Still contemplating options on the hosting front. Thinking of setting up a Mac mini colocation: a little pricey up front, but where else can you get your own quad-core 16-gig-RAM SSD-with-hard-drive-backup machine for $30 a month?
Then I have to figure out what the heck I would use all that power for, of course.
In the mean time, here’s another somewhat minimal post of a very cute Boston terrier.
More of this guy tomorrow. He’s got a great variety of expressions.
Well, I’ve managed to squirm down below the 5 gig mark, and am still working on long-term plans; I was sort of hoping not to start spending significant amounts of money on this blog, unless it started making me a little money. But, on the other hand… it’s fun. I briefly considered adding advertising, but… well… ugh. I have almost never seen blog ads that I didn’t think were ugly and intrusive at least some of the time.
Well, we’ll see what happens. In the mean time, posts will be a bit short, so I can maximize my available space. I promise I’ll have all this sorted by the beginning of the next phase of the photography contest, where blog visitors will be able to vote on the finalists of each category, which will probably be around the second week in July. (There’s still time to submit!)
Anyway, here’s a picture I quite like of Autumn and Tidus the corgi.
Autumn loves her job. Can’t you just tell?
So, still working on clearing out some space for pictures in the short term, and looking for other arrangements in the longer term.
In the mean time, here are a few upcoming dog-related events and notes in the Bay Area:
Got any more dog-related events to share? Leave a comment and I’ll add them!
So, I seem to have gone over-quota on my hosting account last month. To the tune of rather a significant sum of money.
To be honest, I never expected to stick with this long enough to amass 5 gigs of pictures on my hard drive, let alone actually post a full 5 gigs. And lo and behold, I have about 180 gigs of dog pictures on my hard drive, and 5 gigs of pictures on my hosting account. (And a gig of other files.)
So. I do not want to repeat that bill, so I have trimmed down a bunch of stuff and will be trimming more over the next day or two, and will resume posting once I’ve got it down below my quota again. And at that point I’ll also be figuring out how to solve the problem over the long term.
So. Brief hiatus! Sorry.
I think this gal was unable to fit her tongue entirely into her mouth.
She also made constant grunting noises. I can’t tell whether to find that cute or sad.
I won’t say that Ani (pronounced like Annie) is the oldest dog I’ve ever featured on here, but she’s pretty close. And she’s still doing all right… still got her eyesight, and teeth, and such. She’s an Indian Spitz, which I’d never even heard of until I took these pictures.
Still plenty of time to get those photography contest entries in by the 30th of June.
The ears are really something. Trust me: their full grandeur has not yet been revealed.
I swear Ani studied photography and composition. I didn’t crop this picture at all, and she was the one who framed herself. Perfectly, I might add. (Also: see what I mean about the ears?)
More ridiculous earage.
Another good pose: ‘noble dog before loving master.’ I wish I’d stepped back a bit and gotten them both in the frame.
Didn’t get this dude’s name, but he was wandering around the same park as yesterday’s dog. Well, wandering when he wasn’t sprinting.
The white spot is just a bit of sunlight, not an actual, well, white spot.
Some dogs are harder to keep up with than others.
I love ‘hoverdog’ photos. He totally looks like one of those funky anti-gravity bikes from The Return of the Jedi.
I admit, this is not what I generally think of when I hear the term ‘animal photobomb’, although I guess technically, since she did photobomb this picture of an animal…
Autumn and I were at a park a few weeks ago, looking for the corgi meetup (which for some reason we never found!) when we saw… something.
Also, blah blah photography contest blah ends the 30th blah. Carry on.
This is what I saw when I got there. Fortunately I already had my camera out and ready. But I had no idea what I was looking at…
And then he turned around and I went… ‘Waaaait… is that… is that…’
‘…is that a teacup Irish wolfhound??’
His mom was less than impressed with my identification skills. “No. He’s a puppy.”
Longest damn puppy tongue I’ve ever seen, I can tell you that much.
I’ve posted Aussies this small before, but not often. I actually took some pictures of Dingo the adorable before, though: it was just at dusk, and they all turned into an Australian blur. I got luckier this time!
Just had another couple of people submit for the photography contest, including a city submission and a cat submission. You guys rock!
So teensy. And no, there’s nothing wrong with his eye, he’s just winking at me.
I had to post this, it was too cute to pass up, despite the blown-out highlights.
Those eyes. Also, that expression.
And this expression. God, sometimes I wish I could be half as happy as some of these dogs.
A playmate appears!
No caturday supplement today. I am getting pretty low on cat pictures, but that’s not why: I promised that I’d post pictures of Max ASAP, because he’s down at SF Animal Care and Control looking for a home, and he’s so totally awesome that I wanted to give my readers a chance at him before he gets snatched up! (He’s a very new arrival, hasn’t even been posted on the web site yet, it looks like.)
Max is a 7-year-old super-mellow super-healthy husky. He’s definitely got the goofy/mischievous husky attitude, but in moderation, and he’s not aggressive about it. On the other hand, he got an extra dose of ‘sweet’, and just loves people, even people who poke cameras into his face for no reason. I was the recipient of multiple smooches while visiting with Max.
I mistook Max for a malamute, because he’s pretty big, but apparently only huskies can have blue eyes (normally). Maybe he just seemed big next to the petite volunteer who was walking him!
Someone socialized the heck outta this pup when he was little. Loves people, and is even polite about it.
I want to see Max perform that maneuver when there’s a biscuit balanced on his nose.
The volunteers at AC&C really seem to like their work.
Max sure seemed to like them, too. (Also: wow. Maybe someday I’ll figure out how to adjust for the terrible barrel distortion that this camera has. Yeek.)
I knew there had to be a goofy face in there somewhere.