Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 26, 2024

He’s . . . got a point there, Elvis.

Usually, cats are experts at solar flares since they flare themselves out in a solar pool for a bit of a nap…

I may not be posting for a few days. I’m having a tooth implant put in tomorrow so I’ll be staying in bed under the influence of some heavy pain medication. I’ll be back next week sometime.

Burt is about to give Mommy’s Special Boy his own solar flare. If you get my meaning.

Panel 3 is glitched again. That’s four days in arow Panel 3 has glitched. That has to mean something.

It could be worse. The coffee maker could be glitching!

It’s happening here, too. My TiVo remote control suddenly stopping working yesterday. Then my TV remote control stopped working minutes later. The TV remote just needed new batteries, but the TiVo remote is still dead.

Good job, Elvis! Now you’ve ticked off the tech cat!

Which is quite an accomplishment! Burt is almost always chill!

I know EMF stands for elecrtomagnetic field, but I kinda hope Burt can tweak it into an EFM aka the Elvis Furmudgeon Meter.

I am loving the fall sweaters this week.

An EMF reader — the favorite tool of TV ghost hunters.

EMF meters are also used to detect ghosts.

I hope it’s not a CME. That causes all sorts of problems. Glitchy broadcasts would only be the beginning.

Burt seems to be on edge there.

Yeesh. Nothing like spending all day working on a problem, and then someone who has no idea what he’s doing wanders in, points out the problem like you haven’t noticed, and demands to know why you haven’t already fixed it.

“Why is it that the cat with the least amount of tech knowledge always meows the loudest when something goes wrong?”

Hmm. I think this may have solved a few mysteries with my cats.

Elvis, do NOT make the A/V cat get tetchy!

Burt is really frustrated by the glitch. Elvis asks a perfectly reasonable question, and Burt snaps at him.

OT family matters

Good point, Burt, and too right! The loudest meowers are nearly always the least knowledgeable about the thing they’re meowing about, especially when it comes to tech issues.

The roombas are coming! The roombas are coming!

Oooooh! Haven’t seen Burt look that annoyed, since he had a baby raccoon, in his coffee cup!

Sunspots. It’s always sunspots…

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Glitching Elvis is marvelous. It must be fun to paint him all wonky.♥

Burt, Elvis is a Siamese, remember? It’s his job to meow loudly.

Silly cats. You ain’t no alien astronut theorists too. For obveeously it is because aliens.

Hope I don’t jinx myself, but the last 2 days, when logging on to GC, I was not required to do the reCAPTCHA image selection thing.

Now in the past, sometimes I just had to check the box stating that I wasn’t a robot, and I got right in; while other times I HAD to select the images. There was no consistency.

I called it yesterday – I figured they might blame solar flares or sun spots, even tho I misspelled FLARES as flairs. :-(

If I eat a lot of Jalapenos and beans, I have extended periods of “solar flares”.

That is a truism. It is always the one with the least experience (usually me) complaining about the technology. Then I call my kids to help me figure it out.

Fourth glitch, fourth time it’s in the third panel only. What does that even mean?!

… Oh, well, a-bless Burt’s soul, what’s wrong electronic’ly?

Cats glitchin’ like heck all wavy and fuzzy

Elvis is crabby and he’s wildly bugged

O, Cat above

He’s all shook up

Hmm, ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah

… Oh, well, the feed looks shaky, and he starts to freak

Meows the loudest when he starts to speak

Why such a crank when he has such luck?

Cat above

He’s all shook up

Hmm, ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah

… Well, please, don’t ask what’s upon Burt’s mind

He’d like to solar flare Elvis’ behind

When he’s near the cat that annoys him best

The laid-back cat starts to get stressed

Cat above

He’s all shook up

Hmm, ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah

… Hmm, ooh, yeah, yeah, he’s all shook up

/Otis Blackwell, Elvis Aaron Presley

Burt’s Exasperating Meow Finder is at level 4!

Hmmmm – are the ghosts of October awakening?

I’ve always used GLITCH as a noun – “I found a glitch in this COBOL program.”

Until these strips I had never heard it used as a verb. Guess I’ve led a sheltered life. :-)

Is it Tillie or new ghosts?

There have been some nice Northern Lights from all these solar flares.

Because he is old and cranky and MUST BE HEARD IN ALL THINGS!

Maybe it’s the ghosts!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: What do you mean a Thing is about to happen?

Iggy: That’s what the Portentous Wind indicates.

Elvis: But what thing?

Puckmosis: That’s what we have to determine.

Elvis: And I suppose the Royal Procurers won’t tell.

Violet-Ifa: We might, but it’s not clear yet what the Thing might be.

Alice-Ata: Anyway, we always make sure we’re prepared for Any Thing.

Agnes-Ata: And we always remember that whatever happens, we’re in it together.

Ora Z: Can we shred the Thing?

Ta-Natash: Maybe. Once we know what the Thing is.

Ora Z: Should I get explosives?

Tash: Not just yet.

Bea: Right now we should just go about our business.

Enter Thomios

Thomios: Anyone want some pastries?

Bea: That’s it! Let’s all wear the donut!

To any Orbsters in the path of Hurricane Helene, PLEASE STAY SAFE!

OT: My Girls’ Gotcha Day has arrived! 14 years today.

This is a job for Techno cat!

Oh that’s an easy question to answer. Cats and politicians are in many ways cut from the same cloth. To wit:

“Why is it the politician that has the least amount of knowledge yells the loudest when something goes wrong?”

Nuff said!

how does georgia make that effect

Ooh, it is not good to make Burt mad. You better watch out, Elvis.

Imp is channelling Elvis, sitting beside me on the table and yelling ear and chin scritches and belly rubs!

Along the lines of the weird synchronicity of the Sunday “glitch” and this arc, it just so happens there have been several unusually strong solar flares (CMEs) recently. We had some really amazing northern lights just last week.

High EMFs are always a ghostly (well, maybe Roomba-y now) indicator!

I know how you feel, Burt!!!

I once had to explain to a C-level executive why scheduling emergency network outages is not particularly feasible…

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Glitches all over, I think Georgia has tapped into something. But this one is actually funny. Everyone has probably had the experience of visiting a shopping site to browse and then leaving without buying only to get a soon following email inviting you back to buy right? But usually you are enticed with further examples of what you were looking at. OK, so yesterday I checked out a fall offering for new jackets but decided no. This morning I get the expected follow-up email but instead of more pictures of jackets, they sent pictures of towels and bathmats! Obviously an algorithmic hiccup. Can’t wait to see what else will happen.

Do you know where your roombas are? Lock the doors now or they will be heading to the rendezvous site with the mother ship.

OT:More house stuff.

OT: COVID shots

He’s gotcha there, Elvis.

Because you told the cat who yells at you to fix it constantly it was a solar flare burt. I admit I don’t know tech either but I don’t think they cause spooky glitches.

That’s because of lunar flares. :)

Dang, that was such a good put-down. Nicely done, Burt.

Called it! (Helps that I’m a radio operator.)

LOL – Burt is spot on, as usual! The most low-tech person in the area is always the one who makes the most noise when anything goes wrong.

OT: Thank You, and Homecoming Progress

I love how the glitches are always in the third panel. Seems like a pattern, maybe?

I was a programmer. Solar flares and sunspots were industry wide favorite explanations for, uh, stuff. Magic was another,

Burt is savage today.

OT: Jerika

There was a solar flare yesterday lol

What does EMF stand for?

The life of tech support to be sure