Another evening of music, this time the Jazz Jam at Oxford Jazz Kitchen. It was very crowded, so from the back I had a restricted view and had to make up quite a lot to fill the scene. It’s still fairly accurate, I reckon. Karen got up and performed the saucy “Kitchen Man” to an enthusiastically fast drum-beat, but managed to keep her cool and stay in the groove.
I’ve been playing with OpenGL over the weekend, and the hippos forced me to publish this repeating animated microshort.
So there I was, pulling New Year crackers at our office party, when out fell a tiny notebook, no bigger than my thumb*. After a little while I noticed it was full of dancing hippos. I spent the rest of the evening on the dance floor with Karen, trying to emulate the funky, cool moves of this smooth dancer. Karen laughed a lot, so I reckon I must have succeeded.
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* casual hyperbole, under section IV of the Artistic Licensing Act 2008. True figure** is 60 (+/-1) x 40 (+/- 1) mm^2.
** for the notebook. The thumb is smaller.
Thanks to Michael* at Boots Opticians for suggesting this comic. Apparently this is why none of the chairs in the shop have casters.
*I have a terrible memory for names. I think he said Michael.
I created this comic as my entry for a competition. I didn’t win, so now I’m free to share it with my readers! To make it easier for most people, I’ve translated it out of the original Latvian into English.
[Art note: I decided in this case to use vector graphics (rather than my usual rough sketches and bitmaps) — which was interesting, being simultaneously liberating (let the computer do the work) and challenging (the need to make definite decisions on line position). Thank you inkscape.]
I would like to thank my wonderful and surreal wife, Karen, for the wordplay that underpins this comic. I merely added the seahorses and coloured it in.
Yesterday I took the day off work and we went into London to visit the Natural History Museum. Darwin says “Hi!”
Another pleasant day at the zoo (with baby Greater One Horned Rhinoceros.)
Naturally I prefer my definition to any that others may have coined. Thanks to Karen for help with selecting a suitable banana.
Happy Birthday mum for the 14th!