Saturday, September 25, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
it cooled off
Weather is perfect today. Click on screen captures (pictures) to see larger images.
There is a black line to the right of the video. That is a stick. The motor that opens and closes the lens cap on the video camera is broken, so I propped it up with a stick. I need to remove the cap itself: that'll be better. And the editing is a little haphazard. Oh, and the sound and the images are not lined up at some points... strange, but oh well.
There is a black line to the right of the video. That is a stick. The motor that opens and closes the lens cap on the video camera is broken, so I propped it up with a stick. I need to remove the cap itself: that'll be better. And the editing is a little haphazard. Oh, and the sound and the images are not lined up at some points... strange, but oh well.
Also, as you will see, Labor Day Weekend means County Fair up here.
Untitled from glencadia on Vimeo.
Henry got a little nick on his ear. He's fine.
Petie was doing a little growling.
It'll take a while to get the video up and running.
Screen captures today. After the pictures, then the video.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
a proper glencadia blog entry
This is how the blog is supposed to be: a good long video with every dog in it (for sure!) and a nice dog report.
Anyone get it to work on an iphone? Supposed to.
Charlie - has a hot spot and is chewing it... might need a collar on his head to stop it
Mackey - hope that thing on his head won't scar.
Shiela - got into with someone and got a nick on the ear... she's been better since then
Maggie Blue - limping, I emailed you
Finn - eating tons, not whining at all
Buzz - doesn't like Bill... and you guys live near each other, sort of... they worked it out
Bogey - not nervous for one second although first time here
Tilo - can't deal with a big group of dogs but does okay with one at a time, like Frankie, who he defers to, very smart
Buckley - running and playing as you see in the video
Clover - great, lovely...
Griffin - he barks if I don't let him have the complete run of the place and he gets stuck upstairs and needs help getting downstairs
Maximus - comic relief, along with the ducks
Ruby - great... I can't think what to say
Sam, Alex, Billie - Lotta, my daughter, loves these guys. Billie is making friends with the cat.
Gertie - she nibbles your hand to get a pet, very sweet
Red - won't stay in the small dog area
Moses, Clementine - Clementine took off when we went for a walk, which was a surprise since I was concerned about Moses, who isn't as good usually... she came back soon enough.
Lucie (small yellow) - can't be with the small dogs: too pushy... honorary big dog
Sadie - an angel
LouLou Brutus - not angels... but having a ball, a real complete ball and never sit still all day long
Bailey - doesn't act old
Reilly - little bit on the lazy side
Stella - a good camper, great dog
Lucy (black) - very fast, doing great
Lucy (skinny yellow) - lost a little weight, so we're giving her double portions and leaving her by herself part of the day to eat
Wellington - tries to keep all the dogs from coming out for a walk... acting up a little this morning
Bill - his scar was a bit red and we put the ointment on it although it was long since healed
PJ - too fat, nice
Tina, Frankie - same
Tanja - she's doing well now
Choks - doing great
Untitled from glencadia on Vimeo.
Anyone get it to work on an iphone? Supposed to.
Charlie - has a hot spot and is chewing it... might need a collar on his head to stop it
Mackey - hope that thing on his head won't scar.
Shiela - got into with someone and got a nick on the ear... she's been better since then
Maggie Blue - limping, I emailed you
Finn - eating tons, not whining at all
Buzz - doesn't like Bill... and you guys live near each other, sort of... they worked it out
Bogey - not nervous for one second although first time here
Tilo - can't deal with a big group of dogs but does okay with one at a time, like Frankie, who he defers to, very smart
Buckley - running and playing as you see in the video
Clover - great, lovely...
Griffin - he barks if I don't let him have the complete run of the place and he gets stuck upstairs and needs help getting downstairs
Maximus - comic relief, along with the ducks
Ruby - great... I can't think what to say
Sam, Alex, Billie - Lotta, my daughter, loves these guys. Billie is making friends with the cat.
Gertie - she nibbles your hand to get a pet, very sweet
Red - won't stay in the small dog area
Moses, Clementine - Clementine took off when we went for a walk, which was a surprise since I was concerned about Moses, who isn't as good usually... she came back soon enough.
Lucie (small yellow) - can't be with the small dogs: too pushy... honorary big dog
Sadie - an angel
LouLou Brutus - not angels... but having a ball, a real complete ball and never sit still all day long
Bailey - doesn't act old
Reilly - little bit on the lazy side
Stella - a good camper, great dog
Lucy (black) - very fast, doing great
Lucy (skinny yellow) - lost a little weight, so we're giving her double portions and leaving her by herself part of the day to eat
Wellington - tries to keep all the dogs from coming out for a walk... acting up a little this morning
Bill - his scar was a bit red and we put the ointment on it although it was long since healed
PJ - too fat, nice
Tina, Frankie - same
Tanja - she's doing well now
Choks - doing great
Friday, August 27, 2010
yesterday and today and videos should work on an iphone
One from yesterday, one from today. Lucie didn't like Finn, so I put her in another room. I sent Bill in there to keep her company, until he barked. Now Lucie mellowed out and isn't bothering Finn, so they are all back together... and following Rielly's lead and chilling. Couldn't be quieter and mellower than it is right now.
