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Showing posts with label electronic sheep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electronic sheep. Show all posts

Monday, March 23, 2009

Shepherdesslove?


Shopgirlove has a confession to make: Lately, she has been obsessed with the idea of raising sheep. She knows zero about homesteading and even less about animal husbandry, but given how many jobs she's learned on the fly, how hard could this be? (Don't answer that, please.) They would be milk sheep and she would make cheese. Not just any cheese...perhaps an American Spenwood. (Forget the suggested wine pairing. Wine and cheese are most often an unhappy marriage.) Or perhaps something soft and flowery? (With a Yankee twist, of course.) And then there are the yogurt possibilities...sigh. Oh, and bonus? Unlimited supplies of sheep's milk!

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Orwell


Shopgirlove could gush for days about him. His essay on the toad! But for most, he is always that Big Brother guy, or the other Big Brother guy, depending on how much tv you watch. (Season 8 was a doozy.) But the other Big Brother is getting even scarier. Or funnier, depending on the mood you're in. Shopgirlove was in a pretty good mood. She was gladdened by reports that Dextre's plugged in. That led her to wondering if robots "dream of electric sheep." This, in due course, led her to a disturbing story about just how scary Big Brother can get. Good-mood-be-gone! There's a movie--Tilda Swinton, you rock! And a donation box. At the end of the day, though, it's business as usual.