Microdoted - Pandoras Box

whats your os?

Microdot — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:27:22 GMT

havent taken a head count in a while... thought it would be interesting to see.

me:
main workstation: osx 10.6
dev: osx 10.6
windows dev: win 7 pro x64
nix dev: rhel 5

(poll coming)

youre fucking kidding me.... shit luck? not anymore.

Microdot — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:13:03 GMT

its now possible to claim i have the worst luck in history.

after all the bullshit from a few months ago (which is still ongoing... my home is in the exact same state it was when all that mold/ac crap started)... we now have yet ANOTHER fucking thing to deal with....

hurricane hermine... not really a threat to us here in austin as we are so far inland. but, the weather man promised to bring some wind and rain.

fuck you weather man.

its like we are sitting in the middle of a cat 4 hurricane. my roof just fucking ripped and is now dumping water into what used to be my downstairs.

no... im not fucking kidding.

this house is fucking cursed.

Cruiseliner at high sea's

J Ellis — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:57:42 GMT

watch for the faceplant at 47 seconds

Prissy lost her kitty.......

J Ellis — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:16:24 GMT

come on guys which one of you took it.

:arofl::arofl::arofl:

am on a diet

wench — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:54:21 GMT

For Oshine there will be no more sweets, jelly and marshmallows and instead she will be getting a healthy diet of fruit, vegetables and plenty of exercise.

The tubby orang-utan weighs in at a whopping 100kg - double her natural body weight.

Keepers at Monkey World in Dorset say they are changing her diet and putting her on fruit and vegetables - like other primates - until she loses her belly.

Oshine arrived at the rescue centre from South Africa having been kept as a pet for 13 years. Her sedentary and unnatural lifestyle meant her weight rocketed.

Her owner first contacted Monkey World in 2008 when she realised that she could not offer Oshine a good or natural lifestyle being kept as a pet.

It has taken time to secure and arrange her arrival at Monkey World, but thanks to South African Airways she landed safely at Heathrow Airport on August 31.

The journey was not an easy one and, with the endangered orang-utan's poor physical condition, special arrangements were made for the 10.5-hour journey from Johannesburg to London.

Dr Alison Cronin, director of Monkey World, said: ''We have been working to give Oshine a more natural life with others of her own kind for more than a year.

''The long-haul journey for such a delicate endangered species such as an orang-utan is fraught with difficulties and danger.

''With Oshine's weight problem we were especially concerned about her travel arrangements and making sure that the journey was stress-free and safe.''

The Monkey World team went to Johannesburg, with a specially designed transport box, several days prior to the move in order to get to know Oshine and familiarise her with the orang-utan transport crate.

After two days of ''playing'' in the box, the door was shut for good and Oshine was on her way to a more natural life in the UK.

''Getting to know her, making friends, and playing in the travel crate days ahead of the journey made a real difference as we did not have to anaesthetise Oshine to get her to go into her travelling crate,'' added Dr Cronin.

Although a fully-grown adult, Oshine is now living in the orang-utan creche at Monkey World that receives any captive-born babies in Europe whose mothers abandon them.

She is now receiving a more natural, healthy diet and meeting others of her own kind for the first time.

The Monkey World team are optimistic that Oshine is on the road to a more healthy life - both physically and mentally.

Once she loses weight, gets fitter, and understands more about orang-utan behaviour, she will ''graduate'' into one of two breeding groups of orang-utans kept at Monkey World, where it is hoped that she can start her own family.

''Now that she is at the park, we have her on a healthy diet of vegetables and fruits and she is getting a lot more exercise climbing through the specially designed, two storey orang-utan creche,'' said Dr Cronin.

''It will take a few months for Oshine to reach a more appropriate weight and then she will be ready to meet a new man and consider a family of her own.''

Monkey World is home to Europe's only orang-utan creche.

As members of the European Endangered Species Breeding Programme (EEP) for this species, Monkey World not only breeds orang-utans, but also offers a home to any babies born in European zoos and that are orphaned.

In the creche orphaned babies are cared for by a team of dedicated primate care staff and an adult female orang-utan, A-mei.

A-mei is surrogate mother to the young orphaned orang-utans, Dinda, aged four, Hsiao-Ning, seven, and Joly and Lingga, both five.

The main threat to the orang-utan in the wild is habitat loss due to the logging of primary forest for agricultural land and, in particular, the unsustainable palm oil industry.

They are also used in the entertainment industry or as pets and, although this is illegal, it is a growing industry in south-east Asia.

Monkey World also breeds the critically endangered golden-cheeked gibbons and woolly monkeys at the park, as part of the EEP.

Zo?

TheTominator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:50:38 GMT

Dinner Tonight

TheTominator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:03:18 GMT

Tilapia, lightly smoked.

Within the next couple of weeks, gonna can some chipotles.

Popup Ad

airhoppz — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:15:19 GMT

I just navigated over here and got a popup ad.

I did have the Safari popup blocker turned off...but still. Something about a survey.

US Open fight...

J Ellis — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:31:56 GMT

Wench and Furby?

DJ Redworm — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:21:08 GMT

bootcamp ideas

Gundito — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:05:21 GMT

My nephew leaves for bootcamp next week. Is there any kind of useful thing he might need while there which could be presented as a gift?
I got no fucking idea - the closest any of my people have ever gotten to the army is the KISS army. All you need for that is a tshirt, a joint and penicillin for the clap.

badassery

TheTominator — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:01:18 GMT

relatively amusing

http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-photo...ous-badassery/

larf of the day

Microdot — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:54:33 GMT

:arofl::arofl::arofl::arofl::arofl:

powder's newest accessory

wench — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:52:07 GMT

for his pickups NJ makeover

Humans of WWII in High-res

J Ellis — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:42:50 GMT

http://thebrigade.com/2010/08/31/hum...-25-hq-photos/