photo-shop and ya don't stop & (exit external hard drive to the left, followed by a bear)

First!


Yo Team what up?



Second! Some time in the photoshop:

The studios of Lou and Lou present:
Dedicated to the dear readers of course,

"A Threnody of self-portraits as Donkey Kong, with annie schiff" 

"self-portrait as Donkey Kong, with annie schiff"

"self-portrait as Donkey Wong, with annie schiff"

"The Efficacy of Grandeur,
or self-portrait as donkey tron, with annie schiff"

OK, Next Section! how to make photos like these:

    You use a macintoj, but you dont have $9-hundo to spend on adobe ps, here's an alternative to stealing yourself a copy with bittorent.

    "are you feeling alright?"

    Yes dear readers. I've made some good art and I'm feeling grand.

The scoop:

There is a free and open source program called GIMP,

(which is the only acronym programmers can come up with apparently. [see GIMPS])

 - it's almost exactly the same as adobe ps. it's great but it's a little complicated and a little linuxy you know?

    good thing there's a simple version made with cocoa (the pretty programing language) just for catintosh called

 

Seashore

simple and pretty and free, just perfect for a rank-amature like me.

Lou uses gimp, and the new Mattese exhibit at the art institute is entirely made of his fakes.

    Here's a pretty picture of Seashore, chi-check it out.

Next.
    Me and lou name our drives after minor Shakespeare characters because they are important and no one important should be named "Macintosh HD" or "MHW2120BH".
    they are, in order of appearance:


     a fatty 1TB external named 'Richard Duke of Gloucester'

     a 250G firewire 800 external named 'Guildenstern'
     a 250G firewire drive named 'Rosencrantz'
     a jump drive named 'Autolycus'
     and when I repartitioned patsy's external hard drive,
     I named it 'The Duke of Clarence' without asking.

    Oh and this internal hard drive is named Tojo,

Why Tojo? the handsome and/or pretty reader might ask.
 
    because my great grandmother Jean was blind, and matt schiff got her a little talking clock that she kept in her purse.

    The clock was a Sony, therefore the 'little man' in her purse who told her the time was japanese, and the only japanese person she knew was Emperor Tojo.

    Tojo lived in grandma Jean's purse for over 10 years and was used at full volume in all circumstances.

    In middle of the night: "IT IS FOUR THIRTY-SEVEN-A-M!"

    or if she wanted to leave somewhere, she would press it over and over, so it would give the same time, in the same minute, loudly.

    I couldn't google-image one, but i had a cat i know do an artist rendering:

Hey-Yo Tojo! *click*

"IT-IS-TWELVE-OH-TWO-P-M, DEAR READERS!"

Tojo, you're the man.

    And now, since I have been good, and got the post done early in the week (It's 3:00PM on Wednesday), the remainder of the post is for:

***********BONUS PHOTOSHOPS!***********

a pokemon card I found in a pack. super rare insert!

haha...horrifying!

banjo-kalouie! what a team!

lou types on the catbookpro, not me & they're actually called titanic primes and it's actually called GIMPS

    A very good good friday to you.


    First, "what do you want from ltc blog? - a level of grammer and spelliing appropriate for a 22 year old" ... that's a joke. so don't bother clicking it. it's not happening.

    you see, lou the 22 year-old doesn't do the typing, lou the cat does. lou the 22 year-old just dictates, and the qwerty-keyboard wasn't designed with feline digits in mind.

plus the ragdoll breed is part maine-coon so lou has tufts of hair between his toes which hit the wrong keys sometimes. plus, shut up.



    readers, i'm sorry we exchanged harsh words.

    you are very dear to me and lou and we love you very much. to make it up to you here is that logo on the back of the computer.

  
that's the new lou the cat blog logo as of today, friday. i tried to make the little apple in the top left corner look like a kittycat. I screen-shot it and worked with a less that 25-25 pixel picture.
if anyone has legitimate photo shop skills we could use a real logo.



    Second, moving on from kittintosh, We're looking for prime numbers...biguns.

    I'm checking (2^43041367)-1 and lou's checking out (2^43378589)-1. each are about 15-million digits (digits!) long and would be the largest prime ever if either of our respective core-duo's say so.

