For Your Amusement

First off, in a comment left yesterday I was asked when I added Blotto "I Want To Be A Lifeguard" to the Iguana Music.

The answer is that the first song I added to the list was Blotto. I was testing the Project Playlist thing to see how good it was. Yea it is going to have the stuff people know about. But will they have Blotto? Well it seems that yes, they did. I was impressed so I went on and built a playlist.

Now I would like to share a You Tube video sent to me. It seems one of my Canadian readers has a slight problem. Her cat does not understand the concept of "burying it".



This is not that uncommon. Ill spare you the evidence, but Sake has been known to drop a duce in the bath tub. It is not the best place to drop a duce, but it is better than somewhere else. Like behind something large and heavy where I can not get to it without a major undertaking. It is pretty easy to clean up really. Scoop, dump in the toilet, flush, and then bleach.

Like I said, I will refrain from photos or video of the evidence.

But the cats here do not have the problem Packet seems to have. My cats dig like they are making a sand castle in that thing. I have to get boxes with high sides to keep the litter in the box - otherwise it ends up all over the place.

And Sake only drops a duce in the tub if I allow the boxes to get scary. Keep em scooped and she uses them. If they are ugly and / or scary, she finds someplace else to go.

Someone may be sending me some junk in the mail. How about that? But that is OK - for I have junk to send back. And what will I do with my stuff? If it is cool keep it - otherwise box it up and send it off to someone else.

In fact, this could turn into a fun Blog game. The modern version of the fruit cake. Nobody ever actually eats a fruit cake, if someone sends you one you just send it to someone else! Kind of like that.

Project X

So what is Project X? Can't tell you. You would have to apply for security clearance. And by "apply for security clearance" I mean "send me $100 cash". Cause that is how I roll. I do not need your fingerprints, your social security number, your drivers license number, your photograph, or any of that stuff.

If my good buddy Ben Franklin will vouch for you - then you are good to go in my book.

By the way, speaking of my good friend Ben Franklin - did you know he was a nudist? Yup. That is right. Franklin was so sure that fresh air was important for good health that he took a daily “air bath”. He wrote to the French physician, Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, describing it thus: “I rise early almost every morning and sit in my chamber, without any clothes whatever, half an hour or an hour, according to the season, either reading or writing.”

He would also hang out near the window - so as to get the full health benefits of the fresh air. While bare ass naked.

How about that for a mental picture? This guy, taking an "air bath". While standing by the open window, just hanging out all over the place.

Now if I lived back then, I would have beat the artist who painted that picture with a stick. I mean, if I were going to pay an artist to make a portrait of me, I would say "dude - remove about 100 pounds from that painting or I shall kick you in the nut sack".

Would you pay for a painting of yourself that made you look THAT FAT?

But anyway - back to that mental image! Maybe there was something to the air bath thing. He did live to age 84 - back in an age when making it to 50 meant you were an old fart.

Anyhow - Project X. What is it. I am secretly working for the US Navy on a plan to make a warship invisible to submarines. Using Einstein's Unified Field Theory it is possible to bend light, and therefore make a large ship invisible.

OH WAIT! That is not Project X. That is the Philadelphia Experiment. Never mind. I just made that all up. I blame the electromagnetic fog I was exposed to during the experiment.

Project X is actually a catch all massive multi-front project. This way if one part leaks out, the public thinks they know everything. HA! But you don't! You only know of Project X Section A Sub-Section D. See how that works?

One part of Project X involves a whole new Iguana Music playlist. It is going along - slowly. Finding complete works is proving to be an issue.

Another part of Project X involves this weekend, and possibly the boat.

The rest is classified. You will have to get my good buddy Ben Franklin to vouch for you.

Getting Culture....Bacteria Culture

So I have decided to make my own yogurt. And to do that I need bacteria! So I have to start my own bacteria culture.

