Far Cartouche

2008-05-18T19:34:00.000-07:00

Far Cartouche has moved into Road of Peas as a category.

2007-05-15T11:32:00.000-07:00

Dark Iris

2007-02-23T09:01:00.000-08:00

Starry Night at Slashpile Lake

2007-02-22T10:19:00.000-08:00

Purple Aetherlilies

2007-02-21T15:54:00.000-08:00

One Role Reversal Roveg

2007-02-10T21:19:00.000-08:00

One Roveg

2007-01-31T22:39:00.000-08:00

Atomik Aztex

2007-01-30T23:16:00.000-08:00

Bird in Flight - Rock on Foam

2007-01-25T21:14:00.000-08:00

Elephant Rock Ice Cream

2006-11-23T20:01:00.000-08:00

Impression of Zion NP

2006-11-12T11:15:00.000-08:00

Double Arch - Arches National Park

2006-10-06T20:58:00.000-07:00

Fluens Observes the Noosphere

2006-09-21T19:42:00.000-07:00

The bee dives right in! Just like the herds of content hungry animal fetishists, jonesing for cute imagery, just gotta keep that media monkey entertained.

Heroically advancing through the avalanching adversity, the entangling entropy, and the dully thundering details of distraction, Modulator works to sooth our feverously hungry need for virtual critter hugs. It will be Friday Ark # 105, solace sweet, and welcome.

And what do we have here? This is a great opening line:

The caudal appendage is a cat's pride.

Carnival of the Cats #131 will be at houseofchaos. I'm so there.

All are on stage. Where are you?

2006-09-14T19:51:00.000-07:00

Sabaki and Tinker keep watch. They are of two minds about Information Theory. Sabaki thinks that Richard Hamming is God - Tinker insists that the Thundering Patriarch of Info is Claude Elwood Shannon.

Find out who is right, this friday, when the Friday Ark # 104 attains some large fraction of speed of flights of feline fancy (and assorted catfood categories) at that look! up in the sky! it's Modulator website thingie.

Menanwhile, within a light cone of intersecting ice creams cults, Carnival of the Cats #130 will be with zero and infinite entropy definitely located at high velocity sitting quietly within the future president and his thoughts, i.e. at Justin's Random Thoughts.

Just saying.

2006-09-07T19:15:00.000-07:00

It's the dog days for the kitties - they've just been lying around like piles of mud, poised uninterestingly, and not even snoring. Sabaki suggested outsourcing and the Forest Spider volunteered to host this Bedlamite Disbursement of Explanatory Factoids, undermining the Will of the Paper, and in Support of Stochastic Capitalization.

(I've been reading Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon, a wildly entertaining romp delving into the Cleaving of the Subjunctive by the Precision Apparati of Astronomy. And seemingly Random Capitalization. I recommend the Book Highly.)

Stepping back into less selfconsciousness, like something more comfortable help yourself to a drink, there's inevitably the sheer exploratory delight to be found in the Friday Ark, this one styled 103, held most regularly in that user friendly space Modulator.

Meanwhile, this week, in the I-never-met-a-U-joint-I-didn-'t-like never-never-land of the Carnival of the Cats, we find (by groping around in the dark little box) why it's #129, perched skillfully within the future of Begin Each Day As If It Were on Purpose.

Hmm, I'm with Poe on this one:

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion.

2006-08-24T20:42:00.000-07:00

Sabaki is determined to involve herself in dire muscidaemantic rituals. Kitties betray so well both sides of that last coin. But flies? Yuck. Well, better she than me. Let's just buzz along, down Hwy 101, which is known as the Oregon Coast Highway here in the state where things look different. Who came up with that, anyway? Maybe it refers to the Oregon State Flag, which has a different image on each side. The kitties are of two minds about this.

Back to Highway 101, which will be disguised as Friday Ark 101, and arrive nearly Friday one way or the other, thoroughly ensconced little, big-like right inside the infinitely fractal tubes that lead to Modulator's ongoing experience in animal husbandry. Check it out.

Meanwhile, this week, the metauniversally famous Carnival of the Cats #127 will be hosted at a safehouse sounding kind of place, Catymology.

