I should write more.
The number of parallels between writing software and writing prose is uncomfortable. The solitude, the potential for success despite that aloneness, the mythology of spasmodic genius, the inevitably tenuous connection to "the real world"...it's all disturbingly appealing to me, in both domains.
http://shapecatcher.com/ tries to find unicode characters based on your drawings
@yogthos also, http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html, for LaTeX users!
Musician, malcontent, ginger, what more could you ask for?