This is my first experiment in animating SVG with JavaScript! The image was created in Inkscape, then I edited the XML to add JavaScript code to adjust the arm’s rotation every 35 milliseconds. This is my second JavaScript program ever!

It should work correctly on most modern browsers. If you don’t see the arm moving, you may need to turn on JavaScript. If you don’t see the image at all, you should upgrade to a browser with SVG support, like Firefox or Chrome!

‘Twas Cephalopodmas Eve, and all though the dark hall,
No creature dared stir, or even move much at all.
The children were in their beds, sleeping all through the night,
While their much wiser parents could but shiver with fright.

Only Cuddlefish and I were awake at that hour,
With no sanity left for the dark beast to devour.
We hung tori on the tree, having nothing to fear,
Just hoping that Cthulhu would come visit this year.

Then we knew our unholiday cheer was not lacking,
When from up on the roof came a shrill muffled clacking!
We could sense his arrival then, quite unresisted;
Our minds filled with his scent, evil, bitter and twisted;

Our first sight was a tentacle, dark, writhing and curled;
A terrifying tendril that could grasp all the world.
My gaze leapt from that limb to his visage, slick and foul,
When from his horrible mouth came a mind-piercing howl!

I stood there quite resolutely and showed him no dread,
While his invisible mind-tendrils groped at my head;

Of the things that came next, I have but little to speak;
I quite nearly burst open with an ecstatic shriek.
And just as I fainted with a soft whimper and sigh,
I heard him exclaim with a gurgled alien cry:

Ia! Ia! Ia! Mlq’weh Cephalopodmas gwgr fa,
Ng mlq’weh utr’fn wo thir cthan wo tala!

Cephalopodmas gwgr fa, everybody!

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After much ribbing and prodding by my friends, I have yielded to their demands and decided to open up a store in SL.

Cuddlefish Junction will be opening for business Saturday, December 15 at 8PM SLT! I will cut the metaphorical ribbon and set everything for sale at that time. And then there will much dancing, laughter, and merriment until everybody gets tired and goes home! Yay!

I’ll post more pictures, SLURLs, and other awesomness as we approach that date.

Hope to see you there!

I made a Chibi Jacek avatar for Halloween, and had a… tiny adventure in-world!

And there’s more pictures!

After hearing accounts from people who have been able to do more than just look at a screenshot, I’ve realized that I was wrong: the Communicate window is not sexay. It’s an abomination, a Frankenstein’s Creature of communication methods!

Ok, ok, maybe that’s being a bit dramatic, but it seems that the reality of it isn’t up to par with the glowing possibilities in my ever-optimistic imagination!

“Do. Not. WANT.” was too good to pass up, but my view is more accurately represented by the following lollisms: “Your Communicate XML. Please to show me it.” and “OH HAI I’z just fixin ur UIz.”

(I just hope they don’t make it too hard for us to revert to the old UI. Toggle buttonz plz kthxbai.)

Hey, what’s this?! I quetly thought to myself (and shouted aloud, startling my cat).

After some preliminary investigation (i.e. looking at the picture), I deduced that this is none other than Uiwindowus communicatus, commonly known as the Communicate Window, in its only known natural habitat: the First Look client.

Many of you probably know that Linux users won’t be chatting it up with voice any time soon. I don’t mind that so much, but I sure hope we get our pengi flippers on this sexay Communicate window! I lurve me some new UI floaters!