Ram Chiproom

We watched the pilot for Max Headroom last night. I'd forgotten about how innovative the show was using simulated computer graphics of the time. I was amused, however, that Max was done as a prosthetic addition because they couldn't simulate the human face at the time; and the remark by the boy genius that animating a whole body would take "millions of bytes of computer power".

And in the future, no computer will have that much.

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Kitty

The wife took Galen in for another weighing late last week. The vet tech's comment was "You might want to think about him losing weight." He came in around 11 pounds.

That means that since March, Galen has gained three two pounds. Twelve is about where he should be; apparently his appetite kicked back in. We don't know why he lost so much weight so suddenly - all the tests were negative - but I'm glad he's getting back to sort-of-normal.

What I'm reading: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dragonfly Falling