Takes Two to Kittango...

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This is one of the many reasons I love having 2 cats, boy girl, boyfriend girlfriend, kitties. Most of the time I don't even have to be involved and all the time they are enormously entertaining sometimes they are exasperating tho esp the boy Boris [yes I am aware that sounds genderizing but cats n dogs etc do not evolve from type so it's ok] and boy cats ARE more wild but she is very nimble and lithe and sharp catcher and very impressive to say the least

We've had them almost a year now they clearly do own us at this point for instance before these two I would NEVER have bought a cat tree I always thought they were tacky as all get out but with these guys I have changed my tune and I love cat trees they are a godsend and I actually bought 2 and plan to get another for the back room!!!They are a perfect solution for crazy energy dispel AND on them they are happy and feel at home...

Where is the best place to get a cat gym you ask? That is pretty reasonable and with nice materials and a huge variety?

Armarkat: http://www.allpetfurniture.com/Armarkat-C163038.html?refid=G14969.armarkat&gclid=CI_m1aT8gKMCFRptgwod_3N7dw

Comes unassembled but a child could put them together and the cats LOVE em!

Picture Show- yet again another cooooool photo app...

I must be slightly bonkers but I can never seem to get enuff apps and chiefly my main obsession is photo apps but at this point I have narrowed it down to a handful of main ones I really DO use: CrossProcess, Camerabag, ShakeItPhoto, Hipstamatic, Swankolab, Photogene, and now my latest Fave is PictureShow...

PictureShow really delivers how it describes itself in the App Store I was very intrigued after seeing a tweet about it and it looked slick in the store and the reviews were very good so heck it was pretty cheap and it has a number of things different from the other photo Apps like Mirror effect and two versions of the sprocket frame very nice and it sends it to flickr in a nice large size

Here is a nice example of the mirror effect with the sprocket framing as well





And here is another example of the mirror effect with a before and after view...






me in the Palace Hotel ladies room






& the mirror version. Wacky eh?

It is a very versatile interface has a lot of stuff to work with. One can add cool light leaks and vignetting and a slew of frames or just subtley change the exposure and that is that then share your finished shot on flickr, Twitter or facebook a very full fledged platform for photo processing






Pfieffer Beach Before,



After umping exposure in PictureShow

Overall a very worthy post process app for iPhone shots!

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While My Husband Gently Sleeps

July 12th, 2010 10:38pm

Sitting in the darkness of my father's house while my husband gently sleeps listening to an environmental soundscape called "sitting on a stoop" which is an amazingly uncanny sound of New York or Brooklyn with people walking by and huge trucks coming off the Holland Tunnel and to the right in the distance a dribbling basketball and then in between in the quiet the sproingy sound of a bicycle chain when a cyclist speeds by & all the while birds are chirping and it feels like a balmy spring afternoon with the window open...Oh how I wish I were there!! I think the only thing missing is jump-roping and cicadas but it's pretty darn good I find that I lose myself in it and forget I'm actually in Carmel, which is a pretty cool thing
Had a fabulous day today in Carmel all told...
Met my Father's friend Pim who is from Thailand & a very jovial sort! Spent the evening with her supping and altho I was nervous at first, it was refreshing to meet someone new my father's age and who enjoys my father's company with a bright sense of humor that we could really relate to! She also was very into talking iphone etc which was fun for me tho I try not to go into it too much since I could go off on a tangent ha ha. Before dinner we all walked along Spindrift Rd laughing at all the huge ostentatious overdone houses and I took a lot of photos with my iPhone trying out the iOS4 zoom feature


Very tiny flower of Mint family


Extremely teeny moth


Another small flower

Dinner was perfect as usual- starting w smoked salmon and brie, red wine, then rack of lamb, sweet potato, broccoli, and finishing with coffee and baklava


Fred picked almond cake


I chose baklava mmm

Too tired for the customary film viewing in the "media room" but the plan is to check out Lady from Shanghai tomorrow since yesterday we watched The Third Man both from the mid 40s both with Orson Welles

Good night!
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To Hulu or Not to Hulu...

That is the $10 a month question!

