Posts tagged Karma the Dog

Dogs, cats, and helping for the sake of helping – not for the sake of taking sides.

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3 months ago
by Tom in

A friend of mine posted something on Twitter today that kind of bothered me.  It seems that her office is doing a “save the dogs” campaign and she’s made it known that she is actively NOT going to participate since it excludes cats.

This has me a bit confused.

I randomly donate money and time to causes that present the chance to do good in the world.  I remember donating to help alligators once.  Alligators.  Seriously.

If I choose to NOT support something, it’s not due to the lack of inclusion of another element directly relevant to the idealism.  I do it by choice.  I didn’t choose to NOT donate to alligators because it doesn’t include OTHER animals… like crocodiles.  Doing good is just that: doing good.  Finding the negative in doing good based on exclusion’s sake is, well, negative.

The immediately analogy I came up with was this: do people who support research into breast cancer not support research to into OTHER cancers?  What about starving children?  Should I not donate to a local food shelter because it doesn’t include children from OTHER countries?

It just seems odd to me, I guess.  That said, I’d support kitty cats (and have in the past) even thought I’m a dog person.  Helping others is just good Karma.  (Double joke here for outsiders… my dog’s name is Karma.)

Karma!

Recent photos of AWESOME (and not-so-awesome) that I posted recently and you may have missed…

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1 year ago
by Tom in

My dog likes tennis balls and she becomes VERY vocal if you keep one from her.
Karma REALLY wants the ball this morning.

Print companies that have print ads should really check spelling more closely. It should read “11,000 Books”
And @RealEstateBook - in print, but can't spell? "11,000 bookS" #VeroBeach

The person at Universal Studios who did the numbering on this should be shot.
Really @UniversalEnt? You couldn't keep the numbering consistent?

Anime Weekend Atlanta reminded us that there are a LOT of Sailor Moon fans.
The Sailor Moon Panel at #AWA

Karma the Dog showed up on teh Interwebz AGAIN! Look!

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1 year ago
by Tom in

It would appear that someone recaptioned the photo of Karma I submitted a while back. :)

funny dog pictures - gotta finish doin' what I started yesterday.. NUTHIN' !!
see more dog and puppy pictures

Still testing the Tumblr interface.  And stuff.

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1 year ago
by Tom Croom on Tumblr in ,



Still testing the Tumblr interface.  And stuff.

The LiveJournal Project: August 2003

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1 year ago
by Tom in

Another post as we hop, skip and jump down memory lane through the tubes of the Internet.  What the hell were we talking about online eight years ago?  It would seem the topics included Anime Festival Orlando 4, getting a new dog (Karma the Dog,) and my grandfather getting close to passing away.  Here you go:

Another month done.  Here’s the pic from the NJ/NY Trip Report.  Since writing that, two folks in this photo have passed away.  Time marches on…

The LiveJournal Project: July 2003 (Part 2 of 2)

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1 year ago
by Tom in

I haven’t picked this up in some months, but this morning seemed like a good enough time to revisit The LiveJournal Project.  In short: When I started blogging, it was on a website called LiveJournal (yes – the same website for those of you that were paying close attention at the beginning of The Social Network.)  Last year I imported all the old posts into this blog for posterity.  The thing is, most of my LiveJournal posts were locked (aka “made private”) so I have started going back and unlocking them one at a time.

The process has been fun for me (and my friends who were around then) as we revisit the old days of convention fandom and the OMGDRAMAZ that ensued in the early days of online interaction.

Here’s the rest of July 2003:

Just because – here’s the photo from that last post:
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Karma the Dog is having an exciting night in the back yard…

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1 year ago
by Tom in

Karma has having an exciting night.

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