What My Doppelganger Is Doing….

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From Northern Dwarf: The thought of winning Best in Show however had never really crossed my mind until it happened. It was such a proud moment especially when it was conformed that Ken Ashford, the Himalayan Dwarf’s creator, was the only other breeder in the country to have won BiS at a specialist club show with a Himmy. Within the … Read More

Are You A Psychopath?

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Quote of the day: "Spanning all cultures and eras, roughly one man in every 100 is born a clinical psychopath, as well as one woman in every 300. They are so common that every person reading this sentence almost certainly knows one personally; indeed, a significant number of readers are likely psychopaths themselves." Take this test (and read the accompanying … Read More

Squirrels Are Devious

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Longtime readers of this blog know that I occasionally post about how we underestimate the vile wickedness and violence inherent in the contemporary squirrel.  (See here and here and here and here and here and here). Well, science have discovered another aspect to the clever deceptiveness of these furry rats: Now it turns out that grey squirrels are even more … Read More

The Web’s Largest Webpage

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The largest webpage is 9 quadrillion pixels wide by 9 quadrillion pixels tall.  If you could see it laid out without scroll buttons, it would be 17 billion times the surface are of the Earth. And if you were to repeatedly click (or hold down) the right arrow on the scroll bar, thus moving the image from the left hand … Read More

How To Make A Blog Work

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Reuters: A successful blog "kind of opens the kimono and from a brand point of view lets people know who you are," says Rob Frankel, a Los Angeles-based branding consultant who has advised clients ranging from Re/Max to Honda Motorcycles and Sea World. A promise to my handful of readers: at no point will I ever — ever — appear … Read More

The “New” List Of Blogger Cliches

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From here: The "New" List of Tired Old Clichés: In Which I: In which I suggest that the "in which I" construction has had it’s 15 minutes. Really. In which it was enough. In which it has been beaten to death. In which it is so tiresome, even mocking it is annoying. I must stop this breathless tirade, however, and … Read More

What The Hell Am I Eating?

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I decided to have a healthy lunch today (I need to do this more often), so I went for the salad bar.  I also got me a packet of french dressing to put on it. That’s when I noticed something.  They only had packets of Hellman’s "French-Style Dressing".  Now, they had "Russian Dressing" (no "style" there).  They had "Ranch Dressing" … Read More