Artemis unveiled!

Apparently Artemis has some American Ragdoll blood in her and that explains the fact I can roll her like a snowball with nary a peep…

Why are Ragdolls called “Ragdolls”?
The name Ragdoll comes from the cats ability to become totally relaxed and limp like a child’s toy ragdoll. This characteristic is true. It is even more prevalent in mature Ragdolls than in kittens.

What are some of the characteristics of the Ragdoll?
Ragdolls are by nature a relaxed, loving, docile cat. They love to have their bellies rubbed and sleep laying next to you. Ragdolls are very responsive and intelligent. They enjoy being with people and other pets, as they are very social. Many owners report they have little privacy since their Ragdolls follow them everywhere. The Ragdoll is simply an easy-going cat.

Is the Ragdoll a “lap cat” ?
Well, some can be, but remember this is a BIG cat and at most times it will feel more comfortable at your side or your feet. That is not to say that a Ragdoll won’t use you as a cushion.

Sound familiar?

And counting

Given that L and I have no real anniversary, we tend to celebrate Valentine’s Day. This year marks 20 years and so when we were visiting the condo, L decided to leave her mark…

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And check out the gallery for more new condo pics…
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60 secs

60 seconds
Go
Time is passing
So
Move along now
Joe
slipping past ya
Whoa

Moving quickly
Way too fast
Sixty Seconds
Time won’t last

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The condo with a third floor and windows.

Bring it on…

Robert Bringhurst visited Edmonton and gave a free talk on the pleasure of type.

A little pompous, but interesting in a philosophical way.

Going from Arabic to Latin penstrokes. The talk starts to to get interesting when considering what typographers did to cursive to simplify the letterforms.

Next a study of Latin (Cicero) and cramming the letters together for the sake of conserving papyrus vs. the 9th century version that emphasizes the pacing of the oral text. Thus typography and the scribe’s job becomes the representation of oratory.

Rhetorical and oratory vs editorial.

A Navaho story broken in 4 parts with sub parts and an epilogue represented vs a more linear representation of the same story.

But the linear version is more representative of the ebook of the future with no page breaks, endnotes, footnotes etc.

The relationship between the hand and the word. Writing is drawing. We now drive instead of walking but can we forsake the skill of walking. Inevitabley we must collapse upon ourselves and relearn the skill of the hand.

Or so Robert Bringhust posits…

More Image Plugins

Testing the NextGen Smooth Plugin which uses NextGen galleries

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Apparently it doesn’t resize originals leaving the author the chore of resizing everything to fit the display box; I think not… oh well. I am thinking though, that the Next-Gen Plugin is less valuable than the shadowbox one for posts rather than pages anyway. This likely means I will disable the plugin sometime in the future so don’t be surprised if no pics appear in this post…

So check out the new Condo Page for updated and ongoing condo pics and I’ll reserve shadowbox for the in-post stuff…