I think, having made certain declarations about what this blog should be or should try to be, I’ve gotten too weighed down by the thought of living up to those aspirations, haha. But this space is, first of all, meant to be a digital notebook for me, so I’ve decided to throw out the kid gloves and just post what and when I can.
Today: a collection of cat posts / photos that felt like they deserve a permanent place in my pocket, batch 1 of n
please enjoy Poki as he found the meat I’m defrosting
Oh defrosting meat, we’re really in it now
There’s something about the expressiveness of cats.
“Oliver is unsure of what to do with his first time under the tree”
(via)
Case in point. Add to that any reminder of how small they are, and how big, strange, and bewildering all the constructs of human life are to them, and my heart just twists every time.
where is my favorite painting i need to find my favorite painting
a break in their day by david hettinger. i loveyou
Another precious intersection of interests: cats and art. This is one of my favourite paintings now, too.
As an aside, I’ve started using Quotebacks code here. Yes, after years of deliberately trying to avoid anything that would make this space feel “too much like Tumblr.”
Why?
One, because it looks cool.
Two, because I wholeheartedly believe in what they’re trying to achieve here, which is to build an easy, universally applicable standard for engaging with other content on the web without losing context or attribution.
Link rot / information decay has always been one of the main weaknesses of tech, or at least, the internet. It’s a big factor in making so much of tech feel ahistorical, I think. In a way, the movement of information on the web is a massive game of telephone. It’s so easy for pieces of information to get chopped off and framed or understood differently, or even for something to just get passed around so much that someone further down the chain inevitably loses sight of the source. 1Worse, unlike an actual game of telephone, hardly anybody on the internet seems interested or equipped to trace differences between versions.
So: attribution, and referencing, as Quoteblocks is trying to do. Bonus points for doing it elegantly, and for being able to handle the myriad forms that information on the web tends to take.