New! Videos should work on an iPhone!
Try it! Tell me if it works.
New! Videos should work on an iPhone!
Try it! Tell me if it works.
Untitled from glencadia on Vimeo.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
picture day
I couldn't find my good video camera (which also takes still but they aren't very good) but I did have my still camera (which takes video but they aren't very good). I decided to make this picture day and take stills.
Where did I put that video camera? It drives me crazy. I keep putting things somewhere... argh!
Stills are much hard to take, by the way. It takes much longer because they have to settle down a little and then look at the camera more or less... and then the shot doesn't work, shadows or blurry, or the dog moved...
You can print these out and get yourself a souvenir of your dog's trip to camp. I guess the shipping and handling might be too much for one picture. You could get a nice 8x10 or your dog too.
http://public.fotki.com/willep/dogs-8-21-2010/
I did also do a video:
Where did I put that video camera? It drives me crazy. I keep putting things somewhere... argh!
Stills are much hard to take, by the way. It takes much longer because they have to settle down a little and then look at the camera more or less... and then the shot doesn't work, shadows or blurry, or the dog moved...
You can print these out and get yourself a souvenir of your dog's trip to camp. I guess the shipping and handling might be too much for one picture. You could get a nice 8x10 or your dog too.
http://public.fotki.com/willep/dogs-8-21-2010/
I did also do a video:
august 21 at glencadia.com dog camp from glencadia on Vimeo.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
comprehensive dog report and video
You can do a search for your dog's name... remembering that there may be more than one with that name! And read the notes before watching the video, maybe....The dog news for 8-14-2010:
NOTE ABOUT THE VIDEO: I had a great shot for the end, with the trail from the pond, which is more like a mud pile now that it's so dry, to the house, and Sumi waiting for the boys, then following them home, then the ducks and geese bringing up the read. The ending shot, which is a perfect ending, was so good I put it at the beginning so you wouldn't miss it, since the end of the video wasn't as good as the beginning and some of you might not make it to the end.
.... Jasper is a bit nervous but coming around. Milli is popular with the kids at this very second and much more relaxed and friendly, which is helping Jasper come around... Trouve has funny bat ears... Lucie decided to be the boss of the little dogs... Peanut is a sweetheart... Bear has accepted Bosley as his guide and overseer, as the two of them develop their passionate relationship... Bobby will be going for a pony ride when I saddle up for the kids, stay tuned for video... Sadie does not respond if I call her the wrong name, which I do in the video... Bodhi is raising a bit of hell... Django keeps his cool once again ... Clarence is a maniac and cannot possibly live in an apartment in Manhattan, impossible to imagine... Bailey took some time to get used to this strange environment but has ... Mocha jumped the fence again ... Maggie Blue is extremely happy to roll in manure and bark at a tennis ball... Jenny is a-okay.... kids put KZ away for chasing chickens and biting the tail of a duck .... Pepper's eye is better and he won't stay behind any doors and has tons of energy.... Berna is very sweet... will she really run off on me this time if I let her run in the field?... Sugar is the perfect farm dog: goes after rats and mice but not chickens or ducks or cats a and never wanders away from the homestead... Sugar went hunting in the crawl space of the barn today and seems to have had some success....Sugar is the hero of the day... Stella adjusted to the situation quickly and is having a terrific time, in tip-top shape... Scout and Silas: do they have a secret language? What strange noises they both make, a whine/bark hybrid and they both do it... Boon, what a nice old guy... Cali, running around, knocking into other dogs and making them mad.... Sumi is spending this vacation on the back porch and played about 4 hours of fetch and is quite pooped. Looks and acts much like my dog Gustov, and those two are very happy together. Sumi is another great farm dog... Barley is as sweet as can be, yet seems to snap at everyone in the van, very odd... but doing great.... Coco is fixed, right? She seems to be excessively popular with the boys... Charlie Murphy is a steady and reliably good dog, had some kind of scratch on the face that is healed but the hair hasn't grown back, very tiny .... Juliet looks like Sumi and Gustov, so watch the video carefully... she is reserved until she gets going.... she likes to sit upstairs with Scout. Very loyal couple, Juliet and Scout: they eat out of one bowl even when many bowls are available... Scout didn't eat enough breakfast so I'll try to spruce up dinner... Mingus has been a very good boy... Diamond doing great.... Lola has been perfect.... Bond seems to want to be boss, which can lead to trouble... but so far, no fight... have to keep an eye on him.... Mendl is more complicated than necessary for a friendly old lab: both too submissive and too pushy at the same, confusing time.... Tattoo: doing terrific and having a fine old time... Bill comes perfectly when called and is not pushy at all: he's like a different Bill these days... Lily and Noah: Noah's eyes have a lot of gook in the morning and they seem to stick together more and more as time passes... Charlie is a perfect camper. He's like family by now... Ringo Starr can be kind of stupid, provoking big dogs through the fence... but not so stupid as to provoke them when there is no fence... The German kids love Ringo... Choks is excellent, if still needs to be away from the big group when I'm not there, since they do bother him...
