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theodp writes "Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter. Dedeaux from Baton Rouge likes to suck his brother's ear. Spike from the East Bay just wants to kiss pretty girls. Two months after computer and canine geeks in San Francisco launched a social networking site for dogs, 8,000+ pooches have their own Web page on Dogster.com, complete with mug shots, personal stories and listings of likes and pet peeves."
Oh yeah, and (from the article):
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slashdot is pretty much the same than that doggie site... imagine those pet-holders thinkin about a weblog all about computers and linuxes and geeky stuff. Theyd probably think the same what we think of them...
Sorry Slashdot readers, but I'm a little pissed.
Dogster. Wonderful. I write an Open Source Social Network program, and Slashdot rejects any sort of story on it only to put a story about Dogster.
Sorry, but I feel a little shunned. I do have a little bit of pride in what I do, and things like this kind of shatter it.
Yeah, I know, the type of site I'm doing has been done... But then again, does that make Linux "Just Another Kernel?" I'm sure that would be up for debate.
Yes everyone, the ideal is novel. But hello, anyone? This is news for NERDS, not, news for dogs. We typically like things like anime, Open Source, Star Wars and SCO. This fits under neither.
This wasn't even marked as "Humor". I'm not laughing anyway.
/Rant off.
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Everyone seems to be passionate about one thing or another, for many /. readers it's open source software, criticizing George Lucas, or karma whoring. For these people it's their dogs. Whenever I see someone who is so obsessed with a subject as to be considered disturbed, it makes me depressed. At first. Why don't you find beauty and inspiration in nature I think, or the arts? Get a hobby!
But wait, you have one already...
These people may have "nothing better to do with their time" or are "lonely and sad" but the fact is that everyone is passionate about one thing or another. If we all enjoyed the same interests then this world would be a very boring place, and there wouldn't be the advances in science and technology that there have been. So don't bash the hobby-freaks too much, as you're probably one too. Freak is in the eye of the beholder, as it were.
My girlfriend and I can no medically have children. This is something that we have known for a while. Instead, we have Cricket, Cupid, and Prancer. They are our children. Cricket sleeps with his head on the pillow in bed. Cupid rolls up behind his mommy's(girlfriend)legs. Prancer sleeps on the floor.
Cricket has missing front teeth from his owners in Winnsboro, South Carolina kicking him. He also suffers epilepsy. Cupid has no fur where his two previous owns let him get fleas, which he was allergic. Prancer has no fur at also.
There is nothing wrong with us as a family. I care for them and pay their doctor bils. They are similar to a small child 6-7 years old. They love to go for rides in the car and also know when we are having a bad day.
I truely endorse this website as any steps for us to make their life happy in the same way they make mine happy and soothe my needs to have children.
So please do not put down pet owners or say they are freaks. You may simply not understand the bond that people have with their animals. I know that I consider Cricket to be my son and when he gets a shot, he reaches for me just like any child would to their parent.
^---- Chichiuahuas. --- Spelling bad.
They poop all other the place.
They bark and make other anoying noises.
Worst of all, they are loyal
no matter what the stupid owner does.
Yeah...I know that was suppose to be funny. But not to her. And I know this is offtopic, that why I'm posting AC...
I realise that I don't know the full story, and that it could be completely true. But did you ever stop to think that it could have been just a rumour, the type that fly's around a school and is so funny and outragous that it MUST be true especially since EVERYONE knows about it...
I speak of it this way because this same sort of thing happened to me. A nasty fat fugly cow started a rumour in grade 9 that I did rather expicit things to a cat. And being a geek who got picked on a lot in school, I did NOT need something like that going around. Not that it's even physically possible. But that didn't matter. Within 10 minutes the entire classroom heard it, and they laughed. Within a day, the entire school knew, and they laughed. That was in the first week of grade 9...the beginning of high school. And it didn't stop until I moved in grade 11. Not once. Day in and day out I would be teased and attacked by everyone because of it. I would have people coming up to me, at any time of the day no matter where I was, to say "hey man, did you really fuck that cat? I bet it was hard." I would get beat up for it. I would be an outcast for it. And what did I do wrong? I was an unpopular geek who just wanted to be left alone. That was my only crime. I was severely depressed. I considered suicide. I considered doing things that would make Columbine look like a mild standoff. I considered a lot of things. About the only thing I could do where I didn't end up dead or in jail for a long time was to move. I shouldn't have been forced to move to get away from that. It wasn't right. And it still affects me to this day.
Remember that the next time you want to talk about this girl. And remember...if you ever have kids, and they talk about something like this, TAKE IT VERY FUCKING SERIOUSLY and talk to them about it. You may be saving everyone from another Columbine...
And you know it was true, and not just a viscious rumour spread by bitchy teenaged girls (who are genetically predisposed to such activities), because....?
There was a spaz in my high school known only as "Cat Fucker", because legends tell of him fucking a cat. I'm not gullible enough to just believe it, though, I need proof. Show me the half cat-half man offspring, or something.
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I think a lot of people are lonely (maybe don't have children, a SO, a happy relationship, etc.) for whatever reason and bored. I know people who spend enormous sums of money on their single (in some cases multiple) animal(s), have pictures of them throughout their house, buy them special food, all manner of toys and accessories, have their pet professionally cleaned/manicured, and will pay medical bills akin to that of a sickly child*. They also like to talk to other people about their $PET's, they help out at rescue shelters, and get to know the area vets and other owners.
/. so not too much room for criticism.
Not only are $PET's like a serious hobby, they are also a way to socialize and gain some identity (some people really see themselves as $PET people). Not my thing, but then again I am posting on
*You would simply not believe the specialist vets that exist - you can get your dog a dermatologist, optometrist, etc. These doctors specialize in just certain organs of a few animals.
The comment about Slashdot Personals being a refuge for ugly chicks is really not in very good taste, considering that several of them will see this message should it be modded up high enough. I'm sure that most girl geeks don't consider themselves sex goddesses (although a few of them are nice enough to give us guys something to fantasize about) but I doubt there is really any girl who wants to hear that she's ugly. Considering the many guy geeks have probably been mocked by the pretty, popular girls during school years (and the fact that we are so constantly overlooked by women in our 20s as well) I would think that guy geeks would have more understanding of the concept of "total beauty" (as opposed to superficial or physical-only beauty) and have more respect for girl geeks. At least not blatantly accuse them of being ugly on a site that they frequent.
You're not going to find any girl geeks who look like Playboy playmates but they have a beauty all their own. I know that I find a woman much more attractive if she is intelligent, thoughtful, inquistive, and skillful. Given a choice between a sexy girl who is an airhead or a reasonably attractive geek girl, there's no question in my mind which one I would pursue. So please guys, show the girl geeks here a little respect. It's not fun for them to be bombarded with images of impossibily beautiful women in the media. It's not fun for them to have to put up with their mothers complaining that they should spend less effort on the career and more time finding a suitable husband and producing grandchildren. The last thing these wonderful women need is to be bombarded with this type of "geek girls are ugly" crap on slashdot.
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You appear to run (or at least promote) a website that makes reference cards for C and Chesmtry. I have no use for those. So by your logical, that's just sad...
I really fail to see how you can justify making those kind of trollish comments about this.
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