Take off, eh?

Lots of pictures taken today (this one courtesy of Tamzin), and many Ridgebacks at the park.

Here are Ramsay (L) and Rory...I just want to know if any of my boy's feet are actually on the ground? Doesn't look like it.

Fall Pics

"Okay, Rory, you go that way...yeah, way over through those trees. Don't worry, we'll wait here for you...really, we will...uh huh...."











Seth still has lots to teach Rory. Especially when he's having such a good day. Sometimes, walks with Rory are too much for Seth's old bones, but this was a beautiful, warm fall day and he was feelin' fine.

"When ya sniff, make sure you get your nose right down into it."

This is Rory doing his impression of a gremlin. Check out those pointy ears!

Pretty boy.

Again with those ears. And that tongue.

Bathroom Reading

Bathroom reading at our house is a jumble of golf and I/T magazines. I'll note here that I dabble in both, however, the magazines are not mine. But when in Rome...
There was a simply stupendous article in one of the I/T mags written by somebody whose sole purpose must have been to purge himself of every hyphenated buzzphrase (should that be hyphenated?) he has ever come across. It included (and this is not an exhaustive list) delightful gems like: next-generation in-memory (double whammy I guess); policy-driven; latency-agile; low-latency analytics; premised-based business intelligence; distributed-caching infrastructure; event-stream processing; real-time business intelligence; changed-data capture; data-warehouse strategy; and dynamic task-brokering. Three of these were actually one after the other in the same sentence. I'm not sure I gleaned anything from the reading except that it's pretty amazing Norm and I actually speak the same language.
My personal favourite from the article is: trickle-feed extract transform load. I don't know about other dogs, but Ridgebacks would never be happy with trickle-feed anything. They need it all at once, right now, just dump it all in the bowl, hurry, oh please, and make sure he didn't get more than me. As for transforming it, well, they don't have a problem with that. Ask Norm. He mows the lawn