Dana, if your brother likes retro-futurism, Retropolis has some fun stuff. [link]

I approve of sock-golem gifts, if they do any sort of sock-related cleaning. Matching of socks? Automatically keeping single socks as part of the golden until the other sock is found?

Automatically keeping single socks as part of the golden until the other sock is found?

There's a kids' book there or something. Either the silent golem gathering up the orphaned socks and attaching them to himself so they wouldn't be lonely, or he's the one who takes the socks because he's lonely himself.

I wish I could draw the pictures in my head.

Dana, Threadless is having a sale today.

Hrm. Thanks, msbelle.

Now I want a sock golem.

Seems like it ought to be pretty simple to make. Sew up like a sock monkey, scroll in head and Bob's your uncle, right?

Also, woohoo I am finally getting Finance related tasks! Still pretty basic, but basic finance is better than basic accounting (as basic accounting pretty much being a file clerk while basic finance is at least preparing reports and doing a tiny bit of analysis)

Sew up like a sock monkey, scroll in head and Bob's your uncle, right?

All we need is the co-operative Rabbi trained in the appropriate Qabbalistic traditions.

edit: A dear old Rabbi was forever losing his socks, so he created a sock golem to help. "Please find the missing socks," he wrote on the scroll, tucked it into the balled up toe that made up the head, then carefully embroidered the proper symbol on its forehead. The button eyes lit up, and off the golem trundled, looking for the missing socks.

Of course, as these things always go, the golem didn't stop with the Rabbi's missing socks. Soon he was going off into the night, searching for socks out on their own, unpaired, separated and lonely.

So tell your socks to stick close together and not to go wandering off on their own. The sock golem may see them and think they're lost, and he'll take them home to keep them safe.

Uhg, Having some sort of backslide with this cold. My eyes are watering from sinus crap. Don't want to even think about donning goggles tonight.

From across the cubicle wall, one of the guy co-workers: "Look at this Tupperware. It is the boose-ist Tupperware."