Chopstork

A Dule update for mom and dad, since they don’t facebook.

She still likes her veggies … eating cauliflower here.

She loves being chased by other dogs. But a rake will do. (This is from a month ago so she’s bigger now).

Hampton in the crate with Dule.

She got a stripe of darker short hair down her back that’s spread now so she’s all scraggly looking.

UPDATE:

How much would you pay to fly AJ out for B2B: $25, $50?  Let me know ASAP if you’re in! ***Um, that’s a good question. Let’s see….

The meeting place:

We will meet at the corner of 3rd St. and Howard St. at 8:15 am Sunday to join the “race”. Note this is not the official starting area. Make sure you have a couple cell phone numbers to find people in case you’re late or things don’t go as planned. If you need my number, email me. Alternatively, feel free to come up the night before and spend the night, or come to our place early Sunday and take the MUNI light rail to the race with us. We will leave our place no later than 7:45am to catch a train from the Van Ness Station to the Montgomery Station. See Googe Transit for details and other travel options.

Getting stuff together:

We’ll be fixing up the carts (a milk carton and a breakfast table) starting Saturday at noon at Courtney’s Place in Noe Valley. Maybe we’ll put some food together (aka order take out from Eric’s) Saturday if you wanna come over. Oh, and we’ll need to test and mix up batches of “breakfest juice” and “milk”. Give me a call or shoot me an email if you plan on coming over to help out.

Also:

By the way, bring beer and snacks. Do not bring glass bottles or coolers (won’t fit in the cart).

Damn, they’re getting closer to stealing my idea. “They” is anyone else that knows how to program something. Here’s my idea…

You know those self-guided tours—like Alcatraz—where you carry around a little electroic doohicky, walk around, and it tells you about whatever you’re standing in front of?

If you replace the doohicky with a phone, you could listen to stories anywhere. Now that phones either have GPS or can geolocate (triangulation), knowing where you are is no problem. The “tours” could be produced by anyone. Anyone could upload a story or series of stories online, or by calling in to their account. If you call from the location you’re talking about, it could automatically mark the location, since your phone knows where you are.

“This pizza place is awesome after the bars. I’m wasted. By the way if you need to pee…I found this great secluded alley, behind the yellow trash can you can see from the corner.” The stories could be a little more compelling than that, obviously. It could even be categorized for more touristy stuff vs. every day stuff, by organization, or by topic… You could filter only points of interest left by some historical society, for example.

If you want to go on a walk about through the city, you could open the app on your phone and whenever you’re close to someone’s story/point of interest it would start playing their recording automatically.

So anyway, I just saw this thing called Geograffiti today that does something similar to my idea…or at least half of it. And I thought of this like 2 years ago. Seriously, I need to learn how to program, or find people that’ll work for me for free.

Our friend Lee, who is in the Navy Reserves and serving in Afghanistan right now wrote an article that is published in the Hook.

When the Irish girl on American Idol was singing Without You, I thought it’s even harder for her to pull off because the video for the song was Mariah singing on a stage alone, just like this.

Then I remembered none of the kids watching Idol have ever seen that video. We’re old. Mariah Carey is even older. She’s a theme on American Idol, so she is officially done (if she wasn’t already). Sorry, Rebecca.

…alright fine, here:

Sweet Berry Wine!

Tracer foods.

via Jeff’s Gmail

Aaaand we’re done. Luke has a real job in real software now, so he dorks out full time and can’t use dorking out to dork out, so now he has to take up another dorky hobby. Like ham radio. Which means the back end of Chopstork will disintegrate further into oblivion. I’ve taken up Stupid Fun Cville, and a dog, and let’s face it, my posts have become lame regurgitations of videos that other people found first, with only the occasional original content anyway. Plus it costs money, and I probably owe Luke hundreds of dollars, if he ever decides to collect on my share of the hosting fees. And there’s no telling if anyone cares, based on the measly feedback we get.

Remember when this was a wiki. And then another wiki (the Wikipedia one). And Luke even made a fake blog setup for mediawiki. And then we said wait a minute, why don’t we just use an actual blog. I think it’s worked out pretty well. I bet we lost some posts in the transition. I guess we should archive this thing somehow before we shut it off. If you want the file once I figure out how to do that, let me know.

So anyway, thanks for watching.

Update: April Fools.

Parody of the creepy Big Dog robot from a couple weeks ago. Hilarious! Made by Seedwell.

via the Squid Who Laughs

It’s no lama lama duck, but there are only 3 words to learn:
bader bader mushroom

Once upon a time there was a dog. A dog named Dule.

Dule made a doodie. But the doodie stuck to her booty. She must have eaten some hair. Dule did not notice the doodie stuck on her booty.

Her owner tried to tell her. Dule was busy digging a hole.

Then Dule thought something smelled funny. She looked at her butt, where smelly things usually appear. There was a doodie! This scared Dule!

She ran and ran and ran around the yard. But this doodie was chasing her. She could not get away. She dragged her rear on the grass. But this doodie was stalking her. It would not go away. Her owner said, “I’m not wiping your butt; you better figure it out.” She ran and ran some more.

And finally it let go. And Dule was happy.