Sweet And Sour Cat Goes Splat

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What a title for a post, I know, but you gotta admit... it's funny as heck!

You see, my parents were out of town for the week-end, and it was up to me to go feed Bella the cat.

Ordinarily, Bella doesn't give a damn about me and won't even let me pet her, but whenever she's been alone for a while and come to feed her, she's all over me. So transparent. Sheesh.

Anyway, I tend to forget things, so when my parents asked, I was like sure no problem, but you know, feel free to text me.

So that morning I get a text that reads "Meow meow meow meow".

And then that night I get one that asks if the cat was alright. This of course really means "did you remember to feed the cat?"

So I respond and tell him of course she's fine, and Barry decides to send "don't believe a word she says, she microwaved the cat."

I instantly receive "I kill You!!! (achmed)"

And then Barry sends "we decided to make sweet and sour cat goes splat for dinner."

And my dad quips back with "we're going to save a lot of money at
Christmas"

We were like "What? We saved you some..."

More threats... And wishes of nightmares.

Barry ends it with "tell Diane her owl collection is wonderful."

That's it, I think I'm losing my key and my sister will be asked to feed the cat from now on!

I sure had a good laugh, hope they did too. I'm so lucky to have parents that are also great friends.

Much love,
Felicia

Funny Fridays: Facebook Is Getting Desperate

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This week's funny Friday comes to you directly from my own Facebook news feed:

It seems Facebook is no longer content telling you everything your friends are doing, now they want to be sure you know everything they aren't doing!

I'm not sure I like the idea of Facebook telling everyone all the things I'm not doing...

Gasp!!! Can you imagine?!

Much love,
Felicia

Comment Moderation

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I didn't want to do it, but the dreaded spambot has left me no choice.

As if Murphy himself ordered it so, ever since I told my friend that Blogger's platform was great at blocking spam, tons of spam commenters found my site.

My email was being flooded by spam comments, and though I'd come delete them, it was starting to be too much.

I can't bear the thought of bringing back Captchas, that would be so cruel to you, my dear readers. I already get too few comments on the blog, I'm certainly not going to make it more complicated!!!

Instead, I've been forced to instill comment moderation.

Your comment will be visible after my approval.

Don't blame me, blame the evil spambot.

Much love,
Felicia

Monday

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A little dark humor for you:  Just another day in the office.

;)

Spambots and Captchas

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I hate captchas.  If you don't know what captchas are, they are those annoying letters and numbers you have to copy correctly to prove you're not a spambot (spam robot) before you can comment on a blog post.

I usually surf blogs from my iPad, which just makes copying captchas even harder, because they are so hard to see.

"Please prove that you're not a computer."  I'm not a computer, but apparently, I'm blind.

Sometimes I write this really clever comment, and then after 3 or 4 unsuccessful attempts at posting, I get discouraged and leave the site.

A friend of mine who recently started blogging was using the dreaded captchas, so I asked him nicely to disable them.  He mentioned that he used to have a lot of issues with spammers, but I was all "No, no, Bloggers spam filter is really good.  They go directly to spam, never actually get published!"

Well!

It's like Murphy himself heard me and decided it was a great time to apply his law.  Suddenly, I'm receiving tons of spam comments, and they are actually getting through the spam filter.

The worse part is the repetitive nature of the comments:

"Great post! I've been looking for this information for days, and you really hit the nail on the head with this one.  Also, please visit my website... something cigarettes.com"

Some are even insulting:

"Is it just me or do some of the comments on this post sound like they're coming from brain dead people? :)-  Also, please visit my site... something money solutions .com."

"There is very a lot of good infomation on this website, but you should realy check you're speling, as you make lot of mistakes.  Also, please visit my site: casino something .com."

Haha! Thanks for the tip.

So now I don't know what to do.  I want people to be able to post anonymously to my blog.  I don't want to force people to log in or reveal themselves.  Some of my posts are about depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder, I want my readers to feel free to write what they are really feeling, without fear of retribution.

So I suppose I'll keep things as is for now, but if you see a spambot comment, rest assured, it will be deleted soon.

What do you do to avoid both the dreaded captchas and the dreaded spambot?

3 Ways the IPhone 5 Disappoints Yet Again

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Apple may be the leader in smartphone technology, but the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 are still disappointing to me on many levels, as I feel more attention to detail is required to reach perfection.

First off, why is there still no customizable display as offered on Android devices? I want live wallpapers and the ability to arrange my icons as I wish. Come on Apple, you going to tell me that's too hard to achieve?

Second, why haven't the dictionary and autocorrect been fine tuned yet? How hard would it be to offer an "add to dictionary" option? How about language detector? If Microsoft was able to figure it out, surely you are too?

Third, I resent these permanent apps you have added to my phone. I don't give a flying crap about the stock market or the news stand, and it bothers me that I can't just delete them. It's my phone, I should be able to do as I please with it. You're like an over-baring mother that won't let me leave home without my mittens.

In conclusion, I'd say I have a love-hate relationship with Apple. On the one hand, I love my iPhone and iPad. On the other, it really bothers me that they keep releasing the same products with incremental improvements every year.

It bugs me even more that I sincerely think this is a well thought out business plan, an evil genius idea to take advantage of the masses, and society's constant need to one-up each other and to keep up with the neighbors.  It's a conspiracy, you know it's true.

wink wink

Much love,
Felicia

Funny Fridays: Parenting Fail

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LOL! Does this make me a bad parent?



(I take my kids on a lot of car rides. Because it's the only place I can strap them down without it looking like child abuse.)

HaHa!
Much love,
Felicia :)