Kepler

July 7, 1991 - May 16, 2001

This is Kepler.

He started small.

Like the universe, he tended to expand.

He was playful.

He was feisty.

But he was always attentive.

Pretty, eh?

Here's a picture of his brilliant, tragic, and all-around bizarre namesake, whose leap of imagination rendered the Copernican system (at the time just another competing cosmological theory) demonstrably true within the mathematics of astrophysics, rather than just another notion attractive in its heresy:

"Vot, Me Vorry?"

One more of the big guy,
on his first Christmas:

He will always be my kitty.