So what I have done is add a bunch of classical music selections to the Iguana Music. I got some dead Russian composers ( Modest Mussorgsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), some Beethoven, some Mozart, and whoever wrote O Fortuna - also known as "that song from the movie Excalibur". By the way, the composer is Carl Orff - but almost nobody knows that. It is forever known as "that song from the movie Excalibur".

I may end up replacing a large amount of the Iguana Music with stuff that will get you in touch with come culture. Or better yet - I may make up a whole other play list!

The problem is that Project Play List does not have complete symphonies. They are broken down into movements and stuff. Some movements are not there. Take Beethoven's 9th symphony. The first movement is there, as is the Ode To Joy - but the second movement? Nowhere to be found. How about that? How can I have the 9th symphony without the second movement? Can't be done. So I may have to get creative here.

Also some pieces are cut off. Take Mussorgsky's "A Night On Bald Mountain". Is all 7 minutes of the work there? No. Only the first three or four minutes. But you have to deal with it - for it is all I can find.

I may have to bust out with my massive and legendary CD collection and make me own MP3 files. Complete works. Then I can put some really good stuff up. But that would technically be illegal - so I do not know. I do not want to get sued. The guy who made the music is dead - so the copyright is expired. But the orchestra who preforms the work may still hold some manner of copyright. How about them apples.

But there is hope! Namely it would be hard to identify the orchestra. So if the link is "Beethoven's 9th Symphony" how would you know what recording it is? I would not. They all basically sound the same.

And now - you can take the DEAD RUSSIAN COMPOSER PERSONALITY TEST!

I am this guy.

If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Modest Mussorgsky. I am a Romantic period psycho who's drunk more often than not. I died of this affliction, not surprisingly. My famous works include "Night on Bald Mountain" and "Pictures at an Exhibition." Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test

By the way, if you want to be this guy too just select "vodka" as the answer to every question.

Someone has to tell me how to make a cool drop down box that has all my post tags, and how often each tag is used. That would be cool.

Songs Of My Deeds

I cleaned up my Iguana Music links. The ones that no longer work were deleted. I was able to replace some links - others I was not able to replace. The way the Iguana Music works is with links. The MP3 files are not on any web space I have any control over. I simply find links through Project Play List. So if I can not find links through the play list thing I have to do a little more work.

So needless to say, the selection is somewhat limited. Oh well. With all the broken links gone, I have more open spaces. So I can find new music!

I am up for some kind of award. It seems that songs of my valor have been made, and spread among all the lands.

Monday morning I get a call. Someone wants to know the name of my boat (Seagull) and my registration numbers. Words of my valiant rescue at sea of 4 idiots who were dumb enough to jump off a fishing bridge reached someone who wants to give me a certificate. So I got that going for me. I can adorn some wall with tapestries depicting my deeds.

This And That

You know what I hate? Ill tell you anyway.

I hate it when I am on the laptop in the middle of the night and the only light in the room is from the laptop screen and a moth is buzzing around the screen. So then I mush the moth and now there is a smudge on the screen. Great! Got to get up for a paper towel or something. And while I am up I might as well get my pre-sleep beer. Or maybe my second pre-sleep beer. After the third pre-sleep beer you are not going to be sleeping for long - you will need to get up to take a leak. So two pre-sleep beers is the limit.

My Iguana Music list needs updating. Manic Monday by The Bangles no longer works. The link is dead. And I kind of still want to bang The Bangles. At least I used to. Back in the 80s. Don't really know about now though. That was a long time ago, my standards were lower, and the band was a lot hotter. Back then anything that had boobs and moved was fair game. Not that I really knew what to do with boobs, all I had to go by was late night shows on Cinemax (SKINamax).

Anyway, the point is that if you notice any Iguana Music links not working, let me know. I will attempt to rectify the situation.

MOVIE REVIEWS!