It's The Great Internet Marsenne Prime Search, or GIMPS (awesome), and it's the gold rush of the number theory yukon.

     the mathmatically-minded philanthropist simply donates their unused cpu-hours to a program that checks the primality of a titanically-large prime-number candidate, and three weeks later, BOOM BABY! there's a 1 in 178845 chance that you've got yourself a prime numbsky and eternal fame.

    But wait even cooler than that - GIMPS tracks the your contribution to the project, and even tracks whole TEAMS of number cruntching number theorist bloggers and blogies.

    Team lou the cat blog! It should be called Team Win!

    For serious, Team lou would be in the guiness book of world records if we found one. I set up a proper team to join, and i'll put a little teraflop meter on the blog to keep track of our unbelievable progress, and it will be gnarly.

Nice!

How to do the voodoo that you so desperately want to do-do(heh):

   - Join the GIMPS

   - Download the software (Prime 95 for Macs)

   - Join Team Lou the Cat!


    Even if you run the program when you sleep, you can find a new prime in the time of only a few blog posts.

    lou thinks you should totally go for it.

**************************

*Update* no luck as of:

[Apr 2 16:21] Iteration: 814297 / 43041367 

[1.89%] primality test of M43041367 

                     (thats a big number)

**************************

    first lou and i, lou, are apart for this weekend. He is staying with patsy schiff aka. the patoots, in wilmette il. lou kicks it in my room, because he and

donald pinkus the sock,

and danny mason the shoe,

dont get along. The last time lou stayed there and I let him out to have the run of the house, he just posted up outside the room where the ke-ke-keeities were, just incase they got out and they had to throw down to the cute furry death, like so:

mortal combat!

    second, check out mine and lou's new frannkenstein's monster-esque headless file server.

It's a conglomeration of neglected computers, pieces of computers, and a veritable smorgasbord of 2 external hard drives.

It runs through matt's old laptop which has a broken screen, which is fine cause we just run it in

clamshell mode!

     Then via computer magic, 1.25 TB (which stands for 'terabytes', which in turn stands for 'thats a trillion gosh darn bytes which is a lot, what an age we live in...) of music and movies and pictures
and every game ever made for DOS including:

'mario teaches typing' 

and 'putt-putt and fatty bear's activity pack') 

and good stuff like that, is served al-a-carte to me and lou and our computers. It's also available to the dear readers if they do the torrent dance like me and lou and our computers.

whats the point of having more random unnecessary files than you could ever in a million years consume with your eyes and ears, if they can't be served up fresh to you wirelessly at a respectable 108 Mbps.



    a rare thirdly(!) my very dear readers, this is the hit counter you all know and love at 4:46PM on thursday 3/25/10:

     ok, 971 is first of all a prime number, which is dope, and second of all it's very close to being 4 gosh darn digits long. which means that this very post may be the one read by the 1000th reader. GO CHECK! but then come back.

If you're #1000 then you are one order of magnitude better than everyone who has come before to read about lou the cat. Let me know, maybe take a screen shot to show the world, and you can be featured in next weeks blizzle. far out right? I hope it's me.

Best of luck to you team,
(there are actually three more primes between this and 1000 so check yourselves)
best,
just one lou

what have you all been up to, I've been waiting patiently dear readers & lou the cat in the hat strikes back, next friday.

    I thought it was your turn to write a post...

    oh, oh really? my bad, and lou's bad too, dear readers!
I have missed you like white misses rice when it's dark out or like a cat misses fresh organic wheatgrass when he has become accustomed to it, and is without.

    this might have to be an epic post. i'll write the post and you can pick up your slack by writing an epic about it.

    I have been told by a very tall william blake-scholar, that it is a difficult genre to break into.

    I overheard this lou-the-fact when i was suffering though a long discussion between blondie and the cat on milton's paradise lost.

boring!

    huddle up team and take a knee.

    the frequency at which lou and I have been blog posts is based on a complex system of nonlinear partial differential equations which takes into account the phases of the moon and the S&P 500, as well as whether lou wakes up and sees his shadow.

which makes alot of sence. but lou thinks it would be best to switch to a more conventional once a week system. so for now on...what day is it? Friday!

    NEW POST EVERY FRIDAY! or else feel free to direct your smack talk to:
   
    loutheperson@louthecat.blogspot.com

    which isn't real but I wish it was.

