Cats watching cats watching cats...

September 21, 2004 2:14 AM

Like cats? Like infinity? You'll love the Infinite Cat project.
posted by triv (19 comments total)

...watching cats that watch the cats go by.
Eye to eye.
They solemnly to make the scene.
They're double posting to watch cats by.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 2:22 AM on September 21, 2004

They solemnly convene to make the scene.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 2:24 AM on September 21, 2004

I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinfinity, or why.
posted by vbfg at 2:25 AM on September 21, 2004

This is like a quadruple posting, or worse, isn't it?
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 2:30 AM on September 21, 2004

you'd think that by searching various phrases involving the url of infinitecat and infinitecat.com, i'd avoid a double post.

and i used google and mefi searches too. dammit.
posted by triv at 2:31 AM on September 21, 2004

The only way to avoid double-posting is either:
1) type in all related phrases into Google, including the cat's grandmother's maiden name
2) reading and memorising every thread that appears on blue.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 2:35 AM on September 21, 2004

The only ways ICAN'TTYPE
posted by Pretty_Generic at 2:36 AM on September 21, 2004

wow, i missed this everytime, this is the best website on the intarnet.
posted by Satapher at 3:23 AM on September 21, 2004

This would only be an infinite project if the original cat (Frankie) was pictured looking at the latest cat, wouldn't it?? Otherwise it's a sequential cat project, isn't it?? I am waiting for Schrödinger to send in his picture(s).
posted by DrDoberman at 4:36 AM on September 21, 2004

So this is why they invented the internet!

Excellent.

Maybe we can run our own project here: where someone snarks or gripes about something someone posted and then someone snarks about that bitching, etc, etc...
posted by Blue Stone at 6:43 AM on September 21, 2004

A sequence can still be infinite - such as the set of natural numbers, for example.

Nice site. Seen it, but a nice site anyway.
posted by salmacis at 7:38 AM on September 21, 2004

Not if you're a constructivist mathematician, it can't. Or a midget.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 7:41 AM on September 21, 2004

Somehow I missed this on previous posts. Laughed out loud - this is true art.
posted by Tubes at 8:04 AM on September 21, 2004

Absolutely fancatsic.
posted by grrarrgh00 at 8:17 AM on September 21, 2004

::smacks grrarrgh00::

awesome site. i didn't catch it before, cause i'm a pussy who doesn't read every link (i've barely scratched the surface of mefi), but meow that I have, I blarghy blarghy blarghy


I EAT TAPES
posted by lazaruslong at 9:49 AM on September 21, 2004

maybe a couple of them can bang out the script to A Winter's Tail.
posted by pokeydonut at 11:13 AM on September 21, 2004

Of course, the web creator had to interject politics into his project.
posted by ParisParamus at 11:31 AM on September 21, 2004

Thanks, PurrrrrrrisPurrrrramus - I hadn't noticed, but thanks to you, he made a few sales. And my American partner got a laugh and decided to throw $50 to Kerry/Edwards.

/rubs up against PP's leg.
posted by stonerose at 6:33 PM on September 21, 2004

A sequence can still be infinite - such as the set of natural numbers, for example.

For something to be infinite it has to be without beginning or end; hence the symbol of an 8 on it's side showing an endless, beginningless situation. A sequence of numbers has a definite starting point, rendering it finite.

If Frankie were to be shown looking at the last cat, then the loop of images would be (sorta) infinite.
posted by DrDoberman at 1:18 AM on September 22, 2004