For Christmas I was given this fabulous mug. (It's actually one of a set of four Beholder-themed mugs, all wonderful). Mug: clockwise from top-left: URL and logo, aikido guy, Jiriki (on the bottom) with a black belt, and (inside) one of the midge assassins of Zhao. Thanks to Kelly and Caroline!  

Swimming cow seen from Lloyds TSB's train I love animation, and because of my nerdy background, I've enjoyed watching computer animation develop from the heady days of Tron and Roger Rabbit. I went to Las Vegas to attend SIGGRAPGH in 1991 — that's the conference where the cutting edge computer graphics stuff gets shown off. [...]