Quotes of the Moment
July, 2010 |
The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.
-- Molly Haskell
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
-- Gertrude Stein
We praise a man who is angry on the right grounds, against the right persons, in the right manner, at the right moment, and for the right length of time.
-- Aristotle
All good books have one thing in common -- they are truer than if they had really happened.
-- Hemingway
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.
-- J. B. S. Haldane
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| Doggie Reading |
Had to get Jean Donaldson's new book -- and DVD -- Train Your Dog Like a Pro.
Donaldson gives some nicely organized recipes for shaping this or that behavior. That's one of her strengths, one of the strengths of her method. She's less convincing or helpful in dealing with behaviors that aren't reducible for discrete shaping. She makes very good teaching point in emphasizing 5 tries to determine when to push, stick, or drop.
Five is an easy number for people to keep track of. (Really, most pet trng students aren't going to do the kind of careful bookkeeping Donaldson's recipes would demand.) Her approach makes shaping by +R/-P manageable for pet trainers.
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Cleaning out me mum's apt, I found my misplaced copy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first of the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. It's quite good -- Lisbeth Salander is a very intriguing heroine -- although I'm sure I'm missing a lot of context because I don't know anything about Swedish history and culture. The map on the Larsson web site helps a little
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Subject line: book review for Doglinks |
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