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Words I Wish I’d Written: Cat Maintenance

Last updated on: July 17, 2014 at 3:03 am   by willduquette

Words I Wish I’d Written: Cat Maintenance 2014-07-07T20:05:48-05:00 willduquette

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After we do the washing-up, I get to spend the rest of the evening reading FAQs on cat maintenance on the web. It takes about half an hour to come to the unwelcome realization that they’re almost as complex as home-brew gaming PCs, and have even more failure modes. (When your gaming PC malfunctions it doesn’t stealthily dump core in your shoes.)

— Charles Stross, The Rhesus Chart

Bob Howard, computer geek, comes to terms with owning a cat.

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