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100 things about me

Read this before you email me for the first time. Personal mail only. No spam. No mean people. If you can't say something nice, I'm not interested.

Recent entries
some death-defying species from madagascar, my death defied and her extinction defied, yeah both in one trip - 2009-08-11
the borg - 2009-08-10
appearing soon in your hometown - 2009-08-10
tweet - 2009-08-09
don't be talking about me in front of my face, yall - 2009-08-06

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.

it doesn't take much to impress hummingbirds

2003-04-02 - 2:04 p.m.

It's pretty easy to please a hummingbird. My small wildflower patch is a work in progress, with many plants that will need to grow in over the years to reach full size, such as the Abutilons, but I've still had remarkable fortune in attracting hummers and other birds.
Here's the way the patch by the air-conditioning unit looked after I returned from Trinidad in the summer of 2001, all fired up and ready to attract some hummingbirds of my own:

Here's how it looked this morning:

Obviously, I have a ways to go but it takes minimal effort and expense to set up a wildflower garden that doesn't need weeding because the weeds are part of the charm.
Here's a close-up of an area that includes a nice patch of Spiderworts, which is not a hummingbird plant but rather a native wildflower that I dig out of my lawn, and a bright red Salvia splendens, "gas station plant," which is a hummingbird favorite.

all photographs © 2001-3 by Elaine Radford, all rights reserved

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