Clay Dowling's blog

Check out the Hunting Poodles that a woman in Loveland, Texas is breeding and training. This doesn't come as a great revelation to me because I've heard of others doing it. But it's still very cool.

http://mosaicartsource.wordpress.com/category/mosaics/architectural-mosa...

This has to be one of the coolest pieces of found sculpture, i.e. art created from trash, that I have ever seen. Cool enough, in fact, that when city officials found the artist building the piece on land that he wasn't supposed to be on, they gave him the land, a salary, and workers to complete the project.

Yes, I realize that robins have been around for a couple of months now. But Aiden brought us his first robin of spring this evening. That makes him the first of the cats to score a robin this spring, which is kind of surprising since he's not out strongest hunter. Still proud of our boy though, and happy to see that he's doing his part to keep of the reputation of our cats.

The patio bricks are now all cut and placed (pictures to follow). I was able to finish the rest of the cuts (fan, edges and circle) in one afternoon thanks to my new tub saw. The 10" blade cuts a brick in one pass, allowing me to make neater edges and to work a lot faster.

Patio Construction continues today, the third day of work. Saturday and Sunday I worked from Can See to Can't See, along with my wife. Michael and his friend Ryan worked through most of the day on Saturday as well, hauling gravel.

Adelfa Passing BricksThe circles and fans consumed a lot more time than we realized. They look really cool, but they added a day to the construction.

Weather permitting, we're scheduled to start building our patio this weekend. Materials are delivered on Friday. Saturday morning from can see to can't see we'll be outside hauling and compacting gravel.

Those of you who are regular visitors may have noticed that not all is right with the world of our site. The most noticeable issue is the crazy giant pictures appearing everywhere. There's also a good chance that you are getting funny red error messages sometimes when you press a button. If you get that, please copy the text and email it to me (click the Contact link at the left). I've tried to get the most common of those messages, but there are still a few that I haven't caught up with.

The Desktop GUI development space has been owned by Borland and Microsoft pretty much since that space existed. The free software world has started to catch up though. Four packages have combined to make an excellent development environment for GUI applications.

For Christmas I bought the family a new video card, so that we could actually use the full resolution of our existing monitor. Joke was on me though, because the new video card used a new kind of video cable that our existing monitor couldn't connect to. So I had to wait a little while to get a new monitor.

I played with the LOLCat Builder over at I Can Has Cheezburger and came up with these creations:

• Parrot no suspects
• Your shoes, dey has a present
• Flavor: they haz it