Build Your Own Dog Wagon 55
An anonymous reader writes "Philip Greenspun isn't the only Web-site innovator with an interest in dogs, airplanes, photography, and travel. While Kyler Laird appears to operate on a budget that's a couple of orders of magnitude lower, his description of
adventures in dog-cart development
exhibit the same virtues of technical specificity and lucidity."
old news (Score:4, Funny)
But what about.... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, all those dogs in a RAID array... sure to run fast.
Or reliable.
Or some combination thereof.
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Unfortunately when a member craps out it's a little messier to rectify...
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Sweet! I'm going pick up a few mutts from a shelter for my very own Redundant Array of Inexpensive Dogs.
No need for expensive purebreds.
Budget... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, his web server sure doesn't show it.
too bad greenspun's a caricature of himself now (Score:2, Flamebait)
ooo, shiny! (Score:2)
It's worse- the guy who started photo.net, one of the internet's oldest photography resource sites, hasn't uploaded a photo or posted in almost two years. But he's had time to write a blog almost every day. It reminds me of the "oo, shiny" phenomenon.
For all his talk of ideals, I think he just wanted to make money off it, like every other MIT professor, it seems. When it became clear phoot.net wasn't going to be making him rich with an IPO and all, he ba
already (Score:3, Funny)
Egads. Its late on a Friday night. I guess only people who have nowhere to be this weekend would be on slashdot.
oh wait....
Actually... (Score:1)
I got the darn Starfleet Dress uniform all ready for it and everything, what a waste. What a P'taQ!
Re:already (Score:2)
A note at the end of the article reads:
Re:already (Score:2, Insightful)
This paragraph pretty clearly states why the Slashdot editors should try to seek permission, or at least alert the site owners, before linking. We all think it is cute when a site bursts into flames as we all hit it simultaneously, but a lot of small businesses, hobbyists, and so forth, cannot afford to have some giant T3s attached to the latest and best clustered servers on the off-chance that Slashdot would link to them.
However, when it does happen, it's like a Lottery of Suck: sites go down, fees get
teaser (Score:3, Funny)
Kyler Laird is creepy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Kyler Laird is creepy (Score:3, Funny)
Kyler might have had certain breed-specific obsessions. Stalking is always bad manners, and generally well-trained canines do not indulge in this behavior.
I'm glad your roomate managed to get him restrained. Hopefully it was a harness and not just a collar.
And I saw her face... (Score:1)
not a trace of doubt in my mind.
I started thinking about these things 25 years ago (Score:5, Interesting)
Since that time I've "designed" several variants, also in my head, but I ran into a slight problem on approaching the development phase.
I don't particularly care for dogs.
My cats don't particularly care for the idea of being hitched up to a cart either.
And thus technology is set back decades by the peculiarities of a single man.
Oh, yeah, you can also already buy one commercially, so it's not like it's really a novel idea (mushers use them to keep their dogs in shape during the summer season. My idea is to make an ultralight one specifically tuned for running in the modern urban enviroment. Carbon fiber, racing bicycle wheels, that sort of thing).
Here's an example:
Dog Cart [216.239.41.104]
KFG
Re:I started thinking about these things 25 years (Score:1)
I'd guess they have to try to talk a new woman into trying it for every performance.
KFG
Lil' Rascals (Score:2)
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Good grief (Score:5, Funny)
Has to be said.... (Score:4, Funny)
Sorry, let the karma burn...
It had to be said., I can imagine a (Score:4, Funny)
Oblig. (Score:1, Redundant)
My personal variant. (Score:2, Interesting)
Several years ago we got our first dog, an Alaskan Malemute. They're bred to pull sleds, so I decided to "walk" her while wearing my roller blades. The results were exhilarating. The only way for me to stop once she got up to speed was to let go of the leash, fall down, or wait for her to stop/turn. Cats coming into view proved very dangerous.
Who needs roller coasters when you've got a dog and skates?
Slashdot...my new calandar (Score:1, Interesting)
Dog carts. (Score:1, Interesting)
You'd know that if you read some Sherlock Holmes. They need to call this something else.
Sounds like another... (Score:1)
All you need to go along with the wagon... (Score:3, Funny)
we had one of those... (Score:2)
Dog Weapon? (Score:1)
But will it work with my.... (Score:2)