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Friday Cat Blogging - 15 February 2008

February 15, 2008 / 3:01 PM EST / Political Animal

FRIDAY CAT VLOGGING....I have newfound respect for Steven Spielberg. Last week I got the bright idea of creating a cat video, and as soon as the thought entered my head I walked upstairs and found Inkblot plucking treats out of the air from Marian's outstretched hand. It was video gold!Now, you might be thinking that 20 seconds of a cat eating treats is nothing to get too cocky about. But let me tell you: that remains my best effort even after a further week of intensive feline moviemaking. For starters, as we all know, cats mostly sleep all day. Then, whenever they started doing something, I didn't have my camera handy. So I zipped off to get my camera, and by the time I got back they were just lying around again. Are they unionized or something?

Anyway, long story short, Domino presented a considerable vlogging challenge. But I promised you a Domino video, and a Domino video you shall have. It's called "Domino on the Chaise Lounge," and the title pretty much speaks for itself. I had another one with sound effects in the same genre, but it made Domino look fat and you guys are hell on fat cats. So you get this one instead.

I learned something new this week, too. I figured that since YouTube compresses the video to 320x240, I might as well shoot at that resolution to begin with. But no. The quality of this week's offering is much worse than last week's video, which was shot at 640x480. So although the higher resolution takes longer to upload, I guess I'll go back to using it. Nothing's too good for our resident housecats, after all.