BACK IN STOCK!!! Carnivorous Plant Set (top candidate for most awesomest 2009 list)

BACK IN STOCK!!! Carnivorous Plant Set, from ThinkGeek.com:

Little Desktop Of Horrors...

Here at ThinkGeek, we truly understand you have needs. Especially at work where minutes often last hours and hours become days. You need to be entertained, you don't want your neurons to prematurely atrophy. You crave stimulation. You crave a Carnivorous desktop plant set. Perfect for the casual office worker who delights in watching insects slowly meet their makers as they are painfully digested by an engaging variety of meat-sucking flora. Nothing quite like it.

So what's our recommendation? Grab a set and grow your own collection of feared and famous carnivorous plants. This deluxe set has seeds from over ten varieties of carnivorous plants! Watch these fascinating plants grow into bug-eating monsters and delight in creating your own authentic bog with the included peat planting mix, blue Swamp Rocks, three Bog Buddies and full color decals. This rare and unusual collection of carnivorous plants will flourish for years in this specially designed terrarium with proper care...

Each Complete Kit Includes:

• Growing Dome
  
• Planting Mixture
  
• Carnivorous Seed Pack:
  
  
  
  • Venus Fly Trap
    
  • Yellow Trumpet
    
  • Hooded Pitcher Plant
    
  • Purple Pitcher Plant
    
  • Pale Trumpet
    
  • Temperate Sundew Plants
    
  • Cobra Lillies
    
  
  
• 3 Photo Decals
  
• 3 Bog Buddies
  
• Swamp Rocks
  
• Instructions and Information Manual
  

NOTE: Unlike Insta-Pets(TM)like Sea Monkeys or Triops, your carnivorous plant set will take several weeks to get started. But have patience friends, the blood-curdlingplant-on-insect action will be worth the wait! We guarantee it or pay us double!

2008 Year in Review: Crock-Town's "Most Awesomest" List

Most awesomest people toys:

1. This RULES. If you know me, you know I tend to have quite an obsessive personality. This serves me very well while I am obsessed with a client's success. However, it can be a liability if I am obsessing over clearing Tony Hawk Pro Skater.
   
   So this is the great thing: with these electronic RC helicopters, you only get about 10 minutes of batter life per charge... it's self limiting. The first time I circled the Christmast tree and landed, I felt like I "cleared a level" or "beat the boss" on a video game. Same as when I first lifted off downstairs and set her down upstairs.
   
   Twin Engine, 3 Channels Chinook Helicopter
   
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Temperature-Sensitive Color Changing Faucet LightAND Shower Light!!!



Why?

Why not?

Practically speaking, this works great as a nighlight when you don't want to blind a sleeping co-inhabitant.

Most awesomest dog toys:

In the past, I've been disappointed in dog toys, because the dog gets to have all the fun. This year, however, having moved into a town with abundant off-leash dog parks and open spaces, that has all changed. I'm not sure whether it is I or B-Rock who has the most fun when we play dog games.

1. Franklin Soft-strike Teeball & Mini-Wooden Bat:
   
   
   
   
   I was a little disappointed. For some reason I can only find the mini-wooden bat with two multi-color balls at Longs Drugs out here in California. The multi-color action adds to the fun. Here is a customer image of one of the blue balls:
   
   
   
   
   
   They also come in red and silver... TONS MORE FUN.
   
   I don't know what's up, but I can't find a link to the mini-wooden bats online. It's like they go from foam directly to full-size wooden or aluminum.
   
   Soft T-Ball + Mini Bat= GREAT FUN, because I can strike myself out very easily. But the memories of nailing the "sweet spot" on the bat and slamming a line drive past the 2nd base man bring me back to the greatest joys of my childhood. I find myself tossing the ball up (pitch to me), and saying, "B, do you like your sugar with coffee.... or CREAM!!!!!!" as I slam a homer!
   
   
2. Hyper Dog Sling Shot: 2 Ball Version:
   
   
   
   
   
   Hyper Dog Sling Shot:4 Ball Version:
   
   
   
   
   - Warning, this can be a lethal weapon. Note the fold out, assault-style wrist support.
   
   Dog must always be out of the line of fire.
   
   But the great thing about this is I get to play target practice. It's a lot like archery: calculating the ratio of drop to distance. So I setup a chair in my backyard (a taught, bouncy chair), and practice hitting it. The object fired from the sling shot, when it hits the chair just right, bounces directly back towards me at a 45 degree angle, letting B turn on a dime and chase the other way. Good times are had by all.
   
   Perhaps the greatest thing about the HyperDog Sling Shot is that for each time it is broken, it only becomes more powerful (for I clip the torn rubber tubing even shorter).
   
   Again, this packs some serious punch. Use with extreme caution- like old-school lawn darts.
   

The combination of these two toys makes me feel like a total mercenary bad-ass warrior when I arrive at the off-leash dog beach. Donning my camel-back hydrating backback, with bat in sheath behind my back, and high power sling shot locked and loaded in hand, I turn many heads. At first I was worried people would think I was going dog hunting or seal clubbing, but now I'm a regular and it's all good.

Happy new year everyone!

-Crockett