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Dog Bob

Mr. Mully’s brush with death …

While I was on the West Coast for a business trip, our resident yappy dog, Mully, apparently decided to run headlong down the driveway and throw himself in front of a car. Somehow, miraculously, he survived. It’s the first time one of my dogs has been hit by a car. Hope it’s the last.

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Dog Bob

The sound and the fury …

I tried shooting some video that captures the frenzy that is Gilligan when he’s running amok at the lake. Thanks to the wonders of my Mac’s video editing, here’s my first cut. It’s three shots edited together. Pretty cool and easy. I shot it with a Dimage Xg camera in video mode. It’s a Quicktime file, about 1mb.

Now playing: Coyote from the album “The Last Waltz Disc 1” by Band, The

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Books

Meet You in Hell

I just finished Les Standiford’s “Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America.” Great book, particularly in it’s detailed description of the Homestead strike. It was a defining moment in the relationship between the two men.