Sep 2009
Dog of the Week: Lucas
Oh, look; we walked a lovely big Akita Inu
teddy bear from Hamleys. More photos here, though you
should also watch this video of an Akita Inu puppy.
(What is Dog of
the Week?)
Content is king (but medium is prince regent)
20 September 2009 @ 21:38 in Life
My wishlist is filled with books I want to buy, but I
don’t want to buy them until I own a Kindle. (I can’t
really articulate why; it just feels that way. Partly
it’s a love of the tech, partly it’s that I’m
becoming increasingly frustrated with the book as a
medium; too bulky, too limited, and too wasteful of
resources all along the manufacture and distribution
process.)
But it’s an odd experience, to deny myself stories and knowledge until a new format arrives. Wonder if anyone ever thought “No, I don’t want to hear the troubadour recount the latest must-hear tale; I want to wait till I can read it in one of these book things. They have so many advantages over the old oral tradition.”
But it’s an odd experience, to deny myself stories and knowledge until a new format arrives. Wonder if anyone ever thought “No, I don’t want to hear the troubadour recount the latest must-hear tale; I want to wait till I can read it in one of these book things. They have so many advantages over the old oral tradition.”
Evil capitalist pigs
20 September 2009 @ 20:41 in Life
I’ve got nothing in the way of evidence to support
the claim – though this post by Jason Kottke
prompted me actually to post this – but
I’ve long thought that if I read a book or
watched a programme that told me that today’s
smart, connected, profit-orientated business
models meant that, like many indigenous peoples,
all parts of a pig, say, were used after its
slaughter*, I wouldn’t be in the least
surprised.
* In this case by many different companies in many different industries, for many different purposes; less direct than the make-a-water-gourd-from-a-bladder approach, but certainly more effective than the in-the-West-we-kill-a-pig-just-for-a-couple-of-chops-and-throw-the-rest-away-and-isn't-it-a-crying-shame mindset that seems to prevail among a few of the more determined crusties.
* In this case by many different companies in many different industries, for many different purposes; less direct than the make-a-water-gourd-from-a-bladder approach, but certainly more effective than the in-the-West-we-kill-a-pig-just-for-a-couple-of-chops-and-throw-the-rest-away-and-isn't-it-a-crying-shame mindset that seems to prevail among a few of the more determined crusties.
Dog of the Week «édition française»: Daisy
Meet Daisy, the dog who lived in the house to which
our little holiday gîte was attached. She's pulling
that rather alarming face because she's in the middle
of masticating one of the many figs that fell from
the tree at the front door. You haven’t lived until
you've seen a Staffie cross chow down on a series of
sticky, slightly fermented figs. Now, you might think
that eating dozens of figs wouldn't be good for a
small dog, and if you did, the spate of mournful
farts she let out in our company would seem to lend
credence to your theory.
And, as always, there are a bunch more photos from France on Flickr. Not terrific shots, I must say; the weather was against me, and, worse, the muse just didn't seem to be with me.
And, as always, there are a bunch more photos from France on Flickr. Not terrific shots, I must say; the weather was against me, and, worse, the muse just didn't seem to be with me.
Dogs of the Week: Monty & Jess
Ma and Pa Phin came to visit a couple of weekends ago, and we went up ensemble to walk some dugs. We got Jess (top) and Monty, a couple of very, very sweet Collies. Monty, unless, as above, you were tickling his tummy, was a real ball of energy, and we were all exhausted when we brought them back to the kennels. More pictures on Flickr. (What is Dog of the Week?)
