Did a bit more work on the new leather gnome armour.

Just got into an intense debate on the nature of Djinn and Ifrit only to eventually come to the realization that while I was using the Koran and the texts of Islamic scholars and philosophers my opponent was using Dungeons and Dragons' Monster Manual. I'm not sure which of us was more embarrassed.

Last night I had a dream that there was a random anime plot generator on Facebook and I clicked it and it generated an anime set in early 20th century Ireland about a family of nihilist ducks who were being pestered by an immigrant family of Russian rabbits who moved in next door.

It ended up sparking a huge discussion on my Facebook page because everyone remembered there was an actual anime series with that plot in the 80s. The ducks were alcoholic poets and the rabbits were alcoholic novelists. The episodes were narrated by a hedgehog who played the fiddle.

When I woke up I was unsure if the series actually existed or not.

Congressman: Mister Whitiker, did you, during your tenure as Acting Director when no one was looking take 40 cakes?

Whitiker: As you know the department has a policy in place that provides oversight for the consumption of cakes and the lawful acquiring of said dessert snacks.

Congressman: Mister Whitiker you're avoiding to question. Did you steal 40 cakes.

Whitiker: I don't believe I understand the number of cakes you are referring to but the department has a policy...

Congressman: It's as many as 4 tens.

So the whole reason I ripped the gnome out of WoW and fixed the welds and surface domains and rigged it and created facial morphs was for a one-off joke on the WoW forums where I complained about how filthy the gnome underwear looked and how gnomes should have Mekkatorque Underoos. And these are those underoos.

Haven't don'e any 3D work in awhile. Here's WIP of a Gerudo inspired outfit for a World of Warcraft gnome that I ripped from the game and rigged just so I could make cute clothes for a WoW Gnome.

I so love it when a news site requires me to answer a survey question before I can read the article and the question lets me supply my own answer.

Today I was at Walmart rooting through the $5 DVD bin and this guy about my age who sounded like he might have been from Bermuda came and started rooting through the bin. He said, "I love searching through these bins because you never know what you might find."

I said "I notice you use the same technique. Scan the top layer of DVDs then dig down to the bottom, grab a handful of buried DVDs then bring them to the top and look through them". He joked it was like digging for treasure.

Then I found a copy of Magnificent Seven and I remarked how much I liked that movie and he said he loved it too. Then I told him, "It's funny because there's a cultural phenomenon that we all experience but it has no word for it. It's when you're switching TV channels and you come across a movie you love, and you even have on DVD, but instead of putting the DVD in and watching the movie from the beginning you stop changing the channels and watch it right from where you caught it."

He said "Yes! Yes! I do that too with certain movies!"

I told him that The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Bridge over the River Kwai, the first Ghostbusters (but not GB:2) and ST:TWOK are some of the movies I do this to whenever I stumble upon them while channel surfing and he told be about some of the movies he does this with.

Then just before we parted he said "I am so glad I ran into you and had this conversation. I thought I was the only person who does that."

Ever since the first time I saw Star Trek IV in the theatres I've always wondered if the extinction of humpback whales wasn't caused by Star Fleet itself.

There is a need for humpback whales in the future to protect earth from a probe that somehow transmits sound through the vacuum of space (let's not get started on that) but after Kirk and co. are successful in bringing extinct whales from Earth's past into their present surely their biologists realized there would be no way to repopulate an extinct species with only three specimens. So it would be necessary for Star Fleet to send more missions to the past to load up on humpbacks. Since in the future humpbacks are extinct every humpback you bring to the future is a humpback you save from inevitable extinction. This would create a sense of moral urgency to "save" every humpback you could. The more humpbacks you retrieve the better it is for their species.

But what if the extinction of humpbacks in the past is caused because Star Fleet's harvesting of whales plus past human harvesting meant there was not a biologically viable breeding population of whales in the past.

This for me was always a bigger temporal paradox than the one about Kirk's glasses.