Glen or Glenda. This is legendary film maker Ed Wood's first film. And why is Ed legendary? He made the worst movies ever. See all he wanted to do is tell a story. That is it. Just tell a story. So he did not care about sets or acting or stuff like that. The story was what was important. He never did retakes - the actors had one shot and that is it. So all Ed' movie reviews will use the "bad movie" scale - where 1 tail whip is just a bad movie and 5 tail whips is a bad movie that is so bad it is a classic.

Anyhow Glen Or Glenda has the feel of a 1950's "educational" film. You know, like how your life would be better with an automatic dish washer. Ed was a cross dresser is real life (a big problem in the 50s). This film attempts to explain why this is not a big deal. Nobody is really hurt by it after all. So what if some guy wants to wear angora sweaters? Ed's girlfriend, who was in the movie cast as Glen/Glenda's girlfriend should have taken a hint here. It is sad when you think that it is Ed's plea for acceptance from society - something he never would get. All he wanted to do was put on women's clothing and hang around in bars. Like this guy.

Was that so wrong? Anyway three tail whips. Bela Lugosi saying "PULL THE STRINGS" made this movie. Classic. You have probably seen this part of it. PULL THE STRINGS! if this line sounds familiar, you now know where it came from.

LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - a newly graduated medical student from Scotland goes to Uganda to do some good. But he ends up as the evil dictator President's personal doctor. The young doctor realizes that his employer is a class A asshole, and evil. So he tries to get out of the situation. The movie President is based on a real guy who really killed an estimated 300,000 Ugandans, and likely much more. I think the doctor character might have been based on a real guy too. Three tail whips. A good movie, but it could have been better.

PS - I also know The Ocean by Led Zeppelin, Desperate But Not Serous by Adam Ant, Ray Of Light by Madonna, Drive by The Cars, and Substitute by The Who do not work anymore. I really have to fix my Iguana Music links.

Housekeeping

I need a button that says "housekeeping". That way I can press it whenever I need something cleaned, but I am too lazy to do it myself. Which is 99% of the time.

But anyway, I just did a little blog housekeeping. Mostly with my blog links. I added some, and removed some.

And I cleaned up the playlist thing a little. I removed some songs, and added others. And I am not done yet. Oh no. I want to add even more stuff.

And I better hurry! Because today I was alerted about some sort of storm or such crap that is "out there". Now here is the funny part. I had no idea about it. A storm? Out there? Really? I see no storm clouds! I think you are on drugs.

Except the people were not on drugs. And this is where it gets funny. So pay attention here. The people were extended family visiting Deerfield Beach from Ohio and Mississippi. Got that? OHIO! When was the last time Ohio was hit by a hurricane? Huh? Never - that is when. Oh yea they might THINK they "got hit" because what was once a mighty hurricane passed over them and dumped some rain. But the fact is that 0 hurricanes have hit Ohio in the past 50 million years. And the family from Mississippi? They live nowhere near a beach. They are way up in north Mississippi - on the other side of the state from the river.

So here I am - a lifelong Florida resident - and they say "did you hear about the hurricane on the way?". And what do I think? I swear this is what I said - "Oh yea! Of course! In fact, I am about to get up and get myself another Hurricane Reef beer! Want one?".

"No really, there is a hurricane out there! It is supposed to be here sometime later this week". Still thinking this is a joke, I say "well that works out well for you! You guys plan to leave Friday right? Good plan by the way, it really sucks to be staying on the beach when the power goes out and a 15 foot storm surge rolls in. Of course, you are staying on the 4th floor".

So today I decide to watch the local news at 10 PM. And sure enough, there is a storm out there. WAY out there. 2,200 miles out there. Closer to Nigeria than Florida. And of course, the local weather goon is already starting to bask in the lime light. Seriously, the news NEVER opens up with the weather goon unless there is a storm out there.


So yea, I should probably watch this thing. But other than that - it is just too far away to really get all excited about it.

