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Today at Target I bought a Santa hat for my cat. My wife warned me that it wasn’t going to go well if I tried putting it on our cat. I bought it anyway thinking it’s going to be funny. Surprisingly she didn’t put up a fight. She seemed to just barely tolerate this indignation. Whatever, she ain’t paying the rent so she’ll have to put up with it.

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This is the first episode in what I hope to be a series of short clips of yours truly messing with one of our cats Peepers and Tara. This one features Tara in one of the things I enjoy doing to her. She likes to play catch the tickling hand. She’s a bit of a biter but she doesn’t realize she bites too hard sometimes so naturally I do my best to avoid getting bitten. It’s also fun just seeing her twitching side to side. Hours of amusement.

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This week will be a mixed bag of links from every and any subject matter. It’s whatever I thought was funny or cool or just wanted to share with my readers.

• Type in your name and find out your Ikea name and furniture. Hours of entertainment.
• I performed some more motion capture for the upcoming Midway game: Mortal Kombat vs DC this week. Check out my Flickr photos.
• An internal memo written in 2003 by Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, chewing out his people over his horrendous experience with XP and the Microsoft website. The guy knew what he was talking about. Maybe it was a combination of bureaucracy and incompetency that mired the XP experience.
• A marine blogger gives his 2 cents on the high tech always connected soldier and the effect on the modern battle field.

I want to finish off with this really cool video of Carnegie Melon’s slithering robot that swims in the water.

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Japanese company Cyberdyne is developing a robotic exoskeleton. It’s able to augment the wearer’s strength 10-fold. They’ll crank out 500 of these robotic suits by October. I thought, “Wow, that’s really cool.” Until I realized, “Wasn’t the company in the Terminator movies also called Cyberdyne?” Why the heck would you name your company Cyberdyne if you were developing robots. Talk about foreshadowing. I guess now we’ll have to go through all the Sarah Connors in the phone book and protect them before Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill her. Or we could just blow up Cyberdyne right now and save humanity. LOL

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