For the past oh I'd say 5 months Hulu, the popular online TV watching website that streams all the regular networks like ABC NBC FOX and shows episodes with very limited commercial breaks for FREE has been threatening to charge to do this with ads no less! Well... that will all come true very soon Hulu will start charging a premium fee of $10 a MONTH and the question remains, will I go from watching TV 3 times a week plus certain shows every day and even marathons of vintage classics all year long all for free, free, FREE to paying $520 a year with no added premium shows like MadMen or Dexter and still with ads!! Short Answer? NOT! But then I wonder how can I live without The Office which is having it's last Season with Steve Carrell, and tho I can CERTAINLY live without Glee (seriously folks) I'm not so sure about missing House, Bones, Desperate Housewives ( yes you heard me right I'm only human), Community, Modern Family, Lie To Me, V, and let's not forget a daily ritual of watching Late Night w Jimmy Fallon with my morning coffee in my Late Night w Jimmy Fallon coffee cup!

More on this soon


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Books Are All The Nourishment I Need...

As a young girl I was a voracious reader I mean I really read a LOT it was probably as an escape but then as a grown up I was very distracted and didn't feel like carrying the books around but I still read a bit but didn't have a lot of time in the working world and eventually just didn't read at all! Bad. vERY Bad. Every once in awhile I would hunker down and read a good book but I had to really make a huge effort to and as I said before it was a pain carrying the books around...

Flash forward to the future in 2008 with the advent of the election year and a newfound interest in learning as much as I can about the Obama campaign so I got a Kindle having heard they were this amazing tech device for carrying around and reading oodles of reading matterial including magazines and newspapers books and blogs...very cool I looked into it weighed the cost compared to convenience and got one then got the NYTimes the Huff post and a whole slew of good books like fight club Born Standing Up and Cruddy
I found reading electronically was like second nature for me very nicely flowing and I read very fast & enjoy the interface immensely so I read more plus it is fun to read on the bus...
I never liked reading the newspaper before and reading blogs on line is pretty cool but a bit daunting cuz there are so many no having a bottomless book and personal kiosk if you will is the only way to go it was great during Obama's campaign I learned so much so easily
There were clunky lil problems tho IE no backlight, not very graphic, only was a book so you had to bring it AND your laptop and not that innovative tech wise... but hell the Kindle at the time was the best eReader around...

Apple hadn't come out with anything yet cuz it was very busy innovating the cellphone world and winning on that score...

Then the iPad came out!...and along with a huge memory, backlighting, having a mini computer, bottomless book and journal AND personal kiosk with graphic display one also has realistic page turning and a real feeling that one is actually reading a real book especially with the double page view but the best part is being able to have so many books(I currently have more than 100 and you can read more than one and it remembers where you are in each!!!
In the iBook store, all your books are colorfully displayed on a beautiful wood shelf to impress any book worm visiting your iPad and as you can see my taste runs the gamut of Sarah Silverman to the Oz books and HG Wells



Also I really Love HP Lovecraft...so far my two fave books are The Dunwich Horror, and The Sirens of Titan between him and Kurt Vonnegut Jr they are the only nourishment one needs...My two fave short stories are:
All Summer In A Day by Ray Bradbury and The Professor's Teddy Bear by Theodore Sturgeon

Goodnight and my motto or at least one of my many is you can stay up as late as you like as long as you are enthralled with a good book...
Tryntje / koduckgirl/ BBH

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Why So Blue?!

Why do I obssess over the color blue? I have always wondered





about that most of my life... Even as I type this blog my nails are painted a tiffany blue which is aqua with 2 drops of green. I wore blue in
my wedding and my house is sponge painted two shades of Bright Blue one of which is called Maison Bleu and it is the name of my house as well and I started my Etsy shop this year and named it Bright Blue House because everything I sell comes out of my house...







Blue as accent in one's personal appearance, gives a sense of individual punch especially blue nails or bright blue eye shadow or neon blue tights
It pops and says I am here notice me you know you want to know me
Partly because it has nothing to do with your natural coloring like reds oranges, browns except for your eyes there is no blue anywhere on ones body...there is no green either but green tends to look halloweeny whereas blue esp bright aqua blue, looks chic and in a word...bravely blue!! Possibly in part because blue was originally a boy color so it always feels wonderfully roguish to defy the pink girlness by owning blue but that said I do still love a splash or nip of Schiaparelli pink here and there to remind that I am chic and girly






I find that blue stands out & is cheerful i don't find it sad at all especially light blue which I love all shades of including: Tiffany, aqua, periwinkle, turquoise, robins egg, blue gray, aquamarine, sea foam, sky, bright, cerulean, ocean, cornflower, Alice, royal. I also love dark blues like indigo & Midnight but i'm not very into navy blue it is quite boring to me and I don't really like the connection of the navy







More on this topic soon enuff
Signing off now
Tryntje / BBH