Now for all you in places like Ohio and Idaho and Montana and places that never get hurricanes, here is what they are like. They suck. Your electricity WILL go out. And your roof might get ripped off your house. Both these things suck to no end. You see, after a hurricane the air is still. Very still. And it is hot as hell. Except after Wilma. Wilma came in on a cold front - and from the wrong direction. Wilma was a rare and unusual hurricane. It did not matter that much that the power was out. Because the air was nice and cool. Just open the windows and there were NO BUGS and it was colder than the AC is normally at.

But this is not usually the case. The hurricane blows out all your window screens, and no matter how hard the wind blows the mosquitoes manage to hang on. So you get to be all hot and sweaty and the bugs are biting you and life just plain sucks.

And now everyone has a generator. But I have rifles. I swear - I am going to start shooting at the noises. People fire up these darn things and let em run all night. ALL NIGHT! So now your window is open and you are hot and cranky and the bugs are getting you and you get to hear the lovely noise created by all the generators near by.

And of course, these noise makers use up a good deal of gas. At least 5 gallons a day. So every day, idiots line up with gas cans so that they can run the #@%$#@% generator all #@$%#@%$# night. But if I simply place one shot in a generator fuel tank, that will take care of that problem. I think I will use the 7.62x51 rifles for this. But they are not the most accurate. So I might miss the fuel tank and hit other parts of the generator. But I think that the end result will be the same. Quiet.

My generator is quiet. You can hardly hear the darn thing. It cost more than any other 2000 watt generator, but it is quiet. So if you are a cheap asshole with a $150 generator - you suck. Spend some more and get a real generator that I can not hear a block away.

But getting back to Dean, which is just a measly little unimpressive tropical storm right now - I will probably be in stage 1 mode in the next few days. This calls for me pulling the boat out one night and filling it up. And I will also start filling the truck up every time I use 1/8 a tank. That way IF the thing hits and the power is out and it is hard to get gas I will have a full tank, and another 55 gallons in reserve in the boat. Cause I am smart. Everyone else is a flippin moron.

Music For Emma

Today's Iguana Music feature is for Emma who Sometimes visits this blog and comments. And sometimes I suspect she just lurks. She was all like "you can't find this song" and I said "watch me". Well not exactly. Sort of. Anyhow it is a good cover of a Zep tune I am not really that much in to. It is super over played. Anyhow there it is.

I am like a giant squid, deep in the abyss. My tentacles stretch out a very long distance, yet I am unseen. The way I like it to be. My sources are many.

I got some sort of mystery funk. I feel sort of crappy. Not too crappy, just crappy enough that I am not super motivated to do anything. I am drinking that Airborne crap. Someone told me it would work, but who the hell knows. I do not feel any worse, nor do I feel better. So did the stuff work, or did it not work? Nobody knows. There is no way to know.

I got some ugly ass shoes.

Corcs. They are ugly as hell but they are comfortable. They are made of some kind of soft plastic or something. They do not slip on a wet boat deck, nor do they leave marks. I got them for use on the boat, but I have been wearing them instead of putting on real shoes. I am apparently too lazy to tie my shoes now. Also I feel crappy and do not really want to go anyplace.

I tried to take a picture of Skipper, but he would not have it. He kept running off or attacking the camera. I have to catch him when he is zonked out, otherwise all you will see is a gray blur.
The shutter on the digital camera is slow. I press the shutter release, there is a pause, and then it takes the photo. During that pause Skipper has run off or pounced on the lens or whatever. The auto focus can not react fast enough.

No Videos Today.

HELP NEEDED FOR THE NEW IGUANA MUSIC!
I do not know if the version of todays Iguana Music was in fact performed by Country Joe and the Fish. A bunch of versions of this song have been recorded. I think the original version was in some movie - Easy Rider or something. So if you know your Country Joe give the music a listen and let me know what the deal is.

I have decided that it is not going to stop raining. So therefore, there is no point in waiting for it to stop. There is no front. The weather map says that there is an area of "high pressure" here, despite the fact that the barometer is FALLING and it is raining every few hours.

