Sahel Hound

The Trouble with Open Sewers

Brian Reiter — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:34:19 +0000

The trouble is it is damn easy to drive into them. I’ve seen taxis with their front-ends in and their back ends up in the air. I’ve seen the right half of a Land Cruiser go in so the other two wheels are up in the air and the entire car is balanced on its axles.

Yesterday, I saw a big Mercedes lorry go in.

I don’t know how they got that thing out but it was gone in the morning.

Obstacle

Brian Reiter — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:55:27 +0000

On the way home from school with the kids, I came across a bit of an obstacle in the road. Someone left a bit of machinery parked in my way and went home for the day. What isn’t obvious from the photo is that there were cars piled up behind me blaring and a u-turn is nearly impossible because of the open sewer.

I did manage to get around this behemoth by squeezing between it an the sign on the right.

Dusky Blurs

Brian Reiter — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:00:34 +0000

At twilight, playful wresting often preceeds warp speet chase gams.

Tawzalt capers through the bamboo thicket at dusk.

Dog in a Truck

Brian Reiter — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:27:15 +0000

I took this photo with my phone from my car near the new Vodafone head office in Accra, Ghana (one of the big buildings in the background). The dog has some Azawakh-like characteristics but with a major pot belly. Maybe he has a belly full of worms?

A Windows 8 View of Azawakh

Brian Reiter — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:57:46 +0000

I’ve been trying out the Windows 8 developer preview M3 alpha. A big part of the point of Windows 8 is that it does away with the start menu and replaces it with a “Metro” interface inspired by Windows Phone. It also adds a new style of Metro apps which are very iPad-like but will basically run across the whole line from tablets to super-powerful workstations. The Metro UI is very cool. One of the same Metro apps is an RSS news aggregator. Here’s what it does to Azawakh Nation.

Screenshots of the Windows 8 News App

Cool, huh?

Sentinel vs Vandal

Brian Reiter — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:56:36 +0000

Sentinel

Tawzalt is scanning the garden, alert for intruders while I am having a wee dram of the Bowmore 12 on the porch. She is very distrustful of the staff in the neighboring apartment building who enjoy watching us over our garden wall during shift changes. In the background you can just make out our actual night guard in the little guard house.

Vandals

When not keeping an eye on the neighborhood, nighttime is a good time for group hole-digging. Zel gets the hole started while Tawzalt inspects his work.

They follow this up whith a high-speed chase game and wrestling match which my phone has no chance of photographing in the pitch black.

Two Speeds

Brian Reiter — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:18:16 +0000

Zero

I awakened with too many mammals in our bed. Cassandra was curled up with Azelouan and Tawzalt was apparently displaced so that she decided to flop down on my face which was a minor obstacle in the way of the pillow.

Zoom

Tawzalt is having a game of chase with Zel in our garden in Ghana. She is careening around a stand of bamboo. Zel is faster than Tawzalt on a straightaway but when she is in the mood to run she is very fast and can turn in any direction in one stride. She can also keep going and going and going—I think because she is so light.

Levrier Azawakh (video in French)

Brian Reiter — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:37:59 +0000

Peek around

Brian Reiter — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:21:05 +0000

Tawzalt is peeking around behind Azelouan. They are hoping that I have something to feed them.

The dogs are reluctant to cross the threshold into the kitchen ever since Tawzalt knocked a broom over causing a huge ruckus. Overall, it’s an advantageous situation because it greatly limits their counter surfing opportunities.

Photos from the yard

Brian Reiter — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:00:20 +0000