Friday Quick Hits and Varia

It’s snowing here in North Dakotaland with more on the way this weekend. While I’m ready for winter to be over, I also know that every day of winter in April gives us another day of fall in November. I remember sitting outside in fading spring sun last year at this time, but I also remember sitting outside without a jacket on Halloween. There is a rhythm to these kinds of things.

So, try not to fret too much and sit back and read some quick hits and varia.

• The recent excavation in Olde London Towne have been pretty cool. 

• Some cool Byzantine Things at the Menil Collection curated by the remarkable Glenn Peers from University of Texas – Austin.

• Monmouth College’s Archaeology Day featuring yours truly.

• Congratulations to Eric Poehler for receiving a National Endowment for the Humanities Start-Up Grant for his Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Research Project.  

• Filmmakers in both Greece and Cyprus are documenting the rise of right wing parties.

• The most recent Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey is now available.

• If you missed me and Bret Weber’s radio broadcast on Prarie Public’s Main Street this past week, check it out here.

• My wife got me an ALO headphone amp and it didn’t work, but they worked quickly and efficiently to ship me a replacement. Good customer service is so important.

• The origins of <blink>.

• Congratulations to Michael Clarke who was named Wisden’s Cricketer of the Year in the 150th Edition of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack. 

• Settlement Pattern Change: A new city in Williams County.

• Ethnography of elevator users.

• A little abandonment porn: Border crossings after Schengen.

• Congratulations to the most recent crop of Dumbarton Oaks Fellows including University of North Dakota Alumnus Nathan Leidholm (University of Chicago).

• Crowd sourcing ebook editing at Project Gutenberg and crowdfunding archaeological research. 

• If you love Joel Jonientz’s stuff (and let’s face it, who doesn’t these days), you can now buy your very own piece of Jonientz. 

• Digital History Project Management at Stanford over at HASTAC. 

• Adweek reflects on Wired Magazine’s 20th Anniversary.

• The Great Gatsby in covers.

• What I’m reading: J. Davis and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan, Philhellenism, Philanthropy, or Political Convenience? American Archaeology in Greece. Hesperia 82.1.

• What I’m listening to (it’s quite a list!): The Gospel Whiskey Runners, Hold On; Bim Sherman, Miracle; Kurt Vile, Walking on a Pretty Daze; Freddie McGregor, Bobby Bobylon.