Why?

I'm pretty sure no one reads my blog....I was going to say bleeds my rog.  And now I did.
It's fine.  It's art.

More (boring) on email and (yay!) Dogs

There is SO much evidence that dogs are better.  First, they don't generally live as long as we do.   Initially this troubled me.   But look:   they live their perfect dog lives more efficiently than we do.
They get along without silly "abstract thought."   I'm sure there's research on this, but though it makes sense to say "My dog thought your dog was going to hurt him,"  there was not a "thought" involved.
(And "did he draw blood?  oooh,  sorry")

All the best things bypass the brain.   I am currently having a great deal of trouble understanding the value of the brain, the "thinking" part.

Dogs do not, as far as I know, use email.   So they don't have to wonder "Should I send this??"   I think it's very very important for us who do use email to have this thought.   Do I really need to send this?
You see, you know, I hate getting email.  Nothing to do with reason.  Email feels like an assault; and the ones meant for me are the worst, worse than any spam, because they are ALL calls to action.  Well, most are.  And I have to digest them, wade through misspellings, poor syntax, all that, and then....ewww... reply.  But it occurred to me that if I really believe all emails to be assaults, then if I reply, I am assaulting back.   I have vowed to wait at least 30 minutes before sending ANY email.  And ask that question several times:  "Really, really does this person need this reply??"   Likely not.

While I was musing on these things, my email server went down --  for most of a day ---   and I couldn't send anything, nor receive.  I felt neutered.   The dogs, one of whom is already neutered, felt and thought nothing.  His tail was not between his legs all day, like mine was.

More 'What's Better?!"

Back by popular demand.....

What's worse?

Fleas or bees  (fleas)
corncobs or hay futures
hey or hay

See, What's Worse? is not as funny as "What's Better."   Try it yourself.

I guess what makes them funny is that some are what used to be called "category mistakes"(as in Aristotelian) and some are not.

lacking an appendix or lacking an index
or lacing a tenny shoe

Lacking a tenny shoe is not a category mistake, but lacing an index pretty much is.

your finger or my thumb

good brakes or bad breaks

I give up or I don't give up

This is silly or this is really really silly