This is in response to the DS 106 assignment: “Learn to love yourself! Grab a picture of yourself in which your body language, actions, gestures, etc. suggest one thing and then play off that using a speech bubble–that’s called SPUBBLE. Ideally, the result would make people laugh—but I must acknowledge there are other possible emotional responses that may be just as acceptable.”

I had been trying to figure out how to make an animated gif and whether or not the result would be worth the learning curve. My sister Cheryl and I were walking by Delta Ponds when I saw this sign over the new salmon counter. I started playing around and Cheryl got this shot of me.

I added the spubble in Piknik, but not very well!

This submission is for the Triple Troll Attack. Walker is the common item among the quote, wrongly cited speaker and the animated character.

The idea to mix these three walkers occurred while planning yesterday’s malware slideshow.

The image of the Walker virus was found on an online version of an old paper by Finland’s favorite cyber sleuth Mikko Hyppönen that might be of interest to students wanting to do further research on malware for upcoming blogposts.

As an added benefit, a guy named Benjamen Walker (yes, yet another Walker) produced an awesome radio segment dealing with these topics for WFMU. Check out his talk with Nart Villeneuve on the October 10, 2010 episode of Too Much Information for a great discussion on Stuxnet and Facebook malware (it begins at the 23:10 minute mark of the hourlong program). Villeneuve refers to the term zero-day exploit – this would also be an interesting topic to look in to further.

Creating the Triple Troll image was quite simple. I grabbed the image from Hyppönen’s site and did added the green text in Aviary. But it really begs to be rendered as an animated GIF.

So I’ve given away one of the three parts of the challenge: Walker Virus. Can you figure ou the other two? Who said Dy-No-Mite and/or who is Cordell Walker?