    I have many pictures of lou, who in the time between this post and the last, has squared the squared circle and hacked into the moon and overthrew a bananna republic and shot a 9 on the back 9 at augusta, and still managed to sleep ~11/12ths of the time.

    I'll get those together for next week (one friday from this friday, today) but until then here's this one:

now i have to erase and rejailbreak my iphone because i bricked it trying to ssh the bios of a playstation 1 onto it.
that breaks iphones so try not to do that.

have a nice week,
all the best,
dear readers,
lou and lou

pop and lock the vote & Bosco Fung-Wu.mp3 (VBR) 197 kbps

First
     vote in that vote thing over on the right, and make your voice heard! I'm almost certain that all the votes are me from different ip adresses. And I know you're out there.
     cause of that hit counter that i l33t hacked onto the bottom of the site. Exercise your rights

to begin,
here are the two cute little kids who i'm babysitting today:

Evan

zoe

     "your photography leaves much to be desired, in the everything catagory."
     "Hush fat-fat-fluffy-space-cat. I know you were at Vogue for 20 years, but I'm an amature."
     "no kidding. Now scratch me in that spot between by front legs that makes me purr like a broken water heater."
     "ok"

     were going to make a sweet fort.

     also lou is super duper sweet with them, and although he could easily succumb to his nature as a lion-ninja hybrid, and munch them up,
     he is patient and lets them pet him, and doesn't bite them when they grab his fur, like bites the heck out of me.
     He knows that they're kindlea and he lets them keep being cute.

to continue,
guess what,

no guess,

guess,

i'm totally seriously you guys.

the stylish mustaches:

that is to say,

MC Skillet:

and DJ Voldemort

Present their new single,

The First Track off their new EP, 'Pass the Knishes EP',

Bosco Fung-Wu.mp3

     The EP is going to be released one track at a time
(only one so far), but dig this:
     this is the first track in almost three years,
     and the fans have stayed awesome and kept the faith in the meantime.

     there are still over 100 people in the stylish mustaches facebook group.

[join it.]

 

The 'Stach is Back, LtC fans! Lou is super stoked!

lou was Kool Moe-D.

     It is currently only available here to the dear readers, and it's fresh to death. please dig it and share it.

Bosco Fung-Wu.mp3

     Bosco Fung-Wu is someone Patsy knew from the International School of Bangkok when she lived in Bangkok.
     Please comment if you have ever heard a funnier name.

     Also tournament for anyone who has better than abismal skills at photoshop and can make a cover for the EP.

Pat Plank i know you're down like a clown, charlie brown.

     "power to the people, one-love."

     "that's right lou.

     peace-out, and enjoy the hip-hoppery."

the danny mason mix & LTC in the big city 2

First!
A mix for danmasontheperson (and the dear readers of course):

he's the one who isn't loutheperson.

Mixed by DJ danmasonthecat,

He is a mysterious figure but i would like to break the story, that dj danmasonthecat is not one of the denizens of danmasonthecat fandomville, naming himself after their kit-hero, but is indeed astronomicat danmasonthecat himself.

he lives at patsy schiffs house with donaldpinkusthecat and is a very good kitty-cat, yes he is.

he's on my back as i'm writing this at p-diddy/master-p patsy schiff's house.
(note my short haircut ala jake zuehl, complete with utterly butchered sideburn)

anyways here is the gosh darn mixtape not just for danmasontheperson, but for the readers because sharing is caring.

tracklist:
arrange it yourself!
i arranged the songs reverse-alphibetically by genre, then chronologically by year!
make it a diy project. comment below on your creative sort alogrithm for this sweet mix and gain unlimited fame.

go ahead and
download that shizzle.

Next! what is louthecat upto anyways?

he's still at matt schiffs of course!

hanging out with his chicago peeps and hitting the town hard.

 

 

aww...simon is tall and lou is small

linea knizzle is embarasses because we got here to admit that she is crushing on louthecat.
no shame there kinea lniaz! lou has many fans and admirers. just take the every single member of the blogosphere for example.

lou wanted me to remind everyone that he is a very good kitty too.

...yes he is, dear readers, yes he is.
leave a comment, lou reads all his fanmail everyday, and then naps.