You need to dress a cat

According to this web page right here, I need to dress a cat. And I will say to a cat together with a family. “It has changed just for a moment”. And I will pass pleasant one time. Who knew?

You’ll have to follow the link yourself if you want to see the Anne of Green Gables cat.

(Via BoingBoing)

Long-distance introductions

Hey, nihilistic_kid and redbird, do you know each other? You’re both at Wiscon, and you’ve got papersky and roadnotes (and me) in common on your Friends lists.

Dream

The earliest part of the dream I remember was being at our latest location for Games-Club-in-Exile, looking through the rules for an expansion set for Light Speed that had just come out. I have vague memories of three of the new ships: one that could fire through multiple ships, one that could move during the scoring phase, and one that could split in two. I don’t remember how either of the latter two worked in play, but the first actually seems plausible.

Then I was in Seattle, visiting the Murkworks. mamishka’s apartment had just had a fire, but not a serious one, nobody hurt (not even the cat), no serious damage. If she does get a fire now, I get serious psychic cred points, no?

Anyway, there was a whole crowd of Murk folks and their friends around. Then some guys showed up and started trying to sell folks on the idea of staging this production of some kind of weird parodic combination of Cats and Fiddler on the Roof that contained all sorts of anti-Palestinian propaganda and insults. For some reason, in the dream, I had the feeling these guys were Lubavitchers, even though they were dressed more like archetypal sabras. (Hey, look, there’s a Japanese girlie mag called Sabra!)

And, um, there was something about a car. And snakes, and I was barefoot.

LJ by email

Damn, just when I’d planned to take a day away from the computer to give my hand a rest.

Warren Ellis, author of many fine comics, publishes an email journal called Bad Signal. His latest entry talks about weblogs, moblogs, and LiveJournal. Here’s what he says:

LiveJournal is huge. Unlike Blogger, it's an interconnected community, where a profile page holds links to your friends on the system [...] and makes clickable links out of your list of interests [...]. And it is, I say again, bloody vast. I read Bára's LiveJournal this morning (she's the webdesigner for warrenellis.com) and looked in her profile. TRANSMETROPOLITAN is linked there. I clicked it. It showed me eight hundred other people who also have TRANSMET in their interests list. And that is, let's be honest, a minority interest.

What LiveJournal doesn't seem to have is a way to write to it remotely. Or to publish out to an email group.

I emailed him about PocketLJ, the LJ client for PDAs, to see if that fit what he meant about writing remotely. But the email publishing comment got me thinking. How hard would it be to add the ability for people to subscribe to getting your journal by email? Any bored Perl hackers out there want to take a stab at it?