Chart Porn and Daschunds

I've become a bit obsessed with charts and graphs. They have the allure of lists - lots of information, little space - and they also have colors!

While thumbing through my favorite site for charts, Chart Porn, which has real, if not always lucid, data, I found Graph Jam, which has very lucid data. (I'll let you decide for yourself about its reality/subjectivity.)

And that is where I found this chart about The world as his or her daschund sees it. Daschunds always remind me of Shawn, and Shawn + Dog reminds me of Skeledog. Oh, that equation feels like a chart coming on. Gotta get to it!


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Shane and Jen's Baby Party

Arne and I had such a fun time this weekend hosting a Baby Shower for Shane & Jen's soon-to-be-here little Miss. Some of the highlights were:

1. having cleaners come clean the house (and me not having to do it),
   
2. the "How Big is Shane's Sympathetic Belly" game (what a hoot!),
   
3. and having over 20 people comfortably in the house on a standard San Francisco summer afternoon (foggy & cold, then sunny & warm, repeat).

Pin the diaper on the baby didn't get played, but the kids in attendance sure had a fun time drawing various excrement on the construction paper "diapers".

Lastly, we tried to do a "Conception Pool" to "guess when it all began" but couldn't really get that off the ground. Maybe the price was too high - $5. I did have a chance to deflect my nephew's question, "What's that?" to his dad (my brother-in-law). (Cheers, Dino!)

Here are some fun pictures of the shindig. We'll know next time to set people up to open presents on the side of the room across from the windows. Wish you could have been there!