Tenticular Gesticulation

Stay Safe, Paris

On Friday morning I had to fly cross-country on a family matter, attending the memorial service for a close relative. I was already out of sorts because of that. The day was made worse by the fact that my wife and I overslept, having had not one but TWO alarms fail, and despite a panicked race to the airport we missed our flight. We were able to be booked on a later flight, at some small expense, but overall it was just one of those low-grade crappy kind of days. While we were in the air and offline, the Paris terrorist attacks happened. Needless to say, my stupid little annoying troubles were placed rapidly into perspective.

My heart goes out to the city of Paris, and to all of the people touched by these terrible events. I have professional colleagues there, and fortunately everyone to whom I am connected is safe and well. Many others are not so fortunate.

I guess I need an octopus here somewhere, so here is some street art by Parisian artist GZUP. He seems like a pretty swell dude. He just runs around the streets of Paris vandalizing street corners with groovy octopodes painted on plywood, and gives away free art to passers-by.  I like him a lot.