Hmm, well, interesting list of books never finished and why. Earlier today I thought about Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley, which became a sludge of pretentious dreck after a few dozen pages. Sullied up my precious mental knickers.

Finishing books is over rated. Actually, the boundaries between books are overrated. How could you finish a delicious gazpacho like Campbell's Bose-Einstein Condensed Soup of Books? You can't eat just one.

2006-08-23T08:04:00.000-07:00

Nine Mile Quarry Creek 0

2006-08-21T20:36:00.000-07:00

Saprophyta, Goddess of Soft Focus, Smirks at my Benighted Attempts at a Sharper Vision

2006-08-19T13:23:00.000-07:00

Night Sweats

2006-08-17T19:08:00.000-07:00

Lady and Houdini both insist they weren't really playing, and really, there is only one kitty here anyway. They are very good at being innocent.

There's no need to feel innocent about Modulator's stunning achievement with reaching the big one, it's gonna be the Friday Ark 100! Yowsers! This is truly something. Mark your calenders and rent the tux two weeks in advance just to be sure. You can never be sure.

One thing for which there is a wellspring of desire for the comfort of surety, that is the expectation that the 126th Carnival of the Cats will be hosted at Red Peonies. There are eight contributors listed and the last post was over two weeks ago. The kitties are nervous.

...

Ok, I lost the segue logic, it was there for a few minutes. This comes next:

Is this like an Erdos Number? Did Erdos ever Friday Cat Blog?

There is also defined the Erdos Go Number, for the esteemed gentleman played that most excellent of games, Go. (That's interesting, that's the first time I've ever seen parens in an URL.)

I have an Erdos Go Number of 2, as I have played go with someone who has played go with Paul Erdos. I dish out threes for free - just ask.

2006-08-16T21:08:00.000-07:00

AAA Card vs. the Ghostly Blue Titan Heaving Rocks

2006-08-14T21:23:00.000-07:00

Staley Creek Water 5

2006-08-13T10:36:00.000-07:00

Staley Creek Water 2

2006-08-11T07:39:00.000-07:00

Staley Creek Water

2006-08-10T20:15:00.000-07:00

Lady and Houdini Out Rolling Around. Everyone has to roll in something, I guess. I think I'm with Lady on this one.

This week, she's getting spiffed up and hitting the books, in preparation for that durable stratum of the extensive league of webagnomes shaking the firmament with a down home beat. That would be Friday Ark 99 rhythmically expounded at Modulator

The gravity of the situation grumbles from within. Kitties know that humans will feed them randomly in response to obsessive attention. Unfortunately, our dear friend in the Austra regions seems to be off her diet. I hope all is well. All the kitties send prays and best wishes to eatstuff, where many weekends one finds a marvelous Weekend Cat Blogging event. And food. The kitties like the food.

This week, Blog d'Ellison hosts the 125th Carnival of the Cats. The host is a veteran, with many fine cat herding adventures under his belt, so to speak, so hang in there, and it'll all be just purring along. Come Sunday Sunday Sunday.

2006-08-10T06:58:00.000-07:00

Staley Creek Diversion Canal

2006-08-03T07:42:00.000-07:00

Lady and Houdini Out Hosing Around. Lady has been trying to convince Houdini that flooding the backyard with water will summon Friday Ark 98 that much sooner - Houdini points out the methodical madness with which the Ark Tender Modulator keeps time with the weboverse. No one is convinced.

The kitties both seek advocates from afar, beseeching venerable eatstuff for advice, and maybe a bite to eat. Lightly braised salmon with a whipped asparagus sauce, garnished with grated calimari and served with a medley of fried shellfish and peppers. Maybe?

Or Ice Cream, that's always cool.

Meanwhile, closer to home, the seeking kitties implore the inhabitants and enablers of the most fun Carnival of the Cats, this week self hosted by that lovable anal retentive at This Blog is Full of Crap, for a bit of direction or two. One. One Direction. Herding cats, that is. One.

Move along, here.

2006-07-27T19:35:00.000-07:00

Houdini Opens Negotiations with the Water Goddess

"Many nereids, many dryads, where is Bast to be found?"

The secret you seek lurks just below the watery horizon, as even now Modulator (stunningly undistracted by a weichi fascination) tacks together the latest Friday Ark, number 97.