NOTE ABOUT THE VIDEO: I had a great shot for the end, with the trail from the pond, which is more like a mud pile now that it's so dry, to the house, and Sumi waiting for the boys, then following them home, then the ducks and geese bringing up the read. The ending shot, which is a perfect ending, was so good I put it at the beginning so you wouldn't miss it, since the end of the video wasn't as good as the beginning and some of you might not make it to the end.
That's about all I can think to say... other than check back tomorrow and we'll see if I have the energy to keep making these this week... I was pretty pooped by the end of all this, since no one was here to help me work today. If you know someone who likes dogs who wants to show here and grab a broom: hired. I'll be okay next week when all my regular folks get back in town.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
kids visiting from germany, ringo chasing a duck or goose, me and amy talking about dogs, pepper waling funny, and a lot of childish squealing
city kids with no dogs visiting
also, Amy, who works here, brought her daughter, Brooklyn
plus some of my kids in there, complaining or running away from big dogs
the duck thing is in the 4th minute
also, Amy, who works here, brought her daughter, Brooklyn
plus some of my kids in there, complaining or running away from big dogs
the duck thing is in the 4th minute
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
if a picture is worth 1000 words, how much is a video?
Here is my plan: go out and work with the dogs, walking and cleaning, then, with whatever rags I happen to have on, make a video of myself, looking dirty, sweaty and disheveled.
Some of the stuff I wrote about in the last entry is captured in the video below, including Turbo kissing Gustov and Maggie Blue trying to get a non-existent ball.
Here is the extra, one minute:
Some of the stuff I wrote about in the last entry is captured in the video below, including Turbo kissing Gustov and Maggie Blue trying to get a non-existent ball.
july 11 at glencadia.com dog camp from glencadia on Vimeo.
Here is the extra, one minute:
Saturday, July 10, 2010
talk story
It's raining cats and dogs right now and I don't want to get my video camera wet. It's a shame because today was the day I planned to do a long, fun video: the horses were off the field, so we had room to run, the barn was all nicely cleaned up when Amy came to work yesterday. But no video today.
Tomorrow I promised a video.
Instead of a video I will talk story (I did live in Hawaii for a year, so its okay for me to talk a little story). You might want to do a find / search for your dog's name since I might mention your dog in a chapter about another dog, if they are hanging out together.
MURI: We have three dachshund and Muri is the biggest. Fattest and longest. But they are all together and they stay together, as if they somehow know they are dachshunds.
BAILEY: He is more subdued than usual. Maybe he is getting older? He snuck into the small dog area this morning and I left him there. He seemed to like it.
PANDA AND BLANCHE: How cute. They ran around with the big dogs all morning yesterday and seemed to enjoy it. They are the spunky little balls of fun.
BRADY: Brady looks at me and wags his tail the whole time I'm there. He never jumps on me or tries to run out of a door he knows he's not supposed to, he just lets me know that if I feel like playing, he's ready. Then when I usually don't play with him, as I am cleaning or feeding or whatever, he doesn't seem really disappointed and goes off to play with the dogs. Nice disposition.
ECHO: I had Echo with Ellie, a dog who was here for a long time and needed a home. After a year, Jim who works here found a home for her, which is great news and I'm very happy. But Echo lost his partner. When he goes in and out of the room, he seems fine with the other dogs. And he doesn't bark at them through the fence anymore. He also tried to eat his way out of the wire fence but gave up after a day with Ellie. Now he's alone but he really seems okay with other dogs. I know: I will try him with my dog Gustov next. Everyone likes Gustov. Also, he will go a whole day without eating, then eat double the next day. I guess that's okay, since he's by himself right now, but if Gustov is in with him, it won't work.
HUDSON: Hudson also snuck into the small dog area. He is right now sitting outside in the rain. I sent him into the house and he stayed there for awhile, I turned my back and he's back out in the rain. He was playing relentlessly with PLUTO, so in awhile I'll make sure they get back together in a bit.
ALICE: She's a different dog this time. I started her right away with the small dogs and she is not a bit nervous. She comes right to me with her tail wagging if I want to take her for a walk, she plays, she eats with gusto. A big improvement.
MAGGIE BLUE: Maggie has discovered a new game: she takes her tennis ball and throws it into my shit bucket, then digs into the shit wood shavings mix to get her now shit covered ball back out and, in the process, throw the stuff I just shoveled off the floor out of the bucket and back on the floor.
Needless to say, I don't really like this game.
Then she has another game: She puts her ball next to the fence somewhere, plays with a different ball, then goes back to the fence to get the first one, but forgets where on the fence she left it. After cruising up and down the fence looking for the ball, and failing, she picks some spot along the fence arbitrarily and tries to chew through the wire to get the ball, sort of like the drunk at night that looks for his keys under the lamppost, not because he thinks that's where the keys are but because the light is better there.
This game I don't love either.
