Friday Varia and Quick Hits

We’ve been skirting around the edge of real winter so far this year, but this week, mostly yesterday, it feels like it started in earnest: cold and house-shaking wind. It has motivated me to spend more time by the fireplace or under a blanket in my office chair.

Maybe it’s the cold or the inauguration, or the general bustle of live, but my quick hit and varia collecting was a bit slower than usual this week. (If you ever have anything that you’d like me to share here, drop me a line and I’d be more than happy to add it to my list!)

In any event, I offer this somewhat modest haul for your enjoyment:

• Classics & White Supremacy (again).

• Ramses IV tomb in 3D.

• A digital copyright slider.

• Watches

Baghdad’s wristwatch repairman.

Rolex restoration.

• Butler on Trump.

• Fake Commutes (see my blog post here!)

• What I’m reading: Laura Salah Nasrallah, AnneMarie Luijendijk, Charalampos N Bakirtzēs, From Roman to early Christian Cyprus: studies in religion and archaeology. Tübingen 2020.

• What I’m listening to: Charles Tolliver’s Music Inc., Music Inc. with Big Band.