2006 October 26 Thursday.
Hey diddle diddle, the cow and the fiddle, the cat jumps over the moon. Or was it the other way around? The cat played the fiddle, and the cow jumped over the moon. I can't remember for sure. The last time I heard this song being performed, was a long, long, long time ago. Anyway, why is this photo here, in today's blog? It's because of my little sister, Sissy-O to all of you out there, and Smart Cookie von cafe de la creme, to me. She sent it to me by email today. She sent me a photo of her new cat, her second cat, another stray cat, another mouth to feed, another pan to clean. How many letters does it take to spell JOY. About 3. How many letters does it take to spell HEAVEN? About 6. Double the ante, the game is on. Her first stray cat is a female called Ollie. This new addition to the family is a male called Baby Boy. I prefer the name; Boy Gorge. NOT Boy George of Culture Club, but; Boy GORGE, as in EAT TOO MUCH. I mean, take a look for yourself, at the photo on the left. He's a FAT CAT. I did edit my sisters photo, which was a whopping 2.38 MEGABYTES jpeg file, into a less than 64 KILOBYTES jpeg file including the background photograph of a full moon that you can see behind the gray and white cat. Baby Boy. By the way, the background photograph was taken on June 22, 2002. It was a full moon fever night, and I was feeling spunky. Soooooo spunky in fact, that I got out my 2 year old digital camera, my very first digital camera, and took a bunch of photos from the HOMAC and SEIKYO parking lots, looking in the direction of the building that houses my classroom. None of the photos turned out to be very good. The one you can see above, is the best of the bunch. Nothing to brag about, but it gets the job done. The HUMUNGOUS jpeg photo, weighing in at a whopping 2.38 megabytes, that my sister took of her new cat, was a very good quality photo. In fact, it is a good thing that she sent me the best quality photo that she had of the fat critter, because it made my image-only cut-out operation go very smoothly. To erase the background around the cat, I used Macromedia Fireworks MX, and a tablet / pen hardware set, to isolate the image of the cat, onto a clear background. Then, I simply did a COPY and PASTE to put it on the top layer of the image you can see above. Fun with CG. It is a very economical and enchanting hobby. You should do more of it, and so should I.
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