This is interesting to me. People go to college and shit to guess about the weather. And they tell me that there is a "high pressure" area over Miami while at the SAME TIME reporting a falling barometer? That is like me saying THIS IS BLUE when clearly it is green.

But in spite of this, the cable for the GPS antenna is run under the deck of the boat. So now the antenna can hang out by the splash well out of the way of everyone. Perfect. There was a Garmin GPS antenna there, but the chart plotter I have will not use that antenna.

The new fish finder transducer is also on the boat, and the cable is run under the deck to the center console. Now all I have to do is install the display bracket on the helm and connect the power wires and hook the GPS up to the fish finder. That will be easy. And the boat is under a carport tarp thing so it can rain while I am doing this.

What else is there? OH YEA! Good news.

Stouffers has some sort of "Dinner Club" thing going on. Packages of some Stouffers frozen foods have a code you enter and get points. You get 100 points for signing up, and 20 points for each package code you enter. You can also get 102 bonus points each month by doing some stupid survey and voting in some stupid poll.

I already have 222 points. 100 for joining, 100 for the survey, 20 for the box code, and 2 for voting in the poll. I have no idea what the points are good for, but I have them. Supposedly starting sometime next month or in August there will be stuff on the Stouffers web site I can bid for, using my points like money. Kind of like frozen food Ebay. If I win then they send me the stuff. I use Stouffers stuff as emergency backup food. If it is late and I want food I can just nuke something and eat it. And now I can get points.

I answered "strongly disagree" for every survey answer. I like screwing up marketing data. That is what they get for thinking that something is "scientific" when in reality it is just bullshit.

And here is what you can do! If you are not going to sign up, email me your box codes! The codes are printed on the inside of the boxes. So email them in. I want a bunch of points so I can bid on something and be a winner.

OH YEA! I have a solution for junk mail. If EVERYONE does this then junk mail will stop. Here is what you do.

1. Open the junk mail.
2. Look for the postage paid return envelope.
3. Stuff all the junk mail into that envelope. Be creative. If something does not fit in the return envelope, tear it till it does.
4. Mail it back. Without any money. Just return all the junk they sent you - at their expense.
5. I like to add a happy face sticker or something to the outside of the envelope.

If everyone starts to do this, the junk mailers will start to loose a lot of money, and the junk will stop. They will get so much return mail (possibly hundreds of thousands or millions of returns) that they will have to hire more people just to open it all and look for checks. And what will they find? Nothing.

I got this idea after mailing the RNC a $2,000 donation during the 2004 election. Of course I sent it in the form of Monopoly money. You can order a stack of Monopoly money for $3.50 by clicking HERE.

Music For All Occasions.

There is new Iguana Music. I put it up for one regular reader who may have to lynch a former landlord if the landlord tries to bogart the security deposit. Because we can. You know we can. Let's lynch the landlord man!

Except in this case it is a landlord lady. But whatever. Maybe "Bitch Better Have My Money" by Easy E, AMG, and DJ Quick would have been better. But that song is not really about landlord issues.

I have Iguana Music for almost any occasion. Really. I have downloaded / ripped a bunch of crap. Really. And if I do not have it, I can probably find it.

Now maybe someone will share the secret to keeping stainless steel all nice and pretty. I have been using fresh water. There is also metal polish and even wax. But so far I have found that what is better than all that crap is to wash the stainless steel down with fresh water every time it is exposed to salt water.

And do not buy that polished stainless steel shit. Because then you have to keep it polished. And that is a pain in the ass if you have a lot of it. My boat does not have a lot of stainless steel. but it is there. The propeller, the bow rails, the grab rails on the center console and helm wind screen, the handles by the swim platform ladder, and the swim ladder. It sounds like a lot, but it really is not. However I am lazy and do not enjoy polishing metal very much.

