"My dog growls in his sleep – do you think he could have a vitamin B deficiency?" – dog owner, Puyallup, WA.
Calls to Iams Customer Service
(via Pop Culture Junk mail)
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
wardrobe
Go through your wardrobe
...it is hard
to say trousers...
Comments: wardrobe
So did he get the bottoms of his trousers rolled?
Posted by Nabakov at July 1, 2004 12:46 AM
He still dares to eat a peach I dare say.
Posted by boynton at July 1, 2004 11:33 AM
I do roll them. And peaches.
Posted by eeksypeeksy at July 1, 2004 07:08 PM
...it is hard
to say trousers...
Comments: wardrobe
So did he get the bottoms of his trousers rolled?
Posted by Nabakov at July 1, 2004 12:46 AM
He still dares to eat a peach I dare say.
Posted by boynton at July 1, 2004 11:33 AM
I do roll them. And peaches.
Posted by eeksypeeksy at July 1, 2004 07:08 PM
dr carrot
Doctor Carrot The Children's best friend (via I Like)
Wonder if Dr C writes with a pencil like this
The Quack
Carrots depicted in The Fine Arts at the World Carrot Museum
Wonder if Dr C writes with a pencil like this
The Quack
Carrots depicted in The Fine Arts at the World Carrot Museum
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
spoons
Thanks to Barista for sending the link to You, Too, Can Play The Spoons. I clicked.
Spooning
Fancy Nancy Spoons Solo
You should also practice playing while standing straight, sitting down, walking, riding horseback, etc, so that you can perform as the occasion dictates. (ch 3)
You can play the spoons over most of your body - and the body of anyone else that will stand still for you
You should have your spoons nearby at all times (ch 8)
Spooning
Fancy Nancy Spoons Solo
Monday, June 28, 2004
chalk marks
The Hobo's Alphabet
Chalk marks left by Hobos on gateposts to inform others as to what to find within.
Visual Codes via things
Comments: chalk marks
Now that's neat. I dig muchly trivia of that sort.
Posted by Mike Jericho at June 29, 2004 12:07 AM
Where's the swaggies' sign that says:
"Bastards. Burn down the Barn."?
Posted by Nora at June 29, 2004 12:15 AM
Is that a cat? Is this written by hobos or dogs? I can sense Doug's paw-prints somehow...
Posted by Scott Wickstein at June 29, 2004 12:53 AM
Gypsies call the same messages 'patterans'. Hmm -cue for a blog...
Posted by Dick at June 29, 2004 08:41 AM
Muchly same
Unkind Nora. And don't get me started on barns I have known. ;)
I think the next sign looks like it could have been written by a boynton stray dog, Scott. "Kind Woman - tell pitiful tale". Not doug btw. And these days his chalk marks would be more to do with 'Food here - if you sleep' 'You may sleep on couch'. 'Food - you have to listen to a monologue about bastards and barns.'
A great word - and for a blog.
Posted by boynton at June 29, 2004 01:29 PM
There was a micro-techno-lite revival of this a couple of years, "warchalking", white chalk symbols on inner brick and concrete to indicate promixity and access level of the nearest active wi-fi base.
Now wi-fi is widespread, there's no need for it now, which is shame 'cos I like the secret alphabets of cities.
Posted by Nabakov at July 1, 2004 12:55 AM
super hero
I happened to glance out into the dark garden and just caught the outline of Flo's black ears above the window ledge. I've always thought that the black pointy head-set of a blue heeler was like a labrador wearing a super hero mask.
She's on possum watch. Her strike rate averages about one arboreal movement by a possum every half hour if she's lucky.
I found this image by Holly Roberts via a Google Image search for Blue Heeler.
Small Wolf with Forest Holly Roberts
Scary Figure Holly Roberts
Comments: super hero
That's nifty. I love the notion of the primitive within..
Posted by David Tiley at June 28, 2004 10:57 PM
A blue heeler certainly wears the primitive on the sleeve ;)
Posted by boynton at June 29, 2004 01:31 PM
She's on possum watch. Her strike rate averages about one arboreal movement by a possum every half hour if she's lucky.
I found this image by Holly Roberts via a Google Image search for Blue Heeler.
Small Wolf with Forest Holly Roberts
Scary Figure Holly Roberts
Comments: super hero
That's nifty. I love the notion of the primitive within..
Posted by David Tiley at June 28, 2004 10:57 PM
A blue heeler certainly wears the primitive on the sleeve ;)
Posted by boynton at June 29, 2004 01:31 PM
Friday, June 25, 2004
fake tree
European companies are finding ingenious ways to disguise ugly, but necessary, mobile phone antenna masts. Customers can pick everything from trees to crucifixes source
(via unity of multi)
Think I might take the chimney over the fake tree. However realistic a Mastus pseudopinus may look... (for a gallery see articles/plastic tree) there is something disturbing about such camouflaged base stations
...the need for good looking camouflaged base stations around the planet is rising.
