Hee-hee!

This wonderful image (thanks, Davroz!) is from Saturday at this year's ConFusion (theme: Cryptic!). Given how much of a hit my various and sundry hats proved when I chaired U-Con back in 2007, I decided to bring the show to Fusion. (I was also working this con, albeit as a guest liaison and ConChair support/aide de camp)

(Yes, I've been told that at Firefly LARPs and games, I should most definitely take the part of Badger.)

In this particular image, I'd been chatting with Jane Irwin about the trials and tribulations of work and life, and I believe I was demonstrating what typing up one's thesis felt like. Jane wanted to make sure she understood just what I tried to communicate...

(Speaking of Jane, for those of you into comics, I highly recommend picking up a copy of each Vogelein book, and following her Clockwork Game webcomic. If at all possible, Jane's art and storytelling rock almost as much she does.)

I think I captured "frenzied" and "impassioned" pretty well, dontcha agree?

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

I'm working on putting together an interesting lecture on bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) for class next Friday. Mindful there are tech/video savvy scientists and biogeeks who are also interested in teaching, I hit up Google for any visual material that might be of interest.

I busted a gut laughing at how this video fires up. In addition to a kickin' soundtrack, it has an interesting graphic demonstrating how the virus (T4 bacteriophage in this case) goes about making copies of itself...