Death Cat: The cat you acquire after another cat’s demise.
I was chatting with a friend about my precious kitties. I mentioned all the cats I had and I mentioned Crystal. I said, “She is my death cat.”
I said it kind of mocking myself and also being morbid.
Death cat will have negative connotations and should be used in dark humor or sarcasm.
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This is the life for the mentally ill.
Chastised for not being normal,
Like it’s our own fault we’re abnormal.
A chemical imbalance is what they say.
Suck it up, ignore, and it will all go away.
We want the same. Perhaps not at first.
But the mania and depression make our minds want to burst.
Sing! by Smule is one of those apps I wish I had stumbled upon ages ago. I stumbled upon the app by accident. I was trying out beatbox type apps to test my non-existent rapping skills and Sing! was one of the recommended apps to try out during my search. It was “free”, so I decided to give it a go.
.... Continue Reading...My friend Pauli Loeffler recently recorded a bunch of duckies blocking traffic near the Edmond Dog Park.
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This post is co-authored by Susan Simkins.
Paul Boag, a well-known and highly respected user experience advocate, has just released a new book, User Experience Revolution.
The book takes aim at systemic organizational issues that actively breed an anti-user culture, whether it is intended or not.
User experience encompasses the user interaction with your products or services and the emotions that result.
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Easy Updates Manager began as with any WordPress plugin: a line of code.
For me, it started with a problem. I inherited an agency problem where plugins were modified and the only solution was upping the version number in the core plugin file.
As I pondered a solution, I had some initial thoughts that others would find such a tool useful.
.... Continue Reading...Life is the inconvenience between birth and death.
.... Continue Reading...Everytime I share with someone I’ve written a book about Fight Club, I’m reminded by that person that the first two rules of Fight Club are you can’t talk about it. Okay… Bullshit.
First, Fight Club is a fictional club. Debate over.
Second, we were never part of this fictional club. Debate over.
Third, if you consider yourself part of this fictional club and willing to lay down the law for a character that never existed… well, fuck you.
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Uno and Friends Update 17 has been out about a month. I am neither impressed nor wholly disappointed by it. Server disconnect issues seem the same, and while the problem with giving gifts to your friends from the leadership boards was fixed for a brief time by a patch released after Update 16, it is FUBAR again with this update.
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All of the following is my own opinion on the cause of mental illness. No facts. No published sources. Just me.
Let’s talk about survival. Everybody has fight or flight built into them. When a person is confronted with conflict, it’s either fight or flight.
It’s what I call the change cycle. Person A wants to change your behavior, so you are either submissive (flight), or you try to to change Person A’s behavior (fight).
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