Too long since I’ve updated the blog with a cute story centered on the pup. She’s over two years old now, born 3/17/2004. She has matured, and she is too bright for her plodding owners. We don’t always have words for what she wants us to want her to do. So she teaches us.

Take for example the command, “Roll on rug.” One evening Molly was indeed rolling on the rug and I asked her about it. Pretty straightforward… “Are you rolling on the rug?” I asked.

She leaped into my lap and began to lick my face and ears. After a minor tussle she was back on the floor and I was swabbing off dog spit with a paper towel. Unable to leave well enough alone, I asked her if she liked rolling on the rug. Bam! She was back in my lap licking my face and showing no mercy. When she was back on the floor watching me wisely from the (rug), I called Beth in to check it out. “Sit on the couch,” I suggested. She did. Then in a whisper I said, “Now ask Molly if she enjoys rolling on the rug.” She raised her eyebrows. “Really,” I said. And so she uttered the key phrase with the predictable result, and now Molly has us trained. Whenever Molly wants to play licky-face, we have to ask her if she’d like to roll on the rug.

Complex communication scenario, ain’t it?

A nanowarhol (or nw) = 15 minutes x 10^-9 x (fame) = .000000015 minutes of fame = 9.0 x 10^-7 seconds of fame = 0.0000009 seconds of fame

The first usage of nanowarhol occurred in this post on the Krugle blog in reference to the brief ascendancy of the Krugle website’s popularity in Technorati following the go-live announcement on June 15.

Pointing today, Bloomsday, to the New Yorker article by D.T. Max on Stephen Joyce (pointage ironically associated with an article by Finnegan, perhaps a yachtsman, perhaps a water skier, but in any event leaving a wake as he reports on organized crime and the New York waterfront).

Lessig’s suit (on behalf of Schloss) attempting to deprive the Joyce heirs of their privacy and their birthright can be found here.

Or maybe I have that wrong.

“He couldn’t understand why he couldn’t shoot his own computer in his own home…” I guess I see his point.

As part of the Defense Authorization Bill for FY 1994, the U.S. Congress has asked the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council (NRC) to undertake a study of national policy with respect to the use and regulation of cryptography. The report of the study committee is due two years after all necessary security clearances have been processed, probably sometime summer 1996, and is subject to NRC review procedures. The legislation states that 120 days after the day on which the report is submitted to the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary shall submit the report to the Committees on Armed Services, Intelligence, Commerce, and the Judiciary of the Senate and House of Representatives in unclassified form, with classified annexes as necessary.

PASSAIC TWP. — A Gillette man was arrested at his home last Thursday
> >night after he fired eight bullets at his home computer, according to
> >police. The man, Michael A. Case, 35, of 64 Summit Ave., was arrested
> >shortly after 11 p.m., at his house, when police said they received a
> >report that shots were fired. They arrived at the home to find a .44
> >Magnum automatic handgun and a shot-up IBM personal computer with a
> >Princeton Graphics System monitor. The monitor screen was blown out by
> >the blasts and its inner workings were visible, Lt. Donald Van Tassel
> >said on Monday. The computer, which had bullet holes in its hardware,
> >was hit four times while four more bullet holes were found in various
> >areas next to the computer, Van Tassel said. “The only thing he (Case)
> >said was that he was mad at his computer so he shot it,” Van Tassel
> >said. The handgun, which the lieutenant identified as an Israeli Arms
> >Desert Eagle .44, has “a lot of firepower,” he said. “It’s a big gun.”