Nipping on his heels, far across the wet, comes WCB 59 at that all kitty all the time paradise of eatstuff.

Carnival of the Cats #123 will be shredding the furniture at The Scratching Post.

...and, over at Middle-Fork: Houdini Continues Consultations with the Water Goddess. (Since I managed to forget to let the Carnival of Cats know about it.)

Further scritching of the head, and a bit of "Use the Source, Luke" lead me to leave this comment at The Scratching Post inregard to what appears to be a cascading sequence of misattributed links:

Great Carnival, the spiritual theme is cool.

As is the transmigration of kitty souls: I see slightystan caught a domino invoving Far Cartouche, and now I see Bagheera has fallen on Houdini at Middle-Fork. I knew Houdini got around, but maybe Bagheera might take offense. Um, wait...

(goes off to count the black cats in the house)

2006-07-24T20:52:00.000-07:00

Roveg on Mt. Yoran

2006-07-15T16:42:00.000-07:00

One Roveg 47

2006-07-12T15:53:00.000-07:00

You're Soaking In It

2006-06-14T18:08:00.000-07:00

Self Portrait in a Sandstorm

2006-06-12T19:48:00.000-07:00

Eh, the Water

2006-05-09T18:11:00.000-07:00

Ah the Water

2006-05-08T20:02:00.000-07:00

O the Water

2006-04-20T19:06:00.000-07:00

Kwan Yin and Maple thought that worked pretty well, they've decided to await the herds once again. Can you guess what their markov chain will model? Please let us know.

And what is Eat Stuff up to? Hmm, 'getti and meatballs! I I ate it now, I would have problems, but chefboyardee! i can remember what mom used to make from scratch. The can stuff was good too, so maybe I wasn't much of an epicure when I was 6. The kitties know what to eat! Check out her lovely kitchen come the weekend. It will be Weekend Cat Blogging number 46.

Modulator embodies Hercules in this fleecing of the golden chase lounge. I count 83, making use of the fundamental tool induction. He announces Carnival of the Cats diligently as well, this one sporting a 109. It will be at animal family.

What a cool name.

2006-04-18T21:39:00.000-07:00

Blue Spider, 1950s Sci-Fi, Lazy Day Fishing

2006-04-17T19:45:00.000-07:00

Adair for the Poor

2006-04-16T14:04:00.000-07:00

Stopping the Storm Front

2006-04-13T22:31:00.000-07:00

Moon Falls

2006-04-13T20:17:00.000-07:00

Kwan Yin and Maple await the herds:

Eat Stuff is busy cooking up alien lifeforms, but come the weekend there's bound to be Alien Cat Blogging. It will be number 45.

Modulator does it on fridays, and the one this week has 82 stamped all over it. He announces Carnival of the Cats diligently as well, this one sporting a 108. It will be at Begin Each Day As If It Were on Purpose.

What a cool name.

2006-04-12T07:38:00.000-07:00

All Are On Stage - Where Are You 2.2

2006-04-11T07:35:00.000-07:00

All Are On Stage - Where Are You? 2

2006-04-10T19:26:00.000-07:00

Spirit Falls

2006-04-09T21:08:00.000-07:00

The Photograph of my Great Great Great Grandmother's Spirit Mask

2006-04-08T09:21:00.000-07:00

Cathedral Tree 2

2006-04-07T21:19:00.000-07:00

Cathedral Tree

2006-04-06T20:00:00.000-07:00

Sensei, Two Students

2006-03-03T19:31:00.000-08:00

Sabaki picked right up on the idea of using the tassles as bait.

Modulator means business yet again, at the permalinked - what's that mean, a copy in the akashic records? what? - path to purring paradise, Friday Ark #76. Maybe that's what's so interesting out the window?

There's the morning glory menagerie munuckamunga river of delights - that's proabably really in Ohio or somewhere - but midwest cooking got nothing on etastuff.net ... massively delightful. There will be kitties, I betcha.

And what else here? ah... Carnival of the Cats #102 coming atcha live on stage, at Catcall which link leads to dry kitty wit, but not much of a blog. I wonder just exactly what is up? Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back! So answers are in demand!

