Well the last picture of Darwin saw him snoozing away on his cat post but that isn't the heights of his slobbery as he is fond of a lap, especially if he can conscript an arm for a pillow. The number of times this results in a dead limb is the same as the number of times that he does it (and with the pointless literalism over I shall stop).
So it's a hard life being a cat. All those long days snoozing before the main evening sleep, and it is so tiresome having to work up the effort to eat.
So I really love the version two software for iPhone. There already was the excellent typepad by 37signals that enabled you to blog on the version one interface, but with the app store you now have a plethora of groovy apps to play with. In my usual miserly fashion I am not paying for any of them, just using the cream of the free applications to test the versatility of my phone.
what happens when the dark lord faces his daughter? Personally I would love to have seen a full-on Leah-Vader ass-kicking match.
I last updated my books read so far this year in May and I haven't done any blogging of them since then, I have though been reading, trying to keep at least one book a month in the bag along with all the internet reading I do.
So here's the next crop. Simple books first:
Dr Who and the Hand of Fear, Warriors of the Deep and Made of Steel are two classic Target and one newer Quickread books all by Terrance Dicks. Yet again a set of three books from my sister and from a second-hand stall and a quick and fun set to read. I enjoyed plenty 🙂
I also read a semi-adult Doctor Who, Last man Running, quite a good read with an interesting conceit concerning Leela's relationship to the fourth doctor, and since Leela was an early crush of mine a story with plenty of Amazonian Who-companion action was certainly appreciated.
And onto the best book I read recently and the first of a trilogy. It is Duncton Wood a rather excellent Fantasy story based around moles. The idea of an epic story with moles as the central chacaters is slightly odd and most would see this as a children's book, but I assure you it is not. The book workds on a great number of levels and i feel that although it is a great story for mature children it is so deep, rich and i have to say greatly emotive that it easily satisfies the lusts of an aduklt reader. I was toatlly engrossed in the story and found that I often had to stop reading it for days on end as the emotions is stirred in me were so strong I was unable to continue without calming myself for the next onslaught. It has been a good while since a book lifted my spirits or wrenched me with sorrow so expertly as this book did. i think it may be a couple of months before I feel strong enough to read the second in the trilogy as I cannot see how it can be as great a story as that of Bracken and Rachel and if it is I need a couple of months easier emotions in my reading material.
The next four books I have started and are in various states of reading (I tend to read more than one book at any one time as I have different reading places, front room, travelling book, bedroom book – always usually novels for the final two locations and technical/factual books in the front room).
They are Adobe Premier for Dummies, The Truth (Terry Pratchett), The Prefect (Alistair Reynolds) and Wicked. As is my usual style I will talk about them more when i have finished them, barring The Truth which is an old favourite and a re-read book – I have read this, like other Discworld books, several times. I think this is the third reading of the Truth and it gets to be as much fun each time I delve into it. William de Worde is one of the great single-issue Pratchett heroes.
Ah well, that's it for now…
So i caried on thinking about what theorbtwo said about my goth figures looking a bit more like modern raver-goths and post/pop-punks and I think he had a fair coment and a good (-ish) point, so with tha in mind I have revisited in a spare hour and made a couple of more goth figures:
Gothesque Female
And gothesque male:
And because I want to see them together and a little smaller here they are again:
And just for laughs lets put them all together and go to a club 🙂
That's an interesting comment that theorbtwo made… so let's see how they look smaller 🙂
Please note I am just going to link in the images again and not edit them and trust to fate (and my skills/lack of skills) as to what happens
If you have been reading my wife's blog (Starkitten) you'll know that she has posted a couple of her stick figures that she created using Inkscape (grab it at: http://www.inkscape.org) and its very fun Order of the Stick tutorial. Well for shits and giggles i did the same tutorial and have created a couple of figures (not for any competition and not for resale as they are definately mine – so there). Anywhoos here they are:
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