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Still retraining myself how to do various things on the laptop, since before the PC turned sick I wasn't using the Mac for more than an occasional post. Just uploaded this week's kitty photos to iPhoto for inserting here.



I took this with one hand whilst cradling Datsa with the other.



And here's Amy all bundled in the comforter that really needs to be washed and stored away for the warmer months.

Tonight on Firesign chat, Cat mentioned that his computer keeps warning him about a virus whenever he visits this site. Laura, any ideas? It's almost certainly not the malware, which has only infected my PC (not the Mac on which I've been typing blog posts) for less than a week. Maybe it's something to do with a ShadyURL (via BoingBoing)...

Those of you who've actually seen Up, unlike me, will probably appreciate this:



Via The Awl. When we're a 2-income household again the DVD of this movie is top on my to-buy list.

Well, the malware proved too much for the house expert and any number of virus-attacking software programs. My PC is, to all intents and purposes, unusable. So I've got the laptop hooked up to my monitor, testing various programs from work via remote access (so far only one doesn't work properly, but unfortunately it's the one I need the most) and mourning the temporary loss of Atlantis Quest which, alas, is only made for a PC. I still totally blame Cablevision; if it weren't for them and ABC being buttheads on Oscar day I wouldn't have gone looking for what wound up being the malware in the first place. Ah well, I did enjoy the Oscars, at least, as apparently did Ben Grimm according to Bully. Click here for the entire Twitter feed.

Absolutely nothing silly about this watch-Oscar-bait malware. It still persists on my machine, to the point where it may be irreparable. I feel like I ought to take up residence in the Images of Madness Livejournal blog(via Xeni at BoingBoing).

Not only can't we find any Academy Awards live streams, but one of the sites that promised live Oscar coverage filled my PC with malware that took Robin the better part of two hours to get rid of (and we're still not sure it's gone). Cablevision is promising free on-demand movies all day but that mechanism doesn't seem to be working. So it looks like we'll be watching stuff we've DVR'ed tonight. Yeah, you could say I'm majorly pissed. Update: It's back on, as of 8:43 NY time. Hoorah! Still no good guys here, but at least viewers are no longer caught in the middle.

Now that the tax stuff's out of the way, Rob's literally gone back to the drawing board. Here's a nice character sketch he's done:



The face is very recognizable to me as the "Riggs style" (check out the Sir Apropos series to find countless other examples)...

The good news is, not only have we finished filing our 2009 taxes but I'm done with ironing until the next laundry day! The bad news is, Cablevision and ABC are playing silly buggers resulting in the channel showing the Oscars being blacked out for Cablevision's NYC customers. I've watched the Oscars each year for as long as I can remember, and I'm not about to give in to faceless corporations' blackmail, so I guess we'll find some online site streaming them tonight. In the meantime, submitted for your consideration:



Via io9, Mark Evanier and a host of others.

Can you feel it? Spring is in the air, for sure! The drive to do our local errands revealed lots of show piles still in the neighborhood, but our driveway/road is mostly clear and I only needed a t-shirt and hoodie to go out. Anyway, with spring an old blogger's thoughts turn to romance, I suppose, and via BoingBoing here's another clever wedding invite:



The BoingBoing post also has other cool online wedding links.

Long work week, and it ain't over yet. On call tomorrow; if from home, I should get a lot of blog-reading done whilst monitoring work email. If from work, well, I suppose there's always Sunday. Got lots of healthy snacks for the weekend, at any rate, and am determined never to even buy this, much less use it:



Via Adam at Serious Eats. I love how the kid in the fake ad can barely keep from cracking up and losing it entirely...