{"id":210,"date":"2003-05-03T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2003-05-03T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=210"},"modified":"2020-07-26T11:46:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T11:46:30","slug":"quick-as-a-wink-the-sly-cat-stole-dianes-taco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2003\/05\/03\/quick-as-a-wink-the-sly-cat-stole-dianes-taco\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick as a wink, the sly cat stole Diane&#8217;s taco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it was a close thing, but I managed to eat it before he did.<\/p>\n<p>The late and much-missed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/images\/lilith2.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lilith<\/a> used to have this virtue: that she could unerringly find and lie on the most important piece of paperwork in the house. A check, a contract (as in the picture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/12\/27\/opinion\/charlotte-s-web-site.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that gave the writer for the New York <em>Times<\/em> a minor conniption<\/a> for some reason), a letter you were supposed to be answering, a newspaper that you wanted to cut something out of: Lilith would be on it. For a long time, when you couldn&#8217;t find some important piece of documentation, the answer was, &#8220;Look under the cat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These days Mr. Squeak seems to be holding that space or function, though in a more virtual manner. Here he is (after trying to take that taco out of my hand) not quite lying <em>on<\/em> the computer; but that&#8217;s only after I moved him several times, and was forced to move further down the table to keep him from doing Cat Rewrites on the <em>Ring<\/em> script. Since Squeak weighs nearly fourteen pounds and has the typically huge feet of the Norwegian Forest Cat, when he stands on the keys, it takes some cleaning up afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>A side point: This really isn&#8217;t such a bad digital camera, though eventually we do want a better one. The camera is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umax.co.uk\/products\/camera\/540.htm\"> Umax AstraPix 540<\/a> which cost us something like ninety pounds Sterling from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scan.co.uk\">Scan.<\/a> The image below was taken at highest resolution, without flash, and the only thing I did to it in Corel PhotoPaint was tweak the gamma a little. For comparison, see the second image, taken during a period of interesting weather the other day. (See below.)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, busy busy busy on the script all last night and well into this morning for Peter: and ditto for me this afternoon, while I incorporate the last set of changes into this draft.<\/p>\n<p>Probably the cat and I need another taco around now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IThinkItMightRain.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 623px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it was a close thing, but I managed to eat it before he did. The late and much-missed Lilith used to have this virtue: that she could unerringly find&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[834,793,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-absent-friends","category-cats-2","category-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Quick as a wink, the sly cat stole Diane&#039;s taco - Out of Ambit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2003\/05\/03\/quick-as-a-wink-the-sly-cat-stole-dianes-taco\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quick as a wink, the sly cat stole Diane&#039;s taco - Out of Ambit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, it was a close thing, but I managed to eat it before he did. 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