Vanity, pure'n simple.

It's me! So, who the bollocks am I then, hmm? Well, my name's Josh (mail me for a tirade on why I can't be arsed using a nickname), and I live in Auckland, New Zealand. Armed only with an MA in Philosophy (First Class Honours, no less), I have landed a cushy job at a software development company, writing user documentation. Go figure. I'm disturbingly close to 30 (but from which side?), my favourite colour is blue, and my ambition is to beat to death with an aluminium baseball bat everyone who uses the word "literally" when they don't mean it.

Philosophy-wise, I was never been one for the wanky, Continental, existentialist type of philosophy, and I don't have the attention span for the technical, jargon-heavy analytic philosophy that's so much en vogue these days. Instead I focussed on the Philosophy of Religion (the subject of my dissertation), and Ancient and Mediaeval Philosophy. Great stuff. And that's all you're getting about me.

As for the Giraffe - well, you see I can't draw, but over time have adopted a stylised artistic technique designed to cover the fact. It works too - people have expressed genuine surprise when they find out I draw they way I do because I can't do it any better, not because I'm making some sort of minimalist statement. Sucker every minute, eh?

Anyway, the Giraffe was one of my first "stylised" doodles, and it's stuck around ever since. It's appeared on a snowboard design, in a University magazine comic strip (in what's been called a "work of genius" by some - more of those suckers), and on any bit of scrap paper that's in my general vicinity for more than about 20 minutes. And now it's here. And it watches you. It always has.