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So I don't have much other excuse for this than to test out a few more capabilities of Text::Textile, my RSS feed, and I guess my vim wrapper for posting entries to my blog.

Spike and I were walking in the park last night, as we normally do, and again we saw a rabbit. They weren't twitterpated . In fact, there was just one. But I noticed he was fairly bold, and didn't seem to run away as easily.

In fact, the rabbit didn't seem to want to move at all. So it was fortuitous that I happened to have my cameraphone with me. Granted, I take it with me on every walk, just in case. But I thought it would be a good time to test how the "zoom" feature on my cameraphone actually worked. Also, it seemed in my viewfinder that I could hardly tell that the brown lump in the middle of the frame was supposed to be a rabbit.

Short story, it doesn't.

It more or less just "crops" an image. Same resolution, just smaller dimensions.

I was pretty disappointed.

The good news is that I can add images to blog posts fairly easily, and the formatting allowed by Text::Textile seems to be close enough to what it purports it ought to do. Also, the images show through just fine in my newsreader of choice, so anyone reading this via the RSS feed ought to see the fluffy bunnies just fine.

Also, turns out my vim blog post wrapper doesn't mangle intended Textile formatting, at least for images. Woo!

I was walking Spike this evening like I normallly do, and I saw some rabbits frolicking in the park.

I watched one run from one end to the other while Spike was busy sniffing trees. We turned around, and when we got near the front of the park⁷, I saw two rabbits together. They were doing a little (what I can only assume was some sort of mating) dance - one would run towards the other, and the one being run towards would hop a few feet in the air. Then after landing, it would run towards the other one, which would then hop a few feet in the air.

It was really cute.

And Spike never noticed until I started calling attention to them by taking pictures of them with my camera phone.

But even then, he fairly quickly lost interest, instead turning his concentration back towards sniffing trees.

And in watching the rabbits, I couldn't help think about the word "twitterpate", which I remember from when I was a little kid watching Bambi.

Knowing that invented words sometimes make their way into dictionaries, I decided to see if in fact 'twitterpate' made its way. To my dismay, it didn't.

But I figured it had to show up somewhere, so I googled for it, only to find that it made its way into the Urban Dictionary - but I was pretty disappointed when I saw the first definition refer to twitterpated as the feeling one gets from being "stoned".

⁷ I call it the front of the park because it's the side closest to my house. Whether or not it's the actual front of the park, I don't really care :)