Type your dissertation, fool!

Happy Birtday, Miscellany...

Good advice, Robot...

Thanks dave.

Congrats, Jason! Thanks for your role in tending to the "herd."

Have you started saving for your blogetirement?

Thanks guys. Matt, I don't think you can retire before your are 72... at least, that seems to be the coming trend :-p

You'll never retire, fool! Now write your dissertation!

Two birthdays! One for the blog and one for the blog mascot that charming bot replica.

O that's three birthdays: the blog, the bot mascot and the bot itself or rather the possession of the bot-like toy by the blog author.

And what's a birthday without some close reading of the visual record? Frowns always indicate anger? Arrows to the left on a semi-circle meter always indicate empty? Of course images can be flipped right to left... Of course stood on its head the bot image looks much more anger -- the furrowed brow, the anxious rings under the wide eyes.... Oh, are those really fists? Are they not more like clamps waiting to grasp? And what about those suction cup feet? How do the marking of receptivity align with anger which in many cultures is an expulsive emotion? Although the colour red would indicate a projection of a desire to stop something from happening which is of course often associated with expressions of anger...

I hope the bot toy, its image and the blog continue to provide many more opportunities for semiotic re-sitings and re-readings for many more birthdays to come. Green, red or otherwise.

I wonder what would happen to your perspective on the bot mascot if the little guy faced sideways? A coin's thin side can be as inspiring as heads or tails... very Janus-like ... to each beginning its end.

Happy Blogoversary, Jason! oh... and you, too, Angry Robot. Here's one wordherder who's sheepish for not having remembered on her own.

Keep writing. I like reading your posts.

Clamps probably would be a more accurate description Francois, though I'm not sure it makes Angry Robot any more personable ;) The suction cup feet - they are for balance as he stomps on my head and screams "Write fool, write!" Honestly, I'm not sure why I keep him around...

CJ - Thanks for reading ;)

I am willing to wager that Angry Bot is kept around because the little toy creature was a gift from someone Jason cares very much about. BTW the mirror image of Angry Bot placed adjacent to the image of Angry Bot make a lovely set of twins that tile nicely for a desktop background. Also fun to run the reversed letters of "angry" i.e. "yrgna" through a search engine. ...

AB is a toy to remind one of playtime and playmates. Could AB also have a surname name beginning in "D"? Then ABD and Angry Bot D* would be like HCE in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.