December 17, 2003
From the desk of Jane Galt:Wednesday Dog Blogging
I have a glorious new digital camera, a Minolta DiMAGE g500:
. . . and hence it's time for some dogblogging. Some people, lacking dogs, are reduced to desperate measures like catblogging. We will not discuss them here, except to say that they are more to be pitied than hated. For absent a dog, how could you take pictures like this?
On the couch? Moi? I don't know what you're talking about. I was just standing here, minding my own business, when this couch bumped into my butt.
Nothing like havin' a good dog for a boss!
Great pictures, Megan. But you may want to take pity on we poor dial-up limited dweebs and post this in a lower res, compressed format. It takes forever to load the way it is and on the web the megapixels kind of get lost anyway.
That said, I'll take a dog over a cat any day. What a handsome beast he is. My little 10 pound terrier mix would be snack size for Finnegan!
Yeah, cute dog photos. Sure.. but the real issue, why do you have a turquoise couch? Is that suede? You desperatly need a queer eye for the.. err.. makeover... actually, some redecorating. Just don't get your inspiration from Hildi Santo-Tomas :)
Your dog is unkempt, uncouth, doesn't know his place and lies by omission and obsfucation. Oh Wait! "Moi"? He's (spit) french (spit), my condolences Megan.
Jane,
My dog Bosco would be happy to comp you a copy of his most excellent "Bosco's Foto Trimmer", which you can use to quickly scale down your fotos for posting to the web.
Have your dog drop my dog an e-mail if you're interested:
bosco@componentx.com
Mac or Windows, he's agnostic.
-Brad
Just this once, I'll concede that you've got it right and the catblogger is wrong.
Isn't it teriffic? Don't leave it plugged into the computer, though -- it drains the battery damn fast.
My family's five cats eat dogs for breakfast. No dog is going to upstage them. Cats are meant to rule the world. They are being generous by sharing their homes with us. We merely pay the rent and buy the food. Human beings should know their place in the universe. So must dogs.
Dig the dog pix. We call that upside down thing the happiness dance--never seen it on a couch before.
Holy cow I thought they would never load! 6 megs and 14 megs learn hopw to post pictures on the internet! Please! you could have gotten the same quality with 20 K
"For, absent a dog, how could you take pictures like this?
Uhhhhh...take the pictures without the dog?
I apologize. I'm just learning to use the camera, and I was a little fuzzy this morning, as I'm just getting over the flu. I will downsize them tonight.
Megan,
The pics loaded fine over my dialup this morning.
And I hate to break it to you, but I think your dog is lying. I know your tendency is to believe your dog rather than your couch, but when a couch tells you "I was just sitting here", it's generally the truth.
Technically, the dog is on the blanket and therefore completely innocent of the charges you imply.
My dogs are allowed on the couch, but then, they are little Yorkies. The big one weighs four pounds, the little lady weighs almost three. They would torture your big dog mercilessly. They like to nip at big dogs, then hide. Since they are smaller than your dog's head, they get away with it.
Dog people are just intimidated by cats. Why is that? My cat could take that dog down any day. BRING IT !
Cats. Arrrggghh. I don't understand why anybody would want a pet that required you to kiss its a$$ just to get it to pay attention to you.
By the way....my dog, a Whippet, is a far better "mouser" than any cat who ever lived. Ah, yes...30 lbs. of muscled, sinewy, velvet-grace, joyously rocketing around the yard at Mach-2. The local chipmunks and hares have got NO chance.
Dog is cute, rug is wonderful! Tell me you got it someplace in the US, cheap.
And I like the turquoise couch.
Cute dog :) But a dog comes with associated inconveniences. If you can get him to duplicate the first picture's pose over an open lavatory stool, I'll re-consider your case for ownership. In the meantime, my folks' cat knows how to dig a hole and cover it afterward, which dogs only tend to do with articles of food...
Besides, dog ownership doesn't lend itself to witty computer hardware/accessory reviews, like this one:
http://www.dansdata.com/kitten.htm
Totally offtopic, but I figure this is the best place to attract some attention to the following:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/23/opinion/23KRUG.html
One paragraph in that piece particularly should get some snickers.
Ben, that was hilarious. I thought I had the pertinent paragraph, but then as I read more, I spontaneously let out a loud horse laugh. Enron, anyone?
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