Nov 13
No matter where you are, you can now play with a kitten in Boise. The Idaho Humane Society has set up robot cat toys, which you can access over their website. This tech certainly illustrates a certain aspect of the modern world. Cats are a pretty common animal and it’s not very hard to find and …
Dec 11
A Catwork Orange from Ryan Oakley on Vimeo. Bruno the cat has vanished. I won’t pretend to have liked him. He was an evil cat, a cat who broke into other people’s homes to fight their cats, a cat who would break anything you liked and stare at you while he did so, a cat …
Nov 28
pic nicked from here. A cat was trapped at The Humane Society then no one checked the trap. So the cat died. Its mummified remains were discovered the other day. That happened to me once with a mouse and a live trap. I set the thing then forgot all about it. But that mouse made …
Nov 18
IBM announced today that they have created BlueMatter — a near real-time simulation of a cat’s cerebral cortex. AP says: “The simulation, which runs 100 times slower than an actual cat’s brain, is more about watching how thoughts are formed in the brain and how the roughly 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses in …
Sep 28
But it was never really here in the first place. What a lot of rain and chill we had! Anyway, just a picture of me in the backyard on one of the few nice days. With me is a good friend (the dog) and a sworn enemy (the cat). I know many of you might …
Feb 28
I’m kitty-sitting this week so I don’t know how many posts there’ll be. Not many. While I have access to a computer, it’s set up for someone else and I’m uncomfortable using the thing. There’ll be no “owl pellets” until next week. My morning routine is in a complete shambles and I lack access to …
Dec 13
South Korean scientists have cloned cats and, as a side effect, these animals glow when exposed to ultraviolet light. Glowing animals are nothing new to Asia. Last year scientists in Taiwan bred glow in the dark pigs. Besides the work being done on that continent, there’s also been glowing mice and rabbits. Probably some others …
Dec 11
I’m not surprised that someone made cat-wigs but I am a little surprised that someone has a cat who will model a cat-wig. Neither of mine would do that. Sometimes I make little paper hats and put them on my kitties but they’ll only allow it if they’re sleeping. And once I made a wig …
Nov 25
Pedants hate the term “very unique” and spend quite a bit of time protesting it. I can’t blame them. They are right. Words mean what they mean. Unique means one of a kind. Although my sympathies lie with the pedants, I’m now willing to bend on this term. It is perfectly acceptable to ascribe degrees …
Oct 08
My cats and I just enjoyed a wonderful thanksgiving dinner. A co-worker and friend gave me a tin of “Snappy Tom” catfood. Apparently, he did this because I remind him of Snappy Tom and not because this is what I’ll be eating for thanksgiving during my august years. At the sound of the tapping can, …
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
