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Build Your Own Dog Wagon
Posted by
michael
on Fri May 28, 2004 10:10 PM
from the mush dept.
from the mush dept.
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."
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old news (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.minirank.com/)
But what about.... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday November 03 2004, @12:45PM)
Yeah, all those dogs in a RAID array... sure to run fast.
Or reliable.
Or some combination thereof.
Re: But what about.... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday March 27 2002, @09:26PM)
Budget... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.drgw.net/~nnthayer)
Well, his web server sure doesn't show it.
too bad greenspun's a caricature of himself now (Score:2, Flamebait)
(http://www.carnageblender.com/)
already (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday November 03 2004, @12:45PM)
Egads. Its late on a Friday night. I guess only people who have nowhere to be this weekend would be on slashdot.
oh wait....
teaser (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday July 15 2004, @08:29PM)
Kyler Laird is creepy (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday October 21 2004, @01:35PM)
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
Good grief (Score:5, Funny)
Has to be said.... (Score:4, Funny)
(http://davidgbrown.tripod.com/)
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)
(http://www.nerdwatch.com/)
All you need to go along with the wagon... (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Saturday January 27 2007, @03:18PM)
we had one of those... (Score:2)
(http://www.acidchat.net/ | Last Journal: Thursday January 29 2004, @04:09PM)
Dog Weapon? (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Saturday March 02 2002, @08:43AM)
But will it work with my.... (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Tuesday July 20 2004, @07:33AM)