Cats

Posts about cats. The internet is made of cats.

Kitty Poop (1995)

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 

Many years ago (21 years, 9 months as of this post), I used some as-of-then only slightly out of date equipment to record a one week time lapse of the cats’ litter box.

I found the video on a CD-ROM (remember those?) and thought I’d see if it was still usable. It wasn’t – Quicktime had abandoned support for most of the 1990’s era codecs, and as it was pre-internet, there just wasn’t any support any more. I had to fire up my old Mac 9500, which booted just fine after years of sitting, even if most of the rubber feet on the peripherals had long since turned to goo. The OS9 version of QT let me resave as uncompressed, which of course was way too big for the massive dual 9GB drives in that machine. Youtube would eat the uncompressed format and this critical archival record is preserved for a little longer.

Time lapse of the litter box. Shot in Sept, 1995 in San Francisco, CA. Captured with a RasterOps ColorBoard 364 Nubus card from a Sony XC-999 on a Mac IIfx.

Posted at 15:16:46 GMT-0700

Category: CatsFilmsFunnyOddSelf-publishingVanity sitesvideo

Tortuga Stalking the Yard

Thursday, July 23, 2015 

Tortuga Profile

Tortuga quarter

Tortuga facing

Posted at 01:24:04 GMT-0700

Category: Catsphoto

Basra Snow Storm

Sunday, February 8, 2015 

I was feeling a little left out, reading posts by people digging out of snow storms and here I am in Basra where it gets down to 10C at night sometimes and usually hits the mid 20’s during the day.  Rough.  But the weather here came through with our own sort of snow storm.

 

Blizzard Brown-out conditions

Starting to look like a brown-out!

 

 

Snow covered yard furniture!

 

Obligatory shot of the yard furniture getting covered.

 

I've got snow on my head!

 

Kitty’s head is starting to show some accumulation.

 

Can't see more than a few hundred meters with this snow!

 

With all this blowing through you can barely see a few hundred meters!

 

starting to accumulate!

 

It’s really starting to accumulate. Where’s the snow blower?

 

Takes special cleaning to get that snow off.

 

It takes some special cleaning after playing out in it.

Posted at 06:20:38 GMT-0700

Category: CatsphotoPlacesTravelWeather

Cat Watch

Monday, February 2, 2015 

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The twins resting after a busy day.

 

The Twins

Posted at 17:48:24 GMT-0700

Category: CatsphotoTravel

Cactus Farmer

Wednesday, December 25, 2013 

Just a few years back, when I was in 3rd or 4th Grade, my brother and I went to visit David and Jesse Lenat at their Cactus Farm. While we were exploring the green houses, their dad, Richard, gave my brother and I each a cactus to take home.

Mine lived in a small pot near a window through the rest of grade school and high school and then my mom cared for it through college. It grew into a little cluster of pencil thin, green, spiky pads over the years.

After I graduated, moved to California and got an apartment in SF; I was home for Christmas one year and took one of the pads wrapped in tissue to California. It grew well there and now produces big, bright yellow flowers every year.

This Christmas, I stuffed two tiny buds into glass bottles and brought them to Iraq and planted in the yard with one of the cat’s help (paw in the background).

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Posted at 03:01:17 GMT-0700

Category: CatsGeopostphotoPlaces

Cat day

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 

Happy cat day.

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Posted at 23:05:50 GMT-0700

Category: CatsEventsFunny

My Cat Audience

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 

They like to watch me drink coffee.

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Posted at 03:50:03 GMT-0700

Category: CatsMediaPlaces

The Cat Farm

Saturday, August 11, 2012 

The yard cats in Iraq are starting to look kind of healthy on a diet of human food and scraps. They don’t really have pet food, but there is almost always leftovers that appeal to the furballs. The white one has learned that being friendly to humans = getting first dibs.

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Posted at 14:39:38 GMT-0700

Category: CatsPlaces

Cat Farm

Friday, June 29, 2012 

One of the cats we’re raising on the cat farm.

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Note: we’re not actually farming cats.  They’re street cats that have taken refuge in our garden, and in our hearts.
Posted at 14:43:16 GMT-0700

Category: CatsGeopostphotoPlaces

Visitors in Basra

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 

A friendly kitty and a shy gecko.

A cute kitty sitting in our garden in Basra

A gecko that took up residence in our bathroom in Basra to help control any stray insects.
Posted at 17:42:03 GMT-0700

Category: CatsphotoPlaces