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The happy hound




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Originally uploaded by Suffering the Benz.

Gilligan waits impatiently in the truck while I gas up after taking the pack to the lake this morning. It was another incredible, crisp morning with a dusting of snow on the trails. As we walked into the rising sun, thousands of tiny sparkling snow flecks danced around in the wind like a swarm of brilliant insects. The snow must have been blowing up off the ground since there wasn’t a cloud in the sky at the time. The effect was pretty amazing. Maybe I shouldn’t spend so much time gazing into the sun …

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Best in show …

A Portland art gallery celebrated the Westminster Dog Show with its own take on canines, asking artists to do their interpretations of various breeds in what it is calling the Wurstminster Dog Show.

I liked Driscoll Reid’s Newfoundland so much that I purchased it. And I almost bought a really, really strange take on the Maltese by Jason Vivona. When I e-mailed the link to Lara, she responded with a terse: “I don’t want that.” Hmm. Maybe I need to reconsider. It certainly captures the psychedelic nature of Mully the Maltese …

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What the dormouse said

I just finished John Markoff’s “What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry.” It’s been on my list for a while. Overall, it was a great read.

Some of it is a rather dry account of the rise of the personal computer in Silicon Valley. And at times Markoff seems to generalize about the connection between the computer innovators and the counterculture. But there are strong ties in many spots, especially in the way LSD and the counterculture affected the worldview of these folks and their attitudes. It goes a long way to explain the open source movement and some of the collaborative approaches to development that have characterized the rise of the personal computer.

A few interesting notes:

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