PLUTO: Pluto has a terrible habit of diving into my brand new, fresh buckets and making them filthy. He usually does all the buckets the first time I fill them. The next time I empty and refill the buckets, he only does one or two. LUCY (two different eye colors) will join him in this activity if she sees him do it. If Pluto gets time out for bucket wrecking and goes in a room with only a bowl of water (which he can't dream of swimming in), Lucy doesn't do it. Also, Hudson and Pluto have been playing relentlessly. He's a beautiful dog.
MAX: Max is happy and friendly and doesn't really have a story other than stealing everyone's breakfast before he eats his own.
REILLY AND TURBO: See MURI. Also, these guys are the friendliest little guys. Reilly does wander a bit when I let them out but not too bad. Turbo loves the big dogs, especially mine. Very sweet.
DAISY: Usually she takes a day to settle in. This time it was only one night. It's quite consistent. This time she was fighting with everyone on the first night, I put her by herself, Amy let her out in the morning and she's been fine every since.
LADY LULU: Lady and I can be best friends and she is super affectionate. Yet, the next time I call her she comes 90% of the way to me, then turns and runs when I try to pet her. Then I take her for a walk and she is my best friend again. If I call her, she comes as close as she can but far enough that I can't pet her. But then I take her out again and she cuddles right up to me. She seems like the dogs and plays and runs a lot.
SPENCER: Just before I went home on Thursday, Spencer started hiding upstairs. After I left, he seemed more confident. So I guess there was a dog in that group that went home on Thursday he didn't like.
Now he is officially an honorary small dog and unlike some of the other big dogs that slipped in there, Spencer can stay with the little ones.
ANDYWALTER: He refused to come out of the house with the doorman. I carried him to the van. He's quite greedy when he likes the food, so I have been feeding him some special tidbits, since he refuses to eat the regular stuff. He's quite happy with the dascunds and jack russells. He perked up and has some energy. He'll be fine.
SAMANTHA: She seemed to want to stay outside last night. If I insist, she will come in but I let her stay out until it started to rain, then made her come in. She was on limited socialization due to growling for a day or so but now she's with all the dogs and seems fine.
PORK CHOP: When it was hot I was worried about Pork Chop. Still he drank plenty. We managed to keep him cool. He stands right next to my foot and follows me around.
FRANKIE AND TINA: I don't think anyone from this family reads this.
TY: Ty has to eat by himself and he takes his time. He's doing okay. He does have a spot under a tree where he can sleep in the crook of the roots and spends time there, or under the stairs in the dog house. I think he's doing well.
RIPLEY: Doing great. Happy, healthy and playing.
FENWAY: Fenway has been quiet. Why? Because I haven't tried to make a video. She really only seems to bark in the videos. Otherwise, a-okay.
CHARLIE (cocker spaniel): He looks for the pieces of food that other dogs drop when they eat. He will even try to fight a dog 4 times bigger than him over a single kibble of food. I hope he doesn't get fat.
BUCKLEY: Doing great. Happy, healthy and playing.
LUCY: See Pluto.
CHOKS: Doing great. Happy, healthy and playing.
PHOENIX: Phoenix has a habit of going up the stairs and getting stuck. I have to help her down and she seems fine. Then, when I'm not looking, she goes back up. She likes it up there, obviously, but there is something about the stairs that seem to bother her. She is happy to walk down if I hold her collar. She can walk down easily but seems to lack the confidence to try. Otherwise, everything is good.
That's it for today. Video tomorrow.
Tomorrow I promised a video.
Instead of a video I will talk story (I did live in Hawaii for a year, so its okay for me to talk a little story). You might want to do a find / search for your dog's name since I might mention your dog in a chapter about another dog, if they are hanging out together.
MURI: We have three dachshund and Muri is the biggest. Fattest and longest. But they are all together and they stay together, as if they somehow know they are dachshunds.
BAILEY: He is more subdued than usual. Maybe he is getting older? He snuck into the small dog area this morning and I left him there. He seemed to like it.
PANDA AND BLANCHE: How cute. They ran around with the big dogs all morning yesterday and seemed to enjoy it. They are the spunky little balls of fun.
BRADY: Brady looks at me and wags his tail the whole time I'm there. He never jumps on me or tries to run out of a door he knows he's not supposed to, he just lets me know that if I feel like playing, he's ready. Then when I usually don't play with him, as I am cleaning or feeding or whatever, he doesn't seem really disappointed and goes off to play with the dogs. Nice disposition.
ECHO: I had Echo with Ellie, a dog who was here for a long time and needed a home. After a year, Jim who works here found a home for her, which is great news and I'm very happy. But Echo lost his partner. When he goes in and out of the room, he seems fine with the other dogs. And he doesn't bark at them through the fence anymore. He also tried to eat his way out of the wire fence but gave up after a day with Ellie. Now he's alone but he really seems okay with other dogs. I know: I will try him with my dog Gustov next. Everyone likes Gustov. Also, he will go a whole day without eating, then eat double the next day. I guess that's okay, since he's by himself right now, but if Gustov is in with him, it won't work.
HUDSON: Hudson also snuck into the small dog area. He is right now sitting outside in the rain. I sent him into the house and he stayed there for awhile, I turned my back and he's back out in the rain. He was playing relentlessly with PLUTO, so in awhile I'll make sure they get back together in a bit.
