Simba graduated from Companion Dog class today. It was a tough final exam, having to do 1 minute sit and down stays, recalls through lots and lots of distractions, and being forced to leave all kinds of fun toys and tasty treats alone and ignore all the dogs among other tests. Simba made it through though despite crashing into one of the store displays during the recall) and passed with flying colours.
Below are some of his graduating classmates and their owners.
It’s Dan’s fault
Thanks to Dan for getting me stuck on Google Reader.
Here are some of the tidbits I’m sharing via Google Reader. I even added a new module to the sidebar. I need to find out how to style it so it fits the look of the blog a little better.
Now to figure out why my random image block isn’t working anymore…
Doggie sisters
Half sisters really, I guess. At Paws in the Park, we ran into a couple who owned another black lab that looked like Nala. Turned out both of them had the same sire, Angus, and were both about the same age. Different litter though. Don’t they look cute together?
Chandra Images of the Year
The votes are in and the best images of the year taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory over the past 7 years are posted. Some of them are pretty spectacular too.
My favourite of the winners is the 2002 image of the Crab Nebula which shows x-ray emissions from the cloud of gas surrounding the pulsar at the nebula’s center.
There’s another really cool composite image of the Crab Nebula made up of the Chandra image, an optical image from Hubble and an infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Pretty, huh?
Virtual caffeine buzz
Energy Fiend is a website a friend of mine sent me. It’s a different kind of blog. First you can find out how much caffeine is in some of your favourite food and drink. Then you can find out how much of your favourite caffeinated drink it would take to kill you. If that’s not enough, you can also find out how much of your favourite caffeinated food would put you down.
Naturally you’d be feeling pretty ill way way before you get anywhere near that lethal dose. Kind of fun to see how much it would take though. 291 cans of Sunkist Orange Soda would put me down. Who knew!