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"It's often said that some parrots have the abstract reasoning capacity of small children. Fine and good, doesn't sound too outrageous to me. However, what they fail to mention is that small children also share a number of traits with parrots--repeating inconvenient phrases, shrieking a great deal, seeming to be a terrible combination of destructive and fragile, and in some cases requiring large newspaper floored cages."

So saith ursulav of the webcomic Digger, among other things.

What I'm reading: Neal Asher, The Skinner