Yes, these are images from our house in Hurst, TX, just outside Fort Worth.  Nope, not from Vermont, I promise.

Here’s a miscellaneous collection of knowledge that I accumulated during Calendar year 2008.  I would call them random, but really I have applied some sort of cognitive processing to display only certain ones, so it’s really not a random collection, but rather, miscellaneous. You might have known them already.  Big deal.

• Dogs, especially males, will scratch the ground to leave their scent, which in this case emanates from glands between their toes.
• While logged in to a Windows XP machine using Remote Desktop, ctrl-alt-end (rather than ctrl-alt-del) will invoke the Windows Security dialog, to let you restart, look at task manager, etc.
• Plaxico Burress is a person, not a medication.
• WordPress is cool.
• There’s no such thing as a panther.  Panther is a misnomer for a leopard, cougar or jaguar.
• Fernando Tatis is the only Major League baseball player ever to hit two grand slam home runs in one inning.
• In a group, each dog howls intentionally out of tune with the others so its voice is distinct.
• The movie Fargo wasn’t a portrayal of actual events.  Not even inspired by actual events.  The whole thing was made up.
• The UEFA Champions League is a competition comprised of the best teams (by standings from the previous year) of the “best” leagues of European football (the “best” leagues being determined by a complicated ranking system), with better leagues earning their clubs more spots in the competition than the lesser leagues.

They say everyone in the world has a twin: you know, somewhere in another part of the country, or halfway around the world, there’s someone who bears an uncanny resemblance to you.

Well, I didn’t know it applied to animals, but it apparently does. Consider one of our dogs, The Mighty Throckmorton, a black-and-tan, pointy-eared 65-pound mix who looks like a Doberman-Husky with short hair. Often, he sleeps upside-down, legs in the air:

Throckmorton has a twin. Ginger sent me a photo of Lupus, an Alaskan Husky featured at dogbreedinfo.com:

So there you have it – proof positive that everyone – and every dog – has his twin!