Rottweilers Ate My Laptop

Rottweilers. Computers. Cameras. World Domination. Not necessarily in that order.

Rottweilers.
Computers. Cameras.
World Domination.
Not necessarily in that order.

Searching for the truth, or… something

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When my dogs are doing nothing cute or productive, nothing newsworthy is happening in my hometown(s), and my muse is AWOL, I can always turn to my search terms stats to see what questions I should have answered here!

Rally sign holders: I think I did actually answer this question for at least some of my searchers! Rally obedience signs: the illustrated version! is my most popular post to date. I guess I should try giving actual information with helpful pictures a little more often, huh? The irony is that not only am I not a dog training expert, I’m just barely getting started in rally obedience. Hey, but I have great practice signs!

I know my answer is disappointing to those who need indoor sign holders. I am currently trying to find the best price on small cones (think soccer or rugby cones) which can work well indoors, and you will need cones anyway to set up your spirals and serpentines.

And if you were looking for rally signs as in protest signs… sorry!

vps vs laptop: I didn’t really understand this one, unless VPS stands for something other than virtual private server. You wouldn’t generally compare a virtual private server and a personal laptop computer, so I’m still mystified. Sorry, guess I couldn’t answer the question after all. But I will take the opportunity to plug my most excellent VPS provider WiredTree, and state my preference for Apple and Sony laptops, and that still keeps me on topic, sort of.

Why do so many restaurants serve tilapia: Beats the heck out of me. I won’t eat it, and I explained why a while back. But even the word “tilapia” makes me laugh, so that’s a benefit for me.

(NaBloPoMo | June ’09: 23 of 30 | 75% Challenge: 150 of 274)

A Tale of Tilapia (30 of 31/65 of 274)

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If I’ve ever puzzled or offended you by the choking-back-a-laugh noise I usually make whenever someone mentions eating tilapia, please let me explain. I am generally a pretty logical person, but tilapia is one thing for which logic cannot prevail for me. I know that the tilapia sold at the warehouse store and supermarket, and served at fine restaurants (insert that choking noise here), is farm-raised. I know that its (reportedly) mild flavor is a perfect backdrop for some creative and sophisticated sauces. I also know that despite my general love of seafood, I will never eat tilapia (choking noise again).

When I was growing up in Honolulu, no one I know would ever have thought about eating tilapia. Tilapia lived in dirty canals like the Ala Moana Canals and Ala Wai Canal. They supposedly eat algae, but being bottom-feeders, that means they also sucked up the other disgusting stuff at the bottom of the canal. If you fished for tilapia, it was solely for fun, and you would throw them back in the filthy water from whence they came. In other words, not something that anyone would willingly put in their mouth.

I don’t remember exactly when tilapia made the move from the canals to the fish farms, but I do remember the great amount of amusement it gave me every time I heard of some upscale restaurant serving tilapia. The fancier the restaurant, the bigger the laugh for me, as I was of course picturing fancy schmancy people catching canal tilapia.

The height of my illogical amusement came when I saw an article in the Norridge/Harwood Heights local newspaper about an aquaculture project at my husband’s high school. Just a few miles from where we live now, the students there were raising… yes, you guessed it… tilapia! I got way too much pleasure at asking him whether he was disappointed that he had never been able to participate in a tilapia farming project during his years there.

So, yes. I know it’s totally illogical. But I don’t think I’ll ever be able to eat tilapia, unless someone tricks me into trying it. Umm. Do not get any ideas, please and thank you. And thank you for ignoring that little choking noise I make when you mention how tasty your tilapia was at lunch!