ALICE: She's a different dog this time. I started her right away with the small dogs and she is not a bit nervous. She comes right to me with her tail wagging if I want to take her for a walk, she plays, she eats with gusto. A big improvement.
MAGGIE BLUE: Maggie has discovered a new game: she takes her tennis ball and throws it into my shit bucket, then digs into the shit wood shavings mix to get her now shit covered ball back out and, in the process, throw the stuff I just shoveled off the floor out of the bucket and back on the floor.
Needless to say, I don't really like this game.
Then she has another game: She puts her ball next to the fence somewhere, plays with a different ball, then goes back to the fence to get the first one, but forgets where on the fence she left it. After cruising up and down the fence looking for the ball, and failing, she picks some spot along the fence arbitrarily and tries to chew through the wire to get the ball, sort of like the drunk at night that looks for his keys under the lamppost, not because he thinks that's where the keys are but because the light is better there.
This game I don't love either.
PLUTO: Pluto has a terrible habit of diving into my brand new, fresh buckets and making them filthy. He usually does all the buckets the first time I fill them. The next time I empty and refill the buckets, he only does one or two. LUCY (two different eye colors) will join him in this activity if she sees him do it. If Pluto gets time out for bucket wrecking and goes in a room with only a bowl of water (which he can't dream of swimming in), Lucy doesn't do it. Also, Hudson and Pluto have been playing relentlessly. He's a beautiful dog.
MAX: Max is happy and friendly and doesn't really have a story other than stealing everyone's breakfast before he eats his own.
REILLY AND TURBO: See MURI. Also, these guys are the friendliest little guys. Reilly does wander a bit when I let them out but not too bad. Turbo loves the big dogs, especially mine. Very sweet.
DAISY: Usually she takes a day to settle in. This time it was only one night. It's quite consistent. This time she was fighting with everyone on the first night, I put her by herself, Amy let her out in the morning and she's been fine every since.
LADY LULU: Lady and I can be best friends and she is super affectionate. Yet, the next time I call her she comes 90% of the way to me, then turns and runs when I try to pet her. Then I take her for a walk and she is my best friend again. If I call her, she comes as close as she can but far enough that I can't pet her. But then I take her out again and she cuddles right up to me. She seems like the dogs and plays and runs a lot.
SPENCER: Just before I went home on Thursday, Spencer started hiding upstairs. After I left, he seemed more confident. So I guess there was a dog in that group that went home on Thursday he didn't like.
Now he is officially an honorary small dog and unlike some of the other big dogs that slipped in there, Spencer can stay with the little ones.
ANDYWALTER: He refused to come out of the house with the doorman. I carried him to the van. He's quite greedy when he likes the food, so I have been feeding him some special tidbits, since he refuses to eat the regular stuff. He's quite happy with the dascunds and jack russells. He perked up and has some energy. He'll be fine.
SAMANTHA: She seemed to want to stay outside last night. If I insist, she will come in but I let her stay out until it started to rain, then made her come in. She was on limited socialization due to growling for a day or so but now she's with all the dogs and seems fine.
PORK CHOP: When it was hot I was worried about Pork Chop. Still he drank plenty. We managed to keep him cool. He stands right next to my foot and follows me around.
FRANKIE AND TINA: I don't think anyone from this family reads this.
TY: Ty has to eat by himself and he takes his time. He's doing okay. He does have a spot under a tree where he can sleep in the crook of the roots and spends time there, or under the stairs in the dog house. I think he's doing well.
RIPLEY: Doing great. Happy, healthy and playing.
FENWAY: Fenway has been quiet. Why? Because I haven't tried to make a video. She really only seems to bark in the videos. Otherwise, a-okay.
CHARLIE (cocker spaniel): He looks for the pieces of food that other dogs drop when they eat. He will even try to fight a dog 4 times bigger than him over a single kibble of food. I hope he doesn't get fat.
BUCKLEY: Doing great. Happy, healthy and playing.
LUCY: See Pluto.
CHOKS: Doing great. Happy, healthy and playing.
PHOENIX: Phoenix has a habit of going up the stairs and getting stuck. I have to help her down and she seems fine. Then, when I'm not looking, she goes back up. She likes it up there, obviously, but there is something about the stairs that seem to bother her. She is happy to walk down if I hold her collar. She can walk down easily but seems to lack the confidence to try. Otherwise, everything is good.
That's it for today. Video tomorrow.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Sunday around Noon
If you looked at this entry yesterday or early on the 4th of July, you would have missed the shorter video with the barn doors opening and closing. The shorter newer video is of the dogs that missed out on the longer older video from yesterday.
I think you can download the video from Vimeo and then try to quickly scan through for your dog. If you want to try to download it and watch it like that, you should click the link to the video and watch it on Vimeo's site.
The new video.
This seems to be a shorter version of the 18 minute video.
I think you can download the video from Vimeo and then try to quickly scan through for your dog. If you want to try to download it and watch it like that, you should click the link to the video and watch it on Vimeo's site.
18 minutes of dogs from glencadia on Vimeo.
