Is it just me, or does the relief concert just cry out for a certain Eurovision-winning Anglo-American band with a single top 10 hit in the United States back in 1985?

My first thought was, "I have pretty good legs." Make of that what you will.

Hivemind question for those with pagers: My office currently staffs a public desk, and when it gets really busy we use a built-in buzzer to call the office for backup. We're soon to move to a new space with no buzzer. It has been suggested that we use a pager to contact the office, and it has been suggested that I "look into it." So, does this sound nuts? We buy a pager and put it in our cube farm with the volume turned up way high. When the desk gets busy, people call the page number and it makes a noise in the cube farm, and someone goes down to the desk. Can anyone think of a better way? How do pagers work - do you register the number with the phone company, or use a private service? (MY idea is to use an IM chat room, but I think there are technophobes.)

flea, get a wireless doorbell instead.

I'm especially fond of my nose.

It's a good nose, but really your eyes are where the action is.

Not sure what I like about myself, I feel kinda blech at the moment.

I like your imagination.

Baby monitor! Headsets!

Dude, I never knew such a thing existed. DX am genius. [link]

flea, we use a wireless doorbell like this at my office. Would that work? You could just hit the button at the desk and it would ring back in the office.

(x-posty goodness!)

Lunar Robo-Penguin!!!

Robotic 'Penguin' could hop on moon

LONG BEACH, Calif. - A robotic Lunar Penguin explorer could be hopping around on the moon by 2009, Raytheon Co. said Tuesday, as it unveiled the concept lander at an aerospace conference.

The unmanned lunar device, in development for two years, is 3 feet (1 meter) tall and weighs approximately 230 pounds (105 kilograms). It “hops” by reigniting small propulsion engines.

The Penguin, unveiled at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space 2005 Conference, can make a single jump of about six-tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) and could be adapted to make additional jumps, possibly over greater distances.

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The squat, compact unit has a few tiny jump boosters protruding below and on its sides, and looks nothing like an actual penguin.

Aw, crap....

We have a wireless doorbell. Right now the battery is dead or something and it's not working.

I'm not too worked up since Annoying Coworker got in the habit of standing there and ringing it while it was at my desk. Luckily we have it velcroed to the counter so I could take it away from him and hide it in my desk drawer.

I did not realize we are doing "what I like about myself." I like my hair, which unfortunately, at the moment, is all askew.

The Katrina-harbinger winds have made their way here, and were whipping through the Back Bay just now at at least 30 mph. Commute home is going to be a hairpocalypse.