The H Is O

Meaning that my dog is in heat. No agility for now. We were dogsitting last week and in was a close one. Saturday evening we left and on Sunday the heat was on. The boys started to show signs of what was to come so it wasn't a total surprise.

Right now we have a better winter than last year. Lots of snow, roads are wet and slippery and temperature is around zero. I've had my share of shoveling the snow and now my back and shoulders ache like hell.

Good news from the tv world. The Lost Room still seems promising after three episodes. And tomorrow I can watch Stanley Kubrick's The Killing. For some reason I watched Miami Ink last night and it was quite interesting. I watched it also when I was dogsitting. My aunt has so many channels and for some odd reason there's nothing interesting on for the most of the time. This time was exceptional since I got to watch SpongeBob SquarePants marathon. It is a good show! Though for some reason I have seen the Karate episode three times. Every time I'm dogsitting that episode is always on. Please!


I too want to live inside a pineapple!

These Two Oddly Look Alike... Part 3

No introduction needed here.

Update on everything

Because I feel like a lazy bastard (this is a non-censored blog, live with it) I will put updates on everything right now. Let's get to it.

Movies:
* I watched last night Kubrick's Paths Of Glory. Nice film although I constantly kept thinking that I've seen it before. Or have I...?
* The Godfather; I can watch this movie over and over again.
* The Great Dictator; My little sister wasn't too pleased with me spoiling all the time. And I wasn't even in the same room, I just heard the soundtrack! (=seen this film too many times)
* Romero's Night Of The Living Dead; Had to show it to my sister. It's a classic and it was about time for her to see it (she's 12).

If you look closely, they are always coming from exactly the same spot as before. This is how you save money.

Dog:
We had a competition at the end of the summer season. My girl and I finished second in the "not-competing officially" class.
Now I'm just waiting for her to "get the heat on" but not too soon. Next weekend I'm going to look after my aunt's dogs and if Helka is on heat she can't come with me (sorry boys).

TV:
The first episode of Lost Room seemed promising. It replaced Dexter and if Lost Room goes downhill, I can watch Farscape, which is one of the best scifi-series ever.

This guy will kick Darth Vader's ass anytime

Thankfully House is still on. But we need more quality shows on tv! All current ones come on Thursday.

Music:
I have found the light! And it's called Phil Collins. I got his cd yesterday and before that I've been listening to Genesis. I have to add this link here which leads us to our next subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HprVBFYP70M

Games:
My love for the Grand Theft Auto-series has been renewed. I've been playing Vice City for a week now and it seems a lot easier now than when I played it through the first time. And I love the city. The colors, the recemblance to Miami and all the references to Miami Vice and Scarface... Yey! My absolute favourite city of the series is Liberty City but it's always nice to go for a holiday in Vice City.

Such a friendly place!

That's it for now folks!

CNN Uses The Word "Beam" Wrong!

This upsets me right now. Watch the video or read transcript:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/cnn-holograms-debut-with_n_141157.html

I read the comments below the story. Surely someone pointed out the incorrect use of the word "beam"? No. All the Star Wars fanatics were there to give praise to the hologram technology that finally brings the R2-D2 projection to real life. Where are the Trekkies?

Here's one. I am a Trekkie and damn proud of it. And I want to correct the usage of the word.

Beaming is a word for transporting physical mass from one location to another. So if you beam my dog from the couch next to me to where ever you are right now, you could actually touch her. This is not possible with a hologram where you get only a 3D image of the dog.

See? The real thing versus the image. There is a big difference.

And I like the original Star Wars trilogy. It's weird that Star Wars fans didn't correct it either...

Live long and prosper!

First Truly Cold Morning, Hooray!

I woke up this morning a bit after 10 am and when I looked out the window there was frost on the ground. Tempeture was one degree below zero (celsius that is, in case someone is wondering) and there was an eerie mist floating around. I have nothing against the mist and certainly nothing against dropping a few degrees under zero. It's been raining so many days that my little doggy-woggy has brought at least a ton of sand inside with her paws.

This is what my dog looks like when it's raining:


I just hope that the rain will stop for now. Snow would be something that my dog would like to have but it would soon melt away and then the ground would be all muddy again. Good thing that our agility practice continues indoors from this week on so no more running in the puddles.

Wil there be snow this winter? Dunno. Last winter was mostly crap. Very little snow and when it finally piled up it melted away almost immediately. The photo on the sidebar where Helka is sitting in the snow was taken on the same day it had snowed. The next day the snow was gone. At least she got one happy day playing with it...