MonthMarch 2006

Stuff on My Cat

Sili in a bagI don’t usually just pimp random websites but this made me laugh a lot this morning: http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

Some on the front page are a bit hit and miss but the “Best of 2005” are pretty awesome: Loki is the best though. In fact, nearly all the food pictures rate highly on the amusement-o-meter. Eric wins the cute prize though.

And if all that wasn’t strange enough, the actual Stuff on My Cat ‘my cat’ is an absolutely clone of my mum and dad’s cat Holly in terms of markings. Awww.

(The picture here is Sili, by the way – probably the only of our cats that would let us get away with such tomfoolery)

Drawing John’s shoes

shoes #1On a related topic, I’m trying to learn to draw again at the moment.

I drew some pictures of John’s shoes back in December but have only just got around to scanning them in. They’re not perfect by any means but I like them.

Second picture (more detail of stitching but a wonky second foot included) after the “read more” thingy. Click on either picture to see larger versions.
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Flyer weaving

Love Apple flyer weaving (flyer 2)We were sat in the Love Apple in Bradford on Saturday night – our usual destination after our regular curry at Omars – and the guys got into a goes-nowhere argument about Free Software. The cyclical and pretty much pointless nature of the discussion (since we all agree on the general principles, it’s just the minutae that’s discussed ad infinitum) led me to look for other avenues of entertainment.

And so I turned to weaving flyers together. There were two lots of flyers on the table – I started with the “steady rockin” one. I tore two copies of the flyer into strips, one torn horizontally, the other vertically then weaved them together to recreate the original flyer again. Because I had to tear the card by hand, the size of the strips varied and the edges were sometimes all over the place – not all the the flyer works but I’m quite impressed with the area around the woman’s face. (Click on the thumbnail picture for a bigger version).

There was a second flyer with a metro-style map on it and after the first one worked pretty well, I couldn’t resist giving that a go too. (Click the “read more” link to see it then, again, clicky clicky for a bigger version).
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