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I've just put our very last spare copy of The Year of Intelligent Tigers up for sale on Ebay. Here's the link:

Buy me!

I'll sign it for whoever the lucky buyer is. :-)

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spamusement kills me. Check out Stop that bending.

Sad bastardry at the vet

Carted Tim off to the vet with the very kind assistance of my dad. He'll be fine - he's just eaten something that didn't agree with him (probably that poor gecko lurking under the sofa). While discussing his symptoms with the vet, I experienced a moment of pure sad fan-ness:

Vet: Sometimes, when they groom themselves, the fur they swallow can wrap itself round something such as a bit of food, forming a sort of stone. Now, there's a special name for those things.

Me: ... bezoar.

You never know when Snape will come in handy. :-)

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... I'm also flogging the A-Team Season 1 boxed set if anyone's interested. :-)

omg! Ferris Bueller's dad was in old BSG!

Some of these episodes seem suspiciously like rewrites of stories from non-SF series: Murder on the Rising Star could have been done in any cop show.

Richard Hatch continues to be competent, and John Colicos is a lot of fun to watch being EVAL. Also Cassie has a new hairstyle!

ETA: Boomer and Jolly are the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw of old BSG.

Reproductive Freedom - Australia

I saw a billboard in Sydney with the slogan "You are nine months older than you think," with a picture of a well-developed foetus, a baby, and a grown woman. No indication of who paid for it. It disturbs me that anti-choice activists invariably use images of older, recognisably human foetuses; if a fertilised egg, an embryo, or an early foetus are all human, then they ought to be featured as well. The problem is, of course, that it's very difficult for us to accept a yucky lump of tissue as a human being; for anti-choice activists, showing the truth would be scoring an own goal.

btw, in US news, that poor thirteen year old in Florida will be able to have an abortion.