This is an absolutely hilarious blog, and actually did laugh so hard I cried when I first read it. But...I feel like I have to be that guy. How is this Hacker News?
Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
I mean, I love this blog, and I'm quite happy that I have another entry in my Google Reader from it starred to read, but this really does not seem to go here. It has nothing to do with intellectual curiosity.
This reminds me of picking up a dog from the SPCA, although with a lot more hyperbole. For the first two weeks she was too afraid to make a sound other than the high pitched nasal whining.
The first day she barked was hilarious, because she ran and hid from herself. We got her confidence up by encouraging her to do stupid stuff, like walking along our legs from the ottoman onto our laps or sitting on the back of the couch. She's now taken to doing laps of my head making occasional lick attacks.
We took to putting booties on her because of all the salt the city puts on the sidewalks. We don't want it getting into cracks in her feet on longer walks (on short walks she lives in the snow tracking like a hound), plus she plays amateur dramatics when her paws get cold. Seeing her in the booties is hilarious as she doesn't seem to feel the ground (I guess its the permanent pressure on her pads) so she's walking like space dog making super exaggerated steps (I swear she's doing a John Cleese Hitler walk parody) and having her out for walks is awesome. She spends the entire walk running like crazy, but she's stuck at my pace as she only has marginal traction.
The reaction of her dogs to having to wear booties to protect floors reminds me of the way our cats react to having to wear harnesses so I can take them out for a walk :-)
I read this a while ago and it took me a long time to get through it because I couldn't stop laughing. If you're a dog person you'll appreciate it even more.
Dogs, while descendants of the gray wolf, have been domesticated for tens of thousands of years. Leading a nomadic life to satisfy one's needs is also vastly different from sudden and abrupt change of one's environment - and even the relatively smart Alsatians have trouble with this (but then again, they're extremely territorial).
I still don't get the joke, except perhaps the increasingly dumb number of ways in which one can anthropomorphise her pets.
Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
I mean, I love this blog, and I'm quite happy that I have another entry in my Google Reader from it starred to read, but this really does not seem to go here. It has nothing to do with intellectual curiosity.