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Recent entries
from airforce one to whacky cuckoos on a telephone wire - 2009-10-17
BIG bird spotting - 2009-10-16
in search of the wild peachfront - 2009-10-14
these bird books are way too heavy for mere mortals to heft - 2009-10-13
club complaints, well, i pretty much figured i was done with the clubs anyway - 2009-10-12

By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets.

A bibliography of my published books and stories.

Here's my card-counting FAQ.

Visit my original website but I recommend putting pop-up/banner blockers on first.

A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!! The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit the localroger diary.

Visit Peachfront's Cookbook, for recipes that are fast, cheap, and good. A work in progress.

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill blog by Mark Bittner about feral Cherry-Headed Conures in San Francisco.

cookie's new palace

2009-10-11 - 12:00 p.m.

© 2009 by elaine radford
Well, after all these years and beers, Cookie has received a fancy new cage. I calculate his age to be around 40, and the previous cage (which he has apparently had for his entire life) was really getting rusted out. So DH has supplied him with fancy new "macaw sized" digs. I think he was a little overwhelmed at first. He spent most of his first evening stomping around the bottom and trying to pull the newspaper up.

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