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Well, when I talked to the husband he was pretty set on having it put down. Apparently it was the wife's dog prior to the marriage. She wasn't happy with the thought, but agreed it was the right course (according to the husband anyway).

He'd also said that when they were walking the dog recently it had become even more aggressive. It had even begun growling and lunging at the young girl (about 7) from across the street.

I don't know what would be involved in trying to re-train a dog like that. I am pretty sure that their decision is the safest one. If anything happened later I would beat myself up that I hadn't called the police or animal control (which would have certainly resulted in having the dog put to sleep, according to city law)

and @Tyme
Their other pit is a fantastic dog. I was here when they bought it (8 months ago). They brought him over when I was on the porch this morning and he is an incredibly lovable dog. He licked my hand, tried to eat my plants and was just generally nice.

I don't have any real problem with the breed, but I am really glad they're getting rid of that other dog.

Update:
I talked to the owner on the phone this morning, they agreed that the best course would be to "put it down." Apparently, this is the first time it's ever bitten a person but it's been very aggressive with other people (especially men) around the wife for years.

I suppose that it was just trying to protect her, but as you've all so keenly pointed out it's probably far more dangerous than I initially thought. I feel terrible that someone has to loose their pet, but sometimes the risk far outweighs the reward.

Good points dreamweaver

There are a bunch of kids around this neighborhood. I'll talk to them tomorrow about how they plan to keep the same thing from happening to someone else. Thanks for the advice.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that they were incredibly apologetic. They even came back over about 10 minutes later to make sure everything was still alright.

The dog has all it's shots and I cleaned the bite out so I'm skipping the doctor for now.

I've got nothing but time... and like Cooper, (mt) is well aware of my penchant for breaking things.

Hockey is my favorite sport to watch. Golf is my favorite sport to play.

Love the hockey for the action and grittiness of it. I love golf simply because I'm good at it (relatively) and it has a great social aspect. Nothing better than a 12 of suds and four friends on a golf course.

And, unlike most people I love watching golf on TV. On an HD set it really is a beautiful game.

BTW, here's the hat:

My Cannon Powershot G9. I take it absolutely everywhere. Do not, under any circumstances, ask me how many pictures I take per day. It will scare you. It does my co-workers anyway.

My iPhone would be a very, very close second. My reasons are about the same as RightOn's, it's just a great tool that I find useful every single day.

My favorite is Vimeo. I just like how minimal the player is. It stays out of your way when you embed your videos, which is what I use it for mostly.

Well, the only thing I can say is that it's done with Flash on the example you showed. You'd probably need to find someone who deals with Flash quite a bit as I've never come across any plugin or add-on that can replicate that effect.

Hair. Do that thing where you wrap your hair as tight as humanly possible and then bunch it all up in the back. Maybe let a couple of wisps go free in the back...

I'm all yours.

Damn right the book is better. Chuck Palahniuk is a fantastic artist. Not the best technical writer on the planet but I have never read a man who can so accurately solicit desired emotions in his readers. There's a group of short stories that he wrote that he compiled into a frame-novel called Haunted.

One of the short stories is called Guts:

While on his 2003 tour to promote his novel Diary, Palahniuk read "Guts" to his audiences. It was reported that over 35 people fainted while listening to the readings. On his tour to promote Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories in the summer of 2004, he read the story to audiences again, bringing the total amount of fainters up to 53, and later up to 60, while on tour to promote the softcover edition of Diary. The last fainting occurred on May 28, 2007, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where 5 people fainted, one of which occurred when a man was trying to leave the auditorium, which resulting in him falling and hitting his head on the door . Palahniuk is apparently not bothered by these incidents, which have not stopped fans from reading "Guts" or his other works. (via Wikipedia)

If you've never read him I'd suggest his novel called Diary, it will quite simply stun you. I read that book while I was stationed in Iraq. After I finished it I had to put it down and sit quietly on my bed for about an hour. My roommates were actually concerned for me for a bit. "Hey, are you OK Adam?" "No, no I'm not. But I will be in a minute..."

Fight Club is a great flick, I've seen it a million times, and can quote it extensively. The best thing about that movie was the fact that it turned me onto one of my favorite authors.

That's what I kind of worked out too... thanks Tyme. Now if I could just figure the rest of this damn interface out that would be great..

No points for you... you have enough. You do get much love though!

Yeah, I sorta agree with RightOn. If you were going to use the lesson to talk about some of the issues that you and your students and community have then that might be different.