We have a tree type solution for every country's need."
For instance, a new blue gum tower tree is specifically being designed for the Australian market. source
When you see this slideshow (before the chainsaw) that was part of an Age series on the journey of an Australian shining gum, the new species of gum seems less good looking.
Comments: fake tree
I can't bear that stuff about trees. I just can't.
Posted by David Tiley at June 28, 2004 11:11 PM
I avoided reading the Age series for the same reason - too heart rending.
Posted by boynton at June 29, 2004 01:32 PM
(via unity of multi)
Think I might take the chimney over the fake tree. However realistic a Mastus pseudopinus may look... (for a gallery see articles/plastic tree) there is something disturbing about such camouflaged base stations
...the need for good looking camouflaged base stations around the planet is rising.
We have a tree type solution for every country's need."
For instance, a new blue gum tower tree is specifically being designed for the Australian market. source
When you see this slideshow (before the chainsaw) that was part of an Age series on the journey of an Australian shining gum, the new species of gum seems less good looking.
Comments: fake tree
I can't bear that stuff about trees. I just can't.
Posted by David Tiley at June 28, 2004 11:11 PM
I avoided reading the Age series for the same reason - too heart rending.
Posted by boynton at June 29, 2004 01:32 PM
Thursday, June 24, 2004
solstices
Reading about summer while our weather declines into winter reminds us of the corporeal geographical reality that seems to diminish in cyberspace.
Our respective solstices mark the antipodes.
The long and the short of it.
So while my thoughts are turning to fondue, I read about a barbeque.
Perhaps those two words will do as shorthand for the two worlds,
the seasonal gap across the hemispheres.
A Weber poem at Grapez
I needed to buy a Weber charcoal grill so what’s a man to do
I have not yet haikued a fondue.
I did read a description that calls it interactive dining at its best.
and this jingrish collection provides the classic text
When all family members are seated around table, dishes are all the more tasteful. If dishes are nice, the square ceiling becomes round..
Or was that a Bob Dylan lyric?
Comments: sosltices
Barbeque to fondue: I like! And it rhymes. The north and south hemispheres. The left and right brains. The yin and yang of cooking. And thanks for the mention.
Posted by Greg at June 25, 2004 01:49 AM
- even if I may have to watch my c's and q's...
(don't know which is the quorrect bbq spelling.)
And I think there is something in this - I was thinking Weber, (without your lyricism) last December. BBQ season.
http://boynton.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/004038.html
Posted by boynton at June 25, 2004 01:11 PM
Our respective solstices mark the antipodes.
The long and the short of it.
So while my thoughts are turning to fondue, I read about a barbeque.
Perhaps those two words will do as shorthand for the two worlds,
the seasonal gap across the hemispheres.
A Weber poem at Grapez
I needed to buy a Weber charcoal grill so what’s a man to do
I have not yet haikued a fondue.
I did read a description that calls it interactive dining at its best.
and this jingrish collection provides the classic text
When all family members are seated around table, dishes are all the more tasteful. If dishes are nice, the square ceiling becomes round..
Or was that a Bob Dylan lyric?
Comments: sosltices
Barbeque to fondue: I like! And it rhymes. The north and south hemispheres. The left and right brains. The yin and yang of cooking. And thanks for the mention.
Posted by Greg at June 25, 2004 01:49 AM
- even if I may have to watch my c's and q's...
(don't know which is the quorrect bbq spelling.)
And I think there is something in this - I was thinking Weber, (without your lyricism) last December. BBQ season.
http://boynton.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/004038.html
Posted by boynton at June 25, 2004 01:11 PM
leaping dogs
Dogfight at Bankstown has some nice images of k9 leisure activities.
Perhaps we should have marked Doug's recent 105 th (dog years) birthday by a scuba dive, jumping out of a plane or a balloon ride at dawn. An idle search for skydiving dogs led to Dogs That Fall Down and its table of Famous Falling dogs that escaped injury
Perhaps we should have marked Doug's recent 105 th (dog years) birthday by a scuba dive, jumping out of a plane or a balloon ride at dawn. An idle search for skydiving dogs led to Dogs That Fall Down and its table of Famous Falling dogs that escaped injury
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
science timeline
Marks in the evolution of western thinking about nature
Despite the title tag 'science timeline,' this is not meant to include all science, that is to say all knowledge, rather just the knowledge which people have accumulated--in the West--about the things over which they have, as yet, little control. This is the 'nature' to which I refer...
