Late night closeups

I'ze ready 4 mah closeup

U get dat camera out of mah face... I'ze napping

Hallooooo!!

As you can see, they are quite enjoying their new cat lounger/scratcher. I do wish Ripley would quit munching on the edges though.

Thank you John Edwards

Matthew Hinton AFP/Getty Images

At Got Pitchfork, I say Farewell to the John Edwards Campaign and discuss why it mattered for all of us.

I adore the picture above- like all great photos, it reveals some truth about the subject. Contrast that scene with pictures of the Bush girls partying. Says it all, doesn't it?

Late night Kittehs 4 U

Oh noes! Doan go into teh waters!!

Reuters/Pilar Olivares

There might be big sharkeees in dere!


(somehow I don't think I could convince Maddie or Ripley to do this)

Behbeh kitteh flashback

I haz nu Maddie & Ripley pictures but they're stuck in mah camera! on noes! U can haz later. In the meantime, U can haz some eeeeepy behbeh plushiness.






Ripley looks so funny without her ruff.

Maxx!!!

Silly boy. He loved to play with his toys.

Hallooooo!!

No! I did not eatted UR rug agins. Rly. I wuz jes looking 4 mah mousie.

an I wuzn't pawing at UR drapes. No, notz me! I doan no wer doz snags come from. Rly.

Vivani Fluffypants sez....

I gots a ruff 2




Vivani owns Bones, who blogs here at Bumblebee Nation.

Mah ruff...

... iz truly ruffalicious!

What U gots?

Random kittenz

I'm depressed. This is my pathetic attempt to cheer myself up.

Fox Fur! Bitch!

When in doubt, look at pretty space pictures. This one is the Fox Fur Nebula.

This vibrant image depicts a turbulent area of outer space which, to some, evokes a fox, hence the name Fox Fur Nebula. It lies in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn, near the left arm of Orion, just below the large, bright star S Mon (not visible in this image).

The enigmatically textured shapes comprise dust and gas, whipped into peculiar shapes by powerful stellar winds. Blue-colored areas are formed of dust reflecting starlight. Red areas are glowing from emission caused by the ionization of hydrogen gas by starlight.

The Fox Fur Nebula is part of a much larger complex known as The Christmas Tree Cluster.

Via Space.com.

I don't see a fox, do you?

Mars, BITCH!

I am desperately trying to find some good news today. And here's some:



Mars Rover Opportunity is still alive on Mars, marking its fourth operational year on the planet last friday. It's truly astonishing.

January 30, 2008—Continuing to defy the odds, the Mars rover Opportunity marked its fourth operational year on the Martian surface last Friday.

The rover landed on Mars on January 25, 2004, and was meant to carry out a 90-day mission. Despite its age and what could have been a crippling dust storm last summer, the probe continues to send back valuable data almost 1,500 days later.

Panoramic images released by NASA last week show the so-called Lyell section of a band of light-colored rock that rings the interior of the red planet's massive Victoria Crater.

The band, which sits about 20 feet (6 meters) inside the rim, is believed to be an exposed layer of the Martian surface as it existed millions of years ago, before the impact that formed the crater.

The new view combines several images taken from inside the crater between October and December 2007. During this three-month stretch, the rover's panoramic camera sampled scenes in a variety of wavelengths of light.

Combining shots taken in different wavelengths created approximate true-color (bottom) and false-color (top) versions, which allow astronomers to see subtle features and color variations.

Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL/Caltech/Cornell via National Geographic News.

Oh noes! who will speek 4 us?

My centaur is sad cause Edwards is dropping out.

I dust liveroom to maek U feel better, kai?

an I werk rly hard on to finish rOckets 4 U, kai?

I turn on nice mooveee 4 U

UR tuesday gurlz kittehs

The were both sulking when I left this morning. For what it's worth, I wish I could work from home too.

Maddie has a new routine- when I get home in the evening, I always see her little haid in the window of my bedroom, which overlooks the parking lot. As soon as I get out of the car she immediately runs to the front window to wait for me to come up the walk so she can greet me at the door.

It's nice to be missed.

Whut????

Dems did NOT role over todai? iz true?

U NOT goan maek us listen to chimpy R U?

Rethugs will be talking? I hurry up wit fizziks exparmts. Need to finishes rOkets vry soon.

Den we haz drinking game to drown out chimp callz. Kai thx bai

Update: oh my, both of them are getting quite ruffalicious, eh?

Iz Monday

Teh plushy gurlz R mad that I haz werk this week.

Saturday Caturday

Oh, hai! dis new down comforter is vry comfee- tanks!

Oh hai - I iz busee here- do U mind?

Gorgeous

Credit & Copyright: Alain Sallez (picdumidi.org), David Romeuf (Université Lyon 1)

Okay, THIS photo is simply stunning.

Explanation: This dreamlike view looking south from the historic mountain top Pic du Midi Observatory combines moonlit domes, a winter night sky, and the snowy peaks of the French Pyrenees. Encroaching on the night, lights from the La Mongie ski resort illuminate the mountain slopes nearby while the glow along the distant horizon is from urban areas in southern France and Spain. The night sky features stars of the constellations Orion and Gemini with a bright planet Mars very near the top edge, left of center. The three prominent domes visible (from left to right) house a 0.6 meter telescope reserved for amateur astronomers, a 1 meter telescope that was used to support the Apollo lunar landing missions, and the new, Sun-watching CLIMSO.

From NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Occurs to me that we're lucky that chimpy, with his anti-science bias, hasn't killed this website.

Weekly memorial Maxx

Maxx loved him some fizziks 2.