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Richie’s Computer Stuff

@ richie_golds @lemmy.ca

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  • Hey. Aren’t you supposed to be paying attention to ME?

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  • He’s half Siamese. He kind of has the face, but we don’t know what the other half is. His mother, the Siamese cat, got of her owners’ house one day, and some time after she returned… multiplication had occurred.

    About half the kittens looked like this kitty. Floofy, black fur (he actually had stripes as a kitten), there are a few possibilities. His father may have been a mix himself - some ragdoll, maybe a little bit of tabby, perhaps some Maine coon somewhere in there.

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  • Yep, grape Zevia. It’s a brand of pop sweetened with stevia. Not the most delicious thing out there if I’m being honest, it’s got a bit of an aftertaste. It’s just not as miserably bad for you as other pop.

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  • You know, I’ve never actually thought to do this. I’ve only grabbed items to stage for period-correct photos, but not candid “wtf is that” stuff in photos. That’s… really, really funny, actually!

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  • He definitely is quite the floofer. He is actually part Siamese, as that’s what his mother was. We don’t know what his father was, but we can see what he might have been.

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  • I will! (He said thank you)

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  • Such a pretty kitty! Reminds me a lot of my sister-in-law’s dad’s cat named Merp (yes, that was her name). She’s no longer around sadly, but she looked just like that, and was super loveable!

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  • Oh but he did get the pets! I just needed to make sure that I had a picture before he moved! Usually he prefers to be on my lap, but sometimes he’ll make himself the centre of attention this way!

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  • Why, thank you! The kitty doesn’t seem to concern himself with the events of computer software, he may only be interested in the cursor for a few seconds. I’ve personally not run Windows on a main PC since 2020, and I think it was Garuda at the time of this photo.

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  • That’s a magnetic charger for a phone attached to a rotatable stand.

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  • That you did!

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  • Nah, it’s a grape drink I happened to have in the photo, and happened to be turned to show the French side. I didn’t even realize this until it was pointed out in the comments!

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  • Almost - it’s grape. Grape in French is raisin. Products in Canada have both English and French on them.

    This comment made my night! (I hope that doesn’t sound sarcastic - I don’t mean it to be! I genuinely loved it and thought it was funny!)

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  • This is correct.

  • It’s 2005 Again.

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  • I actually started reading through it while I was waiting for the lava lamp to heat up. It’s a pretty good book! I can’t reference the name of the book at the moment because it’s just out of reach for now, but I found it at the thrift store a while back. I love these computery-type books, especially the ones that go into absolutely absurd detail about how things work. I think this one has a publication of 1998, so doesn’t quite fit the time period I was going for in this one, but it was the closest thing I had to relevant text book-like material for the story of this photo.

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  • Can you believe that I still often use that PLOP floppy? Super handy - and so funny to see old machines boot from USB (if it works)! I also remember those old Texas Instruments calculators when I was in grade 1. That’s getting further and further away every day! I was obsessed with them as a small kid. They were brought into the class in these rather serious cases with slotted foam, so they felt like real James Bond gadgets to six-year old me! Naturally, when I saw one at the thrift store, I had to grab it even if I didn’t need it!

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  • He’s definitely not frail, that’s for sure! I watch his weight quite closely, since he’s up there now. Still well-fed! So far so good. Still quite healthy, and he’s super mellow.

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  • Oh god the swearing mudcrabs! How could I have forgotten about that? Oh, and the one that turns the spiders into Spider-Man! Those are positively… legendary!

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  • lol that was a chair from 2003 when that style was popular. This was some time in 2012 when this kitty was just a baby. He’s a little old man now, who doesn’t like jumping anymore but still rips around the house at 3:00 AM.

    I think it’s just a thing cats do! It’s especially the case when I come home! I heard how cats think we’re out hunting, and so when we come home they expect us to bring food back. So, this is usually when he bugs for food even if his feeder just dropped the next meal. Licky sticks are, of course, a treat. He gets excited when I get the scissors (that’s how I open them)!

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  • This is the fuzzball 13 years ago.