A1. Here 'dragon' does not refer to my western (sea-goat?) or eastern (rat) astrological manifestation, but rather to the remarkable purpality (violence, if you will) of the shirt, usually reserved for the dinosaur or dragon-like natured beasts of this world.
Asterick two. In my recently-compiled experience*****, there are several types of blog: educational; editorial; emo(tional); engineering; elucidating ... to enumerate some ellipse-ended elements. The vamaj~ of said blogs will include no such self-portrayal, and will in fact (as well as deed) deliberately avoid said pictures. The need for imagery to associate with the text is easily/commonly/usually (causal/relational?) filled by photographs of said author's feline companion. On one other end of the spectrum are those who (willingly or not) have been striken with photogenaity, and are thus free to place themselves willy-nilly about their pages. In reflection, I found myself respecting the latter more than the former, not for their inherently symmetrical faces, but rather for the ethics of the matter - there is enough ambiguously constructed persona (grata or non-) without my contributions. However, I am less than enamored with my infrequent attempts at self-portraiture, and do not particularly care for the literal and metaphorical posings of photoshopped or reflected glory, so I suppose I am left with one final cowardice: the 'look at this cool thing oh and i am in it too lol what a coincidence i totally forgot' technique. Which brings me in a asymptotically smooth fashion to
Asthreerick. The caption of this photo might accurately read 'this is a picture of me', but it is not a picture of me itself. This was a free glamour (not my british) shot, courtesy of some photographs I needed for a foreign gym membership that I never used. I figured that misr wouldn't mind if I decided to watch over the valley of kings from this cairn eternally (in-that-sense-meaning-for-a-very-short-time-before-it-is-blown-away).
*:IV. Once I get a decent image-editing package, perhaps I will be able to rectify that spelling to astrices
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)******Five-stars. Thinly-veiled euphemism for "I'm making this up as I type it, but I seem to remember thinking about it once before"
Hexasterisk. Found this well-crafted, though probably other-sourced, image at a since-deleted (good thing google has backups of the internet [who capitalizes that? though I do suppose it is good to distinguish from the general-purpose word internet]) page with base (http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/)
The tilde! Eh, not really worth the exclamation point: vast-majority
Percentage sign - unlikely to be used for a footnote, you say? That's why I did not. I hope to gain some insight into my run-on sentence slash hyphen slash slash slash parenthesis abuse when I have the time, by making a little force-node graph of this posting - though hyphen is perhaps less graphable than dashes are ... oh well. I'm really not that fond of footnotes anyways.
