Heeeeeeeerrrr's Rufus!

Rufus is a 17 pound seriously laid back orange tabby. He was a stray that a friend of mine used to feed; one day she asked me to help her check him out 'cause he was acting weird (what IS "acting weird" in a cat?). It turned out he had a major cut on his paw (through to the bone) that was infected. We took him to the hostpital, got him fixed up, then took him to the vet and got him "fixed". Since if we let him go again his paw would only get infected, I let him move in with me.

Here he is:

Pretty much (as I'm sure you can guess) he lays around all day, occasionally waking up to eat, perform various personal hygene functions, and fight with Kita. Occasionally he lets me scratch his head. And, of course, he's more than happy to claw up the furniture (we have a deal - he only claws the old furniture, and I don't rip his claws out with a pair of needle nosed pliers. Mostly he keeps up his end of the bargain...)

This photo was taken using a cheap fixed focus CCD camera attached to my MS-DOG machine via an Intel video capture board. The approach was to run the Video for Windoze capture program, then use the playback tool to grab a still using the edit menu copy command (the edit menu is greyed out in the capture program so you can't cut and past.) I then launched LView and pasted the still into the frame. LView can then save the frame in any number of forms; in this case I used JPEG.

BTW, I don't recommend you buy Intel products - my experience has been that their "support staff" suck. In the case of the video card I wanted to write a driver for one of my Unix machines. After getting shoved around among a group of rather surly "support" people I was told that it was "policy" that they only supported Windoze. I explained that I wasn't asking for them to support it; that all I wanted was board level programming information. The "technical staff" member I talked to didn't understand the difference between board level and Windoze video API programming. Finally it told me they didn't have board level programming information. The last "person" told me that if I had a problem with that it'd have the product manager call. I gave them my number. I'm sure you can guess the result... Maybe some day Intel will get a clue...