The new video.
spencer alice lady ella and more from glencadia on Vimeo.
This seems to be a shorter version of the 18 minute video.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
balloon popping duck waddling dogs doing doggie things
Damn. I spent an hour uploading and it didn't work the first time.
http://www.vimeo.com/12711392
Try, try again!
OKAY! IT WORKED!
http://www.vimeo.com/12711392
Try, try again!
OKAY! IT WORKED!
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
way to go hudson
Untitled from glencadia on Vimeo.
More on the other camera -- when I get back from Gotcha Day (party for the day we "Got Ya" - adopted our daughter Lotta 3 years ago).
Come back tomorrow and I'll have a better video.
And way to go Hudson, New York, our home town (which is at the end of the video):
http://www.registerstar.com/articles/2010/06/11/news/doc4c119d50c7336418637257.txt
We're proud of Hudson New York, the whole damn town. Nice job.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
dogs coming, I promise, but...
... we went to DC for two days. Don't worr: the dogs were in good hands. Bad back, but good hands.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Attack Mars Now!
I am listening to My Favorite Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson as I drive back and forth to the city. Highly recommended.
So, Neil, as I will call him, says that the earth was bombarded with asteroids and comets in the first 600 million years of its life. The planet was so hot that life was impossible. The comets left most of the water we have here now. After this period,
the rate of collision slowed.
We now should expect a catastrophic collision once every 100 millions years. The last was 60 million years ago, so we're due in about 40 million years but you never know. That collision was about the equivalent of a billion hydrogen bombs. We get smaller impacts about every 100 years and the last was 1908 over Siberia. That was the equivalent of a hundreds of hydrogen bombs. It went off in the atmosphere. If it were to happen over a city in the same way, there would be quite a bit of loss of life.
Given the extent of the risk, it is hard to imagine how spending more money on looking for these things is not cost effective.
Not only do we have to look for them, we have to develop ways to land a machine on one and use that machine to nudge the object out of its collision course with earth.
If someone had proposed a very expensive study to find out the impact of volcanic ash on airplane engines a few year ago, a study that cost 20 million dollars, it would have been very cost effective to fund it.
Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter in 1994. Each one of the 12 parts of that comet was worse than the object that made all the life bigger than a bread box on the planet extinct 60 million years ago. If there were dinosaurs on Jupiter in 1994, there ain't none now.
Suppose we find an asteroid on it's way. We have some time. The people of earth are united as never before in history against a common enemy.
If we can get a craft on it and start nudging it, we only have to get it to move a centimeter a week for a a year or two, and we'll be in the clear.
But we thought we knew how to plug up a leaky oil well. And maybe we don't. So maybe the craft fails.
The asteroid is still coming. We know that the impact itself will be local. 99% of the loss of life will be from starvation as the sun will not shine for 3 or 4 years. We have some stores of food around. There are pumps to get ground water to the surface that could operate with a generator of a few years. Some people will be just fine.
Humanity is no longer united as it once was. Now, we are in the worst zero sum game in history.
There isn't enough food and water and safe shelter for any nation, only the elite of some nations, or anyone who can commandeer enough bags of rice and get them to a safe place and wait for impact. They will sit tight eating rice while the rest of the world starves.
Oh, I'm sure the happazard efforts to track objects is enough. We don't need any actual government action in advance to work on the process of nudging objects... I mean, we might be fine for hundreds of years, maybe millions of years. Or maybe not.
While we're out there looking for asteroids and comets that might mess up earth, we should check and see if there are any icy comets that could be nudge to collide intentionally into Mars. Maybe it is a good idea to try to recreate the conditions that produced the "soup of life" that existed on earth from 0 to 600 million years, as best we can which is orders of magnitude less than what the early solar system could do. The point would be to make Mars hotter and wetter so that when we get ready to go there in a serious way in 300 years, we have already built up a supply of water and put more material into the atmosphere.
Here is what I would think would determine if this is a good idea:
1) Would it work? Will we be saying, 300 years from now, "We COULD be terraforming Mars now if it weren't for those assholes in the 21st century crashing all those comets into Mars and messing it up." Or, "Well, that was an exercise in futility: Mars still sucks. Let's go to Titan."
2) Is it immoral? I kind of think that morality is only for living things. If we leave Mars alone in its pristine state as if it were like an old growth forest and think we learned the lesson of the rape of the earth, I think we learned the wrong lesson about earth and biodiversity.
If it were to work but be somehow immoral, we can always belly-ache and act contrite like we do now about how we stole America from the Indians... that was terrible, terrible. I never would have done it like that. So, where should we go on vacation this summer? Drive to Oregon?
We can always do that hypocritical crap later. We wouldn't want to miss out on a near miss comet full of water when we get lucky enough to have one we could plop down on Mars for later.
Any, with satellites in orbit around Mars to video that sucker, I think we would finally capture the public's imagination about space exploration. We are not doing that one small step for man, one giant step for mankind bullshit anyone. We are cold pounding the shit out of Mars.
One massive punch to the face for Mars now, another fucking kick in the groin later, that's the new NASA motto. Mars can be the earth's punching bag for 300 years.