2006-02-27T19:12:00.000-08:00

The Velocity Goes In Before The Name Peels Off

2006-02-26T14:00:00.000-08:00

Memories of Winter

2006-02-25T14:54:00.000-08:00

Alphonse Never Really Did Understand Tensor Analysis

2006-02-24T18:52:00.000-08:00

Cats are so easy, they point out the way like the docile obedient beasts they are, head right on over to Friday Ark #75 where popcorn is free and the universe is made safe for more covers of Beatles tunes, by Modulator. 'Bout time. Is that correctly spelled? Is there such a thing as a capital apostrophe?

Carnival of the Cats boldly predicts that the big cat hullabaloo will be precisely situated at animal family. Checking it out, looks like it has the chops to put purring on the map. Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

Meanwhile, peering down under, I have heard rumours, from the most reliable source, that I'll be drooling soon! Let's see what is cook ing this week.... at eat stuff ...WOW PRETTY! and it's oboy pizza! and WOW again, an entire week of eminently edible delectables! I better go make dinner. Come the weekend, which I think is pretty much now, down there, there will be kitties galore wondering just how vegetarian they're expected to become. please, my teeth are all wrong

2006-02-23T19:10:00.000-08:00

The Weight of Belief

2006-02-16T19:30:00.000-08:00

Sabaki and Tinker are eagerly awaiting the Ump-twiddly-teenth Friday Ark at Modulator! They are scarcely contained. By the skin of their teeth. It will be the 74th.

Meanwhile, checking up on the schedule at Carnival of the Cats It's the One Hundredth Carnival of the Cats! Do cats count on their thumbs? What would it be base 8? hmm, 144. Isn't that a gross? That's 12 times 12. There must be a herding cats joke in here somewhere, massage the data long enough and you'd be surprised the tricks it'll do for you. I'm looking for Elvis.

Bloggin' Outloud is the numerically adept host of this, um, what about hex? ..64! There you go, nothing else matters.

Well, of course the most important thing is to eatstuff! What's cooking today? ...well, I'm a veg, strictly plant products and machine parts, so all I can do is suggest that meat eaters should go drool. You have my proxy. Come the weekend, there will be more familiar candy, when Weekend Cat Blogging gets started. It's, um, oh, some numberth. All numbers are infinite, what the heck.

Be there! or go sketch wiring diagrams in invisible places, your choice.

2006-02-15T07:28:00.000-08:00

Life on Earth Arose from the Blood of Belief

2006-02-14T15:31:00.000-08:00

New Spring for an Old Watch

2006-02-09T20:04:00.000-08:00

Far Cartouche is touring Never-Never Land while the home computer goes through a wrenching midlife crisis.

2006-02-03T17:00:00.000-08:00

The Foundling Ponders the Erratic Home Computer. No, really!

Friday Ark #72 continues its steady accretion of our furry friends under the steady hand of Mr. Modulator

Carnival of the Cats #97 is expected to arise on Sunday at Enrevanche.

And, of course! 3 courses! More! eatstuff.net will be entertaining the wee beasties in Weekend Cat Blogging #35.

2006-02-02T07:45:00.000-08:00

Phaethon Falls In Time

2006-02-01T06:26:00.000-08:00

Lava Dance

2006-01-31T06:48:00.000-08:00

The Gift of Tongues

2006-01-30T08:03:00.000-08:00

Fleurs and Flutterby

2006-01-29T18:34:00.000-08:00

10 Rovegs

2006-01-28T00:41:00.000-08:00

de Kooning in the Afterworld

2006-01-26T22:02:00.000-08:00

She's watching closely, now, and I do believe the memory sings, the learned win, and the rosy predawn arouses the sense of anticipation. Carnival of the Cats predicts that POLITICAL FRED will be hosting with the mosting, noodling with the northings, and just generally entertaining the eastings with #97 but there's been no new post since 14 January, what does this portend? Search me, I don't know. I hope he's okay.

UPDATE 29 Jan 2006
Carnival of the Cats #97 has been rerouted to This Blog Is Full Of Crap.

Modulator is alive and well, and just this moment posted Friday Ark #71. Stop on by and fondle other creatures with your inquisitive eyes, it's definitely a scene to be seen, even if it has mostly not shown up yet. Check back early and often for the most perfect experience.

