I think this'l really help my pets see the many career possibilities that lie before them, and perhaps it'll even improve our relationship once they see their human can-opener, kibble-delivery system, and litterbox sanitation enginner in a new light, important and capable.

I don't think taking my pet (large black cat) to work would accomplish much. When I used to work from home, he could usually be found slumped asleep behind my keyboard, with his head on the escape key.

Poets, though, that's a different story. There's been a strange focus in the UK this week on Clive James (including over on Metafilter) which has resulted in a flurry of obituary-like articles, even though he's still alive. Which is nice in a way, because it's made me remember what I like about him, and especially his poem "The Book of my Enemy has been Remaindered".

He'll probably live on for years now, out of bloody-mindedness.