Just think how good it will be for humanity to know that all the nations of the earth have banded together to beat the shit out of Mars and slam it with comets for it's own fucking good?
Do you think the aliens from the planet Zog are going to want to mess with us when they see what we did to the Martians? Stephen Hawkings is worried about extraterrestrials stealing our water?
Yo, they will see the signature of those comet collisions from their star system and think we got mad fire power. "That can't be natural collisions. That the solar system is way to old. There is some kind of life in that system and they are crazy violent."
I think it's a win win win situation. Attack Mars Now!
The international space community should devote energy to finding comets that may come within striking distance of Mars and develop methods of nudging the comets into collision course with the red planet. Humanity should unite with a strategy of pounding Mars like a sucker punching bag. Nothing else will bring the romance and public engagement with the space program more easily than a manufactured collision that is the equivalent of 20,000 hydrogen bombs detonating right before our orbiting Mars satellite enhanced eyes. What a show! And in 300 years, our 8 foot tall descendants living on the red planet can pour the water produced by the collision into their glasses and toast our need for barbaric entertainment.
So, Neil, as I will call him, says that the earth was bombarded with asteroids and comets in the first 600 million years of its life. The planet was so hot that life was impossible. The comets left most of the water we have here now. After this period,
the rate of collision slowed.
We now should expect a catastrophic collision once every 100 millions years. The last was 60 million years ago, so we're due in about 40 million years but you never know. That collision was about the equivalent of a billion hydrogen bombs. We get smaller impacts about every 100 years and the last was 1908 over Siberia. That was the equivalent of a hundreds of hydrogen bombs. It went off in the atmosphere. If it were to happen over a city in the same way, there would be quite a bit of loss of life.
Given the extent of the risk, it is hard to imagine how spending more money on looking for these things is not cost effective.
Not only do we have to look for them, we have to develop ways to land a machine on one and use that machine to nudge the object out of its collision course with earth.
If someone had proposed a very expensive study to find out the impact of volcanic ash on airplane engines a few year ago, a study that cost 20 million dollars, it would have been very cost effective to fund it.
Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter in 1994. Each one of the 12 parts of that comet was worse than the object that made all the life bigger than a bread box on the planet extinct 60 million years ago. If there were dinosaurs on Jupiter in 1994, there ain't none now.
Suppose we find an asteroid on it's way. We have some time. The people of earth are united as never before in history against a common enemy.
If we can get a craft on it and start nudging it, we only have to get it to move a centimeter a week for a a year or two, and we'll be in the clear.
But we thought we knew how to plug up a leaky oil well. And maybe we don't. So maybe the craft fails.
The asteroid is still coming. We know that the impact itself will be local. 99% of the loss of life will be from starvation as the sun will not shine for 3 or 4 years. We have some stores of food around. There are pumps to get ground water to the surface that could operate with a generator of a few years. Some people will be just fine.
Humanity is no longer united as it once was. Now, we are in the worst zero sum game in history.
There isn't enough food and water and safe shelter for any nation, only the elite of some nations, or anyone who can commandeer enough bags of rice and get them to a safe place and wait for impact. They will sit tight eating rice while the rest of the world starves.
Oh, I'm sure the happazard efforts to track objects is enough. We don't need any actual government action in advance to work on the process of nudging objects... I mean, we might be fine for hundreds of years, maybe millions of years. Or maybe not.
While we're out there looking for asteroids and comets that might mess up earth, we should check and see if there are any icy comets that could be nudge to collide intentionally into Mars. Maybe it is a good idea to try to recreate the conditions that produced the "soup of life" that existed on earth from 0 to 600 million years, as best we can which is orders of magnitude less than what the early solar system could do. The point would be to make Mars hotter and wetter so that when we get ready to go there in a serious way in 300 years, we have already built up a supply of water and put more material into the atmosphere.
Here is what I would think would determine if this is a good idea:
1) Would it work? Will we be saying, 300 years from now, "We COULD be terraforming Mars now if it weren't for those assholes in the 21st century crashing all those comets into Mars and messing it up." Or, "Well, that was an exercise in futility: Mars still sucks. Let's go to Titan."
2) Is it immoral? I kind of think that morality is only for living things. If we leave Mars alone in its pristine state as if it were like an old growth forest and think we learned the lesson of the rape of the earth, I think we learned the wrong lesson about earth and biodiversity.
If it were to work but be somehow immoral, we can always belly-ache and act contrite like we do now about how we stole America from the Indians... that was terrible, terrible. I never would have done it like that. So, where should we go on vacation this summer? Drive to Oregon?
We can always do that hypocritical crap later. We wouldn't want to miss out on a near miss comet full of water when we get lucky enough to have one we could plop down on Mars for later.
Any, with satellites in orbit around Mars to video that sucker, I think we would finally capture the public's imagination about space exploration. We are not doing that one small step for man, one giant step for mankind bullshit anyone. We are cold pounding the shit out of Mars.
One massive punch to the face for Mars now, another fucking kick in the groin later, that's the new NASA motto. Mars can be the earth's punching bag for 300 years.
