Mon 26 Nov 2007
Midnight Monday
“Cats don’t have to be put on pedestals - they put themselves there.” (Anonymous)
Fri 23 Nov 2007
Just In Time…
Not only is it Black Friday, it’s also the day after Thanksgiving, and more than a few of us have an ample sufficiency of leftovers. Need fresh ideas for yesterday’s food? Check out LeftoverChef.com.
Via Lifehacker.
Black Friday Black Cat Blogging: Nicky
Used this same photo of El Gatito Perfecto on Black Friday last year. It’s one of my favorites of the little guy, and judging from the number of hotlinks there were to it, it was a favorite of a lot of other people, too.
Wed 21 Nov 2007
Good Things: Gratitude
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”
— Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian-German humanitarian, theologian, missionary, medical doctor
Tue 20 Nov 2007
Turn-of-the-Century Cat Video
This short film was made in 1900, and it’s from the Lumière Brothers. A little girl appears to be feeding the nameless cat the 19th-century equivalent of Temptations.
A few seconds in, the cat jumps off the table, and it sure looks as if it was thrown back into the picture. Wouldn’t you know it? Even then, in the early days of film, a cat would not cooperate with a photographer — undoubtedly a characteristic of a Good Cat…
Via The Pet Museum.
