Images of cats, you say?.....

I must say, those videos burst my bubble (and I am not going to lie, scared me a little). I guess I should go back to a couple posts and properly give credit.

I am not new to copyright, I know (for the most part) that you can't just use anyone's images anytime you want to. But, thinking back to the lemon-cat image I posted a couple bloggings ago, it was not even an inkling of mine to give someone credit for that, as it just seemed like silly nonsense--I guess the proper thing to do is thank and give credit to...http://lordalexvw.videofoundry.co.nz/...

...but how do I know this person didn't just do the same as I did, get it from somewhere and not state the source. I guess it simply comes down to not using images you can't source, if you want to do things properly...

I found this week very interesting--learning stuff I thought I had a decent grasp on before. I must say, though, I am realizing how naïve I was about all this image usage stuff...anyhow, here is my my Wordle-created-word-cloud, legally-found-and-used-and-attributed-image and the meme I created:

(I couldn't edit the coding to make the image bigger, and not affect the quality, any tips?)

 

(How can you look at these eyes...this face...and not love Springers)


By The Boy that time forgot (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons

(Not sure if trying to be funny worked out so well)

 

So you thought this was going to be about cats?....

...well in reality it's going to be about Lemons (and maybe Tweets & the Twitter-verse, since it's Week 2's topic of discussion)...

Until this very moment, give-or-take a few [several] mintues, I have avoided Twitter because I just never got it. I created an account a few years ago, tried following people, but the only thing that followed were emails to my Gmail account that I never followed-up on.

An aside: One thing I will follow-up on is doing my utmost to give my cat a dog-complex as well as encourage her to become a Lemon, like me, as well (perhaps by administering drops of lemon juice in her water-bowl??). Whoops, I said this wasn't going to be about cats.

My apologies, I got off-topic....Twitter...I created an account, handle (a new definition for my vocabulary, to be filed alongside lemon-cat) HilaryLemon, all that was pretty straight-forward. I found a couple twitterers (another new word?...yes! I checked their glossary) to follow, and then I did something I have been dreading since Twitter became so popular...tweeting (but I had to because Thing 6 told me to do it!).

And it is done, as I said in my very first tweet, I avoided it for however many years, but here is the proof:

Some Lemon- and Twitter-things for your viewing pleasure:

Liz Lemon

The Lemon Song by Led Zeppelin

Twitter-search of 'Lemons'

I got a cat, and a blog (somewhat reluctantly)

For my first post I thought I would relate my experiences of acquiring a new blog and acquiring a new cat:

1) I never really wanted a cat, and I never really wanted a blog....

• No cat reason: I have always been a dog-person, and it's much harder to find apartments that will allow dogs than it is to find ones that will take cats.
• No blog reason: I just never thought I had enough interesting material to write about.

2) ...but here I am with both...

• Reason for cat: an opportunity arose to provide a kitten with a home, and since I can't have a dog at the moment, I thought 'why not?'
• Reason for blog: mostly 23 Things NB, and since we needed a blog to complete this, I thought 'well I have to!'

3) ...and so far it has not been as nearly as bad as I thought, and much easier to get started.

• Cats: I didn't have to do to much to get ready for her arrival and (as many people know) she is self-sufficient, so yeah, easy. And so much fun!
• Blogs: Since I have had a Gmail account for a few years now (I made the changeover from Hotmail) setting up my new blog was, well, very easy and fun figuring out what you can do (notice my hyper-linked titles and I even uploaded a photo with caption and all)!

All that being said, I am as happy as can be with both!


So there is my first blog post and here is Fawkes (the namesake of both Guy Fawkes and Fawkes the Pheonix of Harry Potter stardom). As you can see she has a dog tag. I may be giving her a complex, but I had to fulfill my want and need of a dog in some way.

Happy trails with 23 Things NB!