Over the years, two or three dozen readers have sent me pictures showing off Sheldon in their lives. Most of these are unintentional-but-still-kinda-neat photos:

“Hey Dave, thought you’d get a kick out of this. My wife snuck in a picture of me reading ‘Pure Ducky Goodness’ under the Eiffel Tower.”

“Hey Dave, I took this picture of my pug sleeping on top of my copy of ‘The Good, The Bad & The Pugly’…it’s pretty funny, etc., etc.”

I decided today that I’d make a place for all those photos, over at the Sheldon Store. I’m still looking through my hard drive to find all these pics, so the page will be expanding as the days go on.

But I’ll be honest: if you see that a pic you sent in previously is not up there, please resend it. These have trickled in over the years, and I haven’t done a *ahem* stellar job of *ahem* filing these as studiously as I *ahem* could have. *Ahem*.

Which basically means I’ve lost some. (Just bein’ honest!)

And if you have a funny shot but have never submitted it, by all means send me your pic now, and we’ll add it in over at the store.

I’ve had a half-dozen people e-mail me today saying they also confuse Harold Ramis and Ivan Reitman. It’s good to see I’m not the only one!

(Oh, also: I’m trying out a new blog-specific social bookmarking link (below). If folks like it, I’ll keep it. If not, it’ll probably quietly fade away — like Paris Hilton’s omnipresence from the news headlines.)

1.) Wednesday’s strip is one of my favorites in a long, long time. If it could get away with it, I would turn Sheldon into an all-Flaco-all-the-time show. He has really grown on me.

2.) My buddy and fellow Blank Label Comics stablemate Howard Tayler is celebrating his 7th anniversary with his excellent sci-fi strip Schlock Mercenary. Haven’t read it yet? Do yourself a favor and dive on in. And tell Howard congratulations!

3.) I have no idea why, but for some reason my mind has combined Harold Ramis and Ivan Reitman as the same person. And this is not a recent thing. Anytime anyone said “Ivan Reitman is directing” in the last 15-20 years, I would always think, “Oh, it’s that nice man from Ghostbusters.” It took a 30 minute conversation with my screenwritin’ buddy Joe before he finally said to me, “You do realize those are two separate people, right?”

I clearly am the lamest person alive.

4.) A new Saturday-only storyline is startin’ up this week! Be sure to tune in. And if you missed it, make sure you catch up with the last Saturday-only storyline.

Lest you were among those who were worried: Oso’s name has not been changed to “Buddy”. It’s just a playin’-in-the-yard-nickname, as I assume 90% of people have for their pets.

The Human Race: adding to our pets’ overall sense of confusion by changing their names every two weeks.

I was cleaning up my computer this morning, and stumbled on this picture from a few years back. It is, by far, my favorite Halloween costume I ever built.

Just thought I’d share, as it made me laugh to see it again….

If you’re like me, and you partially make your choice of coffee shops based on which one has free wifi, might I humbly suggest this awesome Google Maps mashup:

http://www.hotspotr.com

….pretty awesome.

Two bits of news to announce in the Sheldon store:

1.) I’ve added a feature where you can zoom in on the book covers for “Pure Ducky Goodness” and “The Good, The Bad & The Pugly”. For folks that have never seen the quality of a Sheldon book first-hand, this gives you an idea of the awesomeness that’s in store for you. In the days ahead, I’ll also be adding a “Peek inside the book” feature, which will show you a few sample pages. Neat!

2.) And in bigger news, the price of original art for a Sheldon Sunday strip has been permanently lowered by $44! For the last few months, I’ve been drawing the Sundays at a slightly smaller size — and rather than charge one price for the older, larger size; and a different price for the new format — it’s now just one, better price for everything! That’s how we roll at the Sheldon Store.

(And remember: to buy the original art from your favorite strip, just click the blue text under the comic that reads “Buy Today’s Original Art!)

Greg Cravens put my back yard in today’s “Buckets“. Thanks, Greg!

As my poor wife can attest, my brain often seizes on a made-up word, witticism, or song…and repeats it ad nauseum until I’ve come up with a new made-up word, witticism, or song to replace it. I’m a bit manic that way.

When I was down in Texas, visiting fellow cartoonists Scott and Kris, the word that happened to be stuck in my brain was “Snap-a-doo.”

Casual use went something like this:

“Hey Kellett, wanna go get some pancakes?

“Snap-a-Doo.”

“Hey Kellett, here’s that five bucks I owe you.”

“Snap-a-Doo.”

It’s one of those all-purpose words that mean everything and nothing, depending on the inflection you give it. In any case, I used it a lot in Texas.

Kris tells me the word has now infected their conversation, to the point that they now imagine it to be my Shazam summoning word. Hence, this little caricature of me by Kris:

After posting about the TED Photosynth presentation yesterday, I had a lot of readers e-mail me with links to other TED presentations.

TED, to me, is one of those mythical conferences of beauty and light and goodness and intelligence and awesomeness and lots of scientists that didn’t date much in High School. And I want to attend so badly.

Back in my Mattel days, when I was helping to run some sessions of “Project Platypus” (Mattel’s really cool, blue-sky, months-long brainstorming and creativity project), the two places I always wanted to check out were the IDEO San Francisco offices…and the TED conference. Given enough funding and the right creative space, nerds can create some truly awesome things. IDEO does it on an almost daily basis…and TED…well, TED is TED.

Anywho, of all the TED-related items that Sheldon readers sent me yesterday, I liked this one the best.