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Well, unless I wanted a riot in “The Dollie Storage Room” I had to play fair. So, fair is fair and next up on the runway are the handmade Fall Scarecrow dolls & crafts that I made from other designers patterns. They are part of the “Hey, What About Us? The Other Dolls Series!” that is running on my DOLLS Blog by Linda Walsh Originals. Enjoy the show.

First up is “Raking Hank.” CLICK HERE to start the slideshow.

HD126LWOD Raking Hank

HD126 Raking Hank is 20″ wood and cloth Scarecrow. He has a delightfully embroidered face. Why, he can just light up a room with his glow. We have to keep him away from the leaves for that very reason. His glow would set the leaves afire and we couldn’t have that happen.

His head is made of cloth and his body is made of wood, with some strategic padding here and there for effect. He’s also sporting sock, big flouncy pantaloons,a jacket with pockets that is adorned with embroidered stitches. His ruffled collar matches his big flouncy pantaloons. His big floppy hat is lined and he has raffia tie decorations everywhere. His hair is made of raffia and his big floppy hat sports an attractive bow.

Raking Hank carries his wooden rake with tines for show. We wouldn’t want him to set the wood’s afire with his glow, now would we?

Designer-Flower Patch Designs

Raking Hank has got to be the cheeriest of all my dolls. I don’t think anyone else could even compete with him. Then, again, I am a little biased. You see, he was one of the first scarecrows that I made and, I have to admit, one of my favorites. Sssshhhhhhhh!!! Please don’t tell any of the other dolls I said that. They’d make my life miserable. Let’s just keep it between us. Okay?

If you would like to order Raking Hank please click on any of the pictures above or CLICK HERE.

HD158LWOD Just Laying Around Scarecrow

HD158LWOD Just Laying Around Scarecrow is an 18” Scarecrow with a cheerfully painted face. Can’t you tell he doesn’t have a care in the world?

He has a cloth body with big hands and feet. He is wearing patched denim pants, and a paisley and patched shirt. His patched hat can barely contain his curly straw hair.

And, because he has naught a care in the world, one of his bird friends is sitting on his head. What does he care? It’s only a bird. And, he likes birds.

Designer-Bless My Bloomin Stitches

“Just Laying Around Scarecrow ” is just laying around. Not doing anything at all. Just relaxing. Not a care in the world. So what if there are birds and crows in the field? He doesn’t care. He’s just laying around enjoying life. Can you blame him?

If you would like to order “Just Laying Around” please click on any of the pictures above orCLICK HERE.

HD174LWOD Harold A Scare Scarecrow

HD174LWOD Harold A Scare is a 26” scarecrow with pleasantly embroidered face. It’s so pleasant that his face attracts the birds and crows. Why, he just looks like he’d be so pleasant to be around. But, when they look down at his big, heavy wooden feet they get scared and fly away. But, that’s okay with Harold. As we said, he likes it when it’s quiet.

Harold’s feet are a four-pronged configuration to support his upper body. He has an embroidered & decorated denim jumper that he likes because it’s decorated with raffia, flowers, buttons, hearts, pockets, and one of his crow friends. He’s wearing a cuffed shirt in the latest fall colors that sports a ruffled collar. He keeps a flannel scarf around his neck for some of the colder fall nights. His big floppy hat is lined and matches the fall colors of his shirt. With raffia hair, silk floral decorations and raffia decorations he is the epitome of a wonderful fall scarecrow.

Designer-Krafdee & Co.

If anyone can scare the crows it’s big, heavy, lanky, Harold A Scare. All he has to do is spread a few seeds on the ground near his big, heavy wooden feet and then threaten to stomp on the crows. No way would the crows want to get stomped on by those big, heavy wooden feet. YIKES!!!! So, all the birds and the crows been staying away in droves which suits Harold A Scare just fine. He likes it when it’s nice and peaceful and he can relax. After all, lifting those big, heavy, feet is very tiring.

If you would like to order “Harold A Scare” please click on any of the pictures above or CLICK HERE.

