Computers, Society, and Nature

Eek. Someone is in the house. Hide!

In Montreal, we know it’s summer when the Grand Prix comes to town. In this house it’s when the cats migrate to the windows.

Cat relaxing at Moorish Castle, Sintra, Portugal.

Opal: guardian of coffee.

It’s dinner time!

She enjoys having students speak their minds.

A very contented self-folding Billy. Perfect for a rainy Friday.

The imperious ruler of the household

The sleepy cat edition

Pete’s cat, Billy, demonstrating what cats do while you are at work…

Message from Pete to his cat: Thanks, Billy. I was sick of having nice furniture anyway.

A respite from a stressful week.

A few photos before the actual war. One victor. One loser.

This makes up for not cat blogging last Friday.

Mr Evil plays nice for once with Ms. Clam.

Starving Venezuelian mother enjoying the gift of Quebec tourists. Tuesday 22 Feb 2005, Margarita Island, Venezuela. Courtesy Prof. Frederic Fabry, School of Environment and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Despite last night’s talk by Donna Haraway on companion animals, I am not showing Derrida’s cat. Instead I offer a recursive Zoe (see last Friday’s post). For more on recursion, which links computation and nature together, click here.