http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ babble. and babble. oh, and some babble. en Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:12:28 +0000 http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=263#post-437 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:30:09 +0000 kirabug 437@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/08/forget-boxhab-t.html">Cute Overload! :)</a>. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=262#post-436 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:32:46 +0000 kirabug 436@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p><div align="center"><img src="/graphics/comic/strips/posthumouslysm.png" alt="zombie pedro is pitching?" /></div> </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=261#post-435 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:30:24 +0000 kirabug 435@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Fark pointed out this slideshow of <a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1048763/Worst-Captchas-of-All-Time"><br /> the worst captchas of all time</a>, which I think illustrates quite well why I don't use 'em on this site. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=260#post-434 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:41:44 +0000 kirabug 434@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>I updated the <a href="/internet-yard-sale/">Internet Yard Sale</a> with a bunch of VHS movies that Nighthawk and I are never going to watch again because we got rid of the VCR. I can't in good conscience sell VHS movies because who the hell would pay money for them when DVDs are where it's at? So instead, here's the deal -- you want one, just email me at kirabug at kirabug dot com and give me your address (so I can estimate shipping costs). I'll email you back with whether it's still available and my Paypal email address. You want more than one? No freakin' problem -- hell, I'll mail them all to you if you'll pay for shipping. </p> <p>I'll probably be adding some other junk to that page throughout the next few weeks or so, so keep an eye on the page ;) </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=253#post-433 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:27:10 +0000 kirabug 433@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Chance's name is from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112182/">Strange Luck</a>, and Kaylee is (obviously) from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3687815424/tt0303461">Firefly</a>. </p> <p>I named Chance after Nighthawk told me what he was naming Kaylee. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=259#post-432 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:03:24 +0000 kirabug 432@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>I created two Twitter feeds for the puppies -- @chancedog and @kayleedog -- so I can express their personalities without clogging this site. </p> <p>I have a backlog of links I want to link to that I probably won't get a chance to look at so go google "infinite blood supply" and somewhere in the news you should see an article on stem cells that's pretty damn cool. I like it because it makes me feel a little less guilty that every time I've wanted to do the blood drives at work this year I've been coming down with something. </p> <p>Can't remember the other big article I'd wanted to post. If you go read the last 7 days of fark headlines you'll see it somewhere though. Good luck. </p> <p>Can barely keep my eyes open. Comic is done and all is right with the world. Time to sleep. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=258#post-431 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:12:46 +0000 kirabug 431@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p><div align="center"><img src="/graphics/comic/strips/upthenosesm.png" alt="could be worse. It could be alive." /> </div> </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=257#post-430 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:54:00 +0000 kirabug 430@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20080526.html">I have totally been there.</a>. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=253#post-429 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:00:34 +0000 jzimbert 429@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Did you ever explain where the names came from? I have my suspicions about Kaylee, but I can't remember if you told us. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=256#post-428 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:02:53 +0000 mark 428@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was, in his own words, a "flipped-out freak". He was a drug user, and quite probably a paranoid schizophrenic, although he was never formally diagnosed, as far as I know. You need to know this upfront, should you choose to read any of his works, as they are themes that appear throughout most of them. Many people are familiar with his work, whether they know it or not, as the films Total Racall, A Scanner Darkly, Blade Runner, and Minority Report are all based on his work. The main question constantly revisted in his works is "What is real/reality?" or in insome cases "What is true/truth?" For the most part, his works don't resolve that question, and leave it up to the reader to make the ultimate decision. What is interesting is that while most stories of this type only deal with two "realities", Dick's stories will often deal with three or more. Most of his work is set in either a dystopian future or a dystopian alternate timeline, so if you don't enjoy a major mindtrip in a dystopian world where everyone really is out to get you, you probably won't like his work.