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Octavia Butler died on 25 Feb 2006. A very good SF author. If you haven't read Parable of the Sower and especially Parable of the Talents, do so.
Must get around to reading Fledgling.

Sigh...

Amazon does have copies of Margrethe Hald's Ancient Danish textiles from bogs and burials: A comparative study of costume and Iron Age textiles (Publications of the National Museum. Archaeological-historical series). However, they are second hand and go for $500 US + (most expensive copy was >$900).
Ouch... Too rich for my blood.

And while I can still remember the strange astronomer stories from morning tea last week:
A polish polarimetrist who used to observe naked...
A fist fight between between a Italian Catholic priest and a American Quaker - both astronomers. Apparently it may have been over equipment access...
Someone complained the astronomers of today are much more sedate, but the reply to that was to check email records in about 10 years time...

Whoohooo!

( More fireworks in Canberra:)...and some of you ain't in Canberra )

Bob's back...

We have a Lounge Bob again:)
The curious thing is that a few weeks ago we had a Baby Bob in the bathroom - about the size of a fifty cent piece. Haven't seen him for a while now. Not certain if Lounge Bob was originally Baby Bob. Given Lounge Bob would have difficulty fitting on a five dollar bill, this is potentially a _lot_ of growth... and shed spider skin...
It is the fact that you just look up and suddenly notice that they are there, right in front of you, as though they have always been there.
I still think they teleport.