Suave, como mantequilla en un chango peron.
A friend of mine pointed me to this show, Robot Chicken, some time ago. He said it was really funny and I never got around to watching it. But then I found these clips on starwars.com. All three parts here make up the entire 30 minute show that ran on cartoon network.
Its really funny stuff and worth watching if you have the time.
At some point I am going to have to try to catch the show on TV some time.
Seems that my illustrious employer has need of my services in Seattle, WA for a few days next month. I am going to be ferrying a small business plane out to the West Coast that we use for flight testing equipment. A certain program that is based out in that area is in need of someone to sit in the back of the plane and apparently do nothing but flip a switch when the say so is given to start the equipment running. Flipping switches and pushing buttons is something I have excelled at since I have been here.
The fun part is going to be the 8+ hour flight out to Seattle on this little plane that tops out around 200 mph. It’s gonna be a long ride.
I really just recently stumbled upon Scott Adam’s Dilbert Blog. I had seen the links to it on the Dilbert home page for quite a while but I had never read it. Until I got my latest newsletter and there was an excerpt in it. This one to be specific. Make sure to go check it out sometime. He’s really a funny guy. My cubemate was giving me weird looks as I laughed out loud at this one.
From The Dilbert Blog:
Last week, my in-laws were in town. While they were out visiting some other relatives, I took my turn watching their dog, Mollie. At this point, I should pause and mention that I haven’t had a dog since I was a kid. And in those days, in the country, when the dog felt nature’s call, we’d simply let the dog out, and it would use any part of our 2.5 acres as its toilet. Later, if you wanted to throw a ball around, you just kicked the (usually) frozen logettes to the side to clear a path. In those simple times, you weren’t playing a sport unless someone ended up covered in dog feces. It was just part of the game.These days, things are quite different. Today, if you go to school covered in dog feces, there’s a stigma. And of course there’s the leash law. But nothing takes the joy out of a walk in the fresh air quite like being required to carry a plastic purse full of dog poop.Back to my story, I took Mollie for a walk, thinking I understood how this process worked. The leash was no mystery. It had a cool spring action with a pistol grip. I liked that part. And I grabbed an official poop bag on the way out of the house. I was ready for anything.
Within a minute, Mollie laid down a steamer. I think she had been eating the cat food, because it wasn’t the firm little log I was expecting. But I soldiered on, turning the bag inside out like a glove, and grabbing the warm pile that melted in my hand. It wasn’t pleasant in the usual sense of the word, but I experienced some satisfaction in a job well done. I tied the bag into a tidy little package and intended to head home.
That’s when I noticed Mollie had just begun to poop. I don’t know if she was trying to spell “HELP” in case a rescue plane flew over, or what, but by now she was in full production. Step, squat, step, squat.
I looked at my tidy little bag, now sealed, and realized I was screwed. I knew the neighbors would be looking, or feared they might. I couldn’t leave this Katrina-sized disaster and get another bag lest someone think, incorrectly, that I had abandoned my doody. So I decided to see if I could untie the pooper bag and have another go at the new deposits. This plan did not work as smoothly as I had hoped.
Do you know what is NOT effective for picking up warm piles of poop? If you guessed “other warm piles of poop,” you might have been in this situation yourself. It was like trying to pick up mashed potatoes with a catcher’s mitt. And I was hurrying, so needless to say, back at the house I needed the Karen Silkwood treatment to feel clean again.
Later, when my in-laws returned, I told the story. Larry, a laid-back gentleman from Arkansas, turned to his wife Cheryl and drawled “Mollie double-bagged him.” Let me tell you, the only thing that could have made my experience worse was finding out my in-laws have a name for it.
