Actual information from the Enchantment Pet Resort & Spa:
Enchanted Canine Experience
Includes comfortable bedding, daily maid service, bedtime turndown service with a cookie, gourmet breakfast and dinner, and supervised day camp with other dogs.
(This isn’t the place with the TV mentioned previously — which actually is “television and ice cream treat.”)
“CodeWeavers has announced plans to release CrossOver Mac this summer. The $60 software will allow Intel Mac users to run Windows applications — including some games — without having to buy or install Windows itself.”
“Millions of Americans will celebrate July 4 by watching a fireworks show. How do they choreograph those midair pyrotechnics?”
Here’s how from Slate.
And here’s How to Photograph Fireworks.
Albuquerque has the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds this weekend.
3:00 Saturday. You’ll hear them.
This year’s Tour de France likely winner, given all the disqualifications for doping.
Idea and photo thanks to John Fleck.
So, Germany and Argentina and it comes down to penalty kicks.
Maybe baseball should just play three extra innings and if the game remains tied go to a homerun derby.
(Even so, soccer’s tie-breaker is better than the NFL tie-breaker.)
“You can burn the flag as many times as you want and the concept of freedom is not only still there — it’s stronger. I like that about my flag. I would go so far as to say it’s my flag’s best feature.
“I wouldn’t mind if Congress were considering changing some other feature of the flag. For example, if they wanted to represent Rhode Island with half a star, I could get behind that. But I’d hate to chip away at my flag’s freedom feature. That just seems wrong.”
Excerpt from a good piece by Scott Adams
… we honor two venerable American institutions.
On this date in 1864 Abraham Lincoln signed the land grant preserving Yosemite Valley.
And Lena Horne is 89 today.
A friend needed to board her dog for a few days. When she called to make the arrangements they asked if she wanted the suite with television. She thought not, but began to wonder what the dogs would watch.
NewMexiKen wondered too. Surely re-runs of Rin Tin Tin and Lassie. Probably Scooby-Doo.
But most likely, dogs playing poker.
From a report in the Los Angeles Times:
When referring to the Trinity, most Christians are likely to say “Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.”
But leaders of the Presbyterian Church (USA) are suggesting some additional designations: “Compassionate Mother, Beloved Child and Life-giving Womb,” or perhaps “Overflowing Font, Living Water, Flowing River.”
Then there’s “Rock, Cornerstone and Temple” and “Rainbow of Promise, Ark of Salvation and Dove of Peace.”
The phrases are among 12 suggested but not mandatory wordings essentially endorsed this month by delegates to the church’s policy-making body to describe a “triune God,” the Christian doctrine of God in three persons.
The Rev. Mark Brewer, senior pastor of Bel Air Presbyterian Church, is among those in the 2.3-million-member denomination unhappy with the additions.
“You might as well put in Huey, Dewey and Louie,” he said.