Very definitely enjoying

[jinty]

...Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner - a neat little Japanese edition (in English, fear not) borrowed from the lovely Julian. Look, there's a blog too! More substantial than The Long Tail (which I ought in return to lend Julian, quick read though it will be), with more surprising conclusions, but in a generally similar stylistic

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Ah-ha!

[coppervale]

So, I've been finishing the sequel to HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS, and needed a name for a seven-foot tall character just long enough to get him eaten by a sea monster, and I called him Jinty, but had no idea where I'd seen the name...

So, ah, thank you and Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year to you too!

[jinty]

Poor ol' Jinty the seven-foot dragon though - transgendered and killed in one fell swoop!

Re: Happy New Year to you too!

[coppervale]

Croatoan Indian, actually.

And it's all Sir Richard Burton's fault you get et.

;)