(via making light)
Despite the title tag 'science timeline,' this is not meant to include all science, that is to say all knowledge, rather just the knowledge which people have accumulated--in the West--about the things over which they have, as yet, little control. This is the 'nature' to which I refer...
(via making light)
film lists
Movies by Philosophical Theme
(via J walk)
The 2004 Arts & Faith Top100 Spirtually Significant Films
(via Radosh)
Do you know your film dogs?
Comments: film lists
The Arts & Faith site had an interesting selection of films. Theres a few there that I would like to view again, and some that I havn't seen. Surprised to learn that the spirituality refered to was of the christian kind. Personaly I can't see spiritual significance in films like the matrix but then I'm not a christian.
Posted by Andy F at June 22, 2004 07:55 PM
It made more sense to me in chronological view, working backwards from Murnau towards the Matrix.
Alas - only 4 films from the '40's and 34 from the '90's.
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2004 12:12 PM
(via J walk)
The 2004 Arts & Faith Top100 Spirtually Significant Films
(via Radosh)
Do you know your film dogs?
Comments: film lists
The Arts & Faith site had an interesting selection of films. Theres a few there that I would like to view again, and some that I havn't seen. Surprised to learn that the spirituality refered to was of the christian kind. Personaly I can't see spiritual significance in films like the matrix but then I'm not a christian.
Posted by Andy F at June 22, 2004 07:55 PM
It made more sense to me in chronological view, working backwards from Murnau towards the Matrix.
Alas - only 4 films from the '40's and 34 from the '90's.
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2004 12:12 PM
snow walk
Walking in the snow 1910:
Women preparing to go walking in the snow MM 000147
Two women resting on the verandah at Mt. Buffalo chalet. MM 000148
Images from the Museum Victoria Collection. Biggest Family Album Search for 'Snow'
Comments: snow walk
These photos are especially interesting and historically valuable as it seems that within a generation or possibly sooner, the Victoria mountains will cease to receive snow, due to global warming.
Posted by millipede at June 24, 2004 12:58 PM
True.
The 'no snow scenario' was certainly easier to believe before this latest cold snap, which like a 'green drought' can cloud the grim reality.
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2004 01:53 PM
Women preparing to go walking in the snow MM 000147
Two women resting on the verandah at Mt. Buffalo chalet. MM 000148
Images from the Museum Victoria Collection. Biggest Family Album Search for 'Snow'
Comments: snow walk
These photos are especially interesting and historically valuable as it seems that within a generation or possibly sooner, the Victoria mountains will cease to receive snow, due to global warming.
Posted by millipede at June 24, 2004 12:58 PM
True.
The 'no snow scenario' was certainly easier to believe before this latest cold snap, which like a 'green drought' can cloud the grim reality.
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2004 01:53 PM
Monday, June 21, 2004
st bernard
St Bernard Hospice
Legend has it that, because the St Bernard hospice, built in 1884, was only 3.5 metres high, the mailman occasionally fell down the chimney while searching through very heavy snowfall for the building. Unfortunately it was burned down by a summer bushfire in 1939 (source)
Legend has it that, because the St Bernard hospice, built in 1884, was only 3.5 metres high, the mailman occasionally fell down the chimney while searching through very heavy snowfall for the building. Unfortunately it was burned down by a summer bushfire in 1939 (source)
winter
Don't know if we're a day short of the shortest day, but some sort of winter solstice bonfire would have been a boon over the weekend. Winter solstice ping-pong is challenging, as is walking the canines. Bitter.
A skier and dog outside the Mount St Bernard Hospice
Date: 1927
Record Number: MM 004045
Four men with large snowballs
Record Number: MM 006024
A man and a woman holding large snowballs. It is snowing and they are standing in ankle-deep snow.
Date: CIRCA 1925
Record Number: MM 008539
Images from the Museum Victoria Collection. Biggest Family Album Search for 'Snow'
Comments: winter
Whether the shortest day is today or tomorrow, the difference is only a matter of a few short seconds.
Posted by Nora at June 21, 2004 05:52 PM
Of the short seconds, which is the shortest?
Posted by boynton at June 21, 2004 06:34 PM
As celestial mechanics would have it, the 21st was the shortest this year. Yesterday was only 573 minutes from sunrise to sunset, whereas today is significantly longer at 574 minutes. The longest of days in December is 886 minutes by comparison. The degree of variation above and below 720 minutes depends almost entirely upon your latitude: at 0 degrees (equator) all days are 12 hours, by the time you get to approx 67 degrees approx (Artic/Antartic circles) at least one day of 24 hours of sunlight, and one of 24 hours darkness.
Posted by phlip at June 22, 2004 12:00 PM
Thanks Philip.
So 'a few short seconds' were actually sixty.
A minute difference.
Now the pressure's on.
