Author: Eugene

Posted on

Dog Park USA

Serendipitously, the day after I started my Lowcountry Dog Park series, I ran into Dog Park USA via a link posted on FriendFeed.

The site is geared towards providing a directory of dog parks around the US, and from the looks of things already has a pretty good collection of them.

Each dog park has it’s own page with map and brief description. Registered users can log in to submit photos or reviews of a dog park and rate the park as well.

One neat feature is the ability to form and join groups for a little bit of social networking I suppose.

Navigating the site is pretty simple. Haven’t seen a whole lot of content on the site yet. There are a few articles, a low (for now) activity forum and a few other things. I think there’s some good potential for the site, especially for people traveling or on the move and looking for a good dog park to go to.

Posted on

Lowcountry dog park tour: Hampton Park dog run

A while ago, the idea popped into my head that I should do a tour of the area dog parks and blog about them. I’m going to start the series off with the one I go to most often, the Hampton Park dog run.

Hampton Park dog run

Located at the corner of Rutledge and Grove on the Charleton Peninsula (above the Crosstown), this dog park is a large fenced in area providing a large tree for shade, several benches lining the perimeter and a water fountain so the dogs can get water. Bushes line two sides of the dog park, and there are two gates (dog-lock style) opening into the parking lot and onto Grove St on the other side.

Hampton Park dog run
Hampton Park dog run

You’ll find lots of local residents from the surrounding neighbourhood at the dog park during various times of day. The busy times tend to be early morning and late afternoon between 5-8PM (depending on the season). It’s a nice place for both dogs and people to socialize. An ample supply of tennis balls is ever present and new ones seem to appear out of nowhere periodically. If you bring your own balls or dog toys, prepare for them to be come community property for the duration of your stay.

The dogs that frequent the dog park are all friendly, but it’s always a good idea to keep an eye on your dog because you never know when a scuffle might break out.

There are a couple of poop bag stations that are usually filled most of the time as well as a poop scooper for cleaning up after your dog, but it never hurts to bring your own supply of bags for the rare occasion the bag stations are empty.

Here’s a Google Map of the area around the dog park. The dog park is in the middle.

View Larger Map

Posted on

Movie conjunction

The Terrace Theater (which just happens to be up the road from me) is showing Casablanca through Thursday. They’re also showing the new X-Files movie too! Never one to pass up seeing Casablanca on the big screen, tomorrow I’m making a point of indulging in a double feature. At 1 PM, I’m planning on going to see Casablanca, which should finish up just in time for me to catch the 2:50PM showing of X-Files.

I’m so giddy I’m about to explode 🙂

Feel free to join me there.

Posted on

Opening the Apple

The dogs and I cruised downtown to check out the hubbub surrounding the opening of the Apple store on King St.

We got there to discover a pretty long lineup stretching from the store, around the corner and down the block. It was a pretty long line


Not only were there lots of people waiting to get into the store, there were also plenty of people watching the people waiting to get into the store.

And finally, a little after 10AM, the store opened to much applause (mostly from the employees)


I didn’t bother to go into the store because, quite frankly, there are many more things that are way more fun than trying to navigate a crowded store with 3 dogs. And besides, it’ll still be there tomorrow, probably without the lines.
You can see the rest of my pictures here. I’m sure Jared will have more pictures and video from inside the store.

Posted on

Explore the universe with NASA Images

The NASA Images site is so full of awesome that I think I’m going to bust.

Really, it is. Positively overflowing with awesome!

NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ), a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA’s images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.

The timeline on the home page is pretty slick, taking you from 1968 all the way up to 2008 with little thumbnails of significant items that pop up as you go from year to year. You can select a keyword to browse through (Gemini, Skylab, Apollo, etc) or choose from one of the four main categories above (Universe, Solar System, Earth, Astronauts) to start your journey. You can also search keywords on your own.

Browsing the images is pretty easy. On the left side are lists of keywords that you can click to narrow the selection of images displayed. Click another keyword and it’s added to the search criteria list. Click an image and you’re taken to a page that shows the image along with a bunch of meta-information about the image. Scrolling the mouse wheel while the cursor is on the image zooms in and out (or use the zoom selector placed over the image).

Panning around a zoomed image is as simple as clicking and moving the cursor around. The box with the image meta-data can be expanded or collapsed when you’re finished reading.

A potentially very cool feature is the ability to create your own media groups and presentations, allowing you to collect, share and show off your favourite images. You can also explore media groups and presentations that other people have created too.

Yeah, this is going to be a fun site to explore.

Found via Slashdot.