links for 2009-09-08
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A nice short list of some of the nice refinements in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
A Portrait of Helen the Kitten
A Portrait of Helen
Helen is starting to adapt to our house. We are now able to give her some supervised time exploring our house and she seems to really enjoy it. It is very interesting to watch her explore despite her lack of eyesight (she has no eyes and probably never did). She sniffs at everything and moves very slowly and tentatively. When she finds things that typical kittens play with, she plays with them just like a typical kitty. If she finds a string, she rolls onto her back and bats at it. If she finds a ball, she pushes it around and chases it.
It’ll be very interesting to watch her grow and learn.
I took this portrait of her while she was exploring the kitchen. Every once and a while she would stop and hold her head up proudly as she listened to the sounds in the room. It was during one of those moments that I took this photo.
Meet Helen — Our Special Needs Kitten
Meet Helen -- Our Special Needs Kitten
We were walking through our town the other night and we saw this feral kitten sitting on a step near the center of town. We’ve seen her before and always wondered what her story was, as she was clearly different in some way from the other feral cats. We couldn’t quite figure out what was different though. When we ran across her again on Wednesday night we knew something was wrong because half her face was covered in dried blood. We decided we’d better try to catch her and see what was going on.
After several attempts we did manage to catch her and we brought her home, with the intention of bringing her to our vet the next day. We isolated her from our other animals and started cleaning her up. The blood came off easily and seemed to just be from some scratches on her head. She wouldn’t open her eyes though — and so we assumed she had some sort of eye infection as well. Once she figured out that we were trying to help her, she was very sweet and docile.
The next day I took her to the vet and explained what we had found. After thoroughly examining her, Dr. Hansen told me that it wasn’t an eye infection. This little kitten didn’t have any eyes at all — she was completely blind and always would be. She is either missing the eyeballs completely or they are so atrophied that it will never be usable. Despite that, she is basically healthy and seems to be around 10-12 weeks old. She has some parasites that we’re dealing with, but no other major health problems were detected, which is a blessing.
We’ve named this little one Helen, as in Helen Keller. We’re not sure if she will be a permanent resident with us or not. We need to see how she adapts to our house and our other animals. We may see about giving her to a family that has a single level house and maybe a few less animals….but we’ll see. In the meantime, we’ll give her lots of love while we get rid of her parasite problem and acclimate her to our home. I’m sure I’ll be taking lots of photos of her too.
I’m still here…..
Yeah. I haven’t forgotten I have a blog. The reality is that I’m doing most of my blogging over at Flickr these days. I’m going to have to start cross posting between the two.
Look for some more posts soon!
–Pete
links for 2009-08-28
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Snow Leopard includes a 64-bit kernet, but not all intel Macs can support it. This article lists which Macs can use the 64 bit kernel and which ones use it by default.
links for 2009-08-10
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A nice little comic page that describes how to create a master image in DeployStudio.
links for 2009-07-06
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A nice reference about how to deploy MS Office 2008 in an Enterprise environment.
links for 2009-07-04
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US Army Corps of Engineers Tug put back to work
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Website of the Tugboat Enthusiasts Society of the Americas
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Coast Guard Tug Association Website
links for 2009-06-25
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A nice little intro to the Mac OS X Command Line