It’s here!

15 Responses to It’s here!

1. Kristi Vogel says:

   September 8, 2008 at 1:36 am

   I just finished reading it, and really enjoyed it. I’m loaning it to a couple of friends from work tomorrow, and hope to see it returned in time for other friends’ visits at Thanksgiving.
2. Jennifer Rohn says:

   September 8, 2008 at 7:58 am

   We’re featuring it in next month’s Fiction Lab book club at the RI. It will be fun watching Henry squirm when he is invited in for the post mortem.
3. Cath Ennis says:

   September 8, 2008 at 2:06 pm

   Kristi, good to know! Although I’m sure Henry would prefer you to buy copies for your friends, rather than lend your copy out! 🙂
   Jenny, that would indeed be squirmworthy. I can’t imagine anything worse than a whole room full of people all discussing something I’d written. Oh, wait, PhD viva. At least everyone was sober and respectful for that though.
4. Bob O'Hara says:

   September 9, 2008 at 12:02 pm

   The Beast also has good taste

   I’ll have to purchase Dr. Gee’s magnum opus for him when I return to the dryer parts of Europe.
5. Maxine Clarke says:

   September 9, 2008 at 2:53 pm

   And the Beast has got as far as book 7, indeed – impressive.
6. Eva Amsen says:

   September 9, 2008 at 3:31 pm

   Pfft, cats reading books. Amateurs. I have pictures of my cat reading science papers! (I can’t readily find them, though. I need to start tagging my photos on my hard drive.)
7. Henry Gee says:

   September 9, 2008 at 3:50 pm

   It will be fun watching Henry squirm when he is invited in for the post mortem
   I’m unshockable. You know this.
   Kristi, good to know! Although I’m sure Henry would prefer you to buy copies for your friends, rather than lend your copy out!
   Indeed. Buy it here! It’s very nice. You like. To date I have sold four (4) copies, but thanks to -my charisma – charm- powers of persuasion Jenny’s kind offer of a perch at the fiction lab, I guess I might be selling a few more by November.
   Kristi – I’m very glad you enjoyed it!
   My favourite example of the encounter of animals with literacy is this

   and, in this Web2.0 age,

   Now I have an iPhone I shall be unstoppable.
8. Cath Ennis says:

   September 9, 2008 at 6:25 pm

   Eva, but have your cats helped to write any of your papers?
   I am following in a proud local tradition. One of my postdoc supervisor’s papers thanks her cat as the source of the feline genomic DNA used in a multi-species comparison. The cat had its spleen removed, and my boss asked the vet if she could keep it!
9. Anna Kushnir says:

   September 9, 2008 at 6:32 pm

   Dude. That’s too far. A little creepy, isn’t it? The vet agreed to hand over the spleen? There weren’t any sort of biohazardous “here’s a faulty organ” types of issues? Just seems somehow… wrong. Could your supervisor have just as easily swabbed the cat’s mouth for DNA? That’s how they do it on TV, anyway.
10. Cath Ennis says:

    September 9, 2008 at 9:23 pm

    Actually, no-one in our lab found it the least bit odd! The more species the better, in our field, and we needed way more DNA than you can obtain from a cheek swab. Kibble’s spleen sample was used by generations of students and postdocs.
    See also this blog post about my worst ever day in the lab…
11. Eva Amsen says:

    September 10, 2008 at 4:29 am

    Not a paper, but my cat wrote a blog post once.
12. Richard P. Grant says:

    September 10, 2008 at 5:34 am

    Henry. iPhone.
    We’re all doom ‘d, aren’t we? *Doom* ‘d
13. Henry Gee says:

    September 10, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    I know where you live. The iPhone will tell me, with Google Maps and directions. No-one is safe. Mwah ha ha ha ha!
14. Henry Gee says:

    September 11, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Buying the book as a download is much cheaper, and your cat is less likely to sit on it.
15. Cath Ennis says:

    September 12, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    But my cats sit on my computer keyboard and phone all the time!

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