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Started badly with the cat being sick at 03:30 ... You gotta clean it up, or you'll step in it when you go for a pee in the dark later ... 
He does vomit rather more than I'd like, and one of the suggestions I read about was to raise his food. Apparently it helps it go down, and hopefully stay there. So his bowls got lifted from the floor with the help of an Amazon box, and then his big bowls got replaced with shallower ones, and yesterday I printed a stand for two bowls - his wet food and his dry food.
Today, the bowls get transferred to the stand and he gets bribed to try them. Not a problem, he even lowered his rear end while eating, so hopefully it will all work.
Anyway, when I bought the new bowls they only game in a set of three - and they are far too shallow for a water bowl, so I figured I'd superglue some Neodymium magnets under it (it's a stainless steel bowl) and use it for a pin tray since my last one got borrowed and I haven't seen it since.
Clean the base and the magnets with Isopropyl alcohol apply glue to bowl, drop magnets on carefully. Wait.
Gently push one magnet to see if they are stuck, and ... no ... it goes flying across the bowl, gathers up the other three and vanishes under the freezer.
Of course by the time I get them out, they have successfully glued themselves together just to add insult to injury.
As I said: one of those days.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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ugh - breathe deep, count to 10 (ie 10,000 or more)
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Just don't code anything today! 
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03:30's definitely not good.  You sure it's not just furballs? Ours is usually sick about 07:15 every other day, if we do nothing. With really regular grooming, it's down to about twice a week. With regular use of KittyMalt or other furball "remedy" as well, we can get it down to once a week.
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Music written in public (3)
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AIR ?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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BAR?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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yep 
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You hate it that much, but not enough to leave a comment telling me why it was awful.
Oh well. My haters make me famous.
Though I kinda wish CP would force you to comment on a 1 star vote. I'm pretty sure I've picked up a troll. 
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We all get 'em from time to time.
With articles, it's often Joe Stupid from Dumbton, Texas realising that it isn't what he needs to hand in as his homework rather than a troll, but "odd" downvotes to articles get discarded with sufficient up votes: they are treated as anomalies and silently "vanish" from the overall rating - one of mine has 21 "removed" votes.
Comments used to be compulsory, but either they consisted of "sdfsdfsdfsdf" or they started a flame war / tit-for-tat downvoting contest, so they were discontinued.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I see. Well, I think it's a troll because i get it fairly consistently since this year, and when i post several they all get downvoted at the same time.
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OriginalGriff wrote: it's often Joe Stupid from Dumbton, Texas
Hey, I lived in Texas for 12 years! 
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SO YOU'RE MY DOWNVOTER!! 
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I agree to 100% with OG.
And add "Don't take it too seriously... not worthy at all."
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I don't typically. It's just when I try to crawl inside their head that i end up regretting it. Who does that? 
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Why do you regret it? It's spacious in there!
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It's also pretty lonely.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I try to crawl inside their head that i end up regretting it.
No wonder; it's extremely unsanitary in there. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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OMG, that one's a scream!
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See? No more funk! 
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What really gets me is the kind of articles that get the most votes. For example, I worked on and off for a couple months on my latest article, and as far as I know, the only votes came from my two coworkers.
Conversely, I spent probably less than four hours writing the code and article for Stop Writing Switch and If-Else Statements![^] and it won first prize! And I thought people would hate it because of the bizarre syntax and performance hit that occurs simply to avoid if-else statements!
To quote Kirk in my favorite Star Trek movie: "I have never understood Klingons my audience, and I probably never will." 
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If I had to offer a guess, I'd say it's how relatable the article is. Anyone that understands C# can relate to the switch/if-else article while the newest article is more niche. Good article though, even if personally I suddenly develop narcolepsy when it comes to most JS libraries that are replacements for a dozen existing libraries. With that said, I wholeheartedly agree with the introduction points and #6 under pros. More libraries should at least attempt that where possible.
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Jon McKee wrote: I'd say it's how relatable the article is.
Yes, I agree. The problem with the way I write is that I don't necessarily want to write about relatable stuff because most of the time its either boring or many other people have already written about it. Personally I'm more interested in writing the "there be dragons here" falling off the edge of the known world articles.
And thanks for the vote! Woohoo! 3!
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