Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Valentine’s day is in a couple of weeks. I guess I’d better figure out something nice to do for the wife.
The dogs have been doing pretty well on California Natural Lamb & Rice kibble since we started feeding it to them about 8 months ago. It’s a nice simple kibble with not a lot of ingredients and no grains other than rice. This is important because we discovered early last year that Nala has problems with barley. Finding a kibble that doesn’t contain any barley is harder than you might think too. So far I’ve only seen about 3 or 4 other kibbles that don’t contain barley or wheat that I can rotate through.
Lately I’ve noticed that while Nala and Simba’s coats are still nice and glossy, their skin has started to get a little flaky, so I decided it was time to add some fish oil back to their diets. When we first got Nala, we were supplementing her food with fish oil (3V Caps) but then stopped for a while to see how she would do without it. Now we’re adding some Grizzly Salmon Oil (from Grizzly Pet Products) to their food. Dolittles happened to have some and since I was there picking up another bag of food for the dogs, so I figured I might as well try it out. While it’s not quite as fishy smelling as the 3V Caps were, you can still tell it’s fish oil and it definitely gives the dogs some funky fish breath for a while. Getting them to drink more water helps wash some of it away, but you definitely don’t want them licking you for a while after their meals.
They’ve only been on it for a couple of days now so it’s too early to tell if it’s helping with the flaky skin. The dogs don’t seem to mind the extra addition to their food.
PDAs have a well deserved reputation for suddenly going belly up (bits up?) when you least expect it. Although mine isn’t showing any signs of dying anytime soon (aside from wear and tear) it’ll be three years old in a few months, so it’s probably time to start thinking about a new one soon.
Problem is, unless you want an all-in-one combo smartphone type device (which I most definitely do not want), Palm‘s offerings have become rather thin. Palm’s only new announcement over the normally busy holiday season was the Treo 680. No new ‘plain’ PDAs in sight, nor have I caught any rumours of any coming down the pipe either. There’s just the E2 and TX left (the Z22 is too entry-level for me) now that the LifeDrive has been EoL‘d.
I guess if I needed to get one today, it would probably be the TX. Hopefully my T3 will live long enough for something new to come out of Palm. Otherwise I might have to go back to actually using my brain to remember stuff.
This is what the inside of a HAL9000 Memory Unit. For something that’s only 43x19x3mm, it sure packs a lot of storage in there (2 GB).
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The x-ray was acquired on an 8″x10″ cassette at 50 kVp, 1.6mAs using the small focal spot. The HAL9000 memory unit was placed directly on the cassette.