</p> <p>I'd generally start with "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" as it is probably the most accessible of his works, as most scifi fans are at least familiar with the basic outline of "Blade Runner". The book differs somewhat from the movie, but knowing the movie at least makes the story accessible. The key question is "What makes a person real?" and examines the persecution of androids who want to be "real" by the human society that kills any android pretending to be human. The androids are seen as things, as possessions, or appliances, even though they tend to be more likeable than the human characters in many cases. It examines what makes us human, and on the surface assumes that humans posess emotions such as love and empathy, while androids do not.This idea is challenges throughout, and it is up to the reader to decide which is more "real." There are also some major drug use references, alternate religions, and a third reality involving both of the above, which seem to be tangential to the overall plot, but may not be.</p> <p>" A Scanner Darkly" on the surface is the story of an undercover police officer in a dystopian world in which a a highly addictive drug is sytematically wiping out any semblance of a normal society. The protagonist is sent to monitor a group of drug users and dealers in an attempt to reach the source of the drug itself. In so doing, though, he becomes addicted to the drug himself, and must concurrently hide his drug use from the police while hiding his police identity from his drug user friends. He actually begins not knowing which identity is his, and ends up spying on himself. In the end, the reader wonders whether either identity is "real." Is the police officer pretending to be a drug user, or is the drug user merely imagining that he is a police officer? Is either identity real? Are both? The clincher comes when a third identity is introduced, and the reader finds out that there is yet another "reality".</p> <p>"Ubik" is probably the key work that examines these issues of reality. It takes place in what seems to be a surprisingly positive future for Dick, in which technology has advanced us to regular travel to Moon colonies, and psionic capabilities are present throughout society. Technology has even managed to preserve people beyond death in a form of cryonic suspension in which they can somewhat experience thought and emotion, while being able to communicate with each other and the "living" world. After a member of one group of protagonists dies in an explosion, the rest place him in this "half-life." Immediately following this event though, they begin to notice a number of unexplainable events and objects and historical events appear to be changing around them. There is something decidedly wrong with the world, and they discover that only "Ubik" can set things straight. Or is it there is actually something wrong with them? Again the concept of "What is real?" is interwoven throughout the book, and while two distinct relaities are defined, there is again a third explanation introduced that leaves the reader wondering if any of the events of the story actually take place as described.</p> <p>Well, usually I'd do a better job of this, but it's late, and trying to explain Dick's work is like trying to understand it. It's actually all very Zen when I think about it, which may be why I like it. The concept of "The Matrix", "The Thirteenth Floor", "eXistenZ", or even "Dark City" are mostly child's play when compared to Dick's work, but they explore some of the same ideas. If you liked the latter two or three in paticular, you may like the above works by Philip K. Dick.</p> <p>If you do, then you can tackle things like VALIS, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, all of which tackle the same fundamental questions of "What is real?", but in much more complicated ways.</p> <p>VALIS asks the questions "Who/What is God?" and "Who/what am I?"</p> <p>Flow My Tears... is a parallel Universe story that asks "Am I who I think I am?" and "Do I exist?"</p> <p>The Three Stigmata...is probably Dick's strangest work , in my opinion. and features several layers of reality and unreality, mixed up with science, technology, entertainment, drug use, and religion. It asks questions such as "Does God walk among Us?" "Does Satan?" "Is either one real?" "Are they one and the same?" "Can man become God, or is man doomed to become Satan?" I don't think I've wrapped my head around this one yet, to be honest...VALIS is hard enough, but this one is harder. </p> <p>Dick himself said of this book: "I have read [3 Stigmata] and have the distinct impression that it was an extraordinary book -- so extraordinary that it may have no peer. It may be a unique book in the history of writing --nothing was ever done like this. And then I've read it over and thought it was completely crazy, just insane; not about insanity, it is insanity. God, it's a weird book."</p> <p> Well, that's about it. Maybe I'll be more coherent when I'm awake, but the lack of cohesion to this post may actually be very "Dickian" when I think about it. Which I'm not going to. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=7#post-427 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:48:41 +0000 mark 427@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>I'll get around to it eventually:)</p> <p>Just wanted to get a consolidated list together. In all jhonesty, it seems kind of silly to me to start an author thread for some of these, when the author is only known for one or two things, and that's some of th best stuff on my list, in my opinion.</p> <p>I'd almost rather see genre threads than author threads, but hey, I don't run the place, the bug does :) </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=255#post-426 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:34:25 +0000 kirabug 426@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Wow, they fixed it! That *is* an unusual event! </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=255#post-425 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:54:02 +0000 jzimbert 425@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Here's Yahoo.com around 10:30 EST on Thursday.<br /> <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2784420832_ba758214be_o.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2784420832_ba758214be_o.jpg</a><br /> At the bottom: "Insurance gap forcing some elderly to taking medication".