Vote Charlie!

June 2023 Archives

Ruffie: Week 3

Posted at age 35.

Our new dog Ruffie has been adapting pretty well to life at our house. He’s still getting used to the cats and we’re barely started with training, but overall it’s much less stressful now than it was the first couple of days. Thanks to a prong collar …

Read more

blog image workflow

Posted at age 35.

As a bridge between my bare bones Pelican install and whenever I figure out my full photography workflow, here’s my current hacky approach to getting images on my blog quickly:

  1. Tag photos in Digikam with @blog tag, add captions to the “Caption” field in the Captions editor.
  2. Go to …

Read more

Ruffie, our new Husky

Posted at age 35.

Two Saturdays ago, May 27, Alan and I welcomed Ruffie the husky into our home. He is a 2.5 year old pup who had been at the Oakland Animal Services shelter since early February. While his first days here were a little chaotic even under constant supervision, he is generally pretty well behaved and is even starting to get along with one of our cats, Kiko.

Ruffie enjoying his first moments in our yard

Ruffie enjoying his first moments in our yard

Read more