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Say hello to “Ella Fitzgerald Adams”:http://www.kyleandkelly.com/photos/ella, so named for her marvelous singing ability. She’s the reason behind the lack of recent posting activity.

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The new puppy is finally here!

What an exciting day for the puppy. She got to go for her first car ride, visit the vet, go to the pet store to pick out a new toy, and go to see her new house. Puppy hasn’t met Alex yet, but I am hoping they will be fast friends.

The puppy really likes it outside, seeing as she has been an outside dog for all her life so far. She follows me around and cries when she can’t see me. She is still a bit unsure of her surroundings but is getting better

We just have one problem. Puppy has no name yet. If anyone has any brilliant ideas, let us know!

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A recent chat with my SOB/MOH (Sister of the Bride/Maid of Honor, AKA sister-in-law, AKA Candie) resulted in a highly entertaining (for me) alternate reality. Geeks, read on. Everyone, just keep moving–this one’s way too geek-ish to even bother.
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It’s baby time around here; not human babies, but canine babies. That’s right, we’re going puppy shopping. Right now we’re looking at chocolate Labradors and pugs. One of the prime considerations is “plays well with bunny.”

Labradors tend to have oral fixations, but they also have soft mouths. They are bread to retreive prey without damaging them. Introduced to Alex at an early age and trained properly, we should be able to acclimate the puppy to Alex without problem. Labradors tend to be good family dogs that live well with other pets; our large backyard and close proximity to popular dog walks will give ample opportunity to exercise.

On the other hand, pugs, despite being one of the ugliest animals ever bread, have wonderful temperment. They do very well with other household pets, though they can get jealous if not enough love is spread around. Very eager to please, care for and exercise, with the only drawback being susceptibility to health problems (and expensive vet bills).

Right now the labs have the upper hand, as we went and visited a liter of chocolate labs today. We’ll be back tomorrow to conduct the “Volhard Puppy Aptitude Test”:http://www.golden-retriever.com/puppy_aptitude_test.htm and see how they come out.

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Since I’m now going through the house, resetting clocks by one hour, I must give a hearty “Hear, hear!” to Zach Wendling’s defense of Standard Time and the Hoosier clock.

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Top 12 Things A Klingon Programmer Would Say

Man I love geek humor. Wonder why?

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After getting a “large chunk of a Wired issue”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/ devoted to them, Google doesn’t seem to be content to rest on their laurels. They’ve “tweaked the UI”:http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/enhancements.html, “borrowed an idea”:http://www.google.com/webalerts from “Google Alerts”:http://www.googlealert.com/ (though no RSS… yet), become “more personal”:http://labs.google.com/personalized and “more local”:http://local.google.com/lochp, and “started to tackle the e-mail problem”:http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html. Phew.

To be sure, there are “dark sides to letting one entity so heavily influence the Internet”:http://www.searchethos.com/power-of-google.html, but man they’re doing a good job.

Oh and I *love* the 20% rule.

written by Kyle