My big question would be why would they want to meet with you? You're not an established journalist, so meeting with you could be a risk to a campaign. Who knows, you could turn out to be a crazy. (I'm sure you're not, but they wouldn't really know that) I don't know how many people your teaching and blog puts you into contact with, but would it be enough to pull a candidate away from possibly more "lucrative" events in terms of publicity?

I think it's a cool idea, I like to see candidates when they're not campaigning. It's important to me to see what kind of person they are from day to day. If you get it done, I'd love to see it, I'm just not sure you'll be able to hook a major candidate. Maybe Ron Paul would do it if he were still around...

This is one of the reasons some women are so against having sex with their partners. Without that mammoth jaw action, some just can't get turned on.

Notes to self:

1. Purchase Mammoth Jaw
2. Take Lelia to dinner

I gotta tell you, there are some pretty impressive elements to Flow.

First, Droplets have got to be the best thing ever invented. EVER. I use Spaces alot, so I may have a Finder window open on one space and Transmit open in another. With droplets, I just toss the file onto the icon on ANY desktop and it's off. It's really my favorite feature so far, and I've never seen another FTP app that allowed it.

I'm also a big fan of the file preview thingee below the directory window. Transmit has this available as a drawer, but Transmit doesn't allow you to alter the filename or permissions like Flow does.

And, I also find the bread-crumbs at the bottom of the window really useful. They function the same as the finder's.

Flow does work over Bonjour, but I haven't used it in conjunction with S3 or iDisk yet. I really like Transmit, but Flow has me thinking about switching.

Also, I know that Cameron Hunt is in the process of writing a review of several FTP apps, so you might want to stay tuned for that to see if Flow might be for you.

Next year... keep telling her that, trust me.

Hehe... I'm an air traffic controller here in Colorado Springs. With our altitude and proximity to the mountains we get some pretty hairy winds, wind-shears and microbursts. About every other week my heart almost comes to a complete stop when I see a light civil come within inches of landing wing first.

Of course some of the other things I've seen would make you take the bus every single time you traveled.

If you really want to scare the crap out of yourself take a trip to your local airport and watch the tower mix air-carriers and general aviation traffic together. 99.9% of it is perfectly safe but it sure looks scary.

I agree with Nils. It's not a bad presentation at all. I've certainly seen much worse.

Probably you could lose the Avatar URL field right?

Oops I think when I deleted the URL from the Avatar URL field it killed my 9r avatar... whoops.

Great thoughts fuscom. I hadn't thought of comparing it to general contracting, but in a way the ideas are pretty similar.

You made a couple valid points. Some of the biggest issues are how to equitably dole out the workload (while maintaining quality). The idea of lowest bidder certainly doesn't come off as an appealing thought to a potential client. That may not be the best way of operating.

As far as availability goes that could potentially be a hazard as well. I guess we'd want to try and emphatically instill the notion that "If you can't make time or accomplish the work for this project don't volunteer." Hopefully an initial screening prior to entry into the community could allay some of those problems.

As far as clients... every freelancer has to deal with that particular risk. But, again, it's a potential issue.

Those are just a couple initial thoughts in response to yours. You've made a bunch of valid points, and I thank you for that. As I said is just an idea, a starting off point, so feedback like yours is wildly important. For that, I reward you with points!!

I find that turning a MIghty Mouse over and then rolling it around on a clean mouse pad or piece of cloth usually does the trick... although there are two dead Mighty Mice in the drawer on my desk... so it doesn't work that well.

Showing some love and unity for the drinkcast.

If we're allowing Iced Tea into the mix then I'll go with tea as my favorite. I'm a southern boy, so it's sweet tea for me all the way.

But, I do love my coffee too. I think I end up drinking more coffee nowadays because no one out west has any idea how to make real sweet tea. I long for my parents old house on Lake Murray, a porch and a whole jar of sweet tea.

I think Scrivs was humping the couch and God only knows what Mike was doing....

I don't know exactly what I'd ask him but I know I would have to yell out "[citation needed]!!!!" at random intervals during his answer.

Adobe Design Premium CS3.

Oh, you paid for that? So you're the one. Sucker.

WindowsWillNowIncludeNeedlessWebappsPoweredByYahooAndFueledByIncompetence-r

It's trendy because it has the r at the end.

I found the same one hthth.

What I find more amusing is that I keep finding this note instead of the content I'm looking for.

Love the idea, working on an answer as we speak. But here's a thought: Wouldn't it be better to see all the trackbacks from a particular question on the frontpage. Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like you can only see the trackbacks on the permalinks page.

Just a thought. But seriously, I love the concept!