My sisters' cat just gave birth to three healthy kittens. I came by to see them; gotta admit they're cute. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera handy... 
you most post pics, you must do it now while their ears are still on the sides of their heads, like this:

squee!
obtained speaker wire of sufficient length. discovered i do not posses the wire strippers i thought i did. don't feel like going out again tonight, this will wait until tomorrow. have 3.1 setup now. honestly... underwhelming. hopefully it's due to the missing surround, but the front-only setup doesn't sound as good as my old set. i will be mightily disappointed if the $350 500w are beaten by the $100, almost 10 year old 70w speakers (of the same brand)
never met a piece of wire i couldn't strip. you could use any of these items:
a lighter
your teeth
a pocket knife
a razor blade or box cutter
a shotgun (its a long storry)
or this:

Question which just came up:
Why is the victorian era seen as an era of female disempowerment, when the person who it is named after is:
a) A woman
b) the most powerfull person in the world at that time! (Or, considering the size of the british empire, any time!)
weeellll, queen victoria didn't actually wield much meaningful power (britain's monarchy had been constitutional for some time before that), and apart from that the various cultural dioramas we generally use to depict 'the past' mostly seem to have an element of female disempowerment; the victorian era doesn't seem exceptional in that regard
the notion that women have always been powerless is bull****. men might be good with physical force, but women are skilled with other forms of power. manipulation for example. they can be persuasive too, usually because they have boobs. they are kind of like the bene geserit from dune. they might be all ladylike and proper, but **** with them and they will kill you. i couldnt figure out how to tie in a picture of a kitten for this one, sorry. heres a pictue of lizzy being flat instead:

oh wait shes a girl, named after a certain victorian era axe murderer, and fully capable of destroying bits of wire, bugs, and human souls. so i guess it ties in ok.
obligatory nuke all the things.