kirabug’s idea files

Cracks me up.

These photos look like crap because my original revision iPhone has a lot of trouble capturing these new high-energy puppies they’re producing these days.

The top left and the bottom are taken at 9pm a few days ago after a looong walk around our complex. The top right was taken this afternoon after romping with my sister a while.

Some highlights:

• He is terrified of french fries, but will eat leaves, sticks, and bugs. Nature boy!
• We’ve spent a lot of time this week barking at the dog that lives in the shiny black dishwasher, and occasionally at the dog that lives in the stove. Dishwasher Dog even gets scratched at, and one day I caught Chance trying to peer around the edge of the door to see Dishwasher Dog better.
• The bad news is that he’s escaped from the kitchen twice this week. The good news is that when he has the run of the house, he’s making a good effort at returning to the kitchen (where the pee pads and litter box are) when he needs to go.
• My nose didn’t get bit once this week, which is definitely an improvement.
• We’re making good progress on “sit” and “come here” and “come on” (or as everyone else knows them, sit, come, and heel”), and he’s starting to get an inking of what “wait” (everyone else’s “stay”) means. And he definitely understands that “Hey!” is “stop what you’re doing and pay attention to Mom”.

I’m thinking of doing puppy updates every Thursday, so that a) I have a chance to get a few decent pictures throughout the week, b) you have something visual to look forward to and c) I can track his age (since he was born on a Thursday). No guarantees yet, especially considering how busy this week is supposed to be, but that’s the plan.

Here’s a movie, to make up for it.

And yes, at some point, I’ll learn how to embed this crap correctly here instead.

Mmmm, sauteed Rubik’s Cube.

This time, he’s interrupting the big game.

I’m thinking maybe Chance is part cat too.

Mmmm, inspiration. I need to stop sucking so much and get some content rolling or I’m never going to get better. Thx to Hawk at Applegeeks for this one.

Not here-here. Not here either, but they’ve got all the dirt. Like this awesome teaser vid:

Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

Cannot. Wait.

Carlin’s the kind of guy I disagreed with in at least 2/3rds of all the cases and statements he spewed during a stand-up routine. It might’ve been more than 2/3rds but I was laughing so hard at the bits I disagreed with that I couldn’t hear the rest.

Outside of paternal influence, he was probably the first time I’d heard filthy language, and he was almost assuredly — with Dennis Leary — one of the first times I’d heard “fuck” used as a noun, verb, exclamatory, etc. etc. by someone who obviously had a brain in their head and wasn’t just cursing to piss someone off.

Daring Fireball linked out to two of his awesome routines. Here’s Modern Man, which is surprisingly clean but I’m not guaranteeing it won’t get you in trouble at work:

And here’s a link to Seven Words you can’t say on television which is behind a link because IT’S ABSOLUTELY NOT WORK SAFE.

Here’s hoping that wherever you are, George, you’ve got a comfy chair and a good view — and that we’re all able to prove you wrong.