Just think how good it will be for humanity to know that all the nations of the earth have banded together to beat the shit out of Mars and slam it with comets for it's own fucking good?
Do you think the aliens from the planet Zog are going to want to mess with us when they see what we did to the Martians? Stephen Hawkings is worried about extraterrestrials stealing our water?
Yo, they will see the signature of those comet collisions from their star system and think we got mad fire power. "That can't be natural collisions. That the solar system is way to old. There is some kind of life in that system and they are crazy violent."
I think it's a win win win situation. Attack Mars Now!
The international space community should devote energy to finding comets that may come within striking distance of Mars and develop methods of nudging the comets into collision course with the red planet. Humanity should unite with a strategy of pounding Mars like a sucker punching bag. Nothing else will bring the romance and public engagement with the space program more easily than a manufactured collision that is the equivalent of 20,000 hydrogen bombs detonating right before our orbiting Mars satellite enhanced eyes. What a show! And in 300 years, our 8 foot tall descendants living on the red planet can pour the water produced by the collision into their glasses and toast our need for barbaric entertainment.
a stick in the water or a rock in the storm
There is a stick poking out of the reservoir at about mile 2 and a half on the Sprain parkway, visible only on the southbound side. It has been sticking out there for five years. I know that stick because a family of commarants uses it as a perch to scope out fish, I assume. From April through September I when I drive by at around 4 or 5 pm, there is always at least one and as many as five commarants on that stick. They seem to come back later in the Spring than other water birds.
I think they are commarants: black birds with long necks that look like the one Chinese fishermen use to catch fish with a band around their neck in books written for children. It looks more or less like this. I'm not convinced I saw the yellow around the beak.
There is no way for a human or other predator or other pest (from the birds point of view) to get to the spot. The stick pokes up out of the water off an island in a reservoir that is surrounded on both sides by a highway.
A branch of a log that fell in the water years ago can be a remarkably stable and reliable landmark.
It has been the focal point of a family of birds life for at least five years when I began to notice it. It has not rotted or broken off. The log that holds it up has not rolled over. The birds leave in the fall and can rest assured that when they get back next Spring, it will still be there.
While change is the only constant, and all that, something as apparently transitory as a tree falling into a pond, which is what the natural corollary of a reservoir would be, leads to this stable situation.
Further lessons:
In the time that that log has been holding up a branch providing a stable fishing spot, thousands of houses have been built in Ireland, houses that will never be occupied and will be demolished without anyone ever living in them. Ghost Estates, symbols of the housing bubble. Meanwhile, that branch keeps on trucking.
We think of humanity's impact on the environment in terms of oil spills and CO2, and that is true, or bulldozers plowing into wetlands, which is a big deal, but what is the impact of people doing stuff like kicking over logs? If the log I am observing were in the Catskills or in the Adirondacks instead of in between the north and south bound sides of a highway, it might have been absentmindedly kicked over by someone, or someone's canoe might have bumped into it and broken the branch. You might say that kicking it over might make it a better spot for them to fish. But how long would it take them to figure that out? Maybe not long... but maybe the birds would not have prospered as they have with the log left as it was.
Just a thought.
I think they are commarants: black birds with long necks that look like the one Chinese fishermen use to catch fish with a band around their neck in books written for children. It looks more or less like this. I'm not convinced I saw the yellow around the beak.
There is no way for a human or other predator or other pest (from the birds point of view) to get to the spot. The stick pokes up out of the water off an island in a reservoir that is surrounded on both sides by a highway.
A branch of a log that fell in the water years ago can be a remarkably stable and reliable landmark.
It has been the focal point of a family of birds life for at least five years when I began to notice it. It has not rotted or broken off. The log that holds it up has not rolled over. The birds leave in the fall and can rest assured that when they get back next Spring, it will still be there.
While change is the only constant, and all that, something as apparently transitory as a tree falling into a pond, which is what the natural corollary of a reservoir would be, leads to this stable situation.
Further lessons:
In the time that that log has been holding up a branch providing a stable fishing spot, thousands of houses have been built in Ireland, houses that will never be occupied and will be demolished without anyone ever living in them. Ghost Estates, symbols of the housing bubble. Meanwhile, that branch keeps on trucking.
We think of humanity's impact on the environment in terms of oil spills and CO2, and that is true, or bulldozers plowing into wetlands, which is a big deal, but what is the impact of people doing stuff like kicking over logs? If the log I am observing were in the Catskills or in the Adirondacks instead of in between the north and south bound sides of a highway, it might have been absentmindedly kicked over by someone, or someone's canoe might have bumped into it and broken the branch. You might say that kicking it over might make it a better spot for them to fish. But how long would it take them to figure that out? Maybe not long... but maybe the birds would not have prospered as they have with the log left as it was.
Just a thought.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
off topic
This has no dogs, except going to the dogs:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/04/the-greek-crisis-has-me-thinking-about-1931.html
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/04/the-greek-crisis-has-me-thinking-about-1931.html
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
recital, no dogs, sorry
a great dog video tomorrow, promise... but here is yesterday
oh give me a home, home on the range from glencadia on Vimeo.
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