Friday Varia and Quick Hits
February 22, 2013 § 3 Comments
It’s cold, winter, and I’m sick.
Hopefully my varia and quick hits can keep others warm and healthy.
- Web archaeology and aesthetics: Geocities.
- The Society of Architectural Historians has a blog and Kostis Kourelis is its editor. This will be awesome.
- A MOOC for freshman composition.
- Did somebody say, humanities?
- More abandonment porn: Another effort at Bunker Archaeology. I love the effect of the light on these World War II era bunkers. I want to do this with man camp trailers in the Bakken.
- Another cool architectural gif by Ben Leech.
- It’s a day for beards. First, they keep you safe (something that I have argued for years… wait until some well-known organizations that limit facial hair get sued for exposing their boys of summer to a greater risk of cancer.). The Philly beard will be the next big thing and I might just be on it.
- If I don’t understand Google Glass does that mean it’s not meant for me?
- This is a good start for Australia and for Moises Henriques’s test career. Macho innings from Warner with a broken finger, and I just didn’t realize how good Michael Clarke was until this past year.
- I am super excited to get my copy of Amalia Dillin’s debut novel (she took ancient history courses from me here at the University of North Dakota).
- Zagora from the air.
- Food: This is funny. And this is transcendently awesome. I rank having a chance to hang out with Marilyn Hagerty on a number of occasions among the coolest experiences of my life. Really.
- In Cyprus, we call it synesthesia. Recently I have good evidence that I have synamnesia: the ability to forget things in colors. Anyway, here’s your IP address in colors. Don’t blame me, it’s the internet.
- It’s a bit amazing that we need to tell people things like it’s better to exercise outdoors.
- What I’m reading: N. Gaiman, American Gods.
- What I’m listening to: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, II (which is not as good as The Meat Puppets, II); Grant Green, The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark.
Ryland Hall, University of Richmond
(Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson; Carneal and Johnston)
I have spotlights that will run off the truck. . . . Synamnesia may be the word to retire on. We anxiously await a Gaiman vs. Dillin review.
Thanks for the shout out! My ancient history education definitely got a work out with Forged by Fate!
Great photos of the bunkers. I’d say awesome if that word wasn’t so over-misused these days. It doesn’t look like anyone is trying to preserve this stuff though. (I can’t confirm it but somewhere I read that the life expectancy of Portland cement is only 100 years.)
I understand that it is something that many of the WW II generation wanted to forget, but it is history. Some forty years ago I visited Dover castle where the latest fortifications were from the Napoleonic era despite that it had been a major command center in WW II and the battlements would have been studded with AA guns. I hope some of them and some of the communications equipment were at least put in safety when the castle was put to other purposes. A hundred years from now that will be more interesting / exciting / relevant than anti Napoleon trenches.