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Andre the Giant visiting Japan in 1980. The night sky above the Connecticut River in Pittsburg, New Hampshire. Potash Mine in Moab, Utah. A 2.5 second exposure of thousands of lanterns commemorating Buddha's birthday at Samgwangsa Temple in Busan, South Korea. Kharn the Betrayer. A maize maze. An abandoned section of the great wall of China. Deep in the stormy Monashees of British Columbia. Toronto to Seattle, shot somewhere over Washington State. Layers of Colorado. Twelve Apostles, Australia. Dalton, New Hampshire. Krka National Park, Croatia.

Speaking of NMS...

So foreigners get bonus points for adding to the gene pool?

An excellent depiction of the struggle we face here too. Nobody dates here without checking islendingabok.is first. Literally "the book of Icelanders" and everybody is in it so you can enter a social ID number and see how this person is related to you. One just hopes all the info in there is accurate...

Like any of us, animals decide who they like and don't like as much. My Dad did not like cats, but when his little princess (no, not me...my Sister) wanted a cat, he let her pick a cat from the shelter. Who did the cat repeatedly sit on? Yep...in the end I think he really loved that cat, but he'd never have admitted it. I seem to make animal friends easily, but for some reason Parrots in particular are drawn to me in an almost freakish way.

Yay for kitty! That had to feel good. I have a new stray kitty hanging around. Kind of Orange and Grey dappled. Cute little thing. How is it they seem to know who to seek help from? Saw it hanging around Saturday. Put out some water, then headed to buy Cat Chow. It hasn't gone far from my door since. I'll see if I can get her to trust me (she's already making strides) then when she's ready, get her a permanent home. She seems very curious about Suzy. Suzy is very chill and loves cats.

Warning: graphic pet shit (literally). So, both cats are having "issues" these days. One is longer-term, but so far not concerning, just REAL annoying (extra soft stools, outside the litterbox sometimes). Got some meds from the vet to try and resolve. Just starting 2 days ago, the second one started meowing more and with a slight howling sound, you could tell he was uncomfortable; I thought constipated. Some spitting up, and leaving little liquid drops of crap ALL around the fucking house (Karen and I were nuts, cleaning up after him). So he had the second of two visits to the vet tonight. Wonderful doctor inspects him, agrees that he may be constipated, offers a few things to try.... ...so my cat had an enema tonight. Got home, segregated this one from the main part of our house with a 3+ foot high TV box. Both cats had separate litter and food. I come downstairs, my son is there looking at the box. And I see the cat in the kitchen..... "Dude, why'd you let the cat in, didn't you see the section was closed off....?" "Dad, i didn't touch it...he was in the kitchen when I came down...." Oh, great. But lo and behold, he just let loose a large dump in the litter we set up for the other cat! He also seemed to be relieved, and he jumped up to his favorite window sill to get brushed, purring like (we hope) his old self. So fingers crossed he's OK now, no more spotting or accidents. And who knew....a friggin' kitty enema......

Have a great day! It's downhill from here on out.

21st Century Bliss. Camel Train through the Gobi Desert at Sunrise Western Colorado with fresh snow & clear skies. 30 minute exposure at Vermillion Lakes in Banff, Alberta. Manhattan at Dusk. *fap* *fap* *fap* Scotland in autumn. Mt Asgard, Auyuittuq National Park, Baffin Island, Nunavut Canada Photo by Reuben Shelton, Dave Nettlez. 1973 Mazda RX-3. Small village in the Faroe Islands. "Bad Moon Rising" Mt. Hood, Oregon.

Yeah, that is definitely on the list for this week-end, when rack membership and arrangement should be more stable. You can blame Birgir for almost every headphone in the second picture, and of course for the Carbon CC in the first (which is replacing both a BHSE and a KGST).

you can check out anytime but you can never leave ...Hotel Head-Case

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I think you're spot on Steve. My father-in-law didn't seem to like animals, but my wife tells me that their dog they got when she was young used to gravitate a lot to him. As time went on and she grew old and passed, he couldn't even tell my wife on the phone (she was at college), he was too choked up. Animals can be truly amazing in their sensing of caring people.....even if those people don't know it!

I got some new neighbors about a year ago, a young quiet couple, no kids. Half a year ago they got a kitty. In the beginning I noticed the kitten often turned up when I got home from work, came over to the drive way for a short chit chat. During the summer it seems as if it spends more and more time in my garden. Besides from a bit of small talking I don't do much to keep it around, I don't feed it or anything as I don't want to hijack my neighbors kitty and it seems well fed. Yesterday I was sitting in my garden, reading - the kitten turned up, looked at me for a bit, I didn't say anything, just looked at it, and the kitten didn't say anything, and then it settle in the grass and stayed there for about two hours - wonder what makes the kitten hang around that much

This is a possibility, though doctor was somewhat doubtful right now, given age and no other symptoms. But we did have bloodwork done (on both cats), we'll see what the results are soon.

So it's true, No Man's Sky is a shitty PC port. Playable, but only just. The frame rate isn't great, the game seems to pause and stutter on object load, the pop-in is bad, and the interface is not intuitive. There seems to be really bad mouse smoothing, mouse sensitivity options don't work as advertised and the FOV, while thankfully adjustable, doesn't seem to be as high as indicated. 100 indicated feels like 90 at most. But I can live with 90. The game is more or less right up my alley, endless wandering around in procedurally generated environments occasionally saying, "wow, cool!" The combat, such as it is, is laughable and the amount of actual stuff in the game so far is quite low. But it feels like the foundation is there for a really great game. Think Terraria 1.0, which means that I can't wait for 1.1 and up. But, there's a lot of technical issues on PC to be fixed first. You can tell the team is new to the whole PC thing, when they were showing off their own game they were playing it internally with a controller. So the clueless PC interface is understandable, as are the technical problems. They seem to be listening though, and hopefully they'll learn. So far they did something HIGHLY ambitious for a small team and mostly pulled it off - however they oversold it as the game to beat all games, makes sliced bread look last century, etc. It's certainly not all that. In terms of combat mechanics, story, npc interaction, etc it's all very simplistic at best. It's more of a slow, meditative discovery simulator with a bit of Minecraft. If you run through it looking for cool fights or scripted events to do, you'll be bored. But if, like me, you loved wandering around aimlessly in an Elder Scrolls game going "wow" at the pretty pictures, this game gives you an endless stream of that, and occasionally some bits of crafting and resource gathering to do, with combat mostly as a nuisance. I'd say wait on this one unless the description sounds exactly like your jam. Then try it out but be prepared for some PC port issues on the side. On the PS4 it's more stable and more optimized, however you will be dealing with 70 fov (supposedly, feels like less), 30 fps and aiming with a controller. None of that is acceptable for me but if you don't mind it, it seems to be the better running version at the moment.