</p> <p>Here's the story itself. Oh, I see what they were going for now.<br /> <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/2783569645_7d96252f8a_o.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/2783569645_7d96252f8a_o.jpg</a></p> <p>Twenty-five minutes later...<br /> <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3132/2784444148_1dffd8ed9e_o.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3132/2784444148_1dffd8ed9e_o.jpg</a><br /> Hey, they fixed it! </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=7#post-424 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:45:17 +0000 peri_renna 424@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>These are good candidates, mark - any you'd like to start a thread for? :) </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=7#post-423 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:38:31 +0000 mark 423@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Of those on the original list, I’ve read:</p> <p>2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien<br /> 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (probably liked it more than I should)<br /> 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee<br /> 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell<br /> 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien<br /> 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (HATED it with a burning passion that defies description)<br /> 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald<br /> 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (along with the rest of the series)<br /> 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (HATED this as well)<br /> 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame<br /> 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis<br /> 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden<br /> 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell<br /> 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood<br /> 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding<br /> 52 Dune - Frank Herbert (own that too)<br /> 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley<br /> 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck<br /> 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville<br /> 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker<br /> 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath<br /> 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens<br /> 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell<br /> 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White<br /> 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (in French, even!)<br /> 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare<br /> 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl</p> <p>With the exception of the two I HATED, despite their supposed relevance to American history, I found value in all of the above.</p> <p>Of those on the list, I’ve read part of:</p> <p>6 The Bible (actually I’ve read quite a bit of it, but I doubt I’ll ever read the whole thing beginning to end)<br /> 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens<br /> 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott<br /> 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I’ve read all of Hamlet, Othello, Romeo &#38; Juliet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, &#38; The Taming of the Shrew, and parts of many of the rest)<br /> 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger<br /> 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll<br /> 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens<br /> 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (I fully intend to finish these someday)<br /> 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens<br /> 75 Ulysses - James Joyce<br /> 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<br /> 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams<br /> 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo</p> <p>Most of these I just couldn’t get into at the time, and although I’d like to go back and finish some of them, I kind of doubt I will.</p> <p>Most of the rest on the list I just have no interest in, or don’t know enough about to form an opinion.</p> <p>I do find that a lot of the so-called “classics” hold less and less relevance today, especially to a modern white male. There are writers today who are just as talented in my opinion, and the lessons of the classics, both literary and otherwise, can be found in a plethora of other books as well.</p> <p>Of those mentioned by others, I have read most of those below, and concur wholeheartedly that they should be included:</p> <p>Anything by Ray Bradbury (notably Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles, and Dandelion Wine)<br /> Anything by Edgar Allen Poe (notably The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Py of Nantucket, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Murders in the Rue Morgue)<br /> Anything by Orson Scott Card (notably the *Ender’s Game series, the Ender’s Shadow series, and the *Seventh Son series)<br /> The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer<br /> The Complete Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm<br /> Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand<br /> 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke<br /> Dark Tower series by Stephen King (and anything related, but the core books are required reading people!)