Just because

Proof that I actually do some work from time to time

Thanks to Jess for posting this.

Giant Battle Monsters

deleriad is a Giant Squid that has Bulletproof Skin and a Computer for a Brain, Expands when Attacked, and can Generate Electricity. Strength: 6 Agility: 3 Intelligence: 12 To see if your Giant Battle Monster can defeat deleriad, enter your name and choose an attack: fights deleriad using Strength Agility Intelligence

Bat Man from the 1800s

This is from Shorpy - "the 100 year old photo blog". Shorpy is one of my favourite wastes of time. Over on one of my work blogs (Transliteracy.com) I've been ruminating about the possibilities of folklore2.0. The labelling of this image as Bat Man 1.0 on Shorpy is playful but interesting for that reason.

Brave New World

The map is from a really rather wonderful webcomic called xkcd.com.

Cat blogging

It's true. What kind of odd person would write a blog and pretend it was written by a cat? And as for cat haiku... Good job you wouldn't catch me engaging in such frivolity.

Narrative Multimodality conference

workshop_wiki, originally uploaded by Jess L..

Attended April 28-29 and helped set up the wiki.

More American madness

Day 1 - Ash

I am being very, very quiet. Nearly 1 hour now and I haven't said a word.

Ooooh sparkly things. Must pounce on Deshar. He likes that.

Day 1 - Deshar

Damn! They brought the grey one along as well. I warned them. "Don't do it!" I cried, "Leave him behind! Even mad Ivy would be better." I looked the female in the eye and tried telepathy but she just gurgled happily. The grey one fooled them. They thought he was "quiet". Fools.

Later: tried hiding beneath the bed but he followed me. Tried the cat bed, beneath the table, behind the sofa but he followed me. Must plan my escape. They've already given it a name - Ash. How completely inappropriate.

Hang on. What's that? Is it... is it? Yes! It is! A Light in the Sky. Nooo! I have to chase it!