yes, O Internet, steal my time

[ursula]

1. My cat turned my computer's display upside-down this afternoon.

2. 'The distribution of your message dated Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:21:08 -0700 with
subject "Re: Rules or not?" has been postponed because the daily message
limit for the SCAHRLDS list (150) has been exceeded. No action is required
from you; your message will be reprocessed'

Comments

[stepleton.livejournal.com]

Is your display an LCD or a picture tube?

[ursula]

To be precise, my cat selected "graphics options - rotation - 90 degrees" in Windows XP Professional.

[stepleton.livejournal.com]

Your cat is more computer proficient than I'd hoped, but less adept at facilitating inadvertent science demonstrations. If you have an old CRT monitor, try turning it 180 degrees upside down sometime while the display is on. You'll see the colors go all wonky! Your monitor, either by factory calibration or your own knob-twiddling, is adjusted to compensate for the planet's magnetic field. Turned over, the electrons are pushed toward the wrong phosphors, hence the chromatic distortion.

[ursula]

Upside-down is 180 degrees (why yes, I do have an advanced degree in mathematics!)

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

Heh, rate limited mailing lists... that sounds like a *wonderful* idea.

[ursula]

That way you can get all the overflow messages at once. Whee!

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

Hrm, ok, maybe a slightly more sophisticated rate-limiter is needed.

[ursula]

I think it's called "aggressive moderation".

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

Og no like flame war. Og crush skulls now til people quiet.

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

RE: 2. I figured it was something like this. The three messages I sent this morning upon waking up and catching up with the overnight conversation I was notified were being "held", though no reason was given.

[ursula]

Wonder if I was exactly 151? That would be pretty nifty . . .

[eirias.livejournal.com]

Was your cat smart enough to notice? :)

I did that once by mistake and was freaked out and amused. I even took a photo. It took some random experimentation before I figured out how the heck it had happened.

Is there a "flip horizontal" option? Because that would be funny.

[ursula]

Maybe if I had been sitting there letting him play with my mouse pointer? :) But I was just using my laptop to play NPR.

You can rotate by multiples of 90 degrees . . .