Friday cat blogging

3 day weekend?? YAY!!

I haz vry fluffeee tummeee. Wut U got?

Thursday kittenz

I lurves mah snoozy blankie.

Wut iz dis plant doing in here? Duz it haz a flavr?

Hallooooo! no, I do not want mah pitcher taken, kai thx bai


Maddy has been making me crazy the past couple of days. "Pick me up. No, put me down. Play with me. Leave me alone. Wake up! No, I'ze sleepy nao." I'm ready to send her to kitteh camp.

Maxxine! is all growed up

She had to go to the kitty doctor and get her kitteh girl bits fixed today.

The Moon, we luv the MOON

Photographed near Tyler, Texas by Dr. Scott Lieberman, AP Photos. I know it's fashionable to hate Texas in some circles, but the eastern portion of the state is quite lovely. (sadly, also a haven for fundies)

The STALKERS!!

I keed, I keed. Finally, pictures of the silver-tongued devils themselves. The top fluffy kitteh is Silver, and the bottom kitteh is Silkey, lover of Ripley from afar.

The calico is their mom, who has gone on to another dimension.

Good grief charlie brown

Okay, this should be hilarious, but it's not. It's just depressing.

Gravity: Doesn't exist. If items of mass had any impact of others, then mountains should have people orbiting them. Or the space shuttle in space should have the astronauts orbiting it. Of course, that's just the tip of the gravity myth. Think about it. Scientists want us to believe that the sun has a gravitation pull strong enough to keep a planet like neptune or pluto in orbit, but then it's not strong enough to keep the moon in orbit? Why is that? What I believe is going on here is this: These objects in space have yet to receive mans touch, and thus have no sin to weigh them down. This isn't the case for earth, where we see the impact of transfered sin to material objects. The more sin, the heavier something is.

That's a real quote, from the Fundies Say the Damndest Things list of top 100 quotes.

I invite you to scroll down the list and be amazed and disheartened. The stupidity, it burns! And worse, the hatred, it makes me want to cry. And get back to work on my rocket.

Via Pharyngula

Kitten rewind

Due to being under the weather, I haven't taken any kitty pics in a few days. So I shall bribe you all with baby plushy pics.

Chicken Soup

I can haz soup 2??
U can play with me since U R home?

The plushy girlz doan no "sik"

U come HOME right nao

We noes U doan feel so good- U come home and taek napps with us.

Primary Kittenz

Political reporters are doo doo haids.

If I'z can jes solve dis problm, I kin send Howie Kurtz into dah sun!

Hmff. Didn't werk. Must ponder fizziks for a while.

A HUGE plushy thank you

....to long-time reader J. Major for the box of goodies, including a copy of George R.R. Martin's The Ice Dragon.

A big MWAH!! and an apology for not thanking you sooner, but this is my first day back in the office, so I just received it today.

Ya know the gurlz luvs them some Wallace & Gromit.

Monday kittehs

Halp! I iz stuck here. Stop painting stuff, plz.

See how beeeg I am getting?

Hallooooo!

Doan go back to werk 4lgs. Stay homez and write movies and books and stuff.

We R eeeeeepy 2

See mah excellent furry tummeeee and mah tuftie toesies???

I haz a magnificent ruff. Wut U got?

Eeeeep!!!!!!!

I had to steal this. Kittens are put on this earth to enslave us. Iz true.

Iz Caturday!

The gurlz R jes hanging out.

Primary Kittehs

U painting furnture? I halps U!

Nao I do sum fizziks.

Shhhh! Maddie is coming.

Halloooo! wut U doing?

Politiks iz boring.

We plays wit milk ring sted?

Feh. Maddie iz not serious.

Obama

I'm still supporting Edwards, with Obama as my second choice.

But this photograph, which I swiped off the front page of the WAPO, is just stunning. If he's elected, at least my eyeballs won't bleed every time he's on mah teevee.

And that would be a good thing.

photo credit: Win McNamee, Getty Images

Aurora

The Boomerang Nebula.

This symmetric cloud dubbed the Boomerang Nebula was created by a high-speed wind of gas and dust blowing from an aging central star at speeds of nearly 600,000 kilometers per hour. The rapid expansion has cooled molecules in the nebular gas to about one degree above absolute zero - colder than even the cosmic background radiation - making it the coldest known region in the distant Universe. Shining with light from the central star reflected by dust, the frigid Boomerang Nebula is believed to be a star or stellar system evolving toward the planetary nebula phase. This Hubble image was recorded using polarizing filters (analogous to polaroid sunglasses) and color coded by the angle associated with the polarized light. The gorgeous result traces the small dust particles responsible for polarizing and scattering the light. The Boomerang Nebula spans about one light year and lies about 5,000 light years away toward the constellation Centaurus.

Courtesy of Astronomy Picture of the Day. The image is from Hubble, of course

Pirate Kitteh Zoey!

Happy New Year, sweet girl. I'm glad to hear that you're playing and enjoying life!

New Years Eve Kittehs

I was blessed this year to have these delightful furbags join my household. May 2008 bring all of you much love, laughter and plushiness.

Happy New Year!!

Portraiture

Indulge me a moment for singing the praises of my lovely young niece, who is becoming an extraordinary artist. No, that's not her in the graphic of the woman- that's a portrait of her great grandmother. (Who, incidentally, was a famous theatre actress in the 30's and 40's)

She's come up with an interesting and original technique of collage, where she essentially paints with paper. Of course I'm prejudiced, but I find her work to be both beautiful and compelling. I love the texture and the colors. And I guess I'm not the only one- she's having her first professional gallery show in February.

(Original art is paper and gesso on canvas).

Sundai is caturdai

Whut U mean teh rugs need teh vaacoooming?

We dust insted, kai?

U cleaning? I halps U!!!

Wait! U going to VAAACOOOM! I not halps U, I'ze outie! kai bai!