Friday Quick Hits and Varia
Not only is it a grey and dreary (and coldish) Friday, but we overslept compliments of a little local power failure. So here’s some out of sync quick hits and varia.
If you missed Kostis Kourelis rock-star performance on Monday, fear not. You can get the recorded version here.
I was messing around with Googles new citation tracking application and stumbled across my dad’s patent.
I guess I knew that a few years back Larry’s Bar in Columbus, Ohio closed, but it never really sunk in.
As you know, I’m developing an interest in the Bakken Oil Fields of western North Dakota. Here they are from space.
This is a classic poem about missing class (h/t Dimitri Nakssis).
St. Mary’s College of Maryland has students living on a cruise ship. Maybe this is a solution to the western North Dakota housing crisis! (h/t Linda Hall)
Check out the two papers that I co-authored at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research this weekend (program in pdf here).
As my students are approaching their final papers, I still send them to Strunk and White for basic points of style. So I find the annual “why Strunk and White is stupid” article annoying, but probably right.
A cool map that has extended the New York City street grid across the entire globe. I am sitting at 7,949th Av. and 1,138th St.
What I’m reading: A. T. Reyes, Archaic Cyprus: A Study of Textual and Archaeological Evidence. (Oxford 1994)
What I’m listening to: Atlas Sounds, Parallax; Los Campesinos!, Hello Sadness.
A survey marker on the Sorlie Bridge between Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota:
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