Nora the Piano Cat – the Sequel

I know I’ll probably get hate mail for putting up two cat posts in short order, but I can’t help but be amazed watching this cool cat. The duets between Nora and her person are really neat to watch:

Octobass in Action

My wife doesn’t think this instrument sounds very good (!), but I still think it’s pretty cool: About the Octobass, videographer Patrick Shannahan writes: The 12-foot tall Octobass plays so low, it’s lowest string when played fully open is barely in...

Look Out Below!

There were several concurrent revelations some years back that inspired me to look deeper into this frequency relationships and such. There were two books, “The Cosmic Octave” by Hans Cousteau and “Nada Brahma” by J.E. Berendt. Around the same time of reading these...

Fun With Octaves

I sit here at campsite 17 in an undisclosed location in northern Minnesota, listening to the August screams of children treating the national forest campground as if it’s a Wisconsin Dells water park. Pity the mergansers, cedar waxwings, the confusing fall warblers,...

Angel and Bubastis

My dad got me a papyrus painting of the Egyptian cat god Bubastis while on a trip to Cairo recently, and my wife and I put it up on the wall after moving into our new digs. For some reason, our cat Angel (I used to stroll her and her brother Dan around the...