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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		You Make the Call. Posted on 11/19/2001. Yesterday, I hung out with a woman who claimed that she liked pugs, in part, because they resemble famed Mexican muralist painter Diego Rivera. You decide. 5 comments so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "OOH!" Next entry: "A few thoughts on working together." Comments: COMMENT #1 Definitely yes. In fact, pugs were first bred by an obsessed fan of the artist. The eccentric breeder's own pug was called DR Fumidor Our Lady of Guadalupe. It won best in show at the 1950 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, narrowly beating out a shih tzu, a standard poodle and a bichon frise. I'm surprised you all don't know this. Posted by April Karys @ 11/19/2001 11:53 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #2 "...pugs were first bred by an obsessed fan of the artist." How in the world do you breed a dog to look like your favorite human? Posted by Sarah @ 11/19/2001 12:03 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #3 Which one is the real Robert de Niro? Posted by BJMe @ 11/20/2001 08:58 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #4 According to his third wife Frida, Diego had a frog's face (she told him this after he told her she had the face of a dog). Diego was dubbed her "frog prince"... Therefore, it's far more probable that Kermit was created in Diego's likeness. :-) Posted by webchick @ 11/22/2001 08:21 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #5 oops...here's that Kermit link :-) Posted by webchick @ 11/22/2001 08:23 AM PST [link to this comment] Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.