forgot to mention my birthday present

I meant to include this with my birthday post, since I have a long-standing tradition that I'm allowed to be unreservedly egotistical on my birthday. :-) The day before, Annalee Newitz posted this faboo review of A Natural History of Dragons on io9 -- which, given the magnitude of that site's readership, is quite a shiny thing to receive.

It will motivate me to crawl through the salt mines of page-proofing The Tropic of Serpents. :-)