The first blog post of the rest of my life!
Gosh, my Midlife Crisis Countdown widget was darn buggy.
I spent my 40th giving out cake and hearing that I look younger than my age, which is nice I guess. Was too busy to post a birthday blog post, which is good, because in the past, I have been known to be maudlin.
Here’s the most unexpected cool happy birthday I got, made by a nice co-worker:
On a day that included a birthday call from Australia, that’s pretty surprising.
A gallery for an awesome Argentinian comics artist called Horatio Lalia, including adaptions of Lovecraft stories and strips he illustrated for Hellblazer and Judge Dredd:
Here’s a deck of Tarot cards inspired by Vampire lore and Bram Stoker’s Dracula specifically: 
And another one that’s all based on trees – some of these are sheer elegance in their simplicity, but a few of the earlier designs feature trees that resemble Lovecraftian tentacle monsters more than plants. 
I’m not sure if Neal Stephenson is the geek Chuck Norris or the geek Paul Bunyan:
Stephenson spends his mornings cloistered in the basement, writing longhand in fountain pen and reworking the pages on a Mac version of the Emacs text editor. This intensity cannot be sustained all day—”It’s part of my personality that I have to mess with stuff,” he says—so after the writing sessions, he likes to get his hands on something real or hack stuff on the computer.
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…brain surgery is one of the things Stephenson is tinkering with.
Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He’s the King of the Worlds
via [LMG]
I knew it was time to pull this off my reading list when I found myself actually saying, while walking and talking, “I feel like I’m in a Cat and Girl comic, and there are still too many panels until the end”.