All you pretty things...

[p_tricky]

The animal I wanted to hurtThere was a mouse in my cottage that was building the mousemahal above my head every night since the spring. I have never wanted to be violent to an animal before, but this mouse was pushing it. I could never get a good night sleep, and with the assistance of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I made a hole in my ceiling. Thank god

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[hissyfit]

i just got a rat. you should make friends and maybe you'll learn how to speak civilly to the meeses.

[p_tricky]

Good. I figure it's better than kicking my walls and shouting empty threats.

[e3la]

"In The Beginning Was The Command Line" is a good book
it is also available online for free in it entirety
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

along similar lines I recommend anything by Eric Raymond
he's crazy and fun and silly
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/
and he wrote "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" an open source GNU/Linux classic
I don't recommend it unless you're interested - as it is very specific

[emilemur]

My parents once had such a mouse. It lived in their apartment walls in Montreal. One day Dad accidentally put a hole in the wall with his foot while attempting...God knows what. Anyways mom had the idea to fix the hole using a plaster made of flour, water, and elmer's glue...in that order. Well, this is basically a recipie for bread with some non-toxic glue, so the mouse began to eat through the wall-patch. My parents could hear the mouse eating slowly through the plaster, and so could their cat