Zoey is back, and not looking too bad. (pic later when I don’t have to use flashy thing on her).

She’s got a full schedule of meds. Gonna keep me busy keeping up with all the alarms I’ve got set to keep her on schedule.

She purred all the way home, took a quick look around the living room then headed for the bedroom. She walked up to the edge of the bed, took a look under it, and growled and growled.

Now she’s sleeping on her couch downstairs, nice and quiet down there.

Its been really touching, all the good wishes and love sent her way. I know she felt it too.

This pic is for FourLegsGood, who said Zoey appeared angry in the others, more of an angel in this one.

5 pm update.

Spoke with Zoey’s 3rd vet a little while ago.

The wiring of her jaw went just fine. (To be clear, its not wired shut, they put a wire under her tongue and around the outside, and twist it up tight. It holds the two sides together, but doesn’t stop her from opening her mouth.)

While Zoey was under for that, they did take a good look at her eye. The vet’s exact words were, “The eye looks great.” A huge, huge load fell from my shoulders when I heard that. There was so much swelling last night that getting a good look was really difficult. It sure looked like the orbit was smaller than normal, I guess just the swelling pushed it back a bit.

So, she was just coming around when I called at 5 pm, and I guess she’s gonna spend another night at the hospital. They gave me the option of picking her up later, but I chose to leave her where people really know what they are doing. They gave us the option of bringing her home last night, and if we had her jaw problem would have gone unnoticed. So…away another night.

Thank goodness for 24 hour pet emergency clinics.

Arrow on the other hand, has acquired a new piece of neck jewelry, a shock collar.

Went to the vet’s office early this morning to get the little girl. Was prepared to bring her home to start the long recovery process.

Ran into Dr. Mike as soon as I walked in, he had been trying to call me at home with an update.

Zoey had a “good” night, insofar as possible considering. She charmed the staff at the kitty hospital with her very strong and loud purring anytime she got attention.

So, Dr. Mike said that while giving Zoey another “once over” about 7 am, he noticed some movement in her jaw. Seems her mandible is cracked where the left and right halves fuse together. Dr. Mike said that many times, its just a send home kind of fracture, but he and Dr. Del are gonna wire her jaw together for 3 weeks.

That information eliminated Magoo as a culprit in the attack, and left Arrow alone as the perp. We wondered last night why there wasn’t any bottom wound to match the upper damage around her eye, and Magoo and her needle claws became suspect. But with the jaw info, everything points to Arrow.

Zoey is still hemorrhaging a bit in her sinuses, no telling how many tiny fractures there are in those little bones. The good news there is that the bleeding out of her right nostril has stopped, and the left is just a trickle this morning.

And the eye…

Dr. Mike says that he is able to see space between her cornea and her iris. That’s real good news, means that the eye fluid hasn’t drained out, and there is still internal pressure keeping the eyeball in shape, he was optimistic about her keeping the eye.

So, she remains in their care for today while they sedate her and do the wire magic on her jaw. While sedated, they’ll be able to get a much better idea about her eye too.

Now to figure out what to do about Arrow.

Our ever peaceful Zoey is in the kitty hospital tonight, after an altercation with one of our other animals. About 10:30 Wednesday night, Zoey hopped off her chair in the dining room and romped off to the bedroom, ready to call it an evening. But either one of the dogs or one of the other cats (one of each present) ruined her night, and by the time I got to her, she was a bleeding, howling mess.

Fortunately, she’s gonna survive, things seemed at first glance to much worse than they actually were, but she may lose her left eye.

And that is making me very, very sad. Those two huge eyes, the ones you could never get a good flash picture of, may be half extinguished.

It’s just wrong, this kitty had a hard, hard life before she came to live here. She’s never a bother, and goes out of her way to avoid conflicts with the other animals.

I just want to cry and hold her.

Skype has proven my most valuable connectivity tool in the last 3 years. I am anxiously waiting for Skype-in numbers in my country and when it happens I will kill my business landline. Unfortunately, while I was abroad where Skype has it’s most value (call my country for 1.7 Eurocent per minute, aproximatelyt $0,02, instead of around one Euro per minute, $1.30 per minute using my cellphone), it suffered a complete network meltdown for about 2 days, in which my brother in law was admitted to hospital. Oh well.

