See Frodo As Cyborg Superman in the Death of Superman Movie!
Been meaning to post this forever, after seeing Avengers though, I've been in super hero mode lately so I'm finally making it happen. Never was a big fan of Superman, the only DC character I ever gave two figs about was Batman, but I knew it was a big deal when I was a kid and Superman died. Hell, my Dad bought the issue when it came out and he did not have a comic collection. Keep an eye out for the many cameos other than Elijah Wood. [via i09]
A dance of dances
You only know how wonderful this dance feels if you've needed to perform it.....feels pretty good.
Stubby the snake has been identified
Defmoose, Lorigga and I went for a hike the weekend before last in Wildcat Canyon (the next park north from Tilden). We had lots of adventures in mud and muck, found some free-range cows, and got startled by a few snakes. Most of the snakes were stripey little garter snakes, but the first one was really weird looking (and Defmoose thought it was going to bite him in the nuts because he almost walked on it and had to hop it at the last second). At first we all thought it was dead/poop/a stick, but then it stuck its tongue out a few times.
It turns out it was a rubber boa, small northern relative of the big giant tropical boas. Apparently they're really docile and don't bite, but will sometimes musk if startled, so I actually found a wild critter I could have hugged, but since I had no clue what it was, I just shooed it off the trail so it wouldn't become mountain bike roadkill.
(I was calling it Stubby because its tail was all funny and blunt and looked a lot like it's head; apparently its main defense is to coil up with its head tucked in and its tail left out looking like a head, so it will just get mauled in the tail)
animalness
I was doing my usual clicking on stuff around the shallows of the internets the other day, and I stumbled on some really cool pictures here. The artist does some other cool stuff, but I really liked these ones:


They also have a couple other interesting series of butterflies+hair and hands+animals.
More story thingy…
This is probably chapter 2 of the unnamed story thing I posted a while back (click here for chapter 1, though they can basically stand alone at this point). So far, I think only Steve has seen this in an earlier draft. Whole story still needs a name. It's all in a file labeled "beside you in time" because it has a lot to do with time, space, and memory, but that really doesn't fit and I just code named it that for now because NIN is cool.
Onward, to stuff:
A Game of Thrones Season 2: The Drinking Game!

Don't think I'll be trying this anytime soon, or possibly ever, but thought it would be a pretty hilarious and quick way to get drunk. Happy Monday Everyone!
P.S. Click the image to see a less contorted version!
Diablo 3 Reveal Site
So I dropped the ball. I don't know, perhaps it was school, perhaps it was work, perhaps I just wanted to be the only one with cool banners. I don't know...but I've failed the gaming contingent of the cup community. As requested, here's the link to the Diablo 3 reveal website.
Here's how it works. You go to "This Weeks Hero" and then "Create a Banner." Then you're given access to a banner creation interface with many open banner options. After you make your banner you can attach it to your battle.net account and it will be available in game.
I'm not 100% sure, but it seems you can only attach a new banner to the current hero. Also, that final fantasy looking sphere grid with a percentage over it indicates how close we are to release and exposes videos and other goodies as the number goes up.
So there. I'm an asshole.