HD198LWOD Benjamin Scarecrow

HD198LWOD Benjamin Scarecrow is one of my favorite scarecrows and is a 22″ wood and cloth scarecrow. He has a whimsically embroidered face with black bead eyes, a wood and cloth body, wooden legs, and cloth arms. His legs are covered with whimsical leggings and he’s wearing socks.

His shoes are whimsically lined and padded as is his whimsical hat. His shorts are whimsically cuffed and held up with suspenders. His shirt is whimsically cuffed. He has whimsical under sleeves covering his arms, raffia, ties, button decorations, and a fringed bow. His hair is made of raffia and he has a whimsical amount of raffia decorating him.

Designer-Sparkles N Spirit

It’s time for Benjamin Scarecrow. He’s our last scarecrow and a whimsical scarecrow to boot. No one can look at Benjamin and not fall in love with his whimsical nature, his whimsical decorations, his whimsical shoes, his whimsical hands, his whimsical legs, his whimsical arms, his whimsical broom, his whimsical hat, his whimsical face, and his whimsical clothes.

He’s just whimsically delightful all around. Why even the raffia that abundantly surrounds and decorates him is whimsical. All in all, he’s just plain whimsical. You can’t help but fall whimsically in love with him. I know I did.

If you would like to order “Benjamin Scarecrow” please click on any of the pictures above or CLICK HERE.

HD199ALWOD What’s Wrong , Annie?

HD199LWOD What’s Wrong Annie is a 19” primitive Annie scarecrow with a quizzically embroidered face.

She has a cloth body and raffia for her hands and feet. Her rugged colored fall dress suits her just fine. She also has a full head of curly, flaming red raggedy hair which cannot be controlled under her floppy bonnet.

Designer - Homespun Happenings

What’s Wrong, Annie doesn’t know anymore than her husband does what’s wrong. She thinks that she should know. She is a female, after all, and females usually have a sixth sense. But, her sixth sense is not helping her today. She just knows something is wrong. Her instincts tells her that’s so. And, she always trusts her instincts.

What’s Wrong, Annie’s apron is tattered and patched, but that doesn’t bother her at all. What bothers is is not knowing what’s wrong.

If you would like to order “What’s Wrong, Annie?” please click on any of the pictures above or CLICK HERE.

HD200LWOD What’s Wrong, Andy?

HD200LWOD What’s Wrong Andy is a 19” primitive Andy scarecrow with a quizzical embroidered face.

He has flaming, curly red raggedy locks that cannot be controlled underneath his floppy muslin hat. His body is made of cloth and his hands and feet are made of raffia. He sports green checkered pants with suspenders, which he absolutely loves.

Designer - Homespun Happenings

Neither “What’s Wrong, Andy” nor his wife, “What’s Wrong, Annie” knows what’s wrong. Something is, but they just can’t put their fingers (or should be say straw) on it.Their puzzlement is clearly reflected in their embroidered faces. They just wish they knew. Maybe if they stop thinking about it, it will become apparent.

If you would like to order “What’s Wrong, Andy?” please click on any of the pictures above or CLICK HERE.

HD197LWOD Hanging Scarecrow

HD197LWOD Hanging Scarecrow is a 20” cloth scarecrow with a wonderfully painted face.

He has a wood dowel through his shoulders which allow him to hang so beautifully. His shirt is printed with wonderful fall images and colors and has a decorated band. His lower body has leaves and patches and he has two scarves around his neck. He’s prepared for those cold Fall nights just in case you want to hang him on your front door. His hair and arms are made of raffia.

Designer-Time Worn Treasures

Hanging Scarecrow is perfect . Why? Because he’s perfect as a Hanging Scarecrow. You can hang him anywhere. Hang him on the front door, in the bathroom, on the wall, in the hall, just about anywhere. He’s a delightful scarecrow and will enhance any room he’s in or brightened any door upon which he is hung. Hanging Scarecrow is a delightful addition to any home and he’s hoping you’ll agree.

