Not only is this cool financially, it’s environmentally friendly too.

Good for you.

Both, I think.

“charlie and spike are two kittens with myotonia congenita, otherwise known as ‘fainting goat’ syndrome. at the slightest sound, the kittens respond by collapsing and falling into a rigid paralysis which lasts about a minute before they return to normal.”

The kicker? SHE DOESN’T EXIST.

She’s a computer generated hologram.

So, is it a Japanese oddity, or the future of bubblegum pop?

He asks for requests from the audience, then attempts to play them live. Some of them are truly brilliant. I want an MP3 of this to listen to, it’s so bang on and so beautiful:

Darth Vaders Theme (Imperial March) in the style of Beethoven (sorry for just a link, embedding is turned off for this video)

Also listen to his Muppets Theme in the Style of a Bach Fugue, Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” in the style of a Tango and “James Bond” and “Pink Panther” themes as a double fugue

Setup #2: All of the kids are on a Calvin and Hobbes jag right now. They have all of the books out from the library and they quote the strips and explain their favourites all the time.

Today I came up from work for dinner and my son Joshua had an invention to demonstrate for me:  The Thinker 3000. It’s based on the Cerebral Enhance-O-Tron from Calvin and Hobbes.

YouTube – The Thinker 3000.

We must have seen Airplane! a dozen times by the time I graduated high school. After seeing these clips, I don’t think I could watch Zero Hour! all the way through without reciting dialogue from Airplane!

Her name is Diva. She’s a labradoodle that was just retired from breeding. She’s going to be 5 in June.

Her mother is a medium standard poodle, and her father is an F1 labradoodle, so she’s 3/4 poodle, 1/4 lab.

She got a bath to get her smelling like a dog instead of like a kennel full of dogs. Wow, does her hair hold water…

Then she spent some time soaking her feet, which are a little raw (we’re guessing from the concrete floors at the breeder).

Here she is!

She’s always that mellow. We’ve never heard her bark. She will let us examine her paws, play with her food while she’s eating, examine inside her ears, just about anything without a fuss at all. She already walks on a slack leash (no dragging us around!). She sleeps through the night in her crate at the foot of our bed. She never jumps up on anyone or anything. We can’t believe how great she is.

Now if we can just get her to “do her business” in the right place in the backyard…

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