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  • Luna’s 5th Adoption Anniversary

    Today marks five years since I first brought Luna home from the Santa Cruz County animal shelter.  Time certainly does pass quickly.  We celebrate this anniversary (otherwise known as Luna’s “Gotcha Day”) with a look back at photographs from our five years together.

    Here she is back in 2005.

    and then in 2006

    and finally in 2007.

    That series of photos ends after we moved to San Francisco in 2008, but there is no shortage of images of Luna basking in sunlight.  Here she is in 2008 (outdoors):

    and 2009:

    and finally this year:

    (There are so many photos it can be hard to choose just one representative.)

    Our friends at the Cat Blogosphere made an announcement today along with this nice banner:

    Please join us in wishing Luna a “Happy 5th Gotcha Day!”

  • CatSynth 3rd Anniversary

    Well, this site has now been running for three years. And we’re marking the anniversary the best way we can think of: with stats of questionable significance.

    886 posts.
    195,501 visitors.
    4638 comments.
    Over 15,000 spam comments squashed.
    Over 400 cat-and-synth pics and videos

    The top 20 terms (a term is either a tag or a category or both):

    Cats   516
    cat   356
    Synthesizers   297
    Luna   215
    synthesizer   185
    Music   171
    News   146
    weekend cat blogging   136
    WCB   134
    Personal   120
    Art   115
    Wordless Wednesday   96
    Modernism   72
    San Francisco   68
    synth   61
    Photography   61
    Highways   60
    electronic music   52
    Reviews   40
    cats on tuesday   48

    The 11 most commented posts:

    Dona Nobis Pacem   48
    Wordless Wednesday: La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona   43
    "Wayback" Wordless Wednesday: Green Kitties   42
    Wordless Wednesday: A Great Moment   41
    Wordless Wednesday: Luna Sun Triangle   41
    Dona Nobis Pacem: BlogBlast for Peace!   40
    Wordless Wednesday: 43   39
    Wordless Wednesday: Cat and Geometry   38
    Wordless Wednesday: Centered Cat   37
    Wordless Wednesday: Alley behind 49 Geary   37
    Wordless Wednesday: Maneki Neko   37

    And the top comment contributors:

    Kitty   451
    Mickey   179
    CatSynth   138
    Gattina   136
    whaleshaman   81
    Andrée   73
    Daisy   71
    Dragonheart & Merlin   71
    sher   65
    SandyCarlson   60
    jams o donnell   44
    The Right Blue   44
    kitikata-san   42
    Hendrix   41
    parker   40
    Matthew James Didier   40
    Katie   32
    Randall   31
    HotMBC   30
    Gandalf & Grayson   30
    Dennis the Vizsla   30

    This list includes sites that are no longer active, and at least one person who has passed away.

    I did also go back and look at those early posts from July and August of 2006, expecting to reflect on how much things have changed over three years. But instead I found myself noticing how much things on the site have stayed the same…

  • CatSynth 2nd Anniversary (and Weekend Cat Blogging)!

    July 19 is the Second Anniversary of CatSynth!

    And by coincidence, we are hosting Weekend Cat Blogging (really, it is a coincidence). So we invite all our friends to participate and celebrate with us. As always, please leave a comment with your link, and we’ll post it during the roundup later this weekend.

    Of course, we must post the photo of Luna that started it all on July 19, 2006:


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    and some fun stats for the occasion. Over two years at CatSynth, we have:

    657 articles.
    2,476 comments.
    106,000 visitors.
    298 “catsynth pics.”

    The latter is using some custom analysis tools I created for the occasion, which also provide the top 33 tags/categories here at CatSynth:

    cats 738
    synthesizers 444
    luna 280
    music 169
    news 136
    wordless wednesday 101
    weekend cat blogging 97
    wcb 94
    art 90
    highways 85
    personal 79
    modernism 54
    san francisco 50
    stats 39
    electronic music 35
    experimental 34
    carnival of the cats 32
    mathematics 29
    podcast 29
    mp3 28
    kitty 27
    keyboard 26
    friday ark 25
    analog 23
    photography 22
    reviews 22
    video 22
    cotc 21
    black cat 20
    cats on tuesday 20
    festival 19
    california 18
    chaos 18

    Some tags, such as “photography”, should really be much higher.

    Many readers may recall that last year, on our first anniversary, the site went down due to a rather annoying problem with our service provider, and we were sent into exile at the CatSynth FEMA Trailer. So we are leaving an anniversary post at the trailer as well.

    A year ago, we at CatSynth had no idea what was going to be in store for us over the next year. A new job, a new home, a new life.

    We traded the sun and greenery of our old home:

    for our new home:

    and life in the big city:

    But some things remain the same. Luna, of course, is always here. And our friends and family. And CatSynth!

    And we’ll still be here, continuing to do what we always do…

    Some other significant milestones this weekend:

    The 200th Friday Ark boards this weekend at the modulator.

    Our friend Dragonheart is two years old today.

    This is week also includes several birthdays for friends, whom we won’t embarrass by announcing their ages on our rather public forum…

    It’s only one weekend after the Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos first anniversary, so let us include it as well. This weekend’s edition will be at Life from a Cat’s Perspective with Samantha and Tigger.


  • Wordless Wednesday: Area Closed

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  • CatSynth 1st Anniversary

    Today we celebrate CatSynth's first anniversary.

    It's been one year since we posted this photo on July 19, 2006:

    The idea came from a friend who said something like “dude, you should do a website about cats and synths.” So I did. Really didn't have too much idea what I would write about. I quickly learned that there was quite an abundance of pictures of cats and synths, and sites like matrixsynth had been collecting such images for a while. Indeed, one of the first external “CatSynth pics” to be posted here was of matrix's own cat JD:

    Sadly, we recently learned that JD passed away this month. We offer matrix our sympathies. It's always sad to hear about cat friends passing away (or human friends, for that matter), and we at CatSynth have seen our share this past year.

    I expect to post more this evening reviewing the year with photos, not-so-useful stats and the other things we at CatSynth like to think we do well…





  • Weekend Cat Blogging #105, Part 1 – Gotcha Day (June 10)

    “Gotcha Day” is the day a feline companion is adopted, a fact that we at CatSynth did not know before last week, when we helped celebrate multiple Gotcha Days for fellow cat bloggers during WCB 104.

    Well this weekend is Luna's Gotcha Day, also known around here as the “Lunaversary.” I adopted Luna from the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter on June 10, 2005. She was 7 months old at the time. Here are a couple of many photos I took that day:

    Luna was quick to come out an explore her new surroundings, which was for the first evening limited to the bathroom. She quickly gravitated towards the softest object in the room and started kneading and purring, a habit she retains to this day.

    Of course, the kitty bed has been largely ignored since she discovered my bed, where she often kneads a little nest and beds down for a nap.

    It's interesting to look back and see how she's grown in the last two years.

    The festivities for “Gotcha Day”, such as they are, will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm sure our friends Sher and Upsie will indulge us in a two-part Weekend Cat Blogging for the occasion. In the meantime, visit them for WCB 105, complete with squirrels. Update: you can see the big WCB roundup here.