A portrait of Vasco Da Gama, taken on March 25, 2010. He’s looking right up at the camera with those big eyes and his tan-and-white coat freshly fluffed out. Hard to take a bad picture of this guy.
Our Dog of the Day for 3/29/2012 is Dixie Dee, a six-month-old black Shih Tzu and her owner’s best friend. “Dixie Dee loves to wear clothes. She sleeps in a tiny bed beside my bed so I can stroke her if she gets scared. She is my best friend.” That little bed right beside the…
We picked up a nice Christmas Tree on Black Friday (11/25/2011) from Krueger’s True Value in Neenah, WI (this beloved neighborhood hardware store has since retired and closed — they are truly missed by the Neenah community). We did the same last year. Kruegers has gotten in a ton of very nice trees the past…
Mealtime at our house. The dogs are big fans of their raw diet, and this video catches the boys digging into raw chicken dinner. They take it seriously — a lot of crunching and not much looking up until the bowls are empty. Raw feeding has worked well for them.
If your Shih Tzu has those reddish-brown streaks running down from the inner corners of the eyes, you are in very common company. Tear stains are one of the most asked-about things with this breed. Here is what they actually are, what causes them, and what genuinely helps, one owner to another. What tear stains…
A private photo workbench that runs entirely in your browser: see and strip the hidden data (camera, settings, GPS) in your photos, then resize, convert, crop, redact, and pull color palettes. Nothing is ever uploaded.
Here’s a look inside one of Google’s data centers. I’ve been into computers and the internet for a long time, and this stuff is fascinating to me. The scale and engineering behind these places is hard to believe. The video has a full tour.