Cute vid of cat in bath—who seems happy about it! (via Neatorama)
As opposed to Photon, who spends most of bathtime on her hind legs trying to get out, and so who needs two of us to keep her in the tub.
Monthly Archives: December 2007
What Meghan got for Christmas…
Wii Chores, shrinkwrapped
Laura and I (but mainly Laura) faked up the packaging for a Wii game, modelled after one of the ones Nintendo itself created. Erik contributed great hunks of the promotional copy for the back. We inserted the label into a spare DVD case, labelled a DVD inside and added a little instructional handbook (that acutally contained a gift certificate), and with that we had Meghan and Austin hovering between belief and skepticism for a good three minutes. The coup de grace was that I had carefully removed the shrink wrap off of one of Jon’s DVD presents and more or less seamlessly got it on the fake, adding that extra bit of verisimilitude. (Jon was sold; he wanted to play it before we gave it to Meghan.)
Patti (Meghan’s mom) was right though: the top right chore gave it away. We should have put one of the other chores there, no one would send this to market with the scooping of dog poop so prominently featured.
Continuing the Christmas Theme, on the Broccoli Occarina
I know only two things about this gentleman. He goes by the name Heita3 on YouTube, and he makes wind instruments out of vegetables.
Photon
I love my doggy Photon. I like to give Photon some kibbles and I also like to give Photon a kiss and a hug. When I see her I say, “Photon kisses for me”. I like to play ball with her. On Saturday, December 15/07 my daddy is going to help me video tape the ski conditions and the highway conditions.
Jon
The Boy in the Moon, Part 3
Wow. The final part of the The Boy in the Moon is up, and once again Ian Brown sums it up with grace. This time he touches on the future for his boy, and frankly, maybe our boy too. Get out the Kleenex, but read it.
I’ve been wondering about Jon’s adulthood for his entire life; Laura has too. We’ve never discussed it directly, but have occasionally touched—just grazingly—on it. When I’ve alluded to it in converstation with friends and colleagues, without fully broaching the topic, there’s often a knee-jerk response: “Every parents worries about their kid.” I don’t know how to respond. Is this an attempt to soothe my fears, or do they genuinely not understand the situation? Or not want to, perhaps.
Brown even touches on the Latimer case with very similar thoughts to ours—so much of the analysis I’ve seen over the years strips the case of the context, and the context is the key.
A superb series. Thanks for this, Ian. Give Walker a hug for us.
The Klein Four do The Twelve Days of Christmas
The Klein Four is a group of mathematics students at Northwestern University, whose cleverness knows no bounds.
Addendum: The original by the even cleverer Straight No Chaser, as mentioned by Reid below:
What’s cuter and grosser than a Pee or Poo doll?
How about roadkill stuffed animals?