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Human beings are creatures made up of their experiences or layman’s terms, the things they are taught. Either on tv, books, in person etc… and as these new generations grow with massive over abundance of technology and internet, the lines of culture and societal norms are blurring. Is this a good thing? I don’t know, though I am fairly sure I wouldn’t call it good, but I also wouldn’t call it bad.

It simply is what it is, different.

You see the younger generations may be able to step further outside of what they are taught. Learning to make up their own minds adapt and change in a way that suits their needs and desires. The line is “Change the world one person at a time,” but we all know that is a crock of shit. Change, world change, personal change etc… is going to happen regardless. Hell it is practically impossible to change a household full of people in the same way (good or bad) the idea of changing billions the same way? Yeah I am not one for absolute statements, but I think one applies here…. IMPOSSIBLE!

Yet still, the younger generations may have the option to do what many of us were never taught how to do. They may be able to understand that a behavior they were taught is destructive, and know how to change it.

Of course, on the other hand, they now have more access to things which may not be culturally acceptable, in their homes, neighborhoods, cities, or even countries. For whatever reason. Be it how to make  a bomb (go you little whack job terrorist, perpetuate that stereotype! Woohoo!!! *annoyed stare*), or maybe even just access to a different philosophical bend than in normal for their culture. Though in some countries that has the same judicial implications as that lovely little bomb… *shudder*  (BTW, for you weirdos, this is obviously sarcasm)

The problem with change like this, is that us older folks, with all of our bad habits or behaviors, are still in the positions of control world wide. It is very unlikely that even if we are technophiles, like myself, we will be able to learn the same lessons as those with younger more adaptive minds.The older a human becomes the harder it is for us to change, because chemically our brains change. Things become hard wired, skills and philosophies become deeply ingrained and  the ability to adapt and change easily, is gone. Most of us have not have been taught how to change, and we are not likely to learn.  So we find ourselves trapped, in the hells of our own making. What’s worse is that we find ourselves suddenly  experienced enough to recognize those hells, yet still unable to do anything about them. It feels like being trapped in a glass bowl, no matter how hard we bang on that glass, the ocean outside continues to swim by, utterly unaware or even uncaring about our pretty little bowl. See, mine has brightly colored plastic plants! A little bedazzling and BAZINGA!!!! (BBT)

In many philosophies and mythologies there is some type of purgatory or hell. This is a place where we the damned are tortured and punished for our crimes, but in my experiences, no one is able to punish us better than ourselves. Especially if we believe we deserve it. Was it* really a crime? Not always in the legal sense, but our minds aren’t controlled by socially accepted laws, they are controlled by emotion… thought… experiences. So here is my question…. If we live in the hell of our own making, which we have already said is much more powerful than anything anyone else can impose on us, wouldn’t the hell of someone else’s making be a reprieve?

* Denotes whatever we have done to be damned by various philosophical bends. There is not a human being on the planet that hasn’t broken some philosophical rule or law, so don’t pretend to rule yourself out. You know what you did.

Any of you reading may or may not know that I have been an artist off and on since I was a very small child. Some of my artwork is decent, while the rest of it is pretty much crap, as the portfolios to the left can attest. This week though I picked up a new hobby. Well, it isn’t entirely new, but hopefully this time it will be more successful, in either case.

The ZBrush program is massive and incredibly daunting, but as 3d programs, or art programs in general go, it is fairly well documented and user friendly. SO far I am having immense fun playing with it. I am only on day three, but I thought I would share today’s project with you. I made several error’s and some of them were utterly unrecoverable, but over all it isn’t all that bad for my first start to finish project in ZBrush. For any of you that know anything about art, ZBrush is a 2.5 to 3d art suite that offers a lot of flexibility and start to finish art and modeling work. While you still need an external rendering suite such as 3D Studio, it is none the less an amazingly powerful application. Oh and it was also used to build all of the characters and models you saw int eh movie Avatar.

Oh, and these are screen captures… I really haven’t figured out how to save the off or anything. For some reason they are a little grainy, *shrug* oh well.

