Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:59:00 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), Chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: My cat crashed my BSD box Message-ID: <200106101659.f5AGx0676158@dotar-sojat.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of Jun 10, 3:54pm
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> From: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) > Date: Sun 10 Jun, 2001 > Subject: Re: My cat crashed my BSD box > Chip <chip@wiegand.org> writes: > > Here's a new one - this happened the other night. My cat likes to > > sit on my desk while I'm at my computer, which is fine, most of the > > time. Though she usually chooses the mouse pad as her favorite > > place to sit down, or lay down. She'll lay right on top of the > > mouse, sometimes even across the keypad part of the keyboard. I gave > > her an unused mouse pad to sit on, but she doesn't like it. > > Of course not. She's trying to get your attention, and she won't get > that by sitting on a mouse pad you're not using. Try teaching her to > sit in your lap instead. That solution doesn't scale well... Just make sure there are enough warm surfaces free around you (computer equipment is idea), the more elevated the better. I currently have two cats lounging around on top of one of my monitors. Though I get annoyed when tails and paws start obscuring parts of the screen I need to _see_! Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk> <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>; "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>; <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200106101659.f5AGx0676158>