A few thoughts from the weekend

* We found a dour beach with a certain beauty. It's exactly the visual for the veil ruginious, when you've trecked to the edge of the desert, mount a rise, and find the ocean stretching away in front of you. Walking sideways along the shore eventually brings you to marshy shores, and then green shores, and eventually bustling harbours where souls have banded together to build ships to cross the Styx Ocean.

* Penguins are really graceful in the water. If you think of them as acquatic birds that can also walk, they make so much more sense, when if you only see them waddling they just look so stupid.

* I think my sense of direction works great wandering around strange villages laid out in a grid, but just fails completely on any other angles. Notice, Cambridge has lots of 90⁰ angles, but they don't count, because they all meet in triangles.

* Mum and I do have a lot in common. I'm not sure which is more interesting, the ways in which we're the same, or the ways in which we're different.

Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic

I've stalled on recommending the list cartoons I read, but I still mention any new ones I come across.

Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (here) is good because:

* It's a humorous study of living in a Dungeons and Dragons world
* But about what it is to be a dnd-evil character, rather than about the mechanics
* It's drawn in line art, but well -- I generally love cartoons that use the format to convey essentially verbal jokes, but a few actually convey things with pictures
* The characters are evil but sympathetic, and mostly non-altruistic, but not evil for the sake of evil, which is a concept that's funny once (hahaha, look how it confounds expectations because the parents are pleased when the kid is nasty) but I've seen and now has got old
* The characters are nice -- I defy you not to love Turg and Lewie :)
* The characters are kinky, if you're looking for wholesome bdsm...