11 Feb 2008

Comic Sans is a crime

The design police are here.

6 Feb 2008

The algae's greener on the other side

Yesterday, I was tempted to give into self-pity, to believe that my life (work)is hard and thankless. I then saw a documentary about the marine iguana who has to brave the rocky shores and crashing waves of a volcanic Galapagos island to forage for the only food he can find: green algae that grows on the seabed. As if getting in and out of the violent ocean isn't hard enough, he has to brave seals that don't eat the iguana but play a cat and mouse game by dragging the iguana by its tail through the water. Unfortunately, he can only stay in the water for ten minutes before his body temperature drops, his muscles become paralysed and he drowns.

Suddenly, my life doesn't seem too hard.