( Not coffee, not tea... )

Current Mood: unearthly

Via LJ's malterre:

( What magical object? )

( Mostly Harmless )

( But gold isn't magnetic. )

Current Mood: sleepy

Via LJ:jcw_da_dmg:

( What Circus Performer would I be? )

Current Mood: amused?
Current Music: Star Wars Cantina Band

Via LJ:jcw_da_dmg:

( Vakkoic? )

Via altivo:

( Don't those things grow in petri dishes? )

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

setsu-p made these associations:

1. Polls: I'm curious, probably in both sense of the word.. I find some questions amusing and some potential answer amusing. And polls give me something to post when I simply can't think of anything else to say. One interesting thing is how people seem to really like polls - the choices are limited but it's just click an option - and so polls will get many response, but a regular post will only get a few replies unless it really hits a chord or stirs things up.

2. Puns: I must have made an impression as I don't recall posting any for some time. Maybe it was at RCFM? I do like puns and like to play with language a bit. It's not just puns, though, as I also find spoonerisms amusing (just listen to Zilch the Tory Steller or maybe to one of the Capitol Steps Lirty Dies bits) though they can get somewhat punny, too.

3. Quadruped: Four feet are more stable than two. When I first started using IRC I did so with a name implying a bipedal character. It wasn't long before a bit of roleplay led to a quadruped character. I switched between these states for some time, but one person pointed out that I seemed to just be more comfortable with four legs than two. I started paying some more attention to that and found it was so, so now Vakko is Vakkotaur most of the time.

4. Cartoons: I find difficult to imagine not liking any cartoon(s). I grew up with Saturday morning cartoons, from the badly animated but clever Rocky and Bullwinkle to the well-made Looney Tunes and of course all the lesser stuff committed by the likes of Hanna-Barbera and Filmation. Cosgrove-Hall's DangerMouse reminded me of Bullwinkle: clever dialog (there are those puns again) overcoming the lower quality animation. Static cartoons also were something. Until not that long ago the comics section of newspapers had a few good comics (oddly, I never really got that much into Peanuts that were still large enough to read and funny at the time. Garfield hadn't had a humor collapse yet, Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side were going strong. Today I read comics on-line and only a few of the ones I care for are syndicated for newspapers - and those tend to be the ones that need more browser tweaks. It's like they don't want readers. If they do that well enough, they will get their wish.

5. Fursuits!: Plural? Maybe someday. I have worn two fursuits. The first was Chaka's wolf suit one Monday after RCFM a few years ago. It was hot, I couldn't see well, I didn't do it for all that long... and it was a lot of fun. That's when I decided that I could do it and proceeded with plans for Orvan. Orvan's background on IRC turned out to be about the ideal shtick and I just lucked into it and hope to keep that going. I do have an idea for another fursuit, but I don't care to say much about that as right now it is just an idea and nothing has really come of it yet.

Current Mood: calm

Via hakeber:

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

I got "R" so:

1. Rum and Coca Cola - Andrews Sisters
2. Radioland - Kraftwerk (Radioactivity)
3. Rocketing Each Other's Hinterland by The Capitol Steps (Danny's First Noel, 1989)
4. Rabid Child - They Might Be Giants (They Might Be Giants)
5. Run Runaway - Slade

And I didn't even go out of my way to make a somewhat eclectic list.

Via ornjbun:

( We're not acting. )

Current Mood: amused *and* annoyed

From various folks:

( Way up above the chimney tops... )

Via lj-er jmthane:

( Which one? )

( Gravy? I'll pass on that. )

( Which key is me? )

If you've seen lists of thirty names and wondered what the photon it was all about, here's the key.

Current Mood: mischievous

Via hakeber:

( McCain or Obama? )

Current Mood: unsurprised

( So, which one? )

Current Mood: amused

Via sideband:

( Drink me. )

Current Mood: calm

( What race am I in...? )

Current Mood: amused

I found I could see the spinning figure going around counterclockwise (as viewed from above) by looking at the image upside down. Then I still see clockwise rotation, but it's flipped. As long I keep looking as I move to right the orientation the counterclockwise rotation holds. But if anything causes a switch to clockwise, clockwise it stays.

I mentioned in reply that I had a look at the individual frames and there was a background frame and deviations. Behind the cut is a modified version, with the background frame removed. This one I can see going counterclockwise without any twisting around.

( No background )

Current Music: The Time Warp