While the official statement will be out Monday, I am guessing the last client update (3.5.0.202) contributed to the problem as soon as sufficient numbers were rolled out. Too much of a coincidence there is a new version up now. Still guessing I would advice everybody to veer away from 0.202 as soon as possible.

I put these links in Miro, and I am still flabbergasted. If you are anywhere interested in how the brain operates, dump the mindnumbing TV for a few hours and watch this. Excellent view and more than worth it.

(…) It is a six part [BBC] series covering virtually every area of contemporary neuropsychology, including the major researchers, discoveries, techniques and even many of the patients who have been the subjects of classic case studies that have helped us understand the curious effects of brain injury.

(…) It’s a landmark series in its accuracy and scope, and because it’s so engrossing for both the seasoned professional and the general viewer.
(…) [direct link to the torrents. Make sure you have Miro installed]

Episode 1: All in the Mind
Episode 2: In the Heat of the Moment
Episode 3: The Mind’s Eye
Episode 4: First Among Equals
Episode 5: Growing the Mind
Episode 6: The Final Mystery

Read the warning in the original post about TorrentSpy (many thanks Mind Hacks).

Added: if you want a 15 times fast-forwarded version of this, listen to Vilayanur Ramachandran on TED.

I am a happy and convinced FON user: share your wireless with the world, and use the world’s wireless, in a controlled way. Meraki though is a very interesting, mildly comparable project. The wireless Meraki access points are either connected to the internet or not, and create, automatically, a meshed network of the neighborhood. This has the potential of providing low income neighborhoods with very affordable access.

Meraki’s mission is to bring affordable Internet access to the next billion people. Meraki’s new approach to wireless networking empowers individuals and groups to bring access to local communities, anywhere in the world.

Meraki has focused on changing the economics of access since its beginning as a MIT Ph.D. research project that provided wireless access to graduate students.

Using their research, Meraki got its start at a low-income housing community in the US. News about Meraki’s products spread by word of mouth into over 25 countries around the world. Every day, new Meraki networks bring access to locations ranging from urban apartment complexes in London to villages in India.

Through Scientific American.

I’m back.

I must confess I was sorta mildy into the copyright discussion. As an IT guy, you don’t want your code stolen and want artists to get a fair share, but on the other hand, the insane criminalization of music listeners and screwed up DRM-ed recordings is of course out of this world.

Until I saw this. This front runner of the Swedish Pirate Party Rick Falkvinge is making a strong case against copyright because it attacks serious fundamental democratic rights. Example: the music industry lobbies in Europe to make copyright infringement punishable with 4 years imprisonment. This is not arbitrary: in a lot of European countries crimes of this severity allow for wiretapping without warrant. And there goes your right for private communication. I seriously think we need to consider more and more end-to-end encrypted messaging. Very worth the almost one hour watch.

Edit: please note the comment below is from Rick. I feel honored.

Lord knows that all the time I’ve been in Alaska (yes, chechako, 1992) I’ve had enough of Ted, Don, and Frank.

And now, they are getting called out on all their crap, its about time.

But what I’m wondering as a white boy living in the big city, just how bad is the fallout gonna be for the natives.

Here’s the deal, for years Don, Ted, and Frank have pumped the feds for lotsa cash, all under the umbrella of “we are a young state, we need infrastructure.”

And they got that money, hell… Alaskans, the most notorious non payers of Federal Income Tax, got back almost 9 bucks on the dollar.

And Don, Ted, Frank aka Lisa got that cash. For nice trophy bridges.

Now the Sea Ice is melting, and the Native Villages they wanted to take care of, are sucking it all up. Relocations, houses lost to the ocean, it just blows.

And Don and Ted are heroes for how much longer?

Well, it’s getting there.

The Department of Homeland Security is now going to demand (er.. ask) for Passports before you can enter a National Park.

Via Crooks and Liars, and CNN.

So, before you see these:

You must have a passport.

Can I have all my windowz broken now please Mr Bush?

I hiked and climbed these mountains, the Tetons in Wyoming since the 1960s.

Dickhead Cheney’s house would be at the far left edge of this pic, down at Wilson, which in the 1970s was hippy venue, go figure.

This just suxxorz. My country has left me, and just as soon as I can arrange it I’m gonna leave it.

This is not where I grew up anymore.