<br /> The Divine Comedy by Dante<br /> Anything by H.G. Wells (notably The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds)</p> <p>Now, the fun part, here’s MY list of stuff that hasn’t been mentioned :) (in absolutely no particular order)</p> <p>1. Scifi: Anything by Philip K. Dick, including but not limited to: The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, VALIS, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, A Scanner Darkly, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</p> <p>2. Scifi: The Otherland Series by Tad Williams: an interesting look at where the interweb might one day take us, blended with some nice satire</p> <p>3. Fantasy: A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin: so far it blows away anything else. Makes Jordan’s Wheel of Time and Goodkind’s Sword of Truth look like they’re written by children, and I LIKE both of those series. Not classical fantasy per se, but great nonetheless. </p> <p>(Rant: The Wheel of Time starts out phenomenally, but peters out. There is actually one 700 page book later in the series in which NOTHING HAPPENS. Seriously. Every character is in exactly the same place doing exactly the same thing at the end of the book that they are in the beginning. I hate to say it, but Jordan dying, while a terrible loss, may actually have been good for the series, although that remains to be seen. End Rant.)</p> <p>4. Fantasy: The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake: Again not classical fantasy, and a bit pretentious at times, but the sheer scope of what Peake was trying to accomplish makes them worth reading. It’s a shame he died before completing them.</p> <p>5. Play: The Zoo Story by Edward Albee: If you haven’t read it do so. NOW!!</p> <p>6. Play: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett: ridiculously open to interpretation, but that’s what makes it good.</p> <p>7. Play: The Glass Menagerie by Tenesee Williams: his best work, in my opinion</p> <p>8. Play: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe</p> <p>9. Graphic Novel: Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons: one of the best works of modern literature available often ignored because it’s “just a comic book”.</p> <p>10. Graphic Novel: Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. See comments about Watchmen above.</p> <p>11. Asian philosophy: The I Ching</p> <p>12. Asian Philosophy: Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu</p> <p>13. Asian Philosophy/ Strategy: The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Soho</p> <p>14. Strategy: The Art of War by Sun Tzu</p> <p>15. Strategy: A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi</p> <p>16. Chinese Lit: Water Margin by Shi Nai’an and Luo Guanzhong</p> <p>17. Chinese Lit: Romance of The Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong</p> <p>18. English Lit: The Canturbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer</p> <p>19. Children’s Lit: The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander: my first intro to fantasy, and it still hold up as an adult</p> <p>20. Children’s Lit: The “Time” books by Madeline L’Engle: show that religion, sci-fi, and fantasy can be blended without one apologizing for the other</p> <p>21. Young Children’s Lit: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. One of the most poignant looks at life I’ve ever read, even to this day.</p> <p>22. Scifi: the Robot Novels, by Issac Asimov</p> <p>23. Scifi: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov</p> <p>24. Fantasy: The Word &#38; Void series by Terry Brooks: better than the Shannara series by far, although he has brought them together now.</p> <p>25. Fantasy? The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka – didn’t much like this one when I was younger, but re-read it recently and actually quite enjoyed it. Not sure why, as it is terribly depressing.</p> <p>26. Scifi: Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle: nothing at all like the movie, and quite a good read. </p> <p>Well, that’s all I can think of at the moment. No doubt some of this doesn’t belong here, but I really think most of it does. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=252#post-422 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:59:03 +0000 kirabug 422@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Fixed - well, sort of. I pulled the embedded presentation since it wasn't working for everyone. That'll teach me to get all web 2.0 about stuff ;) </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=252#post-421 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:01:25 +0000 plantnerd 421@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>wonky link at the top, fyi. bottom one works. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=254#post-420 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:39:10 +0000 kirabug 420@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.websnark.com/archives/2008/08/a_brief_note_re.html">A reminder of what a famous poem (or two) really says.</a></p> <p>I love Websnark because Eric write this type of post, as much or more than I love his posts on webcomics. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=253#post-419 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:30:07 +0000 kirabug 419@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://web.me.com/kirabug/kirabugs_photo_files/Kaylees_Albums/Kaylees_Albums.html">Kaylee's photo album collection</a> finally has some photos in it. I also added <a href="http://web.me.com/kirabug/kirabugs_photo_files/Chances_Albums/Pages/Being_neutered_really_ruins_your_week.html">some photos from last week</a> for Chance. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=252#post-418 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:29:55 +0000 kirabug 418@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Someone at work sent me this one - it's worth the read.</p> <p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue/happiness-as-your-business-model-414463">Happiness as Your Business Model</a>.</p> <p><span class="small">*edited to take out the embedded code that doesn't work worth a damn on IE. frackin' crap browser.</span> </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=251#post-417 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:29:46 +0000 kirabug 417@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://docholdsfourth.blogspot.com/2008/07/questions-to-ask-for-any-ux-project.html">Doc Holds Fourth: Questions to ask for any UX project</a> was posted to one of the information architecture mailing lists I'm on. If more folks thought about these things before even building a website, the web would be a much nicer place to be. