I highly recommend getting at least one of the three from Amazon.

• The Badonkadonk Land Cruiser, nicely packaged for just under $20,000, including 14 cup holders.

• A twist-off jar of pure uranium ore, for just $32.44 including shipping, great for getting extra jiggawatts out of your flux capacitor. (Although any gills, gigantism, or tentacles you may develop are your own problem.)

• Or Ken Jennings’s new Trivia Almanac, released today, just $13.60 and packed with over 8,000 questions.

Extra cup holders and jiggawatts sold separately.

I highly recommend getting at least one of the three from Amazon.

• The Badonkadonk Land Cruiser, nicely packaged for just under $20,000, including 14 cup holders.

• A twist-off jar of pure uranium ore, for just $32.44 including shipping, great for getting extra jiggawatts out of your flux capacitor. (Although any gills, gigantism, or tentacles you may develop are your own problem.)

• Or Ken Jennings’s new Trivia Almanac, released today, just $13.60 and packed with over 8,000 questions.

Extra cup holders and jiggawatts sold separately.

Sorry I haven’t updated in nearly a month. I’ve just been busy, and some places in South America have fairly spotty internet access, and I’ve been doing enough stuff in the real world that the ‘net just hasn’t been part of my life much for a while. But I’m not gone for good.

Hoping to get more pics from Colombia up, plus stuff from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and more. Assuming real life doesn’t just keep on being too interesting to leave.

Favorite thing of late was a visit to my new buddy Fernando’s place in rural Chile, roughly fifty miles from that volcano that just blew, in a spectacular area of tree-lined lakes and mountains.

Remember when I linked to a site with a video of a pudu giving birth?

I have now met and hung out with that very pudu. (She says hi.) Also, 17 other pudus Fernando takes care of. Plus a bunch of other strange and wonderful Andean species, some of which I’d never heard of. Pics coming.

More when I get a minute. Thanks for stopping by in the meantime.

For a teeny paperback  that came out over two months ago without any big-paper reviews even expected, a write-up in this week’s Sunday Boston Globe was certainly a pleasant surprise:

Holy crap.  Think she liked it much?

If you want a copy (or ten, heck, it’s the holidays!), here’s the Amazon link.

Or just click on the giant flashing animated gif of the book at the top of the page.  Subtle, I know.

Thanks!