[Coco] OT: cpu overclocking

[Ward Griffiths]

On 09/17/2005 12:58 pm, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:45:36AM -0700, Kevin Diggs wrote:
> > P.P.S.:  I'm being invaded by mouses and the rats keep eatin the peanut
> > butter out of the humane trap so I can't catch them. I may have to move.
> > Or charge them rent.
>
> My wife once put out one of those humane traps...and then didn't check
> it for ~2 months.  It didn't seem quite so humane after that... :-)

Geez, mi esposa has a better sense of smell.  I can't even sneak a smoke in 
the basement.  A dead rat after ~2 months I think even _I_ with senses born 
and bred in Los Angeles and later refined in north Jersey might detect that 
without too many hints even after a century/3 of a pack per day.

I have never seen a rodent in this house.  We're losing some cats to old age, 
but we're still winning.  (And the cat population gets reinforced, now and 
again, there are Moon Unit (showed up on the night of the lunar eclipse a 
couple years back) and latest JC Maxwell (physics, music and literary 
references in both their names, often combined) who goes off in a few days 
for a very special appointment.  The cat that lives in the basement (Bonnie, 
she hates cats) guarding the old Tandy stuff has given us the occasional dead 
snake but if there are any rodents, she has a very efficient digestion.

Most of our cats are rescues (like many of my computers).  None can breed 
(well, Max _might_ be able to if he got outside, but we'll "fix" that 
Friday).
-- 
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

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