Oh, you guys are going to love it as we clean out our image closet.
We have so many sketches and fun things to commit mugs and t-shirts with.
Latest is Ignorance killed the cat… —thanks for reminding us, Martha!
Oh, you guys are going to love it as we clean out our image closet.
We have so many sketches and fun things to commit mugs and t-shirts with.
Latest is Ignorance killed the cat… —thanks for reminding us, Martha!
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a Witikin?
Steve
I only found existing quotes. You have to decide on lettering, etc. yourself. Short items that would make good bumper stickers because the average non-SF fan would understand them.
I keep thinking about Jane’s art. Oh my!
An idea for front and back printing would be to put a line or two about Closed Circle on the backs of t-shirts.
I’d love to do that (put the CC info on the back), but it adds THREE DOLLARS to the base price of the tshirt! I try to work the website into the design unobtrusively, and the question of whether or not copyright info needs to be on there is a biggee. I also try to work Cc info into all the descriptions, but it’s really hard, because the space is limited. There is a link on the pages you reach through the CP MP to the parent store…i.e. if you come up on one of our products in the MP, you can reach the Bazaar, but it’s not real obvious.
In Foreigner, a flying sort-of reptile. The aiji-dowager, Ilisidi, has her estate in the mountains, and is passionate about preserving this endangered species on her land and elsewhere…as human tech brings rapid, sometimes destructive change. She has not quite reconciled herself to television.
I have to say, I MUCH prefer the original spelling in the first book or two where they appeared, wi’itkitiin.
I could really hear this as their call, echoing plaintively off the cliffs at Malguri. And the slight difficulty of pronunciation, with that t-k syllable change, I found very satisfactory and alien.
Wiitikin just sounds like babytalk to me. I wish you could restore the original wi’itkitiin.
Oh, well.
Incidentally, in searching (in vain) for the post that I am sure I wrote about this, with more eloquence, some time ago, I discovered the entire text of Foreigner online. Have sent you an e-mail.
Ft.Worth Zoo has a expansive water course going there their Zoo. They have some of the largest Koi I have ever seen. We took more pictures of the koi, then the animals lol.
I would so love to give mine a circular course. Four or five all race from one end of the pond to the other as if they have suddenly had a thought, then seem to forget what it was, and then another batch will have a thought. Who knows what they could do if they had a circle!
Our old-lady-cat used to cover what we called the ‘race track’ in our old condo, a loop that went from bedroom through the 2 connected bathrooms, then down the short hall back to the bedroom. She’d get a wild hair, tear down the hall, wash, rinse, repeat, for 4 or 5 laps. Funny as anything, especially when she would suddenly stop as if nothing had ever set her off, and walk away.
Darn! I thought she had “Ignorance” up…coming RSN!
It’s up now. The tshirt design is up in your folder but the tshirts aren’t. I’ll let you take care of that! 😀 I’m working on an Important Post this AM
ooooo, an Important Post!
I haven’t reconciled myself to television, either, as long as they keep putting on the pap that passes for programming. I’m even getting tired of watching the History Channel (I don’t care about monsters, or ghosts whisperers), Discovery Channel – an entire day of the same series day after day, and I gave up on TLC years ago when they stopped teaching and started airing “reality” shows like “How Not to Dress” and “Jon & Kate + 8”
So, as Harlan Ellison stated, it is a glass teat at which the masses mindlessly suckle.
I’ve been watching “The Choir” on BBCA.
Oh, and I sent Jane a bunch of pictures on a PowerPoint slideshow. I don’t know if you can capture individual pictures and save them separately, but if not, let me know which ones she/you want and I’ll send them as individual images. I like her picture at the Steam Plant. She looks mah-velous!
Chondrite, we had an old boy who would do that. His running spell took him from the living room, to the hall, out into the kitchen, on into the dining room and back to the living room. These days, in a different house, they just gallop up and down the hall.
