Kittens make it very hard to post.

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So here's the game my cat Lexi plays whenever she sees me on lappy: She hops up on top of the VHS cabinet, sometimes batting down the tape on top of the stack, and looks at me. Then she waits.

If I shift position, move to get up or just look at her funny, she then moves to stage two: the top of the DVD shelf. She sits there awhile, watching me, looking around, thinking kitteh thoughts. This persists until the moment she looks longingly at the much more fragile DVD shelf to her right. That's my cue to sigh, pick up the afghan and walk over; as soon as I reach the shelf she immediately flops over on her side, saying "Look, I wasn't going to jump up there, I don't know what you're talking about. I was just lying here being cute. I was here being cute the whole time."

I, however, am not dissuaded. I ignore her protests and gather her up, protected from the kitty claws of doom by the Mighty Afghan. Then I carry her around the room while she purrs like a fire engine. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.

I realize this sounds adorable (and it is), but trust me, this was a much bloodier game before the discovery of the Mighty Afghan.:)

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Re the latest LJ gender fail: in addition to changing my gender in my profile to "unspecified" I also sent a message to http://www.livejournal.com/contact/?dept=feedback about it. I'll give this for them, they work fast. I had this response by morning:

Thank you for taking the time to contact us with your concerns. We understand that gender is not binary, and intend to respect that understanding for our users.

At this time, the code you reference is not live on the site, and will not become so in the future. We know that you, and many other users, have serious concerns about any requirement to specify gender, so we'd like to take a moment to explain events and our position further.

The intention of this code was to change the sign-up process to include a field for the selection of gender; that the code would completely disable the "Unspecified" option at the same time was deemed unacceptable. While the code in question had gone to our beta (testing) server, it had not gone to our production server, and will not do so due to this problem. Furthermore, we'd like to clarify that code posted to the changelog community is not always final, as such code must then go through the beta testing process and can often be changed before actual implementation.

Additionally, some erroneous information has been spread regarding the potential public display of the gender field. We would like to clarify that gender is not currently publicly displayed on the profile, nor anywhere else on the site, and there are no plans to change this behavior.

Regards,
LiveJournal Community Care Team

So good news? Maybe? Cautious optimism?