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=250#post-414 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:10:57 +0000 kirabug 414@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Snopes made it up, huh? </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=250#post-413 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:24:55 +0000 jzimbert 413@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Wow. I can't believe people are still reprinting that story snopes.com made up about "Sing a Song of Sixpence". </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=250#post-412 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:56:43 +0000 kirabug 412@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1045841/Why-does-weasel-pop---secret-meaning-best-loved-nursery-rhymes.html">Why does the weasel go pop? - the secret meaning of our best-loved nursery rhymes</a>. is an awesome look at some of the more popular nursery rhymes. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=249#post-411 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:42:24 +0000 greymutt 411@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>She's so fuzzy!!! Congrats </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=249#post-410 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:35:57 +0000 mandine728 410@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>awwwww :) she's so cute! now you will have your hands full :) </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=249#post-409 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:34:20 +0000 kirabug 409@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Ok I lied. Here's Kaylee on the sofa and Chance in my lap. </p> <p><a href="http://www.kirabug.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/p-640-480-9aa4aa0e-bfa5-46b8-996b-1749c5d813ae.jpeg"><img src="http://www.kirabug.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/p-640-480-9aa4aa0e-bfa5-46b8-996b-1749c5d813ae.jpeg" alt="" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-364" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.kirabug.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/p-640-480-1e5064d9-cec1-4e31-9781-863e0fc43611.jpeg"><img src="http://www.kirabug.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/p-640-480-1e5064d9-cec1-4e31-9781-863e0fc43611.jpeg" alt="" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-364" /></a></p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=248#post-408 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:29:52 +0000 kirabug 408@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Kaylee's flight went very well and we were all home together by 11:00, which is pretty good time considering the traffic. </p> <p>She and Chance are rapidly working out their differences. He's easily the more dominant at the moment, being twice Kaylee's size, but she doesn't take a significant amount of crap from him either, so we'll see who stays on top. </p> <p>Chance is the one having a rough day. First Kaylee came home and invaded his turf, then he threw up on the lawn a few times. Then we tried to introduce him to one of the yorkies that our neighbor owns and Puddin bit Chance almost as soon as they went nose to nose. </p> <p>Chance is fine physically. Emotionally I think he's exhausted. Right now I have him draped across my lap and Kaylee sleeping on the arm of the sofa a few inches away. </p> <p>I'll post some better pics of the pack later, but right now I think I'll just stay here and be mom. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=247#post-407 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:27:30 +0000 jamie 407@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>so - how's the puppy? I remember when we picked up donald, we had to go down to bear, delaware to get him. He was 10 months old, but it was still a long, worrisome ride. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=247#post-406 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:19:12 +0000 kirabug 406@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Kaylee will be on a plane to Philadelphia tomorrow morning, and we pick her up at Cargo City around 9:00 am. With any luck, the next post (of any valuable length, anyway) will be replete with puppy pictures. </p> <p>I'm nervous about this one, much more than with Chance. I've never flown a dog anywhere, nor driven one home such a long distance. Kaylee's breeder doesn't provide nearly as much communication as Chance's, so I don't even really know what my baby looks like. But she'll be home soon..... </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=246#post-405 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:19:51 +0000 peri_renna 405@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>That is seriously awesome. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=246#post-404 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:02:03 +0000 kirabug 404@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>For you science geeks out there, here's an article on <a href="http://worldwideintertubes.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/games-as-production/">using games to solve real-world problems</a> which links to a protein-folding game. </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=245#post-403 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:11:37 +0000 peri_renna 403@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p>Cool! </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=245#post-402 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:09:29 +0000 kirabug 402@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.dipity.com/user/tatercakes/timeline/Internet_Memes?yarly">Internet Memes</a> in a handy timeline format! </p> http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=244#post-401 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:17:52 +0000 kirabug 401@http://www.kirabug.com/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://noisebetweenstations.com/personal/weblogs/?p=2214">Two Things Design Experts Do That Novices Don’t</a> are two things I need to learn to do. </p>