Friday Quick Hits and Varia

 Fall has come to North Dakotaland with football, school, and what passes for foliage in these parts. Formula 1 is in Singapore, the NASCAR crew is in Chicagoland, Ohio State travels to Oklahoma and the Eagles are on Monday Night Football. Should be a good weekend to sit back and contemplate the mysteries of the universe and catch up on some quick hits and varia:

• You may have a plate. We all have plates. But this is the BEST plate. Tom Davis. R. Scott Moore. The is the BEST PLATE.

• Climbing Mt. Olympus.

• Really old (Neolithic old) figuring from Turkey.

• Archaeologists are hobbits.

• Cultural Property Advisory Committee meeting about Cyprus.

• The Society of American Archaeology on the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

• Collaborative Futures for Museum Collections: Antiquities, Provenance and Cultural Heritage

• Cannibals in Jamestown.

• Latin at the Met.

• Medieval monasteries in Kosovo.

• Data Sharing and the Social Life of Data. 

• Arab beer.

• Vote Early, Vote Often for the Sorlie Bridge.

• I’m a bit sad that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t real. 

• Refuse to Read.

• Long-term parking.

• Slow teaching.

• Irony.

• Don’t ban laptops in the classroom.

• This is America (by Father John Misty).

• What I’m reading: Shannon Lee Dawdy, Patina: A Profane Archaeology. (Chicago 2015).

• What I’m listening to: Macy Gray, Stripped; Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz, Diz and Getz.