Athanasius Kircher first described the cat piano in his landmark 1650 work Musurgia Universalis.


In order to raise the spirits of an Italian prince burdened by the cares of his position, a musician created for him a cat piano. The musician selected cats whose natural voices were at different pitches and arranged them in cages side by side, so that when a key on the piano was depressed, a mechanism drove a sharp spike into the appropriate cat’s tail. The result was a melody of meows that became more vigorous as the cats became more desperate. Who could not help but laugh at such music? Thus was the prince raised from his melancholy.

a few things to list about l.a.

bird pictures...

other stuff that i don't remember...

something about bill that made me laugh earlier today at lunch...

some petition thing about frucci and arrested development...i think he was number 3842 or something. scratch that, it was actually number 3632. i'll post the link only with adam's permission...

lauren corrao lives in pasadena and asked to see some dailies of the show, so it looks like on my way home tonight i'm going to pasadena to deliver dailies, which kinda sucks because it is out of the way and i was planning on driving to pasadena tomorrow to go to the bank and get an oil change. pasadena twice in 24 hours! oh well, it's gotta be done. anyways, no hanging out with jake or ryan until latro, if i feel like it at all.

havana on sunset has the best cuban food in l.a. (also the only cuban restaurant i've been to)

i need to create a tape log

i feel like drinking lemonade

i need to remind myself to take pictures of the parking lot roof sometime soon. the hollywood sign is so gray and hazy from there.

when was the last time i went canoeing? was it really like 10 years ago? i could've sworn i've been canoeing since, but with who? and where?

i want to take lauren canoeing. (oh shit--now i remember, i waded through the manistique river in the UP with my sister and cousins. that was weird, yet fun.

i need to send days of being wild back to netflix. i need a mailbox. i needed to do this six hours ago. now i'm going to have to wait until the middle of the week until the next film comes.

what was i going to tell bill? damn it. it was funny?

i wonder if chris miller ever got my letter. should i email him asking? or should i just write him another letter.

i need to send jake that letter i wrote during SAG. damn!

i don't like the fact that every time i want to watch if the fourth dvd burner in the deck is finalizing properly i have to go into the back and switch the video cables. (its not so bad now, but in two months?)

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hey friends! i know you guys want to run our own business because that is the only true way to live, eh! be your own boss, right! well, let's do it. my credit is in the negative, but i'm sure if we get enough people. why not pool resources and open a bar/bookstore. gather all your business friends and make them help you create a business plan! for our higher personal reward! cheers!

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this was supposed to be just a draft, then i was going to take all the daily things and incorporate them into a love it/hate it discussion of my experience in los angeles, but then everything started piling up and it made me laugh. so here are some daily mind wanderings written down so you can read them. if you did not like one or some of these things, please contact me and we can discuss. my email is linked with my name or just post a comment. for those of you who enjoyed some of these things feel free to do the same. i love you all. but not as much as i love lauren

CUT OFF HIS MIC!