Through many phone calls and references, we found someone who was not the dog’s owner, but has lived around here their entire life and sort of has a knack for finding lost dogs (or having them find her) and reuniting beast with master.

She’s sweet on animals, so we felt comfortable letting her take the dog with, and hopefully she’ll find the family who’s missing her or another good fit. Because the family that’s missing her really should have cared enough to put tags on the dog, huh? One would think.



Why I love “The Matrix”
Yes I know the film’s like 10 years old now (can you believe that?), but I just got through watching it a couple of days ago and I must say that to me, it’s the de facto standard for science fiction flicks.

Most science fiction movies sort of force you to accept a certain level of disbelief in order to swallow it. Star Wars? OK, so in a galaxy far far away, everyone is human. Yeah…. But with The Matrix? They have everything covered. It’s so cleanly devised, there’s really no way you can say “Yeah but it’s not real,” because by its very design it could be. They explain nuances of our existence such as Déja vu. They explain how the existence we accept as reality is really just a construct designed to have us believe that as truth. It’s so unbelievably perfect, that you’d swear that there’s no way a silly sci-fi action flick could be the first to develop such a concept.

And you’d be right. The concept is many, many, many, many, MANY years old. It’s been around for many a century, played with by the philosopher Decartes & Aristotle, as well as others. The basic concept is called the “Brain-in-a-Vat.” There’s still holes in this theory too, but it’s been the basis of many an argument for human rationale & our perceptions of reality & how our interactions define it (is the Matrix real? What is real?).

You can sit & watch this movie, and be completely enthralled with what’s going on, and not have any moments where you think “yeah but the idea of this is preposterous,” or “that’s too unbelievable to swallow,” because they are essentially giving you the reality you know, then explaining to you in succinct fashion that your reality is a lie, and explain how what you're seeing is in reality, reality. Sweet.

Most sci-fi’s don’t explain anything. There’s a big hole right at the beginning where you just accept that all aliens look like humans & talk english, or that necromongers kill all aliens that are not them (who all look human), or that aliens from Mars (which has no living, complex life forms) appear to eat our brains (Martians just happen to need to eat brain cells of humans, a species on a completely different planet? What a coincidence, huh?). There’s no “far far way,” no “in the future,” no “special training ops” or anything like that. It’s the reality you’ve been told to believe, and philosophically it’s dead on.

OK, so the 2nd and 3rd films are a little flimsy & preachy & weak; they weren’t supposed to be made, and besides I didn’t say ‘why I love The Matrix Trilogy’ I said just ‘The Matrix’ and was very measured in that.

I know what I’m talking about here, OK? I got an A in philosophy.

But to mention it one more again: this film is almost 10 years old. Does it really seem like it was that long ago to you? Seems like a few or so to me, not nearly a decade passed. Must be getting old.

Oh well. Peace.

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