Archive for January, 2009

Cone-headed cat feeding assembly. Patent pending

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Misc | 1 Comment »

Spouse is a beautiful genius. Since our backup auxiliary cat came back from the animal hospital with one of those plastic cone head devices, we've both been worrying about her ... Read more..

Exhibit A: One pissed off cat

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Misc | 1 Comment »

She's hurting, scared, doped up, pissed off and hungry. Do not even look directly at this cat. We'll get the biopsy results next week. Meanwhile, Ms. Lucia here will get a ... Read more..

Microscopy? I hardly knew ye.

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Experiment, Very Small Things | 2 Comments »

As threatened, we bought a bunch of crazy stuff from American Science & Surplus. Agar, petri dishes, a tiny vacuum cleaner shaped like a pig and a super cool microscope ... Read more..

InaugBalls: Who are the people in your Neighborhood?

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

[caption id="attachment_299" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="The first dance of the evening"][/caption] Had a great time at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball, and spent some quality time alternately primping, freezing, shouting, and generally being ... Read more..

ShamWow jumps the queue, and Fatty on NPR

Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Experiment | 2 Comments »

The friends I had hoped to entice into participating in the Great Water Taste Test had a change of plans which precluded them from staying overnight, and I'm too good ... Read more..