Another month passes, and October has seen me thrashing about deep in the word-weeds elsewhere, so the blog has lain fallow. To keep things ticking over, this is a "Proof of Life" post, replete with an image dump of the stuff I've yanked from the Internet in my rare idle moments for multifarious reasons, under the catch-all header "Research". Yes, this is a visual manifestation of the slurry inside my head: