Saturday Odds & Ends: Art for Geeks

I'm not gonna say that I put this post up solely because of how much I liked the following piece of art, but...

Here it is, my final piece of the year, and boy was it a doozy! I just wanted to take this time to say thanks to everyone for another outstanding year and many many sincere thanks for all your support! As a token of my appreciation, I'm offering this image as a FREE DOWNLOAD for your desktop! If you follow me on Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr, head on over to download and enjoy! 😁👍 It's been a great pleasure making new friends along the way and chatting and meeting with you all! Thank you for all your likes, shares, retweets, reposts, comments and shoutouts and for just being the coolest bunch of people on the planet! Have a Happy New Year, be safe and be merry!

A photo posted by Michael "Gorilla" Pasquale (@800lbproductions) on Dec 31, 2015 at 5:47pm PST

This guy, Michael "Gorilla" Pasquale at 800lbproductions is my new favorite follow on Instagram.

"If what you say about this girl is true...briiiing heeerrr tooooo meeeee." #SupremeLeaderSnoke #Snoke

A photo posted by Michael "Gorilla" Pasquale (@800lbproductions) on Dec 30, 2015 at 12:35pm PST

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China's to suspend the approval of new coal mines. https://t.co/PFtO9evDGm #climate #energy pic.twitter.com/i78GcLBf8F

— Alexander Verbeek (@Alex_Verbeek) January 2, 2016

Good idea, judging from the following shot of air pollution in Hong Kong.

via Wikipedia Commons.

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Quick warm-up, back home and ready to work, woot.

A photo posted by Siya Oum (@siyanimation) on Jan 1, 2016 at 9:01pm PST

No reason for including this one.  I just think it's really cool.

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Wise words: we're counting down our top 10 quotes of the day from the past twelve months. Here is number 1. Enjoy! pic.twitter.com/nk5MHL2fhw

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) January 2, 2016

No news today, so The Economist went with wisdom.  An interesting choice.

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How Jeb Bush hopes to save his 2016 candidacy https://t.co/OPPo6bneoT

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 2, 2016

Jeb Bush and his supporters still have a pile of money to spend, remnants of $100 million raised when he seemed early last year to be a sure bet. They have an expansive ground operation in New Hampshire. And allies have just begun a new ad campaign in Iowa...

It may be too late: Other campaigns appear to have counted him out altogether. But, in extensive interviews over the past week, aides to Mr. Bush and important allies described a long-shot plan to pull off what seems all but impossible: winning the Republican nomination for president.

Bottom line: avoid embarrassment in Iowa and do well enough in New Hampshire to change the narrative. That requires an extensive get-out-the-vote "ground game". There're some talking points in there about attack ads and Lindsey Graham as well, but getting actual voters to the polls is the only thing that's actually going give Jeb! a push.

I wouldn't put money on his chances.

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Hey all - I'm going to start posting gaming stuff that requires more than Twitter's character limit at https://t.co/wE17j9RyCS

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) January 2, 2016

Mearls's new Facebook page is here. So far he has only posted pictures--he could have totally put those on Twitter--but at least one of them is super-awesome.

That's a Behir on its way to eating a group of adventurers circa 1981.

How do you follow that?  You don't, obviously.  

Have a good Saturday.