And I almost fear to visit, I'll ... ohgod, Blackberry Almond Cake.... I'm drooling on the keyboard. Clare, you need to get that widget that lets me reach through the monitor and have a slice! or all of it, or three. Or, gee....

Well, come the Ozzie weekend, eatstuff.net will be delighting the funny bone of our felinaphile souls, just like they had plenty of practice or something, they know just what to do, and makes it seem so natural! Why, they're just like kitties! How do they do that? Continuing research produces more questions than answers, but forgets to write them down.

Please help.

2006-01-25T06:59:00.000-08:00

Drawing on the Landscape

2006-01-23T21:15:00.000-08:00

1 Roveg

2006-01-22T20:31:00.000-08:00

Sitting on a Hill, Waiting for a Spirit Guide

2006-01-21T19:03:00.000-08:00

Dry Lake Dreams of Water

2006-01-20T20:02:00.000-08:00

Flowers for Francis Bacon

A gallery of his paintings.

2006-01-19T21:05:00.000-08:00

The Foundling rminds me that it's cat time again!
The fun never ends with this soap opera of four-padded pals putzing and ricocheting, bouncing off the walls and tattered furniture, dashing and churning like sudsy little bubbles of, of, hey! ...hey! ...No! No! Not There!!

...some time passes...

Ok, got that dealt with. Anyway, rumor has it that
meryl
Yourish .com
will he hosting Carnival of the Cats #96, which number I can only count to if I use all the kitties fingers and toes.

Creswell Predicts! Friday Ark #70 will miraculously appear, fully formed from that forehead of future games, Modulator.

In between those two fabulous collections of furry indiscretions, tucked up close to Aurora Australis, the astounding clare will be hosting WCB 33 at the mouth watering eatstuff.net. I want some gelatto, oboy! And Kangaroo Creek sounds great. It's hibernation time here, snow line down to 2500 feet and pouring enough rain in the valley to close major highways.

2006-01-19T06:54:00.000-08:00

Dressometer Mannequin and the Pizza with No Moving Parts

2006-01-18T07:03:00.000-08:00

Life on Earth Arose from Beds of Clay

2006-01-16T21:34:00.000-08:00

Life on Earth was Seeded from Space

2006-01-15T21:19:00.000-08:00

LASER Algebra

2006-01-14T15:54:00.000-08:00

The Birth of Roveg
Actual only slightly altered documentation of the birth of Roveg on 14 Apr 1975.

2006-01-13T22:51:00.000-08:00

Still Purring and Squirmy

2006-01-12T22:03:00.000-08:00

Is this your kitty? We discovered this youngster under our front porch, skinny and dirty. She's cleaner and plumper, and I've managed to get a few of the mats on her belly cut off, but she's a squirmy little thing and really wants to cuddle. We think we know who her humans are. Stay tuned.

2006-01-12T07:31:00.000-08:00

Anxious Water 2

2006-01-11T07:40:00.000-08:00

On Wings of Song

2006-01-10T07:17:00.000-08:00

Anxious Water

2006-01-09T21:07:00.000-08:00

Why Buildings Have An Inside As Well As An Outside

Once upon a time, Buildings only had Outsides. If you stepped
Inside through a door, you didn't go Inside at all, but walked out
the door on the other side of the Building.

For many years, the Buildings just sat around. The children
would play tag, and hide-and-seek, and throw balls so that they
would bounce through several houses, but no one else paid them
any mind.

Then one year, there came a young man who excelled in throwing
balls, and had racked up scores of houses traversed far in excess
of anyone else, He loved the Buildings, and decided more could be
done with them. That more should be done with them, since they
crowded up the landscape.

First he figured out how he could deliver fresh baked cheese
pastries to people at home by cleverly calculating trajectories
through the buildings so that no time was lost from the kitchen
to the consumers. He was able to delivered fresh baked cheese pastries
to customers piping hot. This enterprise was such a big success, that
the young man had the capital to begin moving the houses around,
for more efficient deliveries.

The Building-Fast Delivery Service Company continued to rake
in excess funds, and wanted to diversify. They wanted to use Building
Tech in new ways. Soon they hit upon the idea of transporting people
between cities. The Company moved thousands of Buildings so that front
and the back doors were aligned, and a traveller could step through
a door in Schenectady and finish the stride in San Francisco. Travel
was revolutionized, and the economy took off like a bottle rocket.