Sometimes things can just be too adorable. I have always been a proponent of the idea that baby anythings (humans, animals etc) are cute only because if they weren’t, we would kill them. This particular puppy however like beat me about the head and shoulders every day with how adorable he is. He draws the attention of just about anyone and everyone that sees him and I am constantly amazed as not only his behaviors, but his ability to melt the hearts (and sometimes minds) of the people he meets. I have not only owned, but worked with many many dogs, and this puppy, while still a puppy and therefore prone to mistakes, is by far the easiest animal I have ever had the privilege to train. I can say that I have finally found the perfect breed for me, and will likely never own anything but a Bouvier from here one out.

but enough yammering, on to the adorableness…

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Well, the name of the company and the logo are done at this point… so from here we just have to train the dogs, set up the web site, the PAWS Pack for parents and the interviews etc… in other words, the easy stuff is done… now comes the hard stuff.

Holidays are upon us and the fact that we are in a new home is evident by the sparse decorations, but I am happy to say that we were able to at least look like we love the season.

While I have been giving him sani’s and shaving the ears and head a tad while I socialize him to grooming. Today was his first full haircut. He did fairly well considering the fact that he was 8 weeks old. I really don’t recommend trying this for non professional groomers and professional breeders. The puppy can get seriously hurt. Now that my disclaimer is over with, on to the adorable pictures.

This web page may not get updated as often as the Facebook page, but it will be the only place to find real pics of the little guy rather than just phone pics of him, so check back at least once a week for the pretty pics of this handsome guy!

Please remember that galleries like the one below get updated as pictures are added, so there will not be new posts for the 6th week, there will only be new posts at 7 weeks and 8 weeks and so on.

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I am tired, but loving little Sheldon. I am not posting here as much as I would like, but his facebook page is getting updated fairly regularly. Check it out at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001847708343

Sheldon came home today. He was a little fussy when I first put him in the crate but calmed down and began napping almost instantly. He woulda made it all the way home with no trouble if is wasn’t for one of my typical screw ups and had to drive back. Then I needed gas. Shortly after he started crying really bad so we found a safe quiet little oath of grass in some nice phonicean’s front yard and he immediately squatted and peed. I was so proud.

He then quieted down and went back to sleep. Once home we went to the softball field next door and had Jess bring Arie out. They met in neutral ground. Arie sniffed him briefly and wandered off. She is a little jealous, but otherwise uncaring. After a brief stint of “king of the mommy”, (which I know better than to do, yes) we went outside while I ate my lunch. He just laid there next to me and watched Arie run back and forth.

He is now peacefully sleeping in his pen next to me.

ADDED: Not sure which is more annoying, the fact that this program now works on my iPad, but not my iPhone or it not working at all. Since this machine can’t take pictures or easily receive pictures from my iPhone… They may be about the same.

However, may I introduce the Hopeful beginning to the future I began in 1996… Yeah, you ponder that one for a bit…

Meet, Sheldon. In my household we have Anthony DiNozo, Leeroy Jethrow Gibbs, Mr Spock, and Arie. We have had in the past, Shaggy, Fizgig and Al Giordino. Now, for those of you that aren’t serious movie and tv buffs these are characters from on screen. All except the odd German Shepard out, Arie. Still no idea why I named her that. Sheldon is no exception. He is named after Dr. Sheldon Cooper from the tv sitcom “Big Bang Theory.” if you consider yourself an intellectual and like intelligent comedy, you will fall out of your preverbal chair from watching even one episode. I highly recommend it!

My little “Shellie” will be called Dr. Sheldon when he earns a title in front of his name in either obedience or conformation, the former being more likely considering my intended focus with his career. Check in occasionally for updated photo’s and stories of his progression. You can also follow him on Facebook at the a dress below.

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PREVIOUSLY: I used to have this great iPhone app for the wordpress blog that I currently run on this site. Evidently, recently they fixed it so that the app can only be used by those people hosting wordpress on their servers… so looks like I will be changing the web page soon and removing WordPress from my usual web maintenences recommendations for people… nice going marketing… that really blows too I liked being able to take pics with my phone and posting them up on the site, but so much for that.

For now though, if you are interested in following Sheldon The Bouvier, then you will have to follow him on his facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001847708343

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