So I prefer the matte finish. The metal is not as shiny. So this means my lazy ass can get away with not messing with it very much.

The new BBQ grill however is VERY shiny. Some asshole decided to design it that way. Probably someone in marketing. Some asshole in marketing TOO STUPID to realize that water spots and salt deposits show up better on shiny surfaces. Oh yea and then there is the heat problem. Metal with a highly polished finish gets dull when you get it hot. And BBQ grills, by default, tend to get a little hot. Here is how this decision was probably reached.

ENGINEER: Look at this great new product I just designed.
MARKETING ASSHOLE: Ohh that is neat! We will sell a bunch of them! By the way, what is it and what do you use it for?
ENGINEER: It is a BBQ grill. For boats. You use it to grill stuff. On your boat.
MARKETING ASSHOLE: Very cool. But you need to make it shiny. People like shiny things. We will sell more of them if it is shiny. Marketing research proves this.
ENGINEER: But making it shiny cause other problems. It will get dull as soon as you use it and water spots will show on it. Customers will have to keep polishing it all the time.
MANAGER: So what? Once they buy it I do not give a crap what they do or don't do with it. And marketing is right! People like shiny things. I like shiny things.
MARKETING ASSHOLE: Yes. Shiny....shiny....shiny.....
ENGINEER: I am leaving early. Is that OK?
MANAGER: shiny....shiny....shiny.....
ENGINEER: Ill take that as a yes.

What do you want to bet it went down just like that?

So yea, I need the secret of keeping stainless steel all nice and whatever. And no smart ass answers like "don't touch it" or "don't use it" or "don't get it near saltwater".

I need to take a picture of the grill. It is pimp-tastic. While it is still all nice and shiny because it has never been used or taken near saltwater. Which may happen Friday.

I wonder if I have any Iguana Music relating to this?

One Less Thing In The Yard.

Too much Toto is a bad thing, so I put up new Iguana Music. I do not know exactly who recorded this version - and it only contains one stanza. But it is all I can find. So if you have a better version, let me know. Ill get tired of this Iguana Music soon and put something else up.

According to my sources, June is smack in the middle of hot dolphin fishing season! And now that I have a boat with 44 inches of freeboard at the bow - I can go offshore to look for the buggers. I could go offshore with the old boat, but the cat I have now can go further offshore and is safer due to the increased freeboard. And the beam is wider. All this means it is a better offshore boat. So one of these days soon I want to try to catch some darn fish. I can get well offshore now - out to the shipping lanes if I want to.

I think the old boat is sold. Some dudes came by and left a deposit on it. The screwy thing is that they do not seem to want to water test it. I think they might plan to throw another engine on it. They could have another engine already. If this is the case then it would explain why they do not care to put the boat in the water before they buy - they are going to re-power it anyway.

If they do, they screwed the pooch. The engine on the old boat IS old, but it runs great. How old? It was made in 1986. Reagan was in office and everyone was dancing safely in parachute pants. Michael Jackson was not a weirdo, just a rich eccentric normal looking dude. The Soviets were going to nuke us and the Taliban were our good close personal buddies and partners with the CIA. Junk bonds were king and greed was good. Yes, the world was a pretty crazy place. It still is.

The old engine still has the original oil injection system hooked up and working. A lot of people disconnected them, but this one still has it. The 2 cycle oil sits in one tank, the gas in another tank, and the engine mixes the two as needed.

A compression test done yesterday gave all 6 cylinders a reading of 120. That is excellent. So if the buyers just toss the engine and hang another one on, they will be getting rid of a perfectly good engine.

But none of this is my problem. Let em do whatever they want. I tried to tell them that the engine is perfectly good but I do not think they believe me. They turned down multiple offers to water test the boat. I can show them that it really does hit 40 mph - a bad engine would not push the boat that fast. But they said "we do not need to do that" and "that is OK" so whatever.

