This is basically the most convoluted in-joke ever… short version: My computer, whom I have named “Alton” after the amazing TV chef Alton Brown, is currently holding me under a miniature reign of terror, which prompted my brother to make a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey…

Surreptitiously realistic HAL in contrast to my super amazing black smoke texture… I think I will make it a goal this year to do so many not-even-close-to-reality self-portraits that by the end of 2010 I will not recognize myself in the mirror. haha.
I’m not really that bad at cooking. But I can guarantee whatever’s going on in there is not good eats.