Owned, by a computer game

But more on that later.

Crazy Teddy bears...full of love!

Later is here, so i'll talk about the computer game. I was playing Icewind Dale, and you meet these little gnomes (they're officially called 'deep gnomes', for some reason...presumably because they live 'deep' underground and are 'gnomes') who are sculpting a statue. The funny part of the conversation went like this:

You: That sculpture you're making of Marketh...[To be Chomskyish, I'm going to use BRACKETS, as they are properly known...Anyway the purpose of this BRACKET was to tell you that Marketh is the person being sculpted, he's EVIL.] How do you get so much detail on it without having him here?

Callard (Gnome dude sculpting): When we svirfneblin [the special name for these gnomes] sculptors see a person's face, it becomes a block of stone. Inside every block of stone there are a million faces. By looking at a block of stone, we instantly know how to chisel away everything that is not the face we see in our minds.

You: Really?

Callard: No. Actually, we just use this portrait of him. It's pretty good.