Charismatic Dog

All credit to the good folks at “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” for this one. The geniuses of Mattel have come up with a great new Barbie Doll: Barbie Doll & Tanner Dog (Walmart.com). From Walmart’s description:

This very special Barbie doll is accompanied by her pet dog Tanner. Tanner is soft and fuzzy, and his mouth, ears, head and tail move — just like a real dog. Tanner comes with a dog bone and chew toys, and you can open his mouth to “feed” him dog biscuits. When Tanner has to go to the bathroom, Barbie doll cleans up with her special magnetic scooper and trash can.

Click the link above to see the detailed picture of the little “Biscuits” that look a whole lot like little blocks of dog crap that will happily roll through the dogs mouth and out the rear. They even have Barbie armed with pooper scooper in hand with a little “biscuit” stuck to the end.

Hardest I laughed all week.

I have too much to do. So why am I taking a break to write about it you may ask. Well, nothing like a little timeout to put you back on focus. And lordy, could I use some focus.

Show on the 29th. It’s a Wednesday which means most of you that still bother to read this won’t be able to make it, but if’n for some reason you can let me know and I’ll see about a “guest list”.

I started wondering the other day about being my own boss and setting my own schedule. Really digging into work in a way that umm… worked for me. I suspect I’d be somewhat spectacularly bad at it for a while, but it doesn’t stop the siren song of working when I’ve got the itch to work from calling my name.

Oh well, maybe someday…

Hope everyone’s doing well.

Rumsfeld as Bad Application via boingboing

This about sums it up for me, and I think most of the rest of the country. I can imagine that it would be very painful to go out this way and that it’s not a nice time to make fun of Rumsfeld, but I can’t even begin to imagine the pain of losing a child/spouse/parent serving over in the waste of life that is the Iraq war.

The second largest threat to Democracy–after touch-screen voting machines–is possibly the idea that voting your conscience makes no difference/is a wasted vote. I’ve never been so insulted in my life. The idea that you should vote for least worst of two major wastes of space gets you no further than than having a waste of space in charge. Having said that I will be a little sad if the bigger waste of space keeps his job in the state house the next four years. Oh well, I always want the best…