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Uppity Printer and Doggy Mind Control
Mar. 27th, 2004 09:34 amI set my printer for manual feed and it displays the following rude message: "MF, Load Letter." Fuck you, MF! You load it!
But enough about tech. I have a puppy who loves me.
Have you heard the North American Native legend about some god or other creating a chasm in the earth dividing man from the animals? At the last minute, as the canyon widens, dog leaps the divide to stand with man.
It's fascinating experiencing whatever godly or evolutionary strategies led to this symbiotic relationship. The evolutionary story is that some wolves lost their fear of humans and started hanging out by their camps to get fed. The ones who learned to give back to the humans by dint of work, loyalty and cuteness got the most food and thus dogs entered a special niche in nature. And then we bred them to enhance the characteristics we liked.
Well, the result is an astonishing alchemy. Within three days of knowing this beast, I could pause at work and instantly conjure up his smell and the coarse, even feel of the fur on his muscly little body. The first night he slept beside our bed in his crate, I got a sudden, powerful mental hallucination which, if I believed in such things, could easily have been an active psychic projection by the beast. My mind suddenly filled with a huge glowing image of him -- so bright it seemed "loud", superimposing itself on any other mental clutter and half-dreams I was having at the time. Almost as if the puppy was saying: I am here, I am foremost in your thoughts, in your life.
I have taken to barking at work when the computer does not give me the results I want. Snake and I were in the supermarket yesterday and he pointed to a product. I leaned over and nipped at his fingers. He gave me a scruff shake and said, "No!" He proferred his hand again and I licked it. He responded "Good puppy!" Luckily we were alone in the condiments aisle at the time.
Yeah, it's all very cute, but I feel like I'm at the mercy of ancient and powerful evolutionary forces. Very odd.
But enough about tech. I have a puppy who loves me.
Have you heard the North American Native legend about some god or other creating a chasm in the earth dividing man from the animals? At the last minute, as the canyon widens, dog leaps the divide to stand with man.
It's fascinating experiencing whatever godly or evolutionary strategies led to this symbiotic relationship. The evolutionary story is that some wolves lost their fear of humans and started hanging out by their camps to get fed. The ones who learned to give back to the humans by dint of work, loyalty and cuteness got the most food and thus dogs entered a special niche in nature. And then we bred them to enhance the characteristics we liked.
Well, the result is an astonishing alchemy. Within three days of knowing this beast, I could pause at work and instantly conjure up his smell and the coarse, even feel of the fur on his muscly little body. The first night he slept beside our bed in his crate, I got a sudden, powerful mental hallucination which, if I believed in such things, could easily have been an active psychic projection by the beast. My mind suddenly filled with a huge glowing image of him -- so bright it seemed "loud", superimposing itself on any other mental clutter and half-dreams I was having at the time. Almost as if the puppy was saying: I am here, I am foremost in your thoughts, in your life.
I have taken to barking at work when the computer does not give me the results I want. Snake and I were in the supermarket yesterday and he pointed to a product. I leaned over and nipped at his fingers. He gave me a scruff shake and said, "No!" He proferred his hand again and I licked it. He responded "Good puppy!" Luckily we were alone in the condiments aisle at the time.
Yeah, it's all very cute, but I feel like I'm at the mercy of ancient and powerful evolutionary forces. Very odd.
