Honorary DoSF of the Day, Let’s Get This Road Show Back On The Road Edition: Rocco the Siberian Husky

Posted on February 12, 2026 by Adam Lang

I’m back! And feeling nearly human, which is a fair second place to feeling divinely canine, like Rocco (4) here.

Siberian Husky In A Jacket
Rocco had opinions. He loved letting me pet him, but he also had a LOT to say.
Siberian Husky Looking Incredibly Derpy
Huskies can be some of the dopiest looking dogs imaginable.
Siberian Husky Being Chatty
I love huskies but I am not sure I could survive owning one.
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Site News: No, I’m Not Dead!

Posted on February 12, 2026 by Adam Lang

Sorry I’ve been MIA. The combination of a nasty bout of insomnia and nasty stomach bug has left me less than fully functional. Post tonight, though! This time for sure!

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Sunday Switchup: Sea(ttle) Otters (And Bonus Seal Of Approval)

Posted on February 8, 2026 by Adam Lang

I hit the Seattle Aquarium while I was there, and while it’s not quite the powerhouse of aquariosity that the Monterey Bay Aquarium is, it has its moments! Including some very playful, happy otters, and a seal who is surprisingly fond of having her teeth brushed.

Got two hours of sleep last night, and then went on an eleven-mile walk around Vancouver while it was sunny and gorgeous. And oh man was it gorgeous. Just stunning. Even trotted out the big camera to take some pictures of random stuff: a few birds, some lovely spiderwebs, etc. Looking forward to seeing how many of them came out. (The nice thing about spiderwebs is that if your autofocus can’t find them, then they are unlikely to run away before you can manage to get the manual focus honed in.)

Hopefully I won’t have quite as much trouble getting to sleep tonight…

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Caturday Supplement: Mali the Incredibly Sweet, Cute, and Chatty

Posted on February 7, 2026 by Adam Lang

I visited Anne, an old friend of mine, a few weeks ago in Oregon. When I knew her before, she lived down near San Francisco and had a cat that was very nearly old enough to drink alcohol. Well, now she lives in Oregon and has a cat that is old enough to drive, but not yet old enough to drink. She is also totally adorable, and very affectionate, and very loud. I kept reminding myself to get some pictures of her when I was out and about, and when I got back, I always found myself petting her (and occasionally meowing back at her) instead. So I had to get Anne to send me pictures of her. Which is fortunate, because she has loads of good ones. I’ve dropped a couple of them ‘above the fold’, but if you want to see all of them you’ll have to click into this post, because otherwise they’ll drive all the dogs off the front page for a couple days!

(No captions and no hovertext… TOO MUCH CUTE!)

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Dog of the Day: Finn the Golden Retriever Service Doggo

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Adam Lang

Finn is 4, and a very, very good boy who was staying at the same hotel as me in Seattle. He decided not to rent out one of the hotel’s loaner guitars, though… apparently he’s more of a vocalist. (Yes, the Edgewater Hotel provides loaner guitars for patrons. And yes, I borrowed one. Because why not?)

Happy Golden Retriever
Big golden retriever smile.
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Double Honorary SF Dog Day: Obi and Aela the Rhodesian Ridgebacks

Posted on February 3, 2026 by Adam Lang

I ran into these three in Seattle (had to go look it up: ‘if it was Tuesday this must be Seattle’) and was like, “Man, you are a better man than I am if you can handle TWO ridgebacks!”

Man Walking Two Rhodesian Ridgebacks
Made my usual funny dog-baffling noise and got two beautiful head tilts from the pups and a ‘what the heck’ expression from the guy. Flawless victory!
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Sunday Switchup: Silver Falls State Park

Posted on February 1, 2026 by Adam Lang

I drove from Albany to Portland a couple weeks ago (that’s Albany, Oregon to Portland, Oregon, I didn’t jog over to the East Coast) and while I was heading up I stopped off at Silver Falls State Park. Most of the trails with waterfalls were closed due to landslides and that sort of thing, and I decided not to do the back-country trails, but there was a nice two-mile loop with two big waterfalls and several smaller ones that was well worth the trip. The two big falls have paths that go behind them, which were icy and muddy and icky and great fun, as long as you had big stompy backpacking boots like mine. One of the pictures below was taken outward through the falls, even!

Sigh. Software. Everything used to be so much quicker and easier to do in WordPress, as long as what you wanted to do was what 95% of people wanted to do. I counted the clicks back about ten years ago when they shifted from the regular editor to the block-based one, and posting these pictures would have required creating the article, then adding the text, then clicking ‘insert images’, then dragging the images to upload them, then shift-clicking to select all the images, and then selecting ‘insert’ to insert them all. Instead, everything before the image stuff takes more work, and once you get to the images, it now takes seven clicks per image. Progress is amazing, isn’t it?

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Dog of the Day: Wookie(e?) the West Highland White Terrier And Possible Future Dog of San Francisco!

Posted on January 30, 2026 by Adam Lang

Not having the best day: went and got my car this morning and discovered that someone had smashed a window in order to steal… my… travel mug. Seriously, that’s the only thing that was missing. Certainly there was nothing valuable visible. So now I get to pay a $1000 deductible on my insurance so that someone else can have a travel mug.

Amusingly, that $1000 is about what I would have spent on parking at my hotel in Seattle (5 days at $80 a day) plus Vancouver (14 days at $40 a day) if I’d elected to not use the cut rate parking. So the only really frustrating part is that I’m probably not going to have my car for most of the time I’m in Vancouver. Oh well. You can get to a lot on foot and by bus, and I’ll be working a good chunk of the time too. Maybe I’ll rent a car for a couple of days if it’s not going to be done by a week from today.

Anyway! Seattle wasn’t all bummer by any means. For one thing, I met Wookiee, a seven-year-old Westie with a lot of personality, and a lot of happy as well! Wookiee’s mom is currently prepping for an interview with a company that might be moving her (and her husband, and Wookie!) down to San Francisco, so Wookiee might be a genuine DoSF in not too long. If so, hopefully I run into him there! (His dad told me he had an instagram account, but the name he told me does not seem to be correct, and all of my google searches were in vain, so hopefully he, his wife, or Wookiee himself stumbles across this post and sets me straight!)

West Highland White Terrier
He looks, acts, and smooches like a puppy.
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Honorary DoSF of the Day: Maggie Beans the Weimaraner

Posted on January 28, 2026 by Adam Lang

I ran into Maggie Beans (2) yesterday on my ambles through Seattle. She wasn’t entirely happy with posing, because she was much more interested in leaning against my leg and absorbing scratches, pets, and hugs.

Weimaraner Looking Dignified And Droopy
A very dignified expression, don’t you think?
Weimaraner Snoot
Maggie getting all up in my business.
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Honorary DoSF of the Day: Bodhi the Australian Shepherd

Posted on January 27, 2026 by Adam Lang

I’m taking pictures of pups on my travels, so we’re going to have a fair number of honorary Dogs of San Francisco for a while. Bodhi (2) is one such, a gorgeous pup!

Tricolor Australian Shepherd Sitting On A Sidewalk
Bodhi is a very good boy, who sat quite obediently for photos.
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