So my friend Matthew works at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History as a geology intern. They have this funky gift shop, and one day he pulls up as we are about to go to a movie with a life-sized realistic rubber skull shoved in his steering wheel. The fact that it circles around while you are turning is quite hilarious.
Anyhow, we ended up naming him Friedrich and taking him with us into the movie and to a restaurant afterwards, with many ideas following. We could use him to talk for us as a surrogate in case the cops pulled us for speeding - and pretend like there was nothing odd about holding a rubber skull to an officer's face and making the jaw move. We theorized about putting an interviewing microphone in between his jaw and interviewing Republicans (no offense to any of 'em who might be out there) about global warming with the words 'YOUR GRANDCHILDREN' written on its forehead. The list goes on.
So I had to have one of my own. Yet I am in a quandary. After enlisting my friend to purchase one for me, I have no idea what to name him. After enlisting the aid of my friends to suggest names for him, I set up a poll to determine what I should call the little feller. And I am asking YOU - the membars and fans o' SKI-FIRE - to help me decide.
Here he is! (sporting my lovely headphones)
And here's the link to the poll.
http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~pmainwar/skull.html
Anyhow, we ended up naming him Friedrich and taking him with us into the movie and to a restaurant afterwards, with many ideas following. We could use him to talk for us as a surrogate in case the cops pulled us for speeding - and pretend like there was nothing odd about holding a rubber skull to an officer's face and making the jaw move. We theorized about putting an interviewing microphone in between his jaw and interviewing Republicans (no offense to any of 'em who might be out there) about global warming with the words 'YOUR GRANDCHILDREN' written on its forehead. The list goes on.
So I had to have one of my own. Yet I am in a quandary. After enlisting my friend to purchase one for me, I have no idea what to name him. After enlisting the aid of my friends to suggest names for him, I set up a poll to determine what I should call the little feller. And I am asking YOU - the membars and fans o' SKI-FIRE - to help me decide.
Here he is! (sporting my lovely headphones)
And here's the link to the poll.
http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~pmainwar/skull.html
