thinks to do today: – laundry – dishes (thanks to Ted) – empty garbages – make bread – pack up Walker Papers to send – write (obviously) (yes, it’s just about the world’s most mundane thinks to do list, but the garbages in particular keep slipping my mind, so a list it is.)
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it takes a village
Thanks to everyone who responded to yesterday’s canine sleeper hold question. You gave me exactly what I needed, and I feel all elucidated now. :) On a totally unrelated topic, there’s an experimental green village development going on in County Tipperary. It is, as far as I can tell, a bunch of Commie pinko hippie greenie anarchist (in the dictionary’s “government by consensus” meaning of the word, rather than the popular “dye your hair green and explode shit” sense of it) artsy fartsy types coming together to develop a low-to-no…
research question
I turn to Livejournal, which Knows All, in search of an answer to a research question: Is it possible to put a sleeper hold on a canine? I’m looking at a model of a German Shepherd’s circulatory system, and it looks like the moral equivalent of a cartoid artery is further back in the throat than a human’s is, so I’m wondering if it’s possible to subdue a dog with a sleeper hold without compromising its air passage. Corollary to that, of course, is how long it takes, assuming it’s…
all about art, apparently
An artist friend of mine on Facebook posted lyrics from a Jon Bon Jovi (as opposed to Bon Jovi, and yes, there is a difference) song as his status yesterday. I posted another line from the song, which is really one of those that you probably have to be a fairly dedicated JBJ fan to recognize (it’s “Santa Fe” from the Young Guns II album Blaze of Glory), and Val admired my fanboyishness. *laughs* As it happens, the Blazy of Glory album is one of my favorites in general, and…
updatey updatiness
There are lots of ads on TV for HDTV. As far as I can tell from the ads, HDTV provides you with slow-motion everything. I’m not sure why this is a selling point. :) Let’s see. Myles links to the oldest trees on the planet, which is quite awesome, and reminds me of the glacier photos from low earth orbit photographs also posted recently (weirdly, when I looked at those, I knew without question which were Alaskan glaciers). Jim Hines has been coallating first novels sales data. That’s part one;…