If you would like to order Hanging Scarecrow please click on any of the pictures above or CLICK HERE.

I hope you like the handmade Fall Scarecrow dolls and crafts that I made based on other designers patterns and hope you enjoyed the fashion show that is running on my DOLLS Blog by Linda Walsh Originals.

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The only time a manager should shout or bark out an order demanding instant obedience is if the building is on fire: an emergency. Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell had a few minutes to make a decision and decided to take a vote. It wasn’t an emergency, just yet.

“It was the stupidest, most southern-fried, lamebrained decision I ever made in my life,” Luttrell writes. “I must have been out of my mind. I had actually cast a vote which I knew could sign our death warrant. I’d turned into a (expletive) liberal, a half-assed, no-logic nitwit, all heart, no brain, and the judgment of a jack rabbit.

Marcus Luttrell tells his story in Lone Survivor and is reported in A war hero from Huntsville rues a decision made in Afghanistan, By FRITZ LANHAM in the Houston Chronicle,

In June 2005, on a barren mountain high in the Taliban-infested Hindu Kush, Luttrell and three fellow Navy SEALs came together to talk.

Their mission — to locate and possibly take out an important Taliban leader hiding in the Afghan village below — had just been compromised.

Three goatherds, one a boy of about 14, had blundered onto their position.

Military discipline is the prompt obediance to orders or the initiation of appropiate action in the absence of orders. In the absence of clear rules of engagement, Marcus Luttrell was on his own. Which is what military officers and civilian managers expect — to make decisions on minimal information.

As they saw it, they had two options: kill the Afghans, or let them go and hope for the best. They let them go.

It’s a decision Luttrell bitterly regrets.

Marcus Luttrell made the decision balancing a possible murder charge — which would have been demanded by the main stream media — with the American lives for which he was responsible.

Within hours, more than 100 Taliban fighters descended on the SEAL team. In the terrible gun battle that followed, Murphy, Axelson and Dietz died. A few miles away, a Taliban grenade brought down a rescue helicopter on its way to help the trapped men, killing all 16 aboard. It was the worst day in the 40-year history of the Navy SEALs.

Marcus Luttrell made the wrong decision. He was thinking like a liberal instead of a military officer.

He reports that Axelson favored killing the goatherds. Dietz was neutral. Murphy and Luttrell voted to let them go.

In war every death of a military service member is a public event. Liberal influence has made difficult decisions nearly impossible to get right. Liberals have put our military in a no-win situation.

Losing is what liberals seem to want.

Danny Dietz
SEAL statue creates controversy in Littleton
Sculpture of fallen warrior
to include weapon in hands
City officials said Friday a statue
honoring slain Navy SEAL Danny Dietz
will be erected July 4 despite opposition
from a Littleton group claiming it
glorified violence because he is
depicted holding an automatic rifle.
Above, Dietz poses for a photo
while serving in Afghanistan in 2005.And now these same apparently-self-loathing-liberals do not want a memorial of Navy Seal Dietz with his automatic weapon.

Too violent.

Happy 4th of July.

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Thank you (foot)notes:

More on Dietz at the jump.

John Howland writes,

just in case there is anyone … who wonder[s] what it takes to be a core combat leader — the first requisite is that you had better be totally prepared to kill — if that makes you uncomfortable, then you are in the wrong place

See Deadly Double Standards in The Wall Street Journal, where DAVID G. BOLGIANO writes,

Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt is a U.S. Marine who served in combat in Haditha, Iraq, and whose actions on the battlefield have made him the focus of an investigation. He is charged with committing three counts of unpremeditated murder on Nov. 19, 2005.

See Marcus Luttrell is “The One” - Sole Surviving Navy SEAL of the Battle of Asadabad at Black Five.
By Lisa Ryckman, Rocky Mountain News April 6, 2007

The site for Danny Dietz’s memorial occupies a corner near the Littleton middle school where he first dreamed of becoming a Navy SEAL.

It’s the right place, his family says, to honor a hero who lived and died for his dream. It’s the wrong place, other parents say, for a statue of a man with a gun.

