Oh boy would I love to have something like this for the neighborhood dogs. The few kids around here are good enough and actually almost listen sometimes, but the dogs drive me crazy.

Maybe turn it into some kind of game, where my iPhone alerts me that something is in the yard, then I can manually aim and fire with live video! Oh that would be awesome.

@Jack: Yes, it really IS hard. The system of things we're living in makes it almost impossible to do anything like what you suggest.

The average family in america must have at least 2 fulltime jobs per home in order to make barely enough money to live a lower-middle-class lifestyle. This robs us of so much time and energy that we rarely do any of the really important things in life like raising our children and thinking deeply about anything.

It's not like those people over in india are our slaves or even our employees or butlers or anything. They're just working a job like everyone over here. And it's not even a rough job.

There are actually services in this country that offer something very similar. My wife was thinking about starting one up since she's so good at handling those type of random tasks that people like me are always so terrible at managing.

But I told her to get her shoes off and get back in the kitchen. Papa needs pie! ;)