Yep, I'm still alive. And that song is soon coming to Rock Band! I can't wait, though I suppose I will also need free time in which to actually play it. Link via VGCats, which actually redeemed its suckiness for a short period of time by having the totally awesome 100 Kirbys (Kirbies?) comic.
Work on the thesis is going well. I think. Except I keep coming up with more questions, which is both good and bad. In any case, still very busy with that, and a draft is going to be ready soon (probably this weekend). :)
Oh, and what prompted me to write an entry? There was a story which I thought people might otherwise miss (though I know some reader here do read Making Light, others don't). Here it is - Turkey is revising the Hadith. The link is to the Making Light post about it, as the analysis there is much better than I could state here.