Gratuitous icon post: "bi-furious" pin I got at last Friday's Dyke March.

I claim no exclusivity here, if you like and want to use this icon: it's a cell phone photo of a pin someone else created. (The original image may be under copyright; as the photographer, I hereby place this cropped photo of it in the public domain.)

ETA: I am pleased by all the positive response this one is getting.

This is a cardinal that is half-male, half-female (vertically divided). Via beetiger. The technical term seems to be gynandromorph. I'm assuming it's sterile, but haven't done any reading, just followed the link to the image

This is another picture from the same weekend. I don't know if I like it, but it occurs to me that I'm not sure I have any other photos of myself in profile. I don't mean as userpics, or recent, I mean at all.

dd_b posted a batch of his photos from the Farthing Party to his website. I found some of myself that I like. This icon is made from one of them; the photo is from the Survivors' Tea Party, and was taken in front of papersky's refrigerator, though the teacup is gerisullivan's.

This isn't the only icon I made from those photos, so you may see more GIP posts soon.

This is a photomicrograph of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), courtesy of the Molecular Expressions website, which in turn is courtesy of the National High Magnetic Field Lab. Thanks to cheshyre for the pointer, though she was calling attention to their images of cocktails as possible icon bases.

I've been wanting a books/reading icon for a while. This one is a piece of a picture from Red Hot Library Smut, as linked by cheshyre in her Riba Rambles blog.

At some point I may replace this with a picture of me reading, if I can get a good one.

I'm still trying for a good, or good enough, icon of an indri to use for links and pointing out cool things I've found. How's this? I may just forget about the text and find a nice picture of an indri, if this still seems too small/illegible.

Silly net joke, not an owl.

I'm not entirely happy with this icon--the edges of the teacup look pixelated. Would someone who has and understands image-editing software be willing and able to make me a similar but better icon?

What I'm looking for is one that is clearly and visibly a cup of tea, so the liquid has to show and be visibly tea rather than coffee. The pouring image isn't necessary.

Tonight I made us a tuna steak (courtesy of the fishmonger at the Greenmarket), steamed fresh peas (supermarket), and croissants (part-baked and frozen). None of the items is complicated, but I'd been a little nervous about tuna steak, because I burned myself last time I cooked it, and the timing was a bit tricky to get everything to come out right.

I rubbed what seemed like a lot of ginger paste on the tuna, but got only intermittent ginger-flavored bites. It was all good, though: seared on the outside, pleasantly rare inside. And, by using spatula and fork to turn it, and wearing cooking mitts on both hands, I avoided injuries. The peas came out just right, as did the croissants.

We are well fed, and I am happy.

(This is also an excuse to use my new food icon.)