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Bart Simpson will always be 10 years old

January 28, 2009

Here is the secret to the sustainability of The Simpsons: Bart Simpson will always be 10 years old.
At first, this statement seems a bit puzzling, but think about why other social media icons have fallen away. The Brady Bunch grew up, the kid from Two and a Half Men is now a teen-ager, Eddie from [...]

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Obama uses a MacBook Pro?

January 22, 2009

This photo appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times. Probably others. Thanks Pete Souza, Official White House Photographer. I’m not sure if we can use these photos. Do tax dollars pay for the official White House photographer? Pretty sure someone will slap my paw if I’m wrong.

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How we are all connected

January 21, 2009

Today, I heard from a long-time reader who emailed me just to let me know she was still reading and that she had been enjoying the blog ever since she first saw it.
Wow! Whenever I get an email like this, it is truly a humbling experience. Even though the DogWalkBlog gets lots of traffic, when [...]

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Why do we keep eating?

January 17, 2009

Why do we eat? The simple answer would be that if we did not eat, we would die. But that is not entirely true. Science can provide us with a pill we can take that would provide exactly the nutrition we need — no more, no less — to keep our bodies healthy. Yet, we [...]

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Round up all the web geeks and pelt them with pebbles

January 12, 2009

I just spent the last hour of my life fighting with some CSS that works perfectly in Safari and MESI 7.0, but not in MSIE 6.0 or the “standards compliant” Firefox whatever version it is now. Since I am working pre-coffee, pre-office hours from a laptop on my kitchen table, I don’t have the luxury [...]

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Another reason people are pissed off on the bank bail-outs

January 2, 2009

I pulled into my National City drive thru and this is what greeted me. I waited for almost 30 minutes before it was my time to send my deposits through the tube-hole.

Hey, banks! Why do you thing the average Joe on Main Street is pissed off at all this bail-out stuff? Use some of the [...]

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My extra second in 2008

December 31, 2008

I heard on NPR today that 2009 will have to wait an extra second to coordinate clocks with the Earth’s rotation.
Rarely do we get handed the gift of time, so I got to thinking about what I would do with an extra second of time. A second isn’t really enough time to do anything significant, [...]

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Some things I know

December 20, 2008

I just got done speaking with an American Express rep to pay my bill. I had to call them because I missed the bill pay window between 3:00-7:00am where their web site will actually work to pay my bill.
It got to think about stuff I “know” to be true, even though other dogs swear they [...]

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Not entirely an accurate analogy on Net neutrality

December 18, 2008

Found this analogy about Net neutrality and depite its convincing face, it is not entirely accurate.
Say there was no deal cooked up between Telus and the big pizza chain and everyone was competing equally. But, the local pizza place decided it would make a really delicious, super-duper pizza that everyone wanted, but was not going [...]

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What would you do if you had $1 million dollars?

December 10, 2008

Dear President-elect Barack Obama;
I am a small business owner. I do quite well for myself as I am in a knowledge-based business servicing the youth sporting market and the retail services industries. I also dabble a bit in coffee and Web 2.0 consulting.
I was running some numbers this afternoon on the bail-out plans that [...]

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How to look clueless on Twitter in three easy steps

December 3, 2008

Recently, one of the folks I follow sent out a tweet about a teacher who is selling sponsorship on the bottom of his test. The tweet went like:
I am in advertising, but even I think this is a bad idea.
So, being a good follower, I click on the link to the story, read it [...]

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Another reason GenY is not taken seriously

November 14, 2008

I found this on the guest blogger application form at Brazen Careerist. If your blog has been running for at least a month. Really? Only a month? I know Internet time is compressed, but I would hope they would want just a little more experience than that.
I’ve been blogging for over three [...]

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How to profit from stupid and sloth

November 14, 2008

I subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. So do hundreds of my neighbors and I know exactly who they are.
The WSJ gets delivered to my front door every morning by a carrier with the Dayton Daily News. About a year ago, I noticed that the mailing label in the upper right hand corner of my copy of [...]

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Thank you, Debbie

November 1, 2008

This was sent to me by a fan. She writes:
Sometimes my life needs a little perspective. I decided after waking up very frustrated this morning to take 5 minutes and watch this….I’m so glad I did. I am going to have a great day! I hope you do too!

I’m glad I [...]

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Good bye, dear friend

October 7, 2008

Today, I said goodbye to a very dear friend. He was only 8 years old and walked with me everywhere. I spent a long time howling and crying until there were just no more tears and all that was left was an empty hole that started at the base of my throat and goes all [...]

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They grow up so fast

September 2, 2008

Cameron Schaefer with BrazenCareerist writes a post about personal responsibility. You can read it here, but here is just a snippet.
This is what’s wrong with our society. We’ve become a people that hold everyone responsible, but ourselves.
Never before have I seen so much blame being placed on everyone but the person in the mirror. [...]

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The kids are alright!

August 3, 2008

I was walking along on Friday and I hear these voices from around the corner. “Mow that lawn straight!” “Don’t talk to me, keep working,” “Turn that mower around,” “Watch the edge,” “Mow AROUND the bush, not in it.” etc…
As I turned the corner, we saw two kids, 12-13 years old. One was mowing [...]

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Tenacious Spider

July 15, 2008

Every morning as we step out of the front door to go on our walk, I glance at the mailbox to the left and a spider will have built a web during the night. Sometimes there will be breakfast in it, sometimes not.
Every morning, I take the newspapers and swipe the web away.
Not sure [...]

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Eat dessert first

July 14, 2008

I read the Wall Street Journal. I have since I was a young puppy when I got my first job at Dog Pound, Inc. While my peers always flipped to the Money sections, checked the stock quotes, etc., the first section I read was MarketPlace. This is where all the “life” bits happened which drove [...]

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Unfamiliar walks

June 15, 2008

A couple days ago, we took a walk downtown and I really enjoyed myself. I love new places, new smells, new dogs. As I walk along, I look back to see if my owner is still with me, to make sure that he wants to go straight, take a left, stop and look at a [...]

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