The caption was "...and this is my little woman."

Hee. Now I want to start a clothing chain called "Weirdly Anonymous". Wait. Autobiography. I meant autobiography.

BTW, on topic, Cass and I thought of you, aloud and at the same time, during our wander through the San Diego Zoo. There were penguins, and a panda baby, and fishing cats, and I think maybe a different komodo dragon than there used to be, because it was way smaller, although still, well, beyond cool, because, well, dragon.

BTW, on topic, Cass and I thought of you, aloud and at the same time, during our wander through the San Diego Zoo. There were penguins, and a panda baby, and fishing cats, and I think maybe a different komodo dragon than there used to be, because it was way smaller, although still, well, beyond cool, because, well, dragon.

Well, exactly. The SD dragon is my favourite dragon I've seen so far. Did you see the Andean condors? Oh, and the tree kangaroos, they're very striking. (SD Zoo has brilliant aviaries too, and some gorgeous birds of paradise and similar tropical denizens.)

I think this really is a different dragon than the first one I saw, in 1979; that one, I remember as way older and bigger.

We were on time constraints (it was catch-a-flight day), so I didn't do the nine-hour wander I could easily do. San Diego has one of the best zoos ever.

I think this really is a different dragon than the first one I saw, in 1979; that one, I remember as way older and bigger.

Yeah, I think they get up to about 25 years in captivity, so if the one you saw in '79 was already fully grown, I doubt he'd be around now. Oh, and I just discovered that they've come across an island subspecies of Komodo dragon that's smaller than usual, only up to about 7.5 feet long. Plus, there's a claim that the movie King Kong was originally inspired by the arrival of Komodo dragons in New York in the 1920s. Now that's cool.

Dayum, that really is cool. Nice to know, too, that my brain has not gone completely into swiss cheese; the first one I saw there was enormous, and of course, age would certainly have something to do with that.

It made me jump, but I remember I wanted one for my very own...

Dayum, that really is cool. Nice to know, too, that my brain has not gone completely into swiss cheese; the first one I saw there was enormous, and of course, age would certainly have something to do with that.

Yeah, a full-grown dragon is going to make an impression. When the Australian aborigines first reached Australia, there was a relative of the Komodo on the continent that grew to over 20 feet long. As big as a full-grown saltwater croc. Imagine being the first one to run into one of those.

Imagine being the first one to run into one of those.

The world would probably never know, would they? You'd be an hors d'ouvres.

I would be stoked about either. I hope nobody dies or anything catastrophic so we can get there.

erika, you'll get there if I have to drive there and get you guys. We've got a crew of people wanting to make sure.

You've got a posse, yo.