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Thursday, March 10, 2005
Thursday Homecoming Catblogging
Not the most exuberant greeting, but I think Sam is pleased I'm home.
No dogblogging for a while: Cairo's been spending the week playing with the horses at Catamount Ranch so she wouldn't be bored with Stef working super long days during VPR's Pledge Drive.
ntodd
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Um...if Sam goes missing, whatever you do, DON'T look in my apartment.
Posted by: watertiger | Mar 10, 2005 4:58:35 PM
A muted homecoming for sure -- no gleeful yips of greeting from Cairo? Bummer.
Posted by: gootch | Mar 10, 2005 5:14:32 PM
Oh, he'll let you know how glad he is . . . at 3:00 in the morning.
Posted by: watertiger | Mar 10, 2005 5:20:15 PM
When my cat gives me a look like that, it means she's saying
"Food! Now! Now!"
(you can't hear the "food" part, but when she says "meow" it sounds remarkably like "now!")
Posted by: remek | Mar 10, 2005 5:34:43 PM
"What are you doing upside down, Dad?"
Posted by: Mustang Bobby | Mar 10, 2005 5:37:39 PM
watertiger - wouldn't you rather have a ferret? Regardless, if Sam says hello at 3AM, you're welcome to him.
gootch - Cairo will give me the "you never write, you never call" yodel when she gets home Sunday.
remek - the clue is when Sam's mouth is partially open. Here he's just confused, which is actually his default.
MB - zero gravity really messes me up.
Posted by: NTodd | Mar 10, 2005 6:03:15 PM
(looking around to see if Athenae's in the room) ferret? eh, not so much. Sam? In a NYC second.
Posted by: watertiger | Mar 10, 2005 8:10:29 PM
Sam is judging his distances for a leap to a railing, then to the keyboard below. The crowd quiets in anticipation of that first chord...
@#!$%^&*()!!
... or should I say that first cluster...
Posted by: Steve Bates | Mar 10, 2005 9:05:18 PM
Mmmm. Thursday cat blogging for us famished in the political wasteland. Thanks.
Posted by: Echidne of the snakes | Mar 10, 2005 10:22:38 PM
Steve Bates: Heh! I didn't notice that at first. What made me laugh is that you reminded me that I once wrote a tune, in honor of a guy who used to post on Usenet, hawking his really horrid MIDI guitar compositions. I called it "Three-Legged Cat," because my in-joke to the crowd was that this dude's music sounded like a three-legged cat, trapped on top of a Casio. I can't find the mp3 file, but the lyrics went something like:
Give me a cardboard box
Give me a bag of speed
Add Casio and El Gato
It's all I'll ever need
...
I could never force a three-legged cat
To do anything like that
To do anything like that
.
Posted by: Jeffraham Prestonian | Mar 11, 2005 4:31:06 AM
Jeffraham - ROTFL! I hope the perp of those awful MIDI guitar pieces heard your song. I was a composition major in college for just long enough to understand why I should not be a composer; unfortunately, some people never do catch on to that fact.
As to three-legged cats, may Sam always, always have four!
Posted by: Steve Bates | Mar 11, 2005 1:33:18 PM
Steve -- Heh, well, I dunno if he ever heard it, but I'm pretty sure he saw the lyrics (which are archived @ Google Groups). What made him particularly worthy of ridicule was his incessant crowing about how revolutionary his technique was, using only the analog-to-pitch feature of his guitar synth (IOW, not even using a hex pickup, making chords impossible). I mean, the guy was there, every day, asking people to download his "tunes." Hilarious. I don't like to bust on people's talent, but honestly, I've heard pots and pans dropped down a flight of stairs that was more musical.
As to cats, yes, Sam (and all cats) deserve to be quadripeds. :) As it is written...
Posted by: Jeffraham Prestonian | Mar 11, 2005 3:40:40 PM
Buy me stuff off my 
