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Snow Day – February 11, 2010

NeilMeister — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:08:44 +0000

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

Not-Random knowledge accumulated in 2008

NeilMeister — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:19:08 +0000

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.

Every Dog has his Twin

NeilMeister — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:53:33 +0000

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!