How best to use the extra time? ;)
Posted by boynton at June 22, 2004 02:12 PM
You can pull one more errant weed from the garden, I've found. Nora's likely to be right on it only being a few short seconds. It's just that most daylight calculators round to the nearest minute. I'll try to find you a really precise answer sometime soon...
Posted by phlip at June 23, 2004 09:41 AM
A skier and dog outside the Mount St Bernard Hospice
Date: 1927
Record Number: MM 004045
Four men with large snowballs
Record Number: MM 006024
A man and a woman holding large snowballs. It is snowing and they are standing in ankle-deep snow.
Date: CIRCA 1925
Record Number: MM 008539
Images from the Museum Victoria Collection. Biggest Family Album Search for 'Snow'
Comments: winter
Whether the shortest day is today or tomorrow, the difference is only a matter of a few short seconds.
Posted by Nora at June 21, 2004 05:52 PM
Of the short seconds, which is the shortest?
Posted by boynton at June 21, 2004 06:34 PM
As celestial mechanics would have it, the 21st was the shortest this year. Yesterday was only 573 minutes from sunrise to sunset, whereas today is significantly longer at 574 minutes. The longest of days in December is 886 minutes by comparison. The degree of variation above and below 720 minutes depends almost entirely upon your latitude: at 0 degrees (equator) all days are 12 hours, by the time you get to approx 67 degrees approx (Artic/Antartic circles) at least one day of 24 hours of sunlight, and one of 24 hours darkness.
Posted by phlip at June 22, 2004 12:00 PM
Thanks Philip.
So 'a few short seconds' were actually sixty.
A minute difference.
Now the pressure's on.
How best to use the extra time? ;)
Posted by boynton at June 22, 2004 02:12 PM
You can pull one more errant weed from the garden, I've found. Nora's likely to be right on it only being a few short seconds. It's just that most daylight calculators round to the nearest minute. I'll try to find you a really precise answer sometime soon...
Posted by phlip at June 23, 2004 09:41 AM
Friday, June 18, 2004
arguments
Robert H. Thouless: Thirty-eight dishonest tricks which are commonly used in argument, with the methods of overcoming them
(via Rebecca's Pocket)
To confess my own trickery tendencies:
6) Diversion to another question, to a side issue, or by irrelevant objection
I do like an occasional wander through the left field - off the beaten track. I always hope to find a clincher hiding in the marginalia.
17) Change in the meaning of a term during the course of an argument
Oh well - language is organic.
see also: How to win arguments
Comments: arguments
Guilty as charged on all counts...
Posted by dick jones at June 20, 2004 08:38 AM
Me too...
Was a dishonest tactic to cite only two of my tricks.
It can almost read as a scenario of an argument in 38 stages. The drama really kicking in with 'special pleading"
(39. Daggers.)
Posted by boynton at June 20, 2004 06:25 PM
(via Rebecca's Pocket)
To confess my own trickery tendencies:
6) Diversion to another question, to a side issue, or by irrelevant objection
I do like an occasional wander through the left field - off the beaten track. I always hope to find a clincher hiding in the marginalia.
17) Change in the meaning of a term during the course of an argument
Oh well - language is organic.
see also: How to win arguments
Comments: arguments
Guilty as charged on all counts...
Posted by dick jones at June 20, 2004 08:38 AM
Me too...
Was a dishonest tactic to cite only two of my tricks.
It can almost read as a scenario of an argument in 38 stages. The drama really kicking in with 'special pleading"
(39. Daggers.)
Posted by boynton at June 20, 2004 06:25 PM
early blogging
A b blogger
an A blogger
afternoon in the blogosphere...
Electrical Experimenter at Magazine Art
Magazine Cover Art form the 19th and 20th century
(via Exclamation Mark)
Comments: early blogging
that afternoon in the blogosphere is just sooo apt.
Posted by David Tiley at June 24, 2004 12:38 PM
an A blogger
afternoon in the blogosphere...
Electrical Experimenter at Magazine Art
Magazine Cover Art form the 19th and 20th century
(via Exclamation Mark)
Comments: early blogging
that afternoon in the blogosphere is just sooo apt.
Posted by David Tiley at June 24, 2004 12:38 PM
pompon
Best Giant Formal Cactus Dahlia: Mrs. Parsons 1 Mrs. Waller 2
Best Pompon Dahlia: Mrs. Parsons. Only Entry
This left Morwell the impossible task of making 129 runs in 17 minutes
Morwell Historical Society Advertiser Ads & Articles April 4th - 1946
Best Pompon Dahlia: Mrs. Parsons. Only Entry
This left Morwell the impossible task of making 129 runs in 17 minutes
Morwell Historical Society Advertiser Ads & Articles April 4th - 1946
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