:P-->(toad)

"The toads shrivel to a wilted memory of themselves, like mummified pharoahs...to spend years waiting out droughts." Does that make anyone else think of vampires? Because I do. Now I want to go and find a copy of that Peter Watts book that may or may not have ever been actually published, concerning space vampires. Of course, from the few pages I'd read of it online, I could probably accomplish the same end result upon myself by licking one of said toads.

On the independent nature of cowpeople:
"For one thing, if you throw a cowboy in a swift river, he'll just naturally float upstream."

Yet another reason for awesomeness