The Dumpster Duo periodically goes what we call BUGF**K. This entails jumping up on the shelf by the windows in my room running through the house, downstairs, bounce off the front door and back again. Repeat many times, stop suddenly, wash paws and each other and look at any humans with “WHAT!?” attitude. When we had the pride of siamese at the bigger back house it got *really* interesting. 😉
If you want to see running, get a greyhound! Trink used to run laps out in the yard. I have a long side/front yard (my house sits sideways on the lot, so it’s hard to use the right terminology) with a tree at each corner, and she would run figure-8s with the two trees as turnposts. I now have a rut about 8 inches deep around the front tree, because they really dig in and fling dirt on those turns. And Katie is starting to do mad dashes. but right now they are much shorter and more erratic, so no concentrated lawn damage yet.
1967-68 I lived with a family that had a pair of Irish Wolfhounds; they also had adopted a very small greyhound (Lady Houdini because she could escaped from *anything*) She was the only dog I ever saw that could keep up with the Wolfies and they ran with the horses.
We now have “Ignorance killed the cat…curiosity was framed” as buttons, bumpersticker, shirts, and bags.
I just bought a T’n’T baseball jersey. I let Jane know that there was a glitch in the purchase. I tried to buy it directly from the Closed Circle Bazaar, but it asked me to make a new CafePress account when I checked out. I already have a CP account, so I copied the product number from the CC page, pasted it into the CP page that was open on my account, and then bought the shirt. I hope I didn’t mess up by going this route, and if I did, please let me know.
I’m slowly recovering from several stings from yesterday’s foray into one of my hives. The girls told me to back off, but I ignored them, so now I’m paying the price, not to mention the dozens of bees that tried to sting through my gloves and jacket, as well as the five that did manage to get venom into me.
Oh, ow, ow, ow! That’s the lesson that I HOPE I have learned – Don’t Be Stubborn -If They’re Cranky, GO AWAY! A paste of baking soda and fresh-squeezed aloe vera is my remedy.
I’ve just had three stings so far, in the three months I’ve had the bees, and all were from not backing off when I, in retrospect, see I should have. Well the first one was because I went near the hive smelling of the horse’s fly-repellent, and oh my, did they despise that!
I’m so hoping to get a little bit of a harvest. They have had half a dozen frames pretty fully drawn out and full of honey for weeks now, but they won’t cap them over. I’m getting a bit frustrated.
Owie! puree of raw potato helps: but I don’t need to tell a beekeeper that!
Yep, what you buy from us in Cafe Press goes through Cafe Press, and what matters is whether you buy it from our Store with them or through their Marketplace. Anything bought from our Store gives us our profit—we get halvsies from their Marketplace. So I’m sure it was fine, Joe!
If it wasn’t, please let me know.
I luurrvvve the ignorant/curious kitteh 😉 with a bow yet! 😀
Oh now Joe! Hope you are getting past the stings. I use papaya juice or powder (pappan?) on stings. Works pretty well; also a benadrill or two at night gets rid of a lot of swelling, but you probably are ahead of us all re: stings.
At my gran’s funeral I got nailed twice (on the thumb of all places!) by yellowjackets…didn’t have anything accessible but Benedryl, and I took a double dose. Worked like a charm and the swelling went right down. In an hour I’d forgotten about it.
I took an antihistamine as soon as I got back into the house from working the hive. The only one that’s bothering me right now is the one on the ankle, since that was the one that was in the longest. Honey bee stingers will continue to work their way into the skin after the bee has pulled away. This accomplishes two things. The stinger, which is a two-piece implement with barbs, will continue to saw its way down, while the muscle contractions also squeeze the venom sac. The venom which is comprised of 27 identified components, of which the primary component causes pain. There are other components that are various toxins, so it’s a lot more than just raising histamines and causing pain and itching. We feel it for a few minutes, hours, or days, but the bee dies a very agonizing and slow death on the ground somewhere.
Papain is the active ingredient in meat tenderizer, and I’ve used it with limited success. There are ammonia pens that are supposed to help, but the last time I used one, I ended up having a bigger sore than the sting, so I don’t use them any more. I had not heard of using the potato. I wonder if I could have used a french fry? Just kidding. Thank you for the input.
I can’t wait for the shirt to get here. T’n’T baseball jersey. Then, I’ve got a bunch of others I need to save for….I’ve got to go looking for my wine glass tags, I haven’t seen them since ShejiCon.