Daily Archives: July 24, 2004

Shoe Mystery Solved!

Our cats have been exhibiting strange behavior.

No, really! More than usual!

Every so often, the cats will go absolutely nuts and practically attack my Wife’s shoes. After Art Fair on Friday, I came up with a theory as to why: Next to the driveway are some very fragrant mint-like plants, which are growing so wildly that they overflow onto the pavement. When my Wife gets out of the car, she sometimes steps on the plants, picking up the scent on her shoes. To test the theory, she went out and deliberately stomped on some of the plants, then came back in and left her shoes as bait for the cats while she camped on the futon with the camera.

Here’s the result:

Isaak Loves Sandals
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Cool quick hack

The comment spammers have started hitting my Wife’s blog as well as mine recently… I’ve gotten her set up with MT-Blacklist and such too, which has helped some, but there are still some comments lurking in the background that she’d like to get rid of. Fortunately, there’s a really cool hack over at TheGirlieMatters which describes how to have your Movable Type main menu show more than the five most recent entries.
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Oodles of Noodles

There’s a new restaurant near the Arborland mall… Actually, is it still appropriate to call it a mall? They’ve eliminated the old ‘large building enclosing lots of shops’ mall motif in favor of the ‘lots of shops all facing the street in a row’ style of shopping. I suppose it still qualifies for the ‘mall’ moniker inasmuch as it’s a ‘strip’ mall, but I digress.

I was talking about the Noodle Company.
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