Now I will have the flow to buy the fish finder I want to get. The old fish finder is going with the old boat. I did not feel like pulling the transducer cable and patching the screw holes in the transom. That is a pain in the ass. Plus the old fish finder was only $150 or something. The new boat is getting a nicer sonar unit. I took enough stuff off the old boat to ensure boat continuity, I do not really need the Humminbird Matrix 17 fish finder.

Iguana Music

No comments about my Iguana Music? WTF? That is some classic 80s cheese I dug up for you people. Pac-Man was HUGE in 1983, and that is when the feature song was made. Or at least that is when the album was released. I put many a quarter into a Pac-Man machine.

But I need some tips here. How do I make the Iguana Music only start IF someone clicks the play button? I tried to insert autostart='false' but it does not seem to work. Neither does autostart="false". I am a bit concerned that some of the people that come here may not have a cable modem or ADSL. Having to DL a 3 meg MP3 file using dialup sucks ass. So I want the Iguana Music to start on demand. That way, if you do not want to hear classic 80s cheese you do not have to!

If I can get the thing to NOT start playing by itself I will have more than one song. Ill create a play list so that people who want to can jam to more than one tune.

So who is an expert HTML code person? How do I stop the auto play thing?

PS - and this is VERY IMPORTANT! I need / want a flash DONKEY KONG game to add to Pac-Man and Frogger. But not just ANY Donkey Kong game! Oh no! I want one with ALL the sounds and ALL THE LEVELS! The games I have found usually only have the steel beam level, but not the pie factory, rivits, or elevator levels. THAT SUCKS!

Kitty Walk Crap, Iguana Music, And All Sorts Of Fun Stuff

So you want to know what the hell the Kitty Walk Door Climbing Thing is.

Well here it is. It is 5 feet tall, and hangs from almost any door using these metal clip things. Mine looks exactly like this EXCEPT the thing is green the nylon mesh has larger holes, you can see into the top compartment, and there is no awning over the thing. The awning proved to be a pain in the ass to put on so I left it off. Also - there are no Siamese looking cats anywhere near the thing. Sake hates the thing, and wishes the person who invented it would die. Cleo however loves it. She is always climbing the thing. She likes the top two compartments the best. Most of the time she does not use the lowest compartments of the thing, she would rather jump from the floor directly into the ring opening on the third level. Sometimes she climbs up the outside of the thing like it is a tree. Here is how cats are SUPPOSED to use the thing.

Anyhow, I got it for $20. The usual list price is over $100. I got it because the cats seem to like to climb stuff - mostly my DCM Loudspeakers. I paid $500 for the pair of them something like 10 (or more??? I forget) years ago. But they all hate the thing, except for Cleo. So they still climb my speakers. Even Cleo. I can never win.

Anyhow the Kitty Walk people also make other stuff to torture your cat with. Like this contraption.

Or for extra amusement (for you, not for the cat) there is this thing you can buy for $350.

They also make a thing you put in your car and can attach to the seat belts. It is padded, and constructed in such a way that your cat (or dog or kid or whatever else you can stuff into the thing) can look out the window. If you are a bad driver, or like to take hard corners and do brake checks all the time, your critter will not be flying all over the place. it will remain contained in the device.

OH YEA! I also added Iguana Music. Bonus points if you can find out which blog (linked on the left sidebar) I found out about Best Audio Codes on. Anyhow - it is pretty cool. I can add Iguana Music without having to upload MP3 files to any web server I own or pay rent to. Cant sue me! I just linked to this stuff! Plus I got no money. I will change the Iguana Music from time to time as I get sick of whatever crap I put on.

By the way, if anyone knows where I can find the rest of the songs from the Pac-Man Fever album let me know. All I could find was this song, "Froggy's Lament" (from Frogger), and "Do The Donkey Kong". I am missing "Hyperspace" (Asteroids), "The Defender" (Defender), "Mousetrap" (Mouse Trap) and "Goin Berzerk" (Berzerk). STOP THE HUMANOID!