Just Differently Intelligent...

San Bromista Cat Ranch

I'm helping yuka do research on victorian cat clothes for her regular column in NekoShinbun (a national japanese newspaper about cats). And I found this site about San Bromista Cat Ranch which raises cats for the European Catfur market.

Chemicals in the Body...

Yuka sent this to me, from Wired. Your Body, Your Superfund Site talks about how many toxins you're storing up in your body.

Yuka has been demanding...

That I blog elgoog and hugeurl

I was roused from my stupor of writing job application letters by a myriad of screams that could not have come from anything but an entire gaggle of post-modernist philosophers on 'shrooms. But it was none other than yuka typing in her web site address http://yukazine.com to http://www.hugeurl.com/. Calamity ensued.

Out and about

Yuka and I did the fall urban thing... chasing small animals around Garrison Creek park.

First she chased the pumpkins...

Yuka caught a dog.

Freedom from the Cow...

Yuka has given the thumbs up to this morning's latte made with soya milk, instead of the bovine equivalent. That means that I can switch to soya milk (yes, organic, and hopefully non-GM) fulltime and give my lactose intolerant self a break.

Yuka says, "Jason Blog this..."

And I comply...

Hello Yuka,

Ever since I stumbled over your website, I've thought we should let you know about our project, which is a musical called "Anne and Gilbert", based on the second and third books.

We'd originally hoped to have it produced in Charlottetown (my home town, actually) but discovered after the first draft was finished that the authors of the "Anne" musical there did not want a sequel produced in that theatre. So we're searching for another theatre to do it, rewriting (for instance, the parrot didn't make it to the second draft, to my sorrow!), shortening, cutting characters, all that stuff.

Anyway, next time we do a reading in Toronto, we'll definitely invite you. Meanwhile, if you have any friends in New York you think might be interested in coming to this reading, please forward my invitation!

with every good wish,

Nancy White

At yuka's command...

Yuka demands that I blog this 400k GIF image of penguin humour. No penguins were hurt during the uploading of this animated GIF.

Panda panda panda!

Tiergarten Sch–nbrunn in Vienna has pandas! Yuka is bouncing about with joy. I'm just contacting Cal, the GM of the Toronto Zoo, in the hopes of getting us a letter of introduction. I'm still on the Educational Advisory Committe of the Toronto Zoo. We're interested in getting pandas some day, and I'm really interested in how the Vienese are taking up the learning issues around these strange beasts.

A strange thought just came to mind...

Yuka and I are having our double mondo lattes, while persuing websites on Romania. Lots of pictures of sheep. Reminding Yuka that we needed to go back to Scotland. When we were there in 2001 (a b) we couldn't pet the sheep because of Hoof'n Mouth disease. Now it will be SARS. Everywhere Yuka goes, disease thwarts her ability to pet the local fauna. It is a plot!

Celebrating a life

Today is the anniversary of the passing of Yuka's beloved cat, cat-chan. Also known as Neko, or Debu-neko. And at 7:38 this morning, four small red birds flew onto our balcony, and spent 5 minutes in a mad cacaphony of churping, before running off for the rest of their day.

Cat-chan's favourite summer hobby was watching these little birds and making stupid cat sounds in their general direction.

more...

For KAT and the Cats

Eat them all!

Sche wonders how yuka finds all of these...

Happy Holidays (still)

(I think I've finally hooked yuka on animations... let's hope.)

Last minute shopping... for what?

Went out for a long walk with yuka today, mostly down queen west of bathurst. Doing shopping... ie. not really buying anything, or wanting to buy anything, but just poking our heads into stores to see what's there. Would love to get a sofa someday. I DID buy a bath pillow. I wanted one last year, but didn't buy one until they were all sold out. So I didn't pass up the opportunity today. Another opportunity not to be missed, "The Space Vampires: A Scourage of Sex and Death from an Alien Spaceship!" by Colin Wilson. Mint condition for $3.50. Haven't read much Wilson, beyond some Lovecraft fanfict and the "Mind Parasites" a billion years ago.

Happy holidays from Jason and Yuka!

The Royal

Went to The Royal Winter Fair this morning with Yuka. Froze our butts off going down there, somewhat better coming back. I watched and clicked pictures as yuka fed, and was slobbered on, by various and sundry animals. We did not get to touch any pigs, but I think yuka was satisfied by the tactile variety that the Royal presented, and we moved on satisfied.

I was able to buy 3 Bromeliads to compliment my collection of one. And we hit the st lawrence market on the way home.

I, however, am coming down with a cold. So I'm cleaning up my email, and going to take a nap.

I'm back!

Just got in with the crazy three-some from our tour of Midland, Bala, Algonquin Park, Ottawa, Kingston (Eagle Lake) and home. More news to follow. Lost no one. Crashed no cars. Took lots of pictures. Ate lots of Japanese food... wait. Something's strange here.

June blossoms

Yuka's June8 Adventure. And yes, I'm holding the camera. She'd director. Sort of.

Yukazarus

is just something yuka made me photograph tonight. Don't ask why. I don't know.

She said, She said!

And I quote, "Jason, you should write this down in your blog: 'Your wife, she is perfect. She should get the nobel prize...'" But why did she make me type this?

Addendum: Oh. Now I get it. She was explaining to me why the airplanes at the kansai airport (the one built on the sinking island) don't blow away during a typhoon. It is, I'm told, because they have special Japanese technology in the form of HelloKitty Jetliner weights.

And for this bit of information, she gets the prize. Of course, this HelloKitty Computer from Sarah's page is what started it.