Music and Cats

… five ears, four eyes (two open and two closed) and one fluffy striped tail?

Get your multi-animal fix at the Friday Ark. For all cats, all the time, Carnival of the Cats will be at LabKat on Sunday.

I heard them before I saw them, their raspy voices calling loudly from overhead. Only after turning the corner onto my street did I spot the ravens circling a couple of blocks away. At first a few shiny black birds flapped across my field of view, but as I drew nearer, I could see that […]

“Time to draw the architect shields. They’re out there; I can smell them.”
Sounds like a comment from one of the tinfoil-hat-wearing crowd, doesn’t it? But no, this was Paul, at about 9:45 this evening. What, you may wonder, was he talking about?
Six years ago, Paul and I bought a turn-of-the-last-century Craftsman-ish house in a […]

On the route from our house to the highway is Mercer Street, a four-lane, one-way thoroughfare. Some people treat Mercer as if it’s a highway, though the intersections along the half-mile length that I drive prevent the majority of drivers from achieving highway speeds. The amount of traffic on Mercer at morning rush hour occasionally […]

In the book meme that I posted recently, I listed Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language as a book that means a lot to me.
In December of 1983, shortly after I applied to architecture school, Paul gave me a copy of A Pattern Language for Christmas. It was early in the difficult period in our […]