melinthropy

Yes, the marvels of modern science have concluded what was extremely obvious to the casual observer.

My husband and I recently sent in a sample of our dog Doobie’s DNA to BioPet to find out what the heck he is.  We got back the results a few days ago and we were very surprised.  Before the test, I was convinced that he was a german short-haired pointer mix, but according to the test, that isn’t even one of his main breeds.  The test returns approximate levels of ancestry of each breed, which I have summarized in a pie chart below:

 
So, now we know.  When people ask what he is, we can state with confidence that he is a Golden ChowBull Dallie, and then act a little surprised when they don’t know what that is.  But even if he’s a mixed breed dog, he’s still 100% sweetness.  (Awwwww.)

I just wanted to post this little  video I put together on Easter (filmed on The Flip!) that shows Bunny Cakes being assembled. But of course, I had to be difficult, and embed the video rather than posting a link (since I want to start using more video in general). My version of Wordpress was too old to use the plugin I wanted, so I decided to upgrade to the one that was released just this afternoon. Bleeding edge, baby. So, of course I had to import my tags from Ultimate Tag Warrior, and then of course, I had to pick a new theme (since it should *look* different if I bothered to go to this trouble), then I had to add random junk into the theme… And then something about the Apache configuration wasn’t allowing my plugin to work, which we spent hours looking at (literally).  And now my plugin breaks some of the new WordPress version… It always amazes me how much time you can sink into this kind of stuff.

Wordpress 2.5 seems very nice, by the way. I just noticed it is auto-saving this post as I write it. Also, I was having some problems with the visual editor stripping out all my line breaks (maybe because I’m using Safari), and that seems to be resolved. The interface in general looks very nice as well. And thanks to the SVN option, future upgrades will be very easy!

So anyways, here is the video (be sure to watch all the way to the end to see the special cameo from the Easter Bunny himself!) Click on the picture to watch it.  It’s only about a minute long.  If you click on it and you don’t see video starting up, please download the latest version of Quicktime.