Malex’s Thoughts

A secret despiser? Of course. That explains everything.

This episode appears before you largely as Peter originally conceived it. In editing, however, I did make one significant alteration. Under my gentle loving care, Tom of Tom’s Ship-A-Whale Service learned to conduct his business almost entirely in meter.*

Observing Tom’s interaction with Malex, it almost seems as though Malex is aware of Tom’s strange penchant and encourages it, communicating with Tom the same way Tom communicates with him. It is as if the addition of rhyme and rhythm forms a dialect of our beloved English, and without it, the conversation loses some of its meaning.

You might scoff, but do not forget, this is the Malex Minute. Anything is possible.

By the time you read this, SIGGRAPH 2008 will be winding down, and Peter and I will be exhausted out of our minds. I say this with confidence and authority because just getting ready for the conference already has me quite tired, and we haven’t** even left Ohio yet. So how tired do you think we’ll be after we’ve attended conference activities from 8:30 AM to 11 PM for five days in a row? Will we be doing cartwheels and singing about how energetic we feel?

No. We will not be doing that.

ttyl!

——Alex Markley

“In American Sign Language, this sign means, ‘Help! I am being mauled by a kitten!’”

* - Although Peter’s version of Tom did have a tendency to occasionally rhyme.

** - By the time of this writing, of course…

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