“No one wants to hurt the family; that’s the last thing we wanted to do,” says Emily Cassidy Fuchs, who objects to the statue’s location in Berry Park, near three schools, two park playgrounds and two day-care facilities.

“It really seems to me the city dropped the ball on this. They’ve lost sight of their responsibility to the community as a whole, including a large group of children.”
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“After our experience with Columbine and the clear message of nonviolence that we teach within the Littleton schools - honestly, what are we thinking?” she said.

But Dietz’s widow, Patsy, said Thursday that comparing the guns at Columbine with the weapon in her husband’s hands is like comparing a criminal’s knife with a surgeon’s scalpel.

“One is used to take lives,” she said. “And the other is used to save them.”

Gotta love The Onion for this one…. — J.M.

Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8

CHICAGO—Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of 10 rating in an review published Monday on Pitchfork Media, a well-known music-criticism website.
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According to the review, authored by Pitchfork editor in chief Ryan Schreiber, the popular medium that predates the written word shows promise but nonetheless “leaves the listener wanting more.”

“Music’s first offering, an eclectic, disparate, but mostly functional compendium of influences from 5000 B.C. to present day, hints that this trend’s time may not only have fully arrived, but is already on the wane,” Schreiber wrote. “If music has any chance of keeping our interest, it’s going to have to move beyond the same palatable but predictable notes, meters, melodies, tonalities, atonalities, timbres, and harmonies.”

(Read more here….)

There’s another meme going around, this one originated by the host of the Getting Things Done blog (who also organizes the Ultimate GTD Index). I’m not going to *really* participate in this meme, because, as you know, I’m in the process of reconfiguring my Killer GTD Setup.  But, I can give you a very brief glimpse at the bones of the system that I see rising from the ashes. Hard Landscape My favourite calendar is Remind, a Unixy-type application that I’m accessing through Cygwin.  It enables me to see my calendar on my desktop, plus gives me easy access to adding events and deadlines.  This last feature is due to the fact that the calendar is kept in text files, and I can make use of SlickRun to quickly input data.  In addition, I can upload my calendars to Google Calendar, and then use CompanionLink (I finally got it working; more on that later!) or GooSync to sync them to my Palm. Capturing Device Since I’m not using my hand-rolled Perl script and text file for my Next Actions anymore, I now need a ubiquitous capture device.  When at the computer, my tool of choice is a textual scratch file, again, which I access through SlickRun. Organizing/Processing/Reviewing This is the part of the killer setup that still has to rise from the ashes.  I’ve just finished working my way through a hockey-sock full of online apps.  I’ve got one right now (shhh, it’s a secret) that I’m giving an extra workout to.  This app may or may not last through my testing of offline apps. Reference I’ve got the requisite filing cabinets and labeller at home.  On my computer, my personal database/information manager/magic program of choice is EverNote.  So far, I’ve got over 7000 notes of information organized there: passwords, tips clipped from the web, research thoughts, screenshots from test cases, code snippets, recipes to try, important emails, etc. etc.  There’s not much that I don’t stick into EN. Miscellaneous Tools Of course, there are other tools that I now find indispensable.  I’ve already mentioned SlickRun.  I also use Launchy to start programs and navigate to file folders.  Ultramon and MaxiVista for handling my three-monitor setup.  AutoHotkey for all of my shortcut text-replacement tasks, including a whole set of shortcuts that let me type the date automatically for this Friday, whatever date is exactly 2, 3, 4 weeks from now, etc.  Google Reader is now my preferred feed reader, so I can take my feeds with me.  Plus, I’ve got other stuff, but it’s not so tied to my productivity system. Anyway, I’ve just said more than I originally planned to, but sorry, you’re not getting any screenshots.  If you’re interested, you can look at other entries that I’ve got related to GTD, Outlook, EverNote, OneNote, etc. Finally, if you want to see who else has been participating in the meme, check out the Killer list of Killer GTD Setups. Categories: GTD

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I forgot to mention this when it happened, so I’ll mention it now.

