minute clinic, books, Avatar, Heinlein, Tolkien, prop 8, Bush, etc.

Books I've read recently: Krugman's Return to Depression Economics, Terry Pratchett's Nation, Bujold's Sharing Knife books. All good. The Pratchett isn't Discworld, or even particularly like Discworld; it's in a story-convenient alternate Earth, where history is almost the same, up to Darwin making a fuss, but there's been a really nasty flu, a tsunami in the Indian ocean (that might be historical), and a touch of subtle fantasy and some different biology (tree-climing octopus yay).

You may note my icon is much nicer now, thanks to lpetrazickis and Photoshop, bicubic algorithm instead of nearest neighbor scaling. Contrast with

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