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I could see a dashboard holding my interest under the right circumstances.

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What they don't tell you is that they photographed the notebook with this pencil!

http://www.mcphee.com/items/M6229.html

Do you ever get out to Archie McPhee's?

I've only been to their store once, but I mail order stuff all the time. Great cubicle toys. The best rubber chickens money can buy outside an art museum :-)

Who says Librarians aren't cool?

Well, may not be a diaper, but at least it does half the job.. :)

http://www.mcphee.com/items/10727.html

If anything, Christianity is more like Linux:

So when will it be ready for the desktop?

Will THIS do?

They should make library action figure in her honor.

Take that forces of evil.

No way man! Jesus has an action figure! He'd crush them with his kung-fu grip, or bless them with his glow-in-the-dark miracle hands!

Can't mention libraries with out mentioning this:
Librarian Action Figure

We obviously need this

Geek-Mans secret love can be found here.

Einstein action figure!
only $8.95

Just like Nancy Pearl

A nice touch is the Notable Events in Library History timeline on the back of the package. 1989: The film "UHF" featured a scene where Conan the Librarian slices a borrower in half because he returned a book late.

I don't get it. I get [Red] Fez, but what do mini-carts have to do with those Arabic/Mediterranean hats?

I am surprised that no one has mentioned the alleged protective effect creatine may have for concussions and head injuries. Most of you will probably think this will never happen to you. I did, which is why I wasn't wearing that bike helmet.

Taking creatine could prevent you from diminished mental capacity and memory problems after suffering some kind of accidental fall. The brain is quite a bit more soft and fragile than most people like to believe. It usually makes people uncomfortable to realize that the brain has a consistency not unlike jello, and that the neural (axonal) connections are surprisingly easy to disrupt permanently with a sudden deceleration or impact. It is also possible that minor shocks to the head can accumulate over the years resulting in subtly reduced memory abilities, although there is no direct evidence for this.

You can almost certainly get anything United Nuclear carries cheaper at Archie McPhee.

Archie Mcphee has some great stuff all geeks should love, from the original rubber chicken to Senior Mysterioso to test tubes and urine sample cups (great for jello shots!) to just the plain strange and weird.

It's geeky in a non-technical way, in a social-engineering sort of way. But, unless everyone at your wedding abhors pop culture entirely, it is certainly a lot of fun. My wife and I (I am a geek, she is a non-geek) had pink flamingos (her idea) and 2' penguins (guess who's idea?). For party favors, we had all kinds of bendies, nuns, and other fabulous things.

Anyway, it was a lot of fun.

Archie McPhee. And if not, you'll have fun shopping.

You have to call this place!!! Tell them that you are putting together a geek wedding, they will be able to help out. They have TONS of stuff that would be awesome.

Here's the link.

I'd also get some Futurama items too.

Dolemite

Thank God we've turned another toy (Leggos) into a useful technology! I constantly lose sleep over the Aztec/wheel mistake: they had the wheel, but only used it in toys, not to advance their civilization. (Not sure if it was the Aztecs, maybe the Incas or the Olmecs...) I'm constantly worried we'll miss some great technology as well since we think of it only as a toy. Quick, someone put these things to good use!

I get very little trouble for being quirky, though. I've even had jobs where they make a point of bringing interview candidates past my office.

The most important part of being a quirky engineer is being competent. You have to make it abundantly clear that your quirkiness doesn't detrimentally affect your job performance.

Raw productivity, though, is not enough. You also need to be present during reasonable hours to be accessible as a resource to the other engineers, to answer questions for folks from other parts of the company (such as Marketing and QA), and you have to make it to the meetings.

I'm not sure how long this is going to last as an available mode of operation. As more and more people become programmers because it's a job, rather than because they like messing around with computers and are willing to redirect their messing around for pay, the fraction of quirky programmers will diminish. (I've experimented with inducing it-- when one previous job changed buildings, I purchased the Medium-Sized Treasure Box, the Bag of Mystery, and a gallon of Tiny Treasures from Archie McPhee, spread them all out on a spare desk, and said "It's free!" Unbeknownst to me, a friend in QA spread a lie that I'd be terribly hurt if people didn't take at least one. Weird goodies spread over the entire company, and some people started bringing in some of their own.) As long as we can keep the correlation of quirkiness and competence high, though, we should be able to keep software engineering safe for weirdness for a good while yet.

Oh, there are plenty of geeks. They need to get down to Archie McPhee's on the double, that's all.

We had corner pieces of which I "found" an "extra" one, and attached it like any other corner piece, except as high as possible (our cubicles were probably 5 foot, but maybe 6; been a while). It dimmed things very nicely. Was also nice storage on top for my Archie McPhee collection. And the 2 foot stuffed duck made for a good landmark.

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Archie McFee has had these for years, and a lot cheaper, too. Great for Science Fairs and Department meetings.

As I recall, Bob was a big smiley face, no doubt violating the trademark/patent/whatever of whoever owns the 'Have a Nice Day' logo. If the product had taken off, perhaps they could have sued. Still, this means Bob has less of a resemblance the Mighty & All Powerful Bob Dobbs, and more to 'Bendy' from Archie McPhee. So, those of you interested in test-driving Bob can probably buy a Bendy and save a good deal of money.