The Company became filthy rich, and the Building workers
unionized. Soon contract negotiations broke down, and management
eagerly put their hardhats on to show the hands just how it should
be done. A crew in Tulsa inadvertantly connected the El Paso line
into a loop.

In their gleefully didligent haste, a foam tile was knocked off one
of the endpoint buildings when the connection was made. It fell into
the loop, and ceased to exist as a tangible object. It was smeared
over the path of the Building loop, and existed in all places at once.

Now this existence slowly leaked memory into the void between the
doors, and the foam began to quantum tunnel into nearby but off-loop
Buildings. Soon the whole travel network was involved, a critical mass
achieved, and the axiomatic geometric underpinnings of the Unverse twitched.

The head of the Tulsa crew picked himself up off the ground and
gingerly approached the nearest Building. He leaned over, and looked
through a door, into the Building. He stepped through, and was Inside.

The Company promptly settled with the union, and changed into a
rental agency.

That is why Buildings have Insides as well as Outsides.

2006-01-09T08:52:00.000-08:00

Implementation of the Semtilliac Throne Room
Design for Semtilliac Throne Room

2006-01-08T00:34:00.000-08:00

Vorchek Insists, "Reality is not a Virtual Fog of Probability Froth!"

2006-01-07T14:35:00.000-08:00

Remembering Lake Last Year

2006-01-05T20:42:00.000-08:00

Sabaki and Lady wonder,"What the heck have Robin's and Jonah gotten themselves into now? Do you think Friday Ark #68 can get in there to save them?" Dayjob Ex Maraschino says," Hold on tight! The Coast Guard is sending Captain Modulator to the rescue!"

The log run crashes over the horizon and through the website seeking out eatstuff where Weekend Cat Blogging is bound and tied to the foremast, forced to tickle kitties! Coming soon to an Australia near you. Be the first on your block, a joy I can never experience, living on the far end of the day.

Speaking of which, at the end of a long day's journey into weekend frivolity, a relaxing exercise in which thumb wrestling and herding cats will entertain all, just order that pizza, gather around the Ed Sullivan Show, and watch Pages Turned host Carnival of the Cats #94.

2006-01-05T00:12:00.000-08:00

Church of Newt

2006-01-04T00:19:00.000-08:00

Jackson Pollock Tree

2006-01-03T18:50:00.000-08:00

Wittenberg Sampler

2006-01-02T17:37:00.000-08:00

Space Light

2006-01-01T22:15:00.000-08:00

Portrait of my Dad

2005-12-31T19:10:00.000-08:00

Fluxion the Cat in the Role of Nuit

2005-12-29T23:46:00.000-08:00

Robin's and Jonah at the Escher Tree

Friday Ark #67 mixes circular waterfalls and the difference of Gaussians to thrill like-minded, with aleph 1 ways to save a critter by Modulator.

I think eatstuff will find that there is only one kind of kitty. But I want to know, how to prepare geoduck? BS in geography at the University of Oregon? Anyway, Kitties Galore at Weekend Cat Blogging, coming soon, because isn't Australia my Island of the Day After?

ELMS IN THE YARD (very cool name) will be hosting the 93rd edition of Carnival of the Cats, which is 31 times 3! Shining bright in every heart on Sunday.

2005-12-29T16:23:00.000-08:00

At the Oregon Gardens

2005-12-28T17:04:00.000-08:00

That Fateful Day When Eukaryota Met Mitochondrius

2005-12-27T20:35:00.000-08:00

The Invisible Helen Keller on a Magic Carpet Ride

2005-12-26T17:43:00.000-08:00

As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap

2005-12-23T00:10:00.000-08:00

Friday Ark #66 is beating the bushes rescuing one and all from the rising tide of data oblivion, with able seaman Modulator at the helm.

The weekend is far away, but tick tick tick, Weekend Cat Blogging #29 is no doubt already cooking away at eatstuff.

Sunday at 5 is forever, so don't hold your breath, save it for going oo and ahh at the
92nd Carnival of the Cats, this week at all those lines on the post saying 1979 and 1982: Watermark.

2005-12-22T18:03:00.000-08:00

Art Treasures and Internal Opiates