idea what she does with the rest of the takeaway.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #391 on: 04 December, 2014, 07:22:58 pm »
ian, you are clearly giving your cat too much pocket money.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #392 on: 04 December, 2014, 07:33:29 pm »
When Dafydd was a ickle kitting, I put the remains of my fish and chips down on the kitchen floor.  We once had a cat that used to eat chips and I thought I'd see if Daf was interested.  When I returned later I found he'd not only ignored the chips, but seemed to have not touched the remaining fish either.  He had, however, sucked up every last trace of curry sauce.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #393 on: 04 December, 2014, 07:39:35 pm »
Mine eats poppadoms. I have no idea what she does with the rest of the takeaway.

A friend's cat once hilariously made off with a poppadom.  By the time we realised, she'd licked it until it was floppy.  Actually eating it either didn't occur to her, or was hampered by lack of teeth.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #394 on: 04 December, 2014, 09:36:14 pm »
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #395 on: 06 December, 2014, 10:54:32 am »
That when Margaret put a card and an envelope on my desk and said "that's Jenny's collection," and I put in an amount of money reflecting that Jenny has been my manager for years, and wrote in the card "thank you for all your support over the years, enjoy your retirement," it wasn't Jenny the manager retiring after 40 years' card, it was Jenny the OT who's leaving after 6 months' card.  ;D
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #396 on: 07 December, 2014, 12:26:36 am »
Ok, not strictly today but I have learned that there is another person with my RL name.

Who runs a bike shop.*

In Minneapolis, Minnesota.

IIRC it's called John's Bikes.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #397 on: 07 December, 2014, 09:25:13 pm »
apparently the Smithsonian agreed to never recognise any other potential first flight pioneer in exchange for the Wright's plane. Dundee claims an early flying pioneer, possibly the first in UK, maybe the world.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/history-2.1462/is-history-right-or-was-dundee-s-preston-watson-the-first-to-make-a-powered-flight-1.718839
Loadsa people flew before the Wrights 'first' flight, including both of the Wrights (gliding). Some of 'em even did so (briefly) in powered craft. The Wrights' claim depends on a few qualification to 'first flight', e.g. powered, controlled, took off under own power. It seems pretty certain that their 'first' flight was closer to achieving all of those at once than any previous flight, but it was just one step among many.

To me, their achievements were significant, but I'm not sure that they made any net contribution to aviation. Their insane patent war* held back the progress of aviation in the USA**, & the world was filled with experimenters & theoreticians at the time. It was going to happen, & soon, whether the Wrights existed or not.


*They claimed that any kind of control mechanism which changed the shape of a wing, whether by warping, ailerons, or any other means, was covered by their patent. Patently ridiculous, since wing-warping & ailerons had been in the literature for decades, had been used on experimental gliders, & there was even a prior patent (British, expired) for ailerons.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #398 on: 07 December, 2014, 10:28:39 pm »
Supposed to have been a bloke in west Wales (Saundersfoot) who flew years before anyone else.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #399 on: 07 December, 2014, 11:37:14 pm »
Today I learned that Go Outdoors sell a fatbike. 's only £350 as well. Steel frame and forks, cheap seven speed Shimano(ish) drivetrain, cable discs, presumably less-than-great wheels.

In unrelated news I'm hiding my credit card.