In three years, Herman really hasn’t gotten along with any dogs, let alone share a couch with two of them. Sure, there was plenty of drama, with lots of panting and whimpering and a little bit of rumbling. But that he could eventually sit fur to fur with one dog and three feet from another is kinda miraculous. Thanks to D & R for their patience in allowing Herman and his social ineptitude (and me) into their home.
My sister’s dog Truman
(#13 in that Bay Area series; also helps counter the overall GQ* of the blog)
* gloominess quotient
Not sure what good this will do. Perhaps someone with a wider-reaching site could post? If there were a missing child, would I post about it? Probably not Maybe. But don’t hold that against Gizmo.
I was designating someone’s photo on Flickr as a “favorite” recently, and I thought that perhaps I could come up with a quick list of my Top 10 Flickr Photos of 2007. I figured it would simple enough, that I’d just need to go through whatever photos I had marked a favorite in the past year.
I encountered a few obstacles to this being a quick task. First, my Flickr activity dropped off considerably in 2007 after a few months of Flickr addition in 2006. I didn’t mark that many photos as favorites in 2007. Second, such a list ought to only include photos taken in 2007. Many photos I have favorited even recently are not recent photos. Flickr, for all its inventiveness, does not have a function to search photo sets by date range. Finally, a review of what I had favorited only produced about five photos. So then I went to my contact list and picked out a few more photos. But then I couldn’t even come up with ten, particularly because I didn’t want to select more than one per contact, and I don’t have so many contacts.
Low and behold, every photo on my list is pet photo. How very original of me. I have a great appreciation for photography, but I don’t spend much time browsing Flickr for photos of artistic merit. This is not to say that my selections are lacking, artistically. It’s just not a particularly diverse set, when one considers the nearly infinite pool I could’ve chosen from. Maybe I’ll start subscribing to some photo feeds so I can appreciate more photos in 2008.
These are in no particular order.
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No comment on the “owner” of this dog. My blood pressure is high enough as it is.
(from a local list-serv)
We picked up a dog on 9th St. Sunday night after his owner dumped him out of the car and drove off, leaving him chasing behind. We picked him up, cut the rope collar out of his fur, and brought him home. Unfortunately, we already have 2 dogs, 2 cats, a newborn baby, and a small house and can’t keep him, so we’re looking to get him somewhere warm and friendly ASAP. We estimate that he’s 1-2 years old. A black & tan with brendle accents that might include border collie, shepherd/husky, and boxer? He behaves well in the car and on a leash and seems to have a good overall temperament. We’d rather not take him to the shelter if we can find a loving home fast enough. If you’ve got room for a dog, please get in touch soon.CONTACT: dhfoster@duke.edu or 919.286.9985
…because this blog needs some completely mindless content. THIS is what the internet is all about. (Well, this, and what Trekkie Monster says…)
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Rarely, if ever, have I Flickr-blogged someone else’s photo. And it’s been many months since my Flickr addiction subsided. But Bigode is one of my favorite cats on the interwebs, and I think this latest shot is terrific. So, there…
I just was invited to a group for photos with 700+ views, and I ignored it, because I KNOW I don’t have any photos with that many views, not even close (I knew one “game” photo has about 200 views, but my most popular “normal” photos have no more than 50 or so views). But apparently, this I-85 rest stop cat photo has been viewed 1416 times! How? Why? I shall investigate.
EDIT: It looks like someone posted this on a Japanese blog or RSS feed, but obviously no one clicked on it and looked at any of the other I-85 rest stop pics. Strange.