I did an interview with a cool site called MY BOOK, THE MOVIE.

If you’re interested in different author’s daydreams on the subject of turning their books into films, you should go check it out.

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P.S. After you’ve finished reading the interview, I’d be curious who y’all thing would be good casting choices for the various characters in the book. Post them in the comments below and let’s geek out a little.

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First, add Susan Mernit’s blog to the blogs I pay attention to every day — again, she’s willing to post about what she does for a living, doesn’t hide more than she probably has to…

That said… Interesting predictions for 2007. I’m particularly interested in how Social Media will become “premium” in the coming year… (excerpt here… check Susan’s blog for the rest.)

Social media meets premium services: What happens to paid services for dating, jobs, travel and so on as MySpace and Facebook users find their needs becoming more complex? I’m waiting to see how the audience acquisition plays, product features and user experiences of the more traditional paid (non-entertainment)services shift to grab these users–and what happens when new, smaller services arise and try to grab these segments.

(Via Susan Mernit’s Blog.)

Indeed:
In the 22 years since the apparently satisfied voters in the 6th Congressional District of Texas first elected him, Barton has continued to exhibit a determined disinclination to examine the fruits of the scientific method that deviate from the ambitions of the oil industry for which he remains a devoted apologist and slavish steward. …

As hyperbolic as Barton’s interrogation may have been, it was the model of rational clarity compared with the fulminations of Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., at the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. …

Such is the level of analytical discipline that helps to shape the preparation of some members of Congress to probe the challenges that confront the republic whose destiny has been placed in their care.

Fortunately, a sense of humor in the face of the clear and present danger posed by some back-benchers can help neutralize a concerned citizen’s anxiety and frustration. The Wall Street Journal reported that, in response to Inhofe’s outburst last week, blogger Lou Grinzo has created “The Inhofe Scale” to measure statements “that exhibit a noticeable and willing detachment from reality.”

The scale uses Inhofe as the prime measure at 100, with 30 to 50 applying to those who refuse to see the gradual effect of such phenomena as peak oil, and 100 to 200 applying to what Grinzo calls “Apocalypticons,” the extremist range of doomsayers, many of them misanthropes, who see the abrupt end of the world as we know it.

Still, the Joe Bartons, Jim Inhofes and Sam Johnsons of the American political experiment present an awfully strong argument against the theory of representative government. More than a sense of humor among voters will be necessary to keep the argument from becoming more persuasive.[Link to The Inhofe Scale]

The new iTunes thing is out, and in return for paying more money, you get “DRM free” music. However, according to this writeup, Apple sticks your name and email address into the songs you download. This obviously has two implications:

1) It’s a lot easier to find out who sticks their music on P2P networks.
2) It’s a lot easier to screw up royally, as the information could easily be faked leading to the wrong people being hit with lots of legal jibber-jabber.

I’m especially interested in the more oddball situations that could arise from this. Remember the BitTorrent installs from the Middle-East hacking group? It’s not a stretch of the imagination to wonder what would happen if someone hacked your computer then started whizzing DRM free music with your name all over it. Previously there’d have been no point as the music wouldn’t play, but now? Ka-ching, computers will suddenly be filling up with a free lunch. I’d find that pretty tempting as a hacker and / or music pirate - it’s one more source of free stuff to exploit at someone else’s expense, right?

Honestly, in it’s current form, music is the tool of Satan. Even when you think you’re thrown a bone, it comes with a free punch in the face. Anybody paying the extra cash to be rid of “wonderful” DRM technology is simply exchanging one insidious form of obsessive monitoring for another. Watch the humorous comments fill up on Slashdot.

Remakes are essentially a hallmark of the games industry. If you have a good idea that spawns a lot of sequels, spin-offs, and maybe (in some cases) a kart racer or two, that groundbreaking idea is bound to be remade sometime in the future to cash in on the loyal supporters.read more | digg storyThanks for